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W. W. Norton & Company The Norton Recordings Four CDs to accompany The
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WW Norton & Co On My Way
Book SynopsisA revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero.
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Born in Blood and Fire
Book SynopsisThe companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.
£29.69
WW Norton & Co Tonal Analysis A Schenkerian Perspective
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£75.52
WW Norton & Co Americas Musical Life
Book Synopsis"A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsPart One: The First Three Centuries; 1. The First Song: Native American Music; 2. European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making; 3. From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music; 4. 'Old, Simple Ditties': Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making; 5. Performing 'By Particular Desire': Colonial Military, Concert, and Theatre Music; 6. Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America; 7. Correcting 'the Harshness of Our Singing': New England Psalmody Reformed; Part Two: The Nineteenth Century; 8. Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason; 9. Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music; 10. 'Be It Ever So Humble': Theatre and Opera, 1800-1860; 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage; 12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry; 13. From Ramparts to Romance: Parlour Songs, 1800-1845; 14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s; 15. From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music; 16. From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry; 17. A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana; 18. Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach; 19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism; 20. 'Travel in the Winds': Native American Music from 1820; 21. 'Make a Noise!': Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s; 22. Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century; 23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph; 24. 'After the Ball': The Rise of Tin Pan Alley; Part Three: The Twentieth Century; 25. 'To Stretch Our Ears': The Music of Charles Ives; 26. 'Come On and Hear': The Early Twentieth Century; 27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz and a Rhapsody; 28. 'The Birthright of All of Us': Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression; 29. 'All That is Native and Fine': American Folk Song and Its Collectors; 30. From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National; 31. 'Crescendo in Blue': Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band; 32. The Golden Age of the American Musical; 33. Classical Music in the Postwar Years; 34. 'Rock Around the Clock': The Rise of Rock and Roll; 35. Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends; 36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence; 37. Melting Pot or Pluralism? Popular Music and Ethnicity; 38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music; 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s; 40. Black Music and American Identity
£27.99
WW Norton & Co Classical Music in America
Book Synopsis“A splendid read, at once disturbing and illuminating.”—GramophoneTrade Review"This formidable book... shows how American classical music became a 'performance culture,' an ersatz-European showplace for celebrity virtuosos, rather than a native-born genre." The New Yorker "As a comprehensive, convincing analysis of the contemporary dilemma... and a riveting portrait of the century and a half of events and personalities which brought it about, Mr Horowitz's account would be hard to beat." The Economist "...Horowitz's important and in many ways provocative new book..." David Nicholls, The Times Literary Supplement"
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Changing Lives Gustavo Dudamel El Sistema and the
Book Synopsis“Reminds us of how arts education can change lives.” —Gary Stager, Huffington PostTrade Review"Essential reading for every one of us who cares passionately about our neediest children." -- Quincy Jones "Starred Review. This passionate and inspiring story should be read by all those interested in music education, community building, and advocacy for the disadvantaged. An essential purchase." "We are fortunate to have the story of El Sistema related so eloquently." -- Deborah Borda, president and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic "Tunstall soundly probes how it is that classical music has played such a powerful role in the protection, education, and elevation of so many children born into poverty. The author does a noble job tracing the history of El Sistema, while managing to keep the narrative as much in the immediate present as possible."
