Music Books
Yale University Press Performing Music in the Age of Recording
£34.89
Yale University Press Jerome Kern
Trade ReviewSelected as an "Outstanding" book in 2007 by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Finalist for the George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association."Stephen Banfield's study is a major addition to Kern scholarship."—Gerald Bordman, author of American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"Banfield's book is heroic in its scope and coverage of a neglected but essential American music icon."—Michael Feinstein, Singer, Music Historian “With P.G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern wrote some of the first, funniest, and most charming American musical comedy songs; with Oscar Hammerstein, he wrote the great musical epic of the Broadway stage, Show Boat; with Dorothy Fields, he wrote the most enduring jazz and pop standards of the American songbook, including ’The Way You Look Tonight’ and ’I Won’t Dance.’ He did all this and more without ever swimming into either biographical or musicological focus the way Gershwin, Porter, and others did. Stephen Banfield has now rectified both omissions with a book that’s intelligent and authoritative but also a vivid evocation of early twentieth-century show business. This lively study not only conjures Kern and his world but lays out clearly why this music is of value and why it will last.”—Mark Steyn, author of Broadway Babies Say Goodnight
£39.34
Yale University Press Kander and Ebb
Trade Review“The first important study of Kander and Ebb. A very useful book, thoughtfully presenting material not otherwise readily available.”—Raymond Knapp, UCLA“James Leve beautifully distills and clarifies the fundamental reasons for Kander and Ebb’s popularity and long term significance. This is a wise and musically informed interpretation of the team’s remarkable creative process, rich in fascinating detail.”—Thomas L. Riis, author of Frank Loesser
£39.34
Hachette Books Glenn Miller His Orchestra
Book SynopsisMoonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood... These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the Dorsey brothers, Ray Noble, Ben Pollack, and Red Nichols, Glenn Miller formed his own sweet band, which from 1938 to 1942 achieved widespread popularity second only to Benny Goodman''s. Miller learned all he could from these and other bands like Jimmie Lunceford''s and Artie Shaw''s, going on to create a uniquely rich sound with clarinet over four saxes and four trombones (three-part harmony sounds too thin, he once exclaimed). Simon tells of both the successes and hard times of Miller''s illustrious career, up to his celebrated Army Air Force band and his untimely death.
£17.99
Hachette Books Remembering Bix
Book SynopsisAs Nat Hentoff says, Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring. Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan,and younger brother of Bix''s drummer,just as Beiderbecke''s genius was flowering, before he died in 1931 at age twenty-eight. Listening from behind the piano, tagging along to honky-tonks and jam sessions, Berton heard some of the most extraordinary music of the century, and he brings Bix and his era alive with a remarkable combination of the excitement of youth and the perspective of the five decades that followed,decades that confirmed Bix''s place in the pantheon of jazz.
£17.99
Hachette Books Masters of Bebop
Book SynopsisBack in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians,but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players,Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach,but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop''s pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography,and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century, The Masters
£16.14
Hachette Books Billie Holiday
Book SynopsisCertainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues . Now, finally, we have a definitive biography, said Booklist of Donald Clarke''s Billie Holiday , by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday''s paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength. Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s,interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the Seattle Times , finally sets us straight. . .evokin
£18.89
Hachette Books Four Way Street
Book SynopsisCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young have been hailed as The American Beatles and Folk-Rock''s Mount Rushmore. They launched a trail-blazing acoustic-electric sound in 1969 and have been captivating listeners with their music ever since. Coming together as refugees from three seminal''60s bands-the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies-the combined talents of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young have influenced several generations of musicians while proving to have enduring appeal to fans of all ages. As rock and roll''s first supergroup, CSNY generated an enormous amount of media scrutiny-from their galvanizing appearance at Woodstock to multi-platinum, chart-topping albums such as Deja Vu, from David Crosby''s miraculous recovery from life-threatening addictions to the band''s resurgence for enormously successful concert tours. Now, noted CSNY historian Dave Zimmer distills the best of the journalism on these four remarkable artists, ranging from group portraits to i
£18.04
Hachette Books Tommy Dorsey
