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Oxford University Press Inc Music Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder A Resource for Teachers
Book SynopsisMusic Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Resource for Teachers provides foundational information about autism spectrum disorder and strategies for engaging students with ASD in music-based activities such as singing, listening, moving, and playing instruments. This practical resource supplies invaluable frameworks for teachers who work with early-years students. The book first provides readers with background information about ASD and how students with this condition manage their behaviors in school environments. It then progresses to provide teachers with information about planning music-based instruction for students on the spectrum. In the book''s midsection, readers learn how students with ASD perceive, remember, and articulate pitch perception. Following chapters present a series of practical ideas for engaging students with ASD though songs and singing and concentrate on skills in music listening, most notably on activities that motivate students with ASD to Trade ReviewI read this book and then immediately read it again. It is full of practical and classroom-tested strategies to meet the musical needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. * Alice Hammel, music educator and author of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs, Teaching Music to Students with Autism, and Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings *I have watched Sheila Scott working with groups of students with wide ranging and significant disabilities and seen the remarkable and inspiring changes in their engagement and attention that have resulted. This book is an excellent resource for enabling other professionals to achieve these kinds of goals themselves. * Cameron Symons, Associate Professor of Education, Brandon University *Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Tables Alphabetical List of Songs Chapter 1 - Autism and Music Education: The Musical Child Chapter 2 - Planning for Instruction Chapter 3 - Songs and Singing Chapter 4 - Listening to Music Chapter 5 - Movement Chapter 6 - Playing Musical Instruments Chapter 7 - Musical Narratives: Integrating Musical Experiences Through Storytelling and Drama Appendix A References
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Oxford University Press Inc Balanchine and Kirsteins American Enterprise
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Oxford University Press Adaptive Strategies for SmallHanded Pianists
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Oxford University Press Multivocality
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Oxford University Press Everything in its Right Place Analyzing Radiohead
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Oxford University Press Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music A Practical Approach
Book SynopsisImprovisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians.Trade ReviewI would recommend this book as an addition to the library of any teacher or student of medieval music, medieval-curious musician, or experienced medieval professional who would like to reflect on their mediebal music practice. * Leah Stuttard, Music and Letters *This book is a gift, born of the experience, artistry, and memory of a leading practitioner and teacher of medieval music. It is full of learning lightly worn, and invaluable advice born of long experience. Scholars will appreciate its practical approach, and performers will respect and admire its deep learning. * Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Harvard University *Finally, instructions for recreating the most basic technique in the performance of Medieval music - improvisation. Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is a welcome and long-awaited addition to early music performance practice. Angela Mariani sets a new standard for early music performance! * Timothy McGee, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables List of Examples List of Practices 1. The Process of Inventio 2. Models: Living and "Imagined" 3. Notation and Memoria: What's Not on the Page 4. Mode: The Vocabulary of Melody 5. Inventing Melody: Old Instruments, New Voices 6. Inventing Organum: Memoria and Formula 7. Playing Poetry: The Rhetoric of Invention 8. The Long Memory: Reflections on Teaching Medieval Music APPENDIX 1: Mode Models BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press Fantasies of Improvisation Free Playing in NineteenthCentury Music
Book SynopsisThe first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Free Play: Fantasies of Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely interesting book on a topic that has not received as much attention as it deserves ... Highly recommended. * W. E. Grim, CHOICE *Classical improvisation is making a comeback, and in timely fashion we can now read its remarkable history. Prof. Gooley has discovered lively contemporary accounts of pianists performing free fantasies on stage for the masses, in salons for elites, and in private for personal inspiration. The big names are all there - Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn - as are dozens of names less well known but hailed as great improvisors in their own day. Through diaries, reviews, letters, and biographies we can gauge the thoughts of both sides of what were by all accounts emotionally powerful interactions between musicians and their audiences. * Robert O. Gjerdingen, Northwestern University *Gooley's fascinating book sheds new light on the musical nineteenth century, illuminating unwritten histories of improvisation at the keyboard. By focusing on the contemporaneous renown of currently neglected figures such as Vogler, Hummel, Moscheles, and Loewe, Fantasies of Improvisation provides a richly textured account of how extemporization flourished and withered. Beyond that, Gooley elucidates the complex conversion of improvisation into discursive, rhetorical, pedagogical, and ethical terms. As a result, the book not only restores an element of the unexpected to over-determined historical narratives, but also suggests how the scores of Schumann and Liszt might be played and heard afresh. * Roger Moseley, author of Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo *Table of ContentsPrelude: The Virtue of Improvisation Chapter 1: The School of Abbé Vogler: Weber and Meyerbeer Chapter 2: The Kapellmeister Network and the Performance of Community: Hummel, Moscheles, and Mendelssohn Chapter 3: Carl Loewe's Performative Romanticism Chapter 4: Schumann and the Economization of Musical Labor Chapter 5: Liszt and the Romantic Rhetoric of Improvisation Chapter 6: Improvisatoriness: The Regime of the Improvisation Imaginary Postlude: Improvisation and Utopia