£12.34
W. W. Norton & Company Enjoyment of Music
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£91.20
WW Norton & Co The Musicians Guide to Aural Skills SightSinging
Book SynopsisA sight-singing manual designed for AP® Music Theory
£50.47
W. W. Norton & Company Musicians Guide to Aural Skills
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£80.75
W. W. Norton & Company The Musicians Guide
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£30.40
WW Norton & Co Everybodys Doin It
Book Synopsis"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising CainTrade Review"Cockrell’s fascinating story and soundtrack of disorderly old Gotham will delight New York City historians and music buffs alike." -- Publishers Weekly"Everybody’s Doin’ It exposes the interracial and underworld origins of popular song and dance in the United States. Dale Cockrell takes us into the sensual confines of the nineteenth-century concert saloons, cabarets, dives, and dance halls propagating a new cultural genre: American popular music." -- Timothy J. Gilfoyle, author of City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920"Dale Cockrell takes us on a bawdy trip back to the dives and concert saloons of old New York. His book is one hell of a ride into the past, and a complicated one: he reminds us of the tragic fact that prostitution, ubiquitous at the time—after all, what options did women then have to survive?—was an integral part of New York’s rollicking music scene." -- Alice Sparberg Alexiou, author of Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery"Dale Cockrell tells the stories of cellar clubs and what he calls the ‘discord of the dives.’ He scrapes the bottom of the archives to scour reports by police, tabloids, and moral reformers. Cockrell reads this neglected evidence with exuberant skepticism. Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." -- William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop"In this brilliant and important study, Dale Cockrell reveals the conditions within which black and white artists forged the idioms of American popular music. You’ll never listen to ragtime the same way again!" -- Susan McClary, author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality"I devoured this book and had to keep reminding myself that Dale Cockrell couldn’t have actually been there in person! His keen archivist’s gaze has once again opened a new world for readers, showing us how much has changed and how much has stayed the same, from the backroom saloons of the 1870s to Studio 54 in the 1970s." -- Daniel Goldmark, director of the Center for Popular Music Studies"Another scintillating gem from one of the rock stars of American musicology. Cockrell draws on sources we didn’t know existed to draw conclusions we couldn’t have foreseen. He not only illuminates the music of the title’s time period but also puts jazz scholarship on a different footing. Everybody should be readin’ it!" -- Robert Walser, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
£20.89
W. W. Norton & Company Music for Elementary Classroom Teachers
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WW Norton & Co Anthology of Music for Analysis
Book SynopsisThe best collection of musical examples for any theory class
£86.45
WW Norton & Co Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory First
Book SynopsisThe ultimate resource for music theory teachers and pedagogy classes
£44.18
WW Norton & Co Norton Guide to Teaching Music History
Book SynopsisThe ultimate resource for teaching any music history course.
£35.15
WW Norton & Co Dvoraks Prophecy
Book SynopsisA provocative interpretation of why classical music in America “stayed white”—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.
£22.79
W. W. Norton & Company Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing
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£86.45
WW Norton & Co The Norton Scores A Study Anthology 11e V 2
Book SynopsisThis two-volume anthology reproduces all the works discussed in the full-length versions of the book and included on the 8-CD set of recordings.
£52.25
WW Norton & Co Anthology for Music in the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisA concise anthology including a wide range of eighteenth-century music.Table of Contents Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat mater: Stabat mater dolorosa Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona: A Serpina penserete Johann Adolph Hasse, Artaserse: Per questo dolce amplesso Lodovico Giustini, Piano Sonata No. 1 in G Minor: Corrente Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in C Major, K. 421 Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 1: Adagio Domenico Gallo, Trio Sonata No. 1 in G Major: First movement Johann Christian Bach, Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 2: First movement Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice: Act 2, Scene 1 up to end of chorus Misero giovane Johann Baptist Vanhal, Missa pastoralis: Agnus Dei Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Fantasia in C Minor, W. 63, No. 6 Johann Stamitz, Symphony in D Major, Op. 3, No. 2: Presto Anna Bon, Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Op. 2, No. 3: Allegretto Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 8 in G Major (Le soir): First movement Ignacio de Jerusalem, Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe: Vidi speciosam Tommaso Traetta, Antigona: Piangi, o Tebe Giovanni Paisiello, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Finale of Act 4 (extract) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453: Andante Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2 (The Joke): Presto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in A Major, K. 464: Minuet and Trio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Così fan tutte: Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 (Prague): Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni: Madamina, il catalogo è questo Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 97 in C Major: Adagio ma non troppo Joseph Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 52 in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 52: Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2: Grazioso Joseph Haydn, The Seasons: Hier treibt ein dichter Kreis and Hört das laute Getön Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (Sinfonia eroica): Marcia funebre Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (“Razumovsky”): Allegro molto
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WW Norton & Co Anthology for Music in the Medieval West
Book SynopsisA concise anthology featuring a wide range of medieval music.Table of Contents** Contents subject to change 1. Anonymous, Ave Maris Stella 2. Anonymous, The Oxyrhynchus hymn 3. Ambrose of Milan, Aeterne Rerum Conditor 4. Anonymous, Some Easter Mass Propers 5. Anonymous, Polyphonic examples from Musica Enchiriadis 6. Anonymous, Antiphon "Ecce apparebit dominus" with Psalm 147 (146):1–11 7. Anonymous, Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor 8. Anonymous and Notker the Stammer, Two Early Medieval Sequences 9. Anonymous, Tropes for the Introit Resurrexi 10. Fulbert of Chartres (?), Responsory: Stirps Jesse 11. Anonymous, Sequence Congaudentes exultemus for St. Nicholas 12. Anonymous, Responsory Ex eius tumba and Prosula Sospitati for St. Nicholas 13. Fleury Playbook, From The Three Daughters, a play for St. Nicholas 14. Winchester Troper, Polyphonic Setting of Alleluia Surrexit Vere 15. Anonymous, Annus Novus in Gaudio 16. Anonymous, Stirps Jesse Florigeram 17. Anonymous, Alma perpetui /Ave regina caelorum 18. Albertus, Cantor of Paris, Congaudeant Catholici 19. Peter Abelard, Epithalamica 20. Four Troubadour Songs 20.1. Macabru, L'autrier jost' una sebissa 20.2. Bernart de Ventadorn, Can vei la lauzeta 20.3. Guiraut de Bornehl, Reis glorios 20.4. La Comtessa de Dia, A chantar m'er 21. Adam of St. Victor (?), Zima vetus 22. Hildegard of Bingen, Mathias Sanctus 23. Anonymous, Laude Novella 24. Anonymous, Bacche, bene venies 25. Thibaut de Champagne, Chancon ferai que talenz 26. Alfonso the Wise (?), Rosa das Rosas 27. Martin Codex, Ondas do mare de Vigo 28. Philip the Chancellor (?), Sol oritur 29. Anonymous, Phrases from the Vatican Organum Treatise and Two-part organum purum with discant, and copula 30. Anonymous, Organum triplum on Flos Filius 31. Anonymous, Clausulae on Flos Filius 32. Anonymous, Two early motets on Flos Filius 33. Petrus de Cruce, S'Amours eust point de poer/Au Renouveler/Ecce 34. Philip de Vitry, Tribum/Quoniam/Merito 35. Guillaume de Machaut, Remede de Fortune: Dame de qui, toute ma joie and Dame vous sans retollir. 36. Guillaume de Machaut, Fons totius/O livoris feritas/Fera pessima 37. Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie 38. Jacob Senleches, Je me merveil/J’ay pluseurs fois 39. Marchettus of Padua, Ave regina celorum/Mater innocencie/Ite Joseph 40. Anonymous, Madrigal: Quando I Oselli Canta 41. Francesco Landini, De sospirar sovente 42. Antonio Zacara da Teramo, Cacciando per gustar 43. Anonymous, Singularis Laudis Digna 44. Richard Queldryk, Troped Gloria
£37.05
WW Norton & Co Music Then and Now
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WW Norton & Co Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 7e V1
Book SynopsisThe Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music offers dynamic performances by great artists of every work in the Norton Anthology of Western Music.
£51.30
WW Norton & Co Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 7e V2
Book SynopsisThe Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music offers dynamic performances by great artists of every work in the Norton Anthology of Western Music.
£51.30
WW Norton & Co Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 7e V3
Book SynopsisThe Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music offers dynamic performances by great artists of every work in the Norton Anthology of Western Music.
£51.30
WW Norton & Co Reel Music
Book SynopsisThe #1 film music text, now with more attention to international films.
£58.90
WW Norton & Co Anthology of Classical Music
Book SynopsisFor this carefully selected anthology, the author of Classical Music has chosen representative works from the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. All seventy-six selections--complete pieces, movements, or integral sections--are discussed at length in the companion text.