Book SynopsisSwing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to--and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a rich and complex life. Beginning with his childhood in the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania, we follow the young trombonist''s journey to fame and fortune during the Jazz Age. Tommy, with his brother Jimmy, created one of the most popular bands of the era and played with such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. They also launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank Sinatra. But Tommy''s volcanic personality eventually split the band and Tommy went off on his own. Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into Dorsey''s famously eccentric lifestyle and his oversize appetite for drink, women, and perfection. The first biography on Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey is a dazzling portrait of the Big Band''s brightest star--his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the unforgettable music that made him a legend.Trade Review"This is the best biography of a big-band leader I have read in years... The picture it paints of Dorsey the person is not always pretty...but it rings true...He covers the full arc of Dorsey's career in a way that previous books about him have not." Crescendo and Jazz Magazine"
£18.00
Hachette Books Black Tooth Grin
Book SynopsisBlack Tooth Grin is the first biography of Dimebag Darrell Abbott, the Texas-bred guitarist of the heavy metal band Pantera, who was murdered onstage in 2004 by a deranged fan,24 years to the day after John Lennon met a similar fate. Darrell Abbott began as a Kiss-inspired teenage prodigy who won dozens of local talent contests. With his brother, drummer Vinnie Abbott, he formed Pantera, becoming one of the most popular bands of the ''90s and selling millions of albums to an intensely devoted fan base. While the band''s music was aggressive, Dime was outgoing, gregarious, and adored by everyone who knew him. From Pantera''s heyday to their implosion following singer Phil Anselmo''s heroin addiction to Darrell''s tragic end, Black Tooth Grin is a moving portrait of a great artist.Trade ReviewThe Bookseller, 3/2/09 "This long-awaited account of a hard rocking life cut short has real cult sleeper potential." Booklist, 6/1/09 "Crain describes the career of an accomplished and influential guitarist...Crain's iteration of the man and his career...is a fitting memorial." Texas Monthly, June 2009 "[Crain] captures the essence of the band's virtuoso guitarist, who was revered by musicians and fans alike for his outrageous skills and everyman persona." Dallas Morning News Texas Pages blog, 5/30/09 "Chronicle[s] Abbot's life and career with careful detail and just the right amount of appreciation."
£16.14
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Whores
Book SynopsisJane''s Addiction''s 1988 breakthrough album, Nothing''s Shocking , had a seismic impact. With a bracing combination of metal, punk, and psychedelia, coupled with lead singer Perry Farrell''s banshee-ina- wind-tunnel vocals, Jane''s Addiction helped put alternative music on the map. The band helped pave the way for the mainstream success of bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. Along the way, Jane''s Addiction released another classic album, Ritual de lo Habitual (with the hit Been Caught Stealing), founded the Lollapalooza festival, and openly celebrated a bacchanalian lifestyle that blurred all lines of gender and sexuality. Drawn from original interviews with the band, their friends, and their musical colleagues, Whores takes readers through Farrell''s early sonic experiments with Psi-Com and the formative days of Jane''s Addiction to their drug-addled break-up and controversial reunion with 2003''s Strays . Along the way it provides a candid, often disturbing glimpsTrade Review"At each other's throats before they'd written a single song, Jane's Addiction's history was a drug-sick, sex-fuelled soap opera fleshed out by artist, gangsters, hucksters and prostitutes. Mullen draws jaw-dropping tales from all in their messy orbit while keeping their inspirational music front and centre. Horrifying, but utterly compelling". Q Magazine - 4 star review "Whores is different. Yes, there's overdoses, orgies, Hell's Angels, transsexual sex, heroin and on-stage punchups here, but all the chaos and bacchanalia is balanced with a little reflection. NME"
£16.14
St Martins Press Group Funk
£18.36
St Martins Press Group Making Of Kind Of Blue
£12.99
ABC-CLIO Music of the Gilded Age
Book SynopsisAs the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe, its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. This volume presents the composers, musicians, songwriters, instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age.Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras;Trade ReviewBoth respected musicologists, Ogasapian and Orr took up a daunting challenge because they had to run the gamut from art music (and its various supporting institutions) to various types of popular theater and popular music (and their venues) and at the same time show how this huge and diverse body of music both reflected and influenced society. Organized by genre, this compendium draws on a vast amount of information, taken from approximately 175 writings on American music. The authors stress basic social themes of the period: industrialization, acquisition of wealth, population growth, immigration, territorial expansion, communication, race, and religion. No single piece of music is discussed in any detail and even major composers are not treated in depth. The reader will come away from this book with an appreciation of both the quantity and diversity of music that kept pace with the growth of a nation from relative insularity to a world power. Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *For general readers, Ogasapian and Orr provide a history of music during the Gilded Age in the US, organized by genre and including both classical and popular music, with chapters on orchestras and concert music, opera, church music, and popular songs, as well as information on important critics, composers, and conservatories, and amateurs and entrepreneurs. Music is described in terms of its basic elements and social, economic, political, technological, and religious influences. * Reference & Research Book News *
£47.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Speech Music Sound
Book SynopsisTHEO VAN LEEUWEN is a filmmaker, jazz musician and semiotician. He is Chair in Language and Communication at Cardiff University. Previously, he worked at the London School of Printing and at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the co-author, with G. Kress, of Reading Images.