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Oxford University Press Inc Eubie Blake
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Oxford University Press Foundations of Musical Grammar Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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Oxford University Press Composing the World Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Trade ReviewThe main objective of this volume is highly innovative and stimulating... Hicks' essay is a very accurate study of Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos, and is going to become a must for future researchers in a field that includes a number of disciplines with different epistemological statutes. * Letterio Mauro, Università di Genova, Greek and Roman Musical Studies *written from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes musicology, philosophy, and history of science ... the inspiration Hicks's book provides to reflect on the place of music in historical and contemporary ways of world-making. * Jacomien Prins, Isis *Composing the World is itself well-composed -- its chapters flow, despite their many long citations from the works under discussion. As the book is very much about these texts, most readers will be glad of this florilegium ... Hicks has done a wonderful job of making a complex subject and its somewhat forbidding texts accessible and of drawing out their importance and relevance to manifold wider concerns. * Speculum *Andrew Hicks has been so bold as to add a new book about world harmony, the music of the spheres, and the medieval reception of the Pythagorean concept of a creation organised according to musical principles to the already existing wealth of scholarship ... Hicks has chosen an approach which is new and refreshing, and which goes far beyond the boundaries of what already exists on the subject. * Plainsong & Medieval Music *Andrew H's Composing the World is a well-written and informative work. It was undoubtedly a courageous and imaginative decision to embark on a study of the notion of cosmic harmony in twelfth-century Latin sources, since a successful outcome could only be achieved by someone who combines many skills including not only musicology but medieval Latin philology and paleography, not without some acquaintance with the histories of philosophy and science ... Andrew H. is obviously a person of great intelligence and already of considerable learning. It seems to me that with his range of expertise he is adding greatly, and could presumably so add in the future, to medieval musicology and medieval studies more generally. * Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch *This ambitious book opens a new window onto twelfth-century philosophical thought, and successfully shows how deeply Platonic conceptions of harmony were embedded within it. As well as becoming essential reading for medievalists who want to develop their knowledge of speculative music theory, it is also worth the attention of early modernists and scholars who focus on present-day philosophical and scientific thought. * British Journal for the History of Science *Hicks writes towards the beginning of his book that, if we neglect the natural philosophers of the twelfth century, 'we have done ourselves and the discipline of musicology a grand disservice' (p. 8). By bringing a musicological perspective to his engagement with these natural philosophers, he enriches our understanding of the twelfth century's musical speculation and raises new questions that broaden musicology itself. * Music and Letters *There is no other work on this topic that can compare in terms of depth, scope, and complexity. This book is likely to become an indispensable point of reference for the study of both medieval musical theory and the school of Chartres. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *fascinating insights into the way the medieval mind worked as it tried to develop the notion of "a cosmos animated and choreographed according to a specifically musical aesthetic". * Andrew Benson-Wilson, Early Music Reviews *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Series Editors' Foreword Abbreviations Acknowledgements About the Companion Website PRELUDE: Listening to the Universe PART ONE: The Framework 1. Harmonizing the World: Natural Philosophy and Order 2. Knowing the World: Music, Mathematics, and Physics PART TWO: The Particulars 3. Composing the Human: Harmonies of the Microcosm 4. Hearing the World: Sonic Materialisms 5. Composing the Cosmic: Harmonies of the Macrocosm POSTLUDE: The Musical Aesthetics of a World So Composed Appendix One: William of Conches, Glosulae de magno Prisciano Appendix Two: Hisdosus, De anima mundi Platonica Works Cited Index
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Oxford University Press The Guitar Workbook
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra, and chorus in school music programs. This development has drawn a new population of students into those programs but has left music educators scrambling to developing meaningful, sequential courses of study that both meet the needs of these new students and align with state, county, and national curricula. Few available guitar methods are designed with the classroom in mind, and fewer still take a holistic approach to teaching and learning the instrument. In short, teachers are left to navigate a vast array of method books that cover a variety of styles and approaches, often without the confidence and experience necessary to know ''what to teach when.'' The Guitar Workbook: A Fresh Approach to Exploration and Mastery addresses the needs of these educators. Throughout the book''s 20 lessons, students are encouraged to explore the ways various guitar styles and notation systems differ, as well as the ways they support and cTrade Review"The Guitar Workbook: A Fresh Approach to Exploration and Mastery is a unique and useful resource. The text is approachable and applicable to a wide range of guitar players and students. A great addition to the field of guitar education."