£56.05
WW Norton & Co Prelude Transfiguration of Wagners Tristan
Book SynopsisAn original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
£19.95
WW Norton & Co Analytic Approaches to TwentiethCentury Music
Book SynopsisDesigned to introduce the reader to a variety of analytic techniques applicable to music of since 1900, this valuable book is written in a straightforward, clear style and includes abundant music examples, practical exercises, and reinforcing overviews.
£65.55
WW Norton & Co Symphony No. 4 in E Minor Op. 98
Book SynopsisThe Norton Critical Score of Brahm's Fourth Symphony is the latest volume in this highly-regarded series, in which an authoritative score--here the first edition as corrected by the composer--is combined with illuminating essays and documents for an in-depth study of the work.
£20.00
WW Norton & Co Strunks Source Readings in Music History Greek
Book SynopsisHow did the ancient Greeks regard music? In many different ways, as the readings in Greek Views of Music reveal.
£28.50
WW Norton & Co Sight Singing 2e Pitch. Interval. Rhythm.
Book SynopsisYoung musicians today are faced with a rapidly expanding and complex repertory of styles, tonal as well as pre- and post-tonal.
£53.20
WW Norton & Co The Music Kit
Book SynopsisIntroduced in 1976, The Music Kit was the first to offer students an integrated learning environment for the fundamentals course.
£61.28
W. W. Norton & Company A New Approach to Ear Training
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WW Norton & Co The Second String Quartet in FSharp Minor
Book SynopsisArnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet revolutionized western art music.
£22.80
John Wiley & Sons Inc Music and Dyslexia
Book SynopsisPublished originally in 2001, the first edition of Music and Dyslexia shed light on the personal experiences of dyslexic musicians and music teachers who taught dyslexic students. The field has developed rapidly, particularly in the area of neuropsychology.Table of ContentsForeword. List of contributors. Preface. Section I. Tackling problems. 1. Dyslexia and Developmental differences (T. R. Miles). 2. Things that can go wrong (T.R. Miles). Section II. In and around the classroom. 3. In and around the classroom (Christine McRitchie Pratt). 4. Classroom rhythm games for literacy support (Katie Overy). 5. Early years: Deirdre starts to learn piano (Olivia McCarthy and Diana Ditchfield). 6. Winning over the reluctants (Christine McRitchie Pratt, Diana Ditchfield, Sheila Oglethorpe and John Westcombe). 7. Can music lessons help the dyslexic learner? (Sheila Oglethorpe). 8. Parallels between the teaching of musical and mathematical notation (Tim Miles). 9. The paperwork (Diana Ditchfield). 10. Sight-reading (Sheila Oglethorpe). 11. Sight-reading and memory (Michael Lea). 12. Ten top tips and thoughts (Nigel Clarke). 13. Can computers help? Matching the inner with the outer ear (Adam Apostoli). Section III. Strategies and successes. 14. Positive connections across the generations (Annemarie Sand and John Westcombe). 15. Similarities and differences in the dyslexic voice (Paula Bishop-Liebler). 16. Thirty-seven oboists (Carolyn King). 17. Suzuki benefits for children with dyslexia (Jenny Macmillan). 18. Dyslexia: no problem (Diana Ditchfield). Section IV. Science takes us forward. 19. Insights from brain imaging (Katie Overy). 20. Music reading: a cognitive neuroscience approach (Lauren Stewart). Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Karawitan
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three translated volumes.
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Karawitan
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three translated volumes.
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press The Bastard Instrument
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz
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The University of Michigan Press Intents and Purposes
Book SynopsisUses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions about what defines a musical work and musical performance, seeking to go beyond philosophical and aesthetic templates from Western classical music to foreground the distinctive practices and aesthetics of jazz.