£46.26
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Popular Music and Youth Culture Music Identity and Place
Book SynopsisANDY BENNETT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. Prior to studying for his Ph.D at Durham University between October 1993 and October 1996 he spent two years in Germany working as a music teacher with the Frankfurt Rockmobil project. He has published articles on aspects of youth culture, popular music, local identity and music and ethnicity in a number of journals, including Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is currently co-editing a book on guitar cultures.
£42.30
HarperCollins Publishers Knowing the Score
£9.99
WW Norton & Co Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory Classical America Series in Art and Architecture
Book SynopsisPerspectives on Contemporary Music Theory includes contributions to metatheory and methodology by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Boretz, Edward T. Cone, Henri Pousseur, and others; essays on compositional theory by composers such as Babbitt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, J. K. Randall, and Peter Westergaard.
£18.05
WW Norton & Co Duke
Book SynopsisDerek Jewell has performed a valuable task in writing the first complete biography of the greatest composer jazz has so far produced and one of America's most important musicians. -Andre Previn
£17.40
W. W. Norton & Company Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Book SynopsisEssay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments is a classic of musical literature in the true sense of the word.
£43.78
W. W. Norton & Company Sonata Forms 2e
Book Synopsis"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."—The New York Review of Books
£21.15
W. W. Norton & Company Nadia Boulanger A Life in Music
Book SynopsisA detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.
£22.32
W. W. Norton & Company The House That Trane Built The Story of Impulse Records
Book Synopsis"A jazz-lover's delight."—Ray Olson, Booklist
£22.41
W. W. Norton & Company The Trumpet and Trombone
Book SynopsisA proper understanding of these instruments depends on a clear grasp of their acoustical behaviour, as influenced by the properties of mouthpiece, pipe, and bell. A full discussion of these matters therefore forms the opening chapter; this is followed by an introduction to the instruments' basic characteristics and nomenclature.
£19.00
W. W. Norton & Company The World of the Bach Cantatas Early Selected Cantatas
Book SynopsisThe cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context.
£19.95
W. W. Norton & Company Music Notation in the Twentieth Century A Practical Guidebook
£53.55
WW Norton & Co A Guide to Musical Analysis
Book SynopsisIn this extremely practical introduction to musical analysis, the author explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces, seeking the answers mainly in the formal and harmonic structure of individual compositions.