-Julie Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Vandercook College of Music "The Guitar Workbook by Scott Seifried successfully provides a set of techniques that will allow students to pursue the style of guitar playing that most interests them. An understanding of the fundamentals of music theory as applied to the guitar is also presented. The writing style and choice of language is engaging and audience appropriate."-Jim Ferla, Classical Guitar Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of PittsburghTable of ContentsIntroduction Lesson 1: Holding the Guitar, Making a Sound and Reading Tablature Lesson 2: Reading Fretboard Diagrams and Playing Chords Lesson 3: Reading Staff Notation Lesson 4: Open Position Chords; Foundational Shape (FS) 3 Lesson 5: Playing Two Notes Together Creativity Project I Lesson 6: Eight Note Rhythms, Alternate Picking, and Chord Strumming Lesson 7: The Half Barre; Foundational Shapes 4 and 5 Lesson 8: Open Power Chords, the A Pentatonic Minor Scale, and twelve-Bar Blues Lesson 9: Building Triads, Harmonizing melodies, and Recognizing Chords Written on the Staff Lesson 10: Slash Chords, Suspensions, and Rests Creativity Project II Lesson 11: Finger-style Playing, Rest Stroke and Open Bass Strings Lesson 12: Embellished Chords and Advanced Strumming Patterns Lesson 13: Completing Open Position Lesson 14: Major Scales, Key Signatures, and Accidentals Lesson 15: Creating Bass Lines and Power Chords Creativity Project III Lesson 16: Right Hand Arpeggios Lesson 17: The Full Barre Lesson 18:Two Octave Scales - A and E Major Lesson 19: Music in Two Parts Lesson 20: Roman Numerals, Transposition and Chromatic Pitches Creativity Project IV Appendix A: Assessment Rubrics and Grading Appendix B: Suggested Resources for Further Study
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Oxford University Press Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Book SynopsisHow is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, reveals connections between listening and constructions of community, and testifies to Classical music's enduring political significance in an age of neoliberal exclusion.Trade ReviewWaltham-Smith's ingenious analysis opens up productive conversations between unlikely interlocutors (Deleuze and Caplin, Nietzsche and Mozart), prompting us to contend anew with what each can offer to our understanding of music and its value. And her insights into the musical creativity of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven offer a novel way to engage with the enduring value of this repertory, and the real possibility of hearing this music with a new ear. * Beth M. Snyder, Eighteenth-Century Music *Waltham-Smith's Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration is an impressive, thought-provoking interpretation of works of the Austro-German canon as 'paradigmatic' of a politics of belonging and community * Jeremy Coleman, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *
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Oxford University Press Teaching Piano Pedagogy
Book SynopsisProviding essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell''s Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps teachers develop pedagogy course curricula, design and facilitate practicum-teaching experiences, and guide research projects in piano pedagogy. The book grounds the reader in the history of the domain, investigates course materials, and explores unique methods to introduce students to course concepts and help them put those concepts into practice. To facilitate easy integration into the curriculum, Crappell provides example classroom exercises and assignments throughout the text, which are designed to help students understand and practice the related topics and skills. Teaching Piano Pedagogy is not simply a book about teaching piano--it is a book about how piano students learn to teach.Trade ReviewThis superb book acts as both an encyclope-dia of all aspects of teaching pedagogy and as a guide to creating effective course curricula and creative assignments. * Eleanor Hodgkinson, Fontes artis musicae *Throughout the book, Crappell presents many ideas for crafting meaningful assignments in the pedagogy classroom. In some ways this book functions as an almost encyclopedic guide to all facets of teaching pedagogy. Truthfully, more than one close reading is required to digest all of the excellent and thought-provoking information presented ... Teaching Piano Pedagogy is a wonderful contribution to the literature, and essential to the professional pedagogue's bookshelf. After reading it, I am inspired to more deeply reflect and reevaluate my own teaching style and methods, both for pedagogy classes and applied lessons. * Ann DuHamel, Piano Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Classroom Exercises List of Sample Forms Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a Definition of Piano Pedagogy Chapter 2: Planning the Presentation of Topics in Piano Pedagogy Chapter 3: Selecting References for Coursework in Piano Pedagogy Chapter 4: Training Teaching Skills and Practices Chapter 5: Training Sequencing and Planning Strategies Chapter 6: Organizing the Presentation of Educational Theories Chapter 7: Facilitating Practicum Training Experiences Chapter 8: Guiding Creative Projects in Piano Pedagogy Chapter 9: Preparing for Generational Differences and Adapting to New Technologies Chapter 10: Fostering Curiosity and Creativity
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Oxford University Press Music and music education in peoples lives An Oxford handbook of music education An Oxford Handbook of Music Education Volume 1 Oxford Handbooks