£65.50
University of California Press The Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
Book SynopsisThis is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790's, it reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the 19th and 20th centuries.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments On Documentation PART ONE: STRUCTURE OF THE SOCIETE DES CONCERTS 1. Beginnings (March 1828) 2. The Musicians 3. The Hall 4. The Concerts PART TWO: 1828--1872 5. Habeneck (1828--48) 6. Girard, Tilmant, and George-Hainl (1849--72) PART THREE: 1872--1919 7. Deldevez (1872--85) 8. Garcin, Taffanel, and Marty (1885--1908) 9. Messager (1908--19) PART FOUR: 1919--1967 10. Gaubert (1919--38) 11. Munch and Cluytens (1938--60) 12. Endings (1960--67) Afterword Appendix A: Governments of France Appendix B: Administration of the Societe des Concerts Appendix C: Seasons and Conductors, 1828--1967 Notes Select Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Performing Ethnomusicology
Book SynopsisConsidering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, this volume discusses problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes.Trade Review"A book of great importance and long overdue." - R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit; "Both original and stimulating, this book presents widely known material in a highly theorized and organized manner." - Katherine J. Hagedorn, author of Divine Utterances"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Teaching What Cannot Be Taught: An Optimistic Overview Ted Solis PART 1. SOUNDING THE OTHER: ACADEMIC WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. Subject, Object, and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: The Ethnomusicological "We" and "Them" Ricardo D. Trimillos 2. "A Bridge to Java": Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America Hardja Susilo 3. Opportunity and Interaction: The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan Sumarsam 4. "Where's 'One'?": Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind Gage Averill PART 2. SQUARE PEGS AND SPOKESFOLK: SERVING AND ADAPTING TO THE ACADEMY 5. A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Teaching Javanese Gamelan in the Ensemble Paradigm of the Academy Roger Vetter 6. "No, Not 'Bali Hai!": Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan David Harnish 7. Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context: Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong J. Lawrence Witzleben PART 3. PATCHWORKERS, ACTORS, AND AMBASSADORS: REPRESENTING OURSELVES AND OTHERS 8. "Can't Help but Speak, Can't Help but Play": Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy Ali Jihad Racy 9. The African Ensemble in America: Contradictions and Possibilities David Locke 10. Klez Goes to College Hankus Netsky 11. Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public Scott Marcus PART 4. TAKE-OFF POINTS: CREATIVITY AND PEDAGOGICAL OBLIGATION 12. Bilateral Negotiations in Bimusicality: Insiders, Outsiders, and the "Real Version" in Middle Eastern Music Performance Anne K. Rasmussen 13. Community of Comfort: Negotiating a World of "Latin Marimba" Ted Solis 14. What's the "It" That We Learn to Perform?: Teaching BaAka Music and Dance Michelle Kisliuk and Kelly Gross 15. "When Can We Improvise?": The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance David W. Hughes Afterword. Some Closing Thoughts from the First Voice: An Interview with Mantle Hood Ricardo D. Trimillos Works Cited List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Book SynopsisThis bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last cenTrade Review"'This complex and stimulating book is notably rich in its interdisciplinarity. Rather than remaining trammeled by a false dichotomy between the oral and the written, Berger takes the lead with Mary Carruthers and others to probe provocative questions of memory, memorization, and mnemonics. The best, and most appropriate, single word to describe Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is unforgettable.'" - Jan Ziolkowski, coeditor, with Mary Carruthers, of The Medieval Craft of Memory and editor of Dag Norberg's An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification"Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Music Examples Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Prologue: The First Great Dead White Male Composer Part 1. The Construction of the Memorial Archive Chapter 2. Tonaries: A Tool for Memorizing Chant Chapter 3. Basic Theory Treatises Chapter 4. The Memorization of Organum, Discant, and Counterpoint Treatises Part 2. Compositional Process in Polyphonic Music Chapter 5. Compositional Process and the Transmission of Notre Dame Polyphony Chapter 6. Visualization and the Composition of Polyphonic Music Conclusion Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press Audiotopia