£27.90
Taylor & Francis Museums in a Digital Age Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Book SynopsisThe influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site. However, âdigital heritageâ (as an area of practice and as a subject of study) does not exist in one single place. Its evidence base is complex, diverse and distributed, and its content is available through multiple channels, on varied media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing.It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address. With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research, this volume acts as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content. Divided into seven parts (on information, space, access, interpretation, objects, production and futures), the book presents a series of cross-sections through the body of digital heritage literature, each revealing how a different aspect of curatorship and museum provision has been informed, shaped or challenged by computing.Museums in a Digital Age is a provocative and inspiring guide for any student or practitioner of digital heritage.Trade Review“Museums in a Digital Age is thus a timely consideration of the role of the digital in the entire spectrum of museum activities…The…volume is…something much more attuned to the digital age which is its basis – a highly diverse, even eclectic, collection of papers broadly centred around the subject of the work.” – Historic Environment Table of Contents1. The practice of digital heritage and the heritage of digital practice, Ross Parry Part 1: Information: data, structure and meaning Introduction to Part 1, Ross Parry 2. A brief history of museum computerisation, David Williams 3. The changing role of information professionals in museums, Andrew Roberts 4. What is information in the museum context? Elizabeth Orna and Charles Pettitt 5. The world of (almost) unique objects, Robert Chenhall and David Vance 6. Standards for networked cultural heritage, David Bearman 7. Database as symbolic form, Lev Manovich 8. The museum as information utility, George Macdonald and Stephen Alsford 9. Museum collections, documentation and shifting knowledge paradigms, Fiona Cameron 10. Semantic dissonance: do we need (and do we understand) the Semantic Web? Ross Parry, Nick Poole and Jon Pratty 11. Building a universal digital memory, Piere Lèvy Part 2: Space: visits, virtuality and distance Introduction to Part 2, Ross Parry 12. On the Origins of the Virtual Museum, Erkki Huhtamo 13. From Malraux's imaginary museum to the virtual museum, Antonio M. Battro 14. Virtual spaces and museums, Andrea Bandelli 15. The virtual visit: towards a new concept for the electronic science centre, Roland Jackson 16. Empowering the remote visitor, Areti Galani and Matthew Chalmers 17. Museums outside walls: mobile phones and the museum of the everyday, Konstantinos Arvanitis Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity Introduction to Part 3, Ross Parry 18. Access to digital heritage in Africa: bridging the digital divide, Lorna Abungu 19. My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people, Carey, Kevin 20. My dream of an accessible Web culture for disabled people: a re-evaluation, Carey, Kevin 21. Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility, Brian Kelly, Lawrite Phipps and Caro Howell 22. Usability Evaluation for Museum Web Sites, Danial Cunliffe, Efmorphia Kritou and Douglas Tudhope 23. Culture as a Driver of Innovation, Ranjit Makkuni Part 4:Interpretation: communication, interactivity and learning Introduction to Part 4, Ross Parry 24. The Web and the Unassailable Voice, Peter Walsh 25. When the object is digital: properties of digital surrogate objects and implications for learning, Olivia C. Frost 26. Learning by doing and learning through play, Maria Roussou 27. Misconstruing Interaction, Christian Heath and Dirk Vom Lehn 28. Visitors’ use of computer exhibits: findings from 5 grueling years of watching visitors getting it wrong, Ben Gammon Part 5:Object: authenticity, authority and trust Introduction to Part 5, Ross Parry 29. Museums and virtuality, Klaus Miller 30. When all you’ve got is ‘The Real Thing’: museums and authenticity in the networked world, Jennifer Trant 31. Authenticity and integrity in the digital environment: an exploratory analysis of the central role of trust, Clifford Lynch 32. Why Museums Matter, Marc Pachter 33. Defining the problem of our vanishing memory: background, current status, models for resolution, Peter Lyman and Howard Besser 34. Curating new media, Matthew Gansallo Part 6: Delivery: production, evaluation and sustainability Introduction to Part 6, Ross Parry 35. Managing new technology projects in Museums and Galleries, Matthew Stiff 36. Rationale for Digitization and Preservation, Paul Conway 37. Speaking for themselves: new media and ‘Making of the Modern World, Frank Colson and Jean Colson 38. The evaluation of museum multimedia applications: lessons from research, Maria Economou 39. A survey on digital cultural heritage initiatives and their sustainability concerns, Diane M. Zorich Part 7: Futures: priorities, approaches and aspirations Introduction to Part 7, Ross Parry 40. Making the total museum possible, Tomislav Šola 41. Museums in the information era: cultural connectors of time and space, Manuel Castells 42. The shape of things to come: museums in the technological landscape, Simon Knell 43. Digital heritage and the rise of theory in museum computing, Ross Parry
£53.99
Cambridge University Press Proust as Musician
Book SynopsisStudying the texts devoted to the Sonata and Septet of Vinteui, Nattiez demonstrates the fundamental role played by music in the evolution of the novel. Music as model for literature: this is the subject of Professor Nattiez's essay, which unravels the various musical themes running through Proust's work, and which thus constitutes a particularly clear and perceptive introduction to his writing.Trade Review"...pleasant reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It is agreeably written and smoothly translated...." Pauline Newman-Gordon, French ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the English edition; Translator's note; 1. Introduction: beyond the 'little phrase'; 2. Parsifal as redemptive model for the redemptive work; 3. Music as redemptive model for literature; 4. From Vinteuil to Schopenhauer; 5. In conclusion: quest for the essence and denial of the origin; Appendix: passages from A la recherche translated in the text; Notes; References; Index.