Table of ContentsPart 1 Music Education and the Role of Music in People's Lives Part Editor: Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch Chapter 1. Introduction and commentary: Music education and the role of music in people's lives Graham F. Welch and Gary E. McPherson Chapter 2. Music's place in education Wayne Bowman Chapter 3. International perspectives Marie McCarthy Chapter 4. Music Education Philosophy David J. Elliott Chapter 5. Cultural diversity: Beyond 'songs from every land' Huib Schippers and Patricia Shehan Campbell Chapter 6. Some contributions of ethnomusicology Bruno Nettl Chapter 7. Musical identities mediate musical development David J. Hargreaves, Raymond MacDonald, and Dorothy Miell Chapter 8. Supporting motivation in music education James M. Renwick and Johnmarshall Reeve Chapter 9. Becoming a music learner: Towards a theory of transformative music engagement Susan A. O'Neill Chapter 10. Initiating music programs in new contexts: In search of a democratic music education Graça Mota and Sergio Figueiredo Chapter 11. Implications of neurosciences and brain research for music teaching and learning Donald Hodges and Wilfried Gruhn Part 2 Critical Reflections and Future Action Part Editor: Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch Chapter 12. Commentary: Critical Reflections and Future Action Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch Chapter 13. Politics, Policy, and Music Education Hal Abeles Chapter 14. Instrumental Teachers and Their Students: Who's in the Driver's Seat? Nick Beach Chapter 15. University Professors and the Entrepreneurial Spirit Liora Bresler Chapter 16. Pride and Professionalism in Music Education Richard Colwell Chapter 17. Pondering the Grand Experiment in Public Music Education Robert A. Cutietta Chapter 18. Music Education and Some of Its Subfields: Thoughts about Future Priorities Lucy Green Chapter 19. Music Education: An Unanswered Question Wilfried Gruhn Chapter 20. Improving Primary Teaching: Minding the Gap Sarah Hennessy Chapter 21. International Music Education: Setting Up a Global Information System Liane Hentschke Chapter 22. The Responsibility of Research in Defining the Profession of Music Education Christopher M. Johnson Chapter 23. Constructing Communities of Scholarship in Music Education Estelle R. Jorgensen Chapter 24. Internationalizing Music Education Andreas C. Lehmann Chapter 25. Emotion in Music Education Richard Letts Chapter 26. Music Education from a Slightly Outside Perspective Håkan Lundström Chapter 27. Research Issues in Personal Music Identification Clifford K. Madsen Chapter 28. Preparation, Perseverance, and Performance in Music: Views from a Program of Educational Psychology Research Andrew J. Martin Chapter 29. Music Therapy in Schools: An Expansion of Traditional Practice Katrina McFerran Chapter 30. Embracing New Digital Technologies: Now and into the Future Bradley Merrick Chapter 31. Challenges for Research and Practices of Music Education Bengt Olsson Chapter 32. All Theoried Up and Nowhere to Go Bennett Reimer Chapter 33. Make Research, Not War: Methodologies and Music Education Research Wendy L. Sims Chapter 34. The Preparation of Music Teacher Educators: A Critical Link David J. Teachout Chapter 35. Music and the Arts: As Ubiquitous and Fundamental as the Air We Breathe Rena B. Upitis Chapter 36. There Is Nothing Complex about a Correlation Coefficient Peter R. Webster Chapter 37. Dewey's Bastards: Music, Meaning, and Politics Paul Woodford
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Oxford University Press Ready Set Improvise The Nuts and Bolts of Music Improvisation
Book SynopsisAs an essential resource for music educators, this book provides an easy-to-follow guide to music improvisation instruction.Trade ReviewBurton and Snell have provided an impressive toolkit for developing student creativity and musicianship. Their sequential guide to teaching improvisation will be a welcome addition to any music educator's library. * Christian Bernhard, Professor of Music Education, The State University of New York at Fredonia *Ready, Set, Improvise! provides easy to follow instructions for engaging students of all ages in creative music-making activities. Teachers who are experienced improvisers as well as those new to the notion of musical improvisation will find something they can implement in their classrooms. * Colleen Conway, University of Michigan *This is a superb resource for teaching your students the skills and concepts they need to improvise fluently in a variety of tonalities and meters. The meticulously sequenced instruction carries students step by step from the earliest stages of musical understanding all the way to creative self-expression. Burton and Snell have given us a remarkably practical guide that all music teachers can immediately put to good use. * Daniel Deutsch, Founding Chairperson of the National Association for Music Education's Council for Music Composition *Burton and Snell share common sense approaches for pre-service and in-service music educators who realize the value of improvisation and are searching for practical techniques that maintain musical integrity. * Richard F. Grunow, Professor Emeritus of Music Education, Eastman School of Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the Companion Website Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Listening Chapter 3. Musical Dialogue-Imitation Chapter 4. Discrimination Chapter 5. Musical Dialogue-Improvisation Chapter 6. Application to Instruments Chapter 7. Assessment Appendix Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
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Oxford University Press Panpipes Ponchos Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz Bolivia Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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Oxford University Press Eduard Hanslicks on the Musically Beautiful A New Translation
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Oxford University Press Do You Remember House Chicagos Queer of Color Undergrounds
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Oxford University Press The Art of Becoming How Group Improvisation Works How Group Improvisation Works
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Oxford University Press Inc Oz and the Musical