Book SynopsisRanging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the US-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. It covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity.Trade Review"With Audiotopia, Kun emerges as a pre-eminent analyst, interpreter, and theorist of inter-ethnic dialogue in US music, literature, and visual art. This book is a guide to how scholarship will look in the future - the first fully realized product of a new generation of scholars thrown forth by tumultuous social ferment and eager to talk about the world that they see emerging around them." - George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture "The range and depth of Audiotopia is thrilling. It's not only that Josh Kun knows so much-it's that he knows what to make of what he knows." - Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century "The way Josh Kun writes about what he hears, the way he unravels word, sound, and power is breathtaking, provocative, and original. A bold, expansive, and lyrical book, Audiotopia is a record of crossings, textures, tangents, and ideas you will want to play again and again." - Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Strangers among Sounds 1. Against Easy Listening, or, How to Hear America Sing 2. The Yiddish Are Coming 3. Life According to the Beat 4. Basquiat's Ear, Rahsaan's Eye 5. I, Too, Sing America 6. Rock's Reconquista Conclusion: La Misma Cancion Notes Bibliography Discography Index
£28.50
University of California Press Tunes for Toons
Book SynopsisAn examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, it considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros, MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables List of Music Examples Acknowledgments Introduction. Why Cartoon Music? 1. Carl Stalling and Popular Music in the Warner Bros. Cartoons 2. "You Really Do Beat the Shit out of That Cat": Scott Bradley's (Violent) Music for MGM 3. Jungle Jive: Animation, Jazz Music, and Swing Culture 4. Corny Concertos and Silly Symphonies: Classical Music and Cartoons 5. What's Opera, Doc? and Cartoon Opera A Brief Conclusion Appendix 1: Carl Stalling Documents Appendix 2: Scott Bradley Documents Notes Bibliography Index
£20.70
University of California Press Struggling to Define a Nation
Book SynopsisIdentifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.Trade Review"Essential." -- S. C. Pelkey Choice "Intriguing and provocative." -- Michael Quinn Classical Music MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and "True American Music" 17 2. Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge 48 3. Louis Armstrong and the Great Migration 83 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism 121 5. Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination 165 Conclusion: American Music at the Turn of a New Century 215 Notes 223 Bibliography 259 Index
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University of California Press The San Francisco Tape Music Center
Book SynopsisTells the story of the influential group of creative artists - Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin - who connected music to technology during a legendary era in California's cultural history. This title presents a comprehensive history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center.Trade Review"An outlandish episode on nearly every page of this book... A probing account." Los Angeles Times "The excitement of exploration and the delight in fortuitous accident come through in the many firstperson accounts and interviews which make up the bulk of David W. Bernstein's marvellous account of the Center." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "[An] extremely accessible and often inspiring book ... Comprehensive [and] fascinating." -- Stephen Vitiello Modern Painters "Provides the first comprehensive history of the Tape Music Center ... The collision of historically incompatible characters is hard to believe: It is a Kevin Bacon game ... of avant-garde and pop culture in the '60s." -- Cory Arcangel Artforum "A rich and multilayered history... [Sheds] light on a little-discussed corner of 1960s counterculture in the United States." Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "From its handsome design to its wealth of vibrant photos, [this book] stands apart from the usual academic press fare, which is fitting considering its subject... A document of ballsy innovation and gutsy invention." Skyscraper "Lively ... [It} not only deflates the notion of New York as the center of experimental music innovation in the second half of the 20th century, but testifies to the ingenuity and invention of a ragtag band of composers, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and explorers." The ScoreTable of ContentsForeword, by John Rockwell Then, Now, and Then Again (A Preface), by Johannes Goebel Introduction, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: Emerging Art Forms and the American Counterculture, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: A Report, by Ramon Sender Overview of the Tape Music Center's Goals, by Ramon Sender Ramon Sender and William Maginnis, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Memoir of a Community Enterprise, by Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Music as Studio Art, by Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Composing with Light, by Tony Martin Tony Martin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Don Buchla, interviewed by David W.Bernstein and Maggi Payne Michael Callahan, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh The Great Grand Kludge! by William Maginnis Terry Riley, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Anna Halprin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stewart Brand, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stuart Dempster, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh Chronology, by Thomas M. Welsh Archival Recordings DVD Program Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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