£38.99
Cambridge University Press Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples
Book SynopsisThis book deals with various aspects of musical life at the Aragonese court of Naples, from its establishment in 1442 to its demise in the opening years of the sixteenth century.Table of Contents1. The Historical-Cultural Background; 2. The Royal Chapel; 3. The Composers in the Chapel and Other 'Illustrissimi' at Naples; 4. The Singers and Chaplains: An Inventory; 5. Music for Secular Entertainment; 6. The Music Sources; 7. The Repertory.
£38.99
Cambridge University Press Music Philosophy and Modernity Modern European Philosophy
Book SynopsisModern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of responding to some central questions in modern philosophy. Bowie looks at key philosophical approaches to music ranging from Kant, through the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Adorno. He uses music to re-examine many ideas about language, subjectivity, metaphysics, truth and ethics, and he suggests that music can show how the predominant images of language, communication, and meaning in contemporary philosophy may be lacking in essential ways. His book will be of interest to philosophers, musicologists, and all who are interested in the relation between music and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Form, feeling, metaphysics, and music; 2. Music, language, and the origins of modernity; 3. Rhythm and Romanticism; 4. Hegelianism and music; 5. Music and the subjects of Romantics; 6. Music, freedom, and the critique of metaphysics; 7. Pro and contra Wagner; 8. Music, language and being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger; 9. Adorno: musical philosophy or philosophical music?; Conclusion.
£37.04
Cambridge University Press Music and Language
Book SynopsisIn a time of ever-increasing specialisation this work focuses on the broader aspects of Western music, seeking to view its history as a whole and to probe its relationship to other aspects of Western cultural thought. Of interest to all those concerned with the history of Western intellectual-cultural thought.Table of ContentsPreface; Translator's Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Antiquity and the Pre-Carolingian period; 3. The Carolingian period; 4. The high middle ages; 5. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; 6. Palestrina; 7. Monteverdi; 8. The German language and music; 9. Schutz; 10. Instrumental music and J. S. Bach; 11. The Viennese classical masters; 12. Stages of musical reality; 13. The Romantic era; 14. The present; 15. Music as history; Notes.
£37.37
Cambridge University Press Music Gender Education
Book SynopsisInvoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction of musical meaning, Lucy Green shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand-in-hand, through history.Trade Review'… original and informative … persuades us to think hard about the roles that girls and boys are going to fill in music when they become adults.' Marcia J. Citron, Music and Letters'… an impression contribution to an important debate … and should be on the shelf of anyone involved in musicology, sociology, gender studies or education.' Gender and Education'I was impressed by this book, it made me work very hard and think about music in a new light.' British Journal of Music Education'Green has produced a study which will not only be an important reference work on gender and music, but will also encourage debate in the wider literature on the gendered meaning of music. In the field of popular music such debate has not been very sustained over the years. This text provides a reshaping and revitalisation of the debate which has been badly needed.' Popular Music'Green's new book provides the first major marriage between a theoretical approach to gender and an experiential study of secondary education … she persuades us to think hard about the roles that girls and boys are going to fill in music when they become adults.' Music and LettersTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Musical Meaning and Women's Musical Practice: 2. Affirming femininity: women singing, women enabling; 3. From affirmation to interruption: women playing instruments; 4. Threatening femininity: women composing/improvising; 5. Towards a model of gendered musical meaning and experience; Part II. Gendered Musical Meaning in Contemporary Education: 6. Affirming femininity in the music classroom; 7. From affirmation to interruption of femininity in the music classroom; 8. Threatening femininity in the music classroom; 9. The music curriculum and the possibilities for intervention; Bibliography; Index.