Book SynopsisFrom the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum''s children''s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has served as the basis for some of the most popular musicals on stage and screen. In this book, musical theater scholar Ryan Bunch draws on his personal experience as an Oz fan to explore how a story that has been hailed as the American fairy tale serves as a guide for thinking about the art form of the American musical and how both reveal American identity to be a utopian performance.Show by show, Bunch highlights the forms and conventions of each musical work as practiced in its time and context-such as the turn-of-the-century extravaganza, the classical Hollywood film musical, the Black Broadway musical of the 1970s, and the twenty-first-century mega-musical. He then shows how the journey of each show teaches participants and audiences something about how to act American wiTrade ReviewBringing together his expertise in American musical theatre and childhood studies, Bunch walks readers through a culturally-grounded understanding of the world of Oz as found in books, on stages, on screens, in homes, and in communities. Deep scholarship and deep engagement with fan culture create a persuasive reading of the Oz fairy tale as quintessentially American, consciously performative, and full of a kind of theatrical humbug that makes the story perpetually adaptable and reflective of our changing society. * Dr. Jessica Sternfeld, Associate Professor of Music, Chapman University *Oz and the Musical beautifully analyzes the utopian possibility of the Oz story in forging a sense of American belonging. Exploring the form of the musical and its participatory potential, Bunch embraces the value of make believe and the performative to American inclusiveness. In engaging, lively prose, he reads Oz, The Wiz, and Wicked as fabulous expressions of the variety of the American imagination. * Katharine Capshaw, Professor of English and Africana Studies Affiliate, University of Connecticut *Table of ContentsAbout the Companion Website Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction: The Fairy Tale, the Musical, and "America" 1. The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum's Theatrical Fairy Tale 2. My Own Backyard: MGM's The Wizard of Oz 3. Easing Down the Road: The Soul of The Wiz 4. Wicked: The Witch's Turn 5. "And Then There Was Oz Again": Making Believe Between Oz and Home Epilogue: What Have You Learned, Dorothy? Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Absolute Music The History of an Idea
Trade ReviewYou should derive considerable enlightenment from Bonds' trenchant and pertinent perspectives. * Arnold Whittall, The Musical Times *...the idea...turns out to be a big one, and Bonds rises brilliantly to his own challenge, writing an epic narrative with a masterly command of 2,500 years of music history from the mysteries of Pythagoras to the mysteries of the CIA...Bonds's concept is immaculately conceived, wonderfully lucid, beautifully organized, and elegantly written. * Music Theory Online *This is an immensely informed, thoroughly documented, and detailed book, offering much to chew on during a delicious and intellectually nourishing journey through millennia of theoretical discussions about the nature of music. Readers with an interest in these matters should find Bonds' account profoundly satisfying, and his book should also provide the basis for graduate seminars on musical aesthetics. Highly recommended. * Classical.Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction 7 Part One Essence as Effect: To 1550 23 1. Orpheus and Pythagoras 23 2. Isomorphic Resonance 30 Part Two Essence and Effect: 1550-1850 39 3. Expression 41 The Separation of Powers 41 Music and Language 48 Music as Language 58 Mimesis 69 4. Beauty 79 5. Form 90 Form as Number 91 Form as Content 98 6. Autonomy 103 Material Autonomy 103 Ethical Autonomy 108 7. Disclosure 112 The Composer as Oracle 112 Beautiful Insights 117 Cosmic Insights 121 Part Three Essence or Effect: 1850-1945 127 8. Wagner's "Absolute" Music 129 9. Hanslick's "Pure" Music 140 Hanslick the Conventional 156 Hanslick the Radical 171 Hanslick the Ambivalent 181 10. Liszt's "Program" Music 205 11. Polemics 214 12. Reconciliation 231 13. Qualities Recast 244 Expression 246 Beauty 263 Form 264 Autonomy 278 Disclosure 284 Epilogue: Since 1945 292 Appendix: Hanslick's Vom Musikalischen-Schönen: Early and Selected Later Reviews and Commentary 294 Works Cited ] 304
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Oxford University Press The Mindful Musician
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind to combine mindfulness practices with research in cognitive and sport psychology, this book helps musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers.Trade ReviewWhile The Mindful Musician will be particularly helpful to readers who struggle with self-defeating behaviors, negative self-talk, or difficulty focusing during performance, its ideas and insights would help any musician learn to reframe his perspective to lead to more focused performance, greater resilience, more patience, and greater happiness overall. * Lesley McAllister, Piano Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements About the Companion Website Chapter 1: The Mindful Musician Chapter 2 Habits of Successful Performers Chapter 3 Music and the Mind: Performance Anxiety and Other Challenges Chapter 4 Mindful Performance Psychology Chapter 5 The Art of Mindful Breathing and Relaxation Chapter 6 Imagery for Peak Performance Chapter 7 Mindfulness Practice and Meditation for Musicians Chapter 8 The Mindful Achiever: Practical Applications for Long-Term Success Chapter 9 The Mindful Visionary: More Practical Applications for Long-Term Success References
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Oxford University Press Inc Punk Crisis The Global Punk Rock Revolution
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Oxford University Press Inc Elite Art Worlds Philanthropy Latin Americanism and Avantgarde Music CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC
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Oxford University Press Listening to Bach The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio
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Oxford University Press Motor City Music A Detroiter Looks Back
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Oxford University Press Art of Tonal Analysis Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory
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Oxford University Press In Hip Hop Time Music Memory and Social Change in Urban Senegal
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Oxford University Press Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship
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Oxford University Press Notes for Violists A Guide to the Repertoire
Book SynopsisNotes for Violists offers key historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for viola. Its engaging prose, detailed analytical charts, and rich contextual and theoretical insights make it an indispensable guide for professional, amateur, and student violists.Trade ReviewA wonderful new resource, this book is available in a variety of formats, contains interesting historical and analytical information on 35 major viola repertoire works, from Telemann to Penderecki. Composer biographies, analysis of works and setting the works in their historical and social context make this a fascinating read ... This book is highly praised by my esteemed USA viola colleagues, and I recommended this book unreservedly. * Helen Tuckey, AUSTA National Journal Reviews *David Bynog's new book is irresistible...All violists owe a debt of gratitude to David Bynog for this masterful book, which will serve as an inexhaustible resource for decades to come. * Andrew H. Weaver, The Catholic University of America, Journal of the American Viola Society *The persuasive capsules will be invaluable to program-note writers and casual music lovers, while the scope of the music provides an insight into the world of the viola. * Laurence Vittes, Strings *David Bynog's deep love and equally deep knowledge of the viola and its repertory's 'greatest hits' shine through in every chapter of this book. It is a must-have for every viola student and teacher, providing an invaluable 'jumping off point' for the preparation of an informed performance of each of these masterpieces. What a gift it is to the viola community to have this wonderful research and analysis all in one place! * Carol Rodland, Violist, Professor of Viola and Chamber Music, The Juilliard School *A fascinating book highlighting important select works for viola. I found it a captivating treasure-trove of unexpected insights into every composer's life, each composition, and its place now in history. A must for all who love the viola! * James F. Dunham, Professor of Viola and Chamber Music, Rice University, Shepherd School of Music *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 Chapter 2. Béla Bartók: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz. 120 (BB 128) Chapter 3. Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy, op. 16 Chapter 4. Ernest Bloch: Suite hébraïque Chapter 5. York Bowen: Sonata No. 1 in C Minor for Viola and Piano, op. 18 Chapter 6. Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet (or Viola) and Piano in E flat Major, op. 120, no. 2 Chapter 7. Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae, op. 48 Chapter 8. Max Bruch: Romanze for Viola and Orchestra, op. 85 Chapter 9. Henri Casadesus: Concerto in B Minor for Viola and Orchestra (attributed to G. F. Handel) Chapter 10. Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola and Piano Chapter 11. George Enescu: Concertstück for Viola and Piano Chapter 12. Cecil Forsyth: Concerto in G Minor for Viola and Orchestra Chapter 13. Lilian Fuchs: Sonata Pastorale for Unaccompanied Viola Chapter 14. Aleksandr Glazunov: Élegié for Viola and Piano, op. 44 Chapter 15. Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 11, no. 4 Chapter 16. Paul Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher: Concerto after Old Folksongs for Viola and Small Orchestra Chapter 17. Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major Chapter 18. Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata for Piano and Viola, op. 5, no. 3 Chapter 19. Bohuslav Martinü: Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, H. 337 Chapter 20. Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in C Minor for Viola and Piano Chapter 21. Darius Milhaud: Quatre Visages for Viola and Piano, op. 238 Chapter 22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra, K. 364 (320d) Chapter 23. Krzysztof Penderecki: Cadenza for Viola Solo Chapter 24. Quincy Porter: Suite for Viola Alone Chapter 25. Max Reger: Three Suites for Solo Viola, op. 131d: No. 1 in G Minor Chapter 26. Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, op. 113 Chapter 27. Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 147 Chapter 28. Carl Stamitz: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major Chapter 29. Igor Stravinsky: Élégie for Viola or Violin Unaccompanied Chapter 30. Toru Takemitsu: A Bird came down the Walk, for viola and piano Chapter 31. Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in G Major for Viola, Strings, and Basso continuo, TWV 51:G9 Chapter 32. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra Chapter 33. Henry Vieuxtemps: Élegié for Viola and Piano, op. 30 Chapter 34. William Walton: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Chapter 35. Carl Maria von Weber: Andante e Rondo ungarese for Viola and Orchestra, J. 79 Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Ballet in the Cold War
Book SynopsisIn 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the first tours of the exchange, by the Bolshoi in 1959 and 1962, by American Ballet Theatre in 1960, and by New York City Ballet in 1962. The tours opened up space for genuine appreciation of foreign ballet. American fans lined up overnight to buy tickets to the Bolshoi, and Soviet audiences packed massive theaters to see American companies. Political leaders, including Khrushchev and Kennedy, met with the dancers. The audience reaction, screaming and crying, was overwhelming.But the tours also began a series of deep misunderstandings. American and Soviet audiences did not view ballet in the same way. Each group experienced the other''s ballet through the lens of their own aesthetics. Americans loved Soviet dancers but beliTrade ReviewSupported by an exacting scholarly apparatus, this is a valuable resource for those interested in dance, choreography, and the history of performance and the arts and diplomacy. Bravissima! * M. E. Snodgrass, CHOICE *Supported by an exacting scholarly apparatus, this is a valuable resource for those interested in dance, choreography, and the history of performance and the arts and diplomacy. Bravissima! Summing Up: Essential. * CHOICE *Dr. Searcy's research is invigorating. She guides us with a sure hand through the political thickets to a deeper appreciation of the art. Highly recommended. * Danielle Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University *Ballet in the Cold War offers a vibrant portrait of Cold War cultural exchange, brimming with insights into cultural politics, institutions, and the social meanings of music and dance. This engaging and carefully researched study is essential reading for anyone interested in the arts during the Cold War and the effects of culture on global politics. * Kevin Bartig, Michigan State University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction 1. A Cold War Welcome: The Bolshoi Ballet's 1959 Tour of the United States 2. Bringing an American Report Card to Russia: American Ballet Theatre's 1960 Tour of the Soviet Union 3. A Question of Taste: The Bolshoi Ballet's 1962 Tour of the United States 4. "Ballet is a Flower!": New York City Ballet's 1962 Tour of the Soviet Union Epilogue: Exchange in the Twenty-first Century Note on Abbreviations Endnotes Index
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Oxford University Press Performing Rites Evaluating Popular Music
Book SynopsisWho''s better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren''t merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What''s good, what''s bad? What''s high, what''s low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject and discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture and colour our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and PuTrade ReviewFrith understands precisely what pop music is actually for, and thus has a right to write about it that few others share. * Pete Townshend *This is a good, and arguably a great book. * Colin McCabe, New Statesman & Society *quite simply one of the best books I've ever read about music * BBC Music Magazine *Pop music matters to Frith, and he gives one of the best accounts yet written of how and why this should be so ... a very necessary book. * Peter Aspden, Financial Times *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I MUSIC TALK: 1 THE VALUE PROBLEM IN CULTURAL STUDIES; 2 THE SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; 3 COMMON SENSE AND THE LANGUAGE OF CRITICISM; 4 GENRE RULES; PART II ON MUSIC ITSELF: 5 WHERE DO SOUNDS COME FROM?; 6 RHYTHM: RACE, SEX, AND THE BODY; 7 RHYTHM: TIME, SEX, AND THE MIND; 8 SONGS AS TEXTS; 9 THE VOICE; 10 PERFORMANCE; 11 TECHNOLOGY AND AUTHORITY; PART III WHY MUSIC MATTERS: 12 THE MEANING OF MUSIC; 13 TOWARD A POPULAR AESTHETIC; NOTES; INDEX.
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Oxford University Press, USA Serial Composition
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Oxford University Press Mozart His Character His Work 162 Galaxy Books
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Oxford University Press The Story of Jazz
Trade Review'For beginners and those who need a refresher course in the history of jazz, a great way to start.' Beat Scene'This 1956 tome comes endorsed by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.' The Guardian'it says a good deal for its thoroughness and scholarship that no revision has been deemed necessary for this, the first paperback edition for 20 years ... excellent volume' Stage and Television Today'The Jazz Tradition is certainly an informative and stimulating book ... Marshall Stearns's book has long been regarded as a masterpiece of its kind. The Story of Jazz is essential reading for anyone with even a smattering of interest in the music.' Q
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Oxford University Press American Popular Song The Great Innovators 19001950
Trade ReviewA bible for all song-freaks, it includes a long chapter on Rodgers that backs up enthusiasm with analysis. * BBC Music Magazine, December 1999 *'American Popular Song-The Great Innovators 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder, recently republished by Oxford University Press (Price #17.50 and worth every penny)' National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Spring/Summer 1993
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Oxford University Press, USA Louis Armstrong An American Genius
Book SynopsisLouis Armstrong was more than a great entertainer-he was one of the most important musicians of our times, not only a key figure in the history of jazz but also a formative influence on all of twentieth-century popular music. James Lincoln Collier, author of The Making of Jazz chronicles the saga of Armstrong's rise as a musician, providing a unique, insightful portrait of the man and his times.Trade Review"Destined to become one of the enduring jazz reference works."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"The definitive account of Armstrong's life. Collier is a tough, unblinkered critic."--The Washington Post"By far the most thoughtful and articulate study to date of a much misunderstood titan of jazz."--The Nation"A masterful critical biography--sophisticated in its contexts, shrewd yet sympathetic, rich in its supporting cast...and splendidly conscientious in the delicate balance between character and culture."--Kirkus Reviews"The most comprehensive account yet of the man who all but invented swing."--Newsweek"One of the most important jazz studies in recent years."--Callaloo"An excellent introduction to the real 'Satchmo.'"--History Book Review"It could be a long time before we are given a more detailed, comprehensive, perceptive, and human portrait of the great Satchmo."--Jervis Anderson, The New Republic"Only with the publication of James Lincoln Collier's biography is a truly comprehensive critical study of Armstrong available. And a splendid one it is....Distinguished by sound logic, a generous breadth of understanding of music and people, and a writing style that is a model of clarity, economy, and grace....Collier's book joins that select group of biographies of Americans in the arts whose representatives are in themselves admirable works of art."--American Music"Splendid....Distinguished by sound logic, a generous breadth of understanding of music and people, and a writing style that is a model of clarity, economy, and grace....Collier's book joins the select group of biographies of Americans in the arts whose representatives are in themselves admirable works of art."--American Music"A superb book....It is thoughtful, intelligent, informative, provocative, and comprehensive."--Stephen L. Stone, University of Oregon"This comprehensive, well-researched, highly readable biography deftly separates fact from myth in telling the rags-to-riches saga of Armstrong's life."--The Christian Science Monitor"A detailed, provocative, intellectually stimulating, and skillfully written account--in fact, one of the most engrossing biographies of a jazz musician ever written."--Down Beat"Impeccable scholarship, razor-sharp musical analysis, and lively, vibrant prose are the hallmarks of this groundbreaking biography of an American jazz legend."--Booklist
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Oxford University Press Swing to Bop An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
Trade Review"An unpretentious and highly entertaining characterization of an era when black musicians tried innovatively to wrest control of their music from white big-band leaders....Informative, upbeat, carefully assembled."--Mel Watkins, American Visions "The most important and valuable book on jazz since James Lincoln Collier's The Making of Jazz, Martin Williams' The Jazz Tradition, and his own previous bop history, Jazz Masters of the '40s."--Jazziz "Mr. Gitler has done an exhaustive and creditable job, and we can thank him for the thoroughness of the interviews, the sensible organization of the material and the portrait of an emerging era marked by more interaction between new and old than historical generalizations would suggest."--The New York Times Book Review "Swing to Bop captures the genius and warmth of Parker and Gillespie, and the contributions of numerous other musicians, too-often forgotten....[It] portrays with depth and vitality what Gitler aptly described bop to be--'a music that lifted one with beauty and joy.'"--Philadelphia Tribune "A 'musician's story'...chock full of all the crazy things that can happen on the road, in the clubs, in the studios, or just about anywhere a jazz musician hangs or wears his hat."--The Christian Science Monitor "First class."--Jazztimes "An uncommonly rich selection of anecdotes, outrageous stories, hearsay and musical insight."--Baltimore Sun "An essential book, one that brings the absolute excitement and sense of change of the era vividly to life."--Cashbox "There are moments here...where provocative ground is broken...[An] enjoyable oral history."--Boston Phoenix "One of the most enjoyable volumes that I've read in a while....If you love creative music, Swing to Bop is a must--the words will make you laugh, cry, groan, and make you wish that you were right there when it happened."--Cadence
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Oxford University Press, USA Pianos and Politics in China MiddleClass Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music
Book SynopsisDuring the Cultural Revolution the piano, the musical embodiment of Western culture, became the object of intense hostility. This book examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and Western influences generally.Trade Review'deserves to become a classic ... masterful and engrossing book' Gary Zabel, Musical Times
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Oxford University Press The Jazz Age Popular Music in the 1920s
Book SynopsisThis lively account of the Roaring 20s' in America embraces all the major personalities in jazz and popular music - singers, composers and instrumentalists - together with a detailed discography and lists of songs and films.Trade ReviewArnold Shaw has produced an interesting history of the music of the twenties, relating it strongly to the social and political influences of the decade. Agreeably anecdotal, the whole making up a rich kaleidoscope which will be of use to researchers as well as to the general reader * Stage and Television - November 1988 *Shaw's research also yields an attractive breadth of biography and social history. He sketches all sorts of luminaries of the time, producing a rich harvest of anecdote along the way. * Country Life *lively account of the Roaring 20s in America * Publishing News *Arnold Shaw has written an authoritative, exuberant, encyclopaedic book ... Shaw's knowledge ... appears infinite. Panoramic in scope, exhaustive in detail and affectionate in tone, The Jazz Age will be pored over by those who are enraptured by the period. * David Dale, The Times *eminently readable essays ... At #5.95 Lee's book is a snip. * New Musical Express *this book is so full of inside information on the era it's almost unbelievable ... a lively informative book which will be a joy to many ... Fine detail and an engaging style ... a great read. * Bernie Ralphs, Beat Scene *a feast for jazz-lovers ... goes into the jazz history of what were called the "Roaring Twenties" with a wealth of detail * Kieran Nally, Irish Independent *
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Oxford University Press The Swing Era
Book SynopsisTaking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller''s history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social life, he assesses the distinctive sounds of great bandleaders like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman, instrumentalists such as Art Tatum, Cab Calloway, and Pee Wee Russell, and such vocalists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Peggy Lee.Trade Review`Hardly anyone else can write on jazz with such authority...indispensable to serious jazz lovers...A monumental contribution to jazz literature.' New York Review of Books`a magisterial achievement...a masterpiece and a source of pure joy' Washington Post Book World`A touchstone of jazz literature...The most thorough and authoritative study ever undertaken on the period.' Philadelphia Inquirer'Reading it is like listening to one of those hugely learned men with the gift of the gab, like Bronowski or A.J.P. Taylor, talking about his favourite subject. Every observation is backed by evidence, every generalisation judiciously qualified, every side-issue detailed in a footnote, but it is all done without a trace of pomposity. The real enjoyment in reading The Swing Era, as in reading Johnson's Lives of the Poets, comes from being taught more about something you love by an erudite, courteous and generous mind.' Dave Gelly, Jazz, Issue 12
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