£39.99
iUniverse Chicago Top 40 Charts 19601969
£12.34
iUniverse Chicago Top 40 Charts 19701979
£10.44
£27.14
Abingdon Press Music and Theology
£12.01
HarperCollins Parental Advisory Music Censorship in America
£11.99
University of Queensland Press Talking Smack Honest Conversations about Drugs
£18.95
African Books Collective Zimbabwe Township Music
£35.16
Wildside Press Mary HallockGreenewalt The Complete Patents
£16.00
Wayne State University Press Mc5
Book SynopsisAlong with the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, and the New York Dolls, the MC5 are recognized in music circles as one of the bands that paved the way for punk rock. While the group did not reach the heights of national celebrity or financial success during their seven years together, their musical legacy has never been more celebratedwith recently reissued recordings and documentary footage, as well as an unlikely reunion tour. In MC5: Sonically Speaking, author Brett Callwood delves into the MC5's story from the band's beginnings in 1960s Detroit to its 1972 break-up, the post-MC5 fates of its members, and the eventual reunion that cemented its legacy. Callwood interviews the band's surviving members and close associates to create a compelling firsthand picture of the MC5's history and its music. He introduces readers to the band's original members, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Fred Sonic Smith, Michael Davis, and Dennis Thompson, and links the power of the MC5 phenomenon to its early d
£18.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bachs St Matthew Passion A Closer Look Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisJohann Sebastian Bach's the "St Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Highlighting the inspiration Bach drew from opera, this book illuminates the hybrid forms that comprise the work, thereby clarifying many of the composer's dramatic strategies.Trade Review'I must admit to delighting in the 129 pages of this extremly readable book ... I thoroughly recommend anybody to whom the St. Matthew Passion is a problem to spend £9.99 on this beautifully common sense book.' Musical Opinion, March 2009"Bach's St Matthew Passion is the ultimate depiction of the torture and (attempted) murder of Jesus Christ: the most beautiful, the most harrowing and the most innovative." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"Victor Lederer's 132-page guide, the first in Continuum's Magnum Opus series, not only puts the music in historical and theological context; it also draws your attention to crucial but easy-to-miss details in the score." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"One of this book's many virtues is that it unfolds at roughly the same pace as the St Matthew Passion itself." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"a user-friendly resource for the keen novice, it is also nuanced enough for the more knowledgeable reader." "The book has the added interest of concluding with discussion of the work's performance history and the merits of various recordings. Written in clean , clear prose, this is recommended reading for anyone interested in delving into this great work" Classical Music, 11 April 2009 -- Ruth Garner
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) In the Blink of an Ear Toward a Noncochlear Sonic Art
Book SynopsisTraces the interactions and mutual influences of art and music. This book presents a narrative of late-Modern/Postmodern artistic practice, connecting familiar events, figures and works to less-familiar precedents and antecedents from within their own fields and from across the aisle.Trade Review"...some useful arguments. And sound art certainly need arguments." The Wire, February 2010"Kim-Cohen's book develops a number of significant arguments concerning sound's status in the art world."SpringerinReviewed in Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of Contentsi. Introduction; ii. Noise and Its Opposite; iii. Sectarianism in the Sensorium; iv. Settling the Score; v. The Technological Ontological; vi. Rock and Roll Aesthetics; vii. The Blink of an Ear; viii. Postscript: A Tentative Definition of Sound Art.
£31.42
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Our Sound is Our WoundContemplative Listening to a Noisy World The Archbishop of Canterburys Lent Book
Book SynopsisHow do we listen for the voice of God within the soundscapes of our lives and how do we find our own voice? How too do we find our own voice? Sensitive to the cadences of modern life, the author reflects on this through the prism of Scripture and tradition.Trade Review"A persistent and perceptive commentary." The Catholic Herald, December 2009."Winkett's theological reflections are complex and sophisticated...She is informative and wise...Each chapter bears a second and third read." The Sign, February 2010."Our Sound is Our Wound is a remarkable book... so full of insights that it is almost overflowing with ideas." Church Times, January 2010."The sounds of the modern city match, [Winkett] thinks, the dominant modern feeling of anxiety and fear- principally fear of death. In opposition, she presents the liberating forces of justice and beauty." Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, February 2010."Lively, stimulating and challenging" Jane Hedges, The Times, February 2010."Lucy Winkett has an easy, anecdotal style which is both allusive and informative, allowing the reader to set off on their own reflective journeys." The Good Bookstall. Read the full review at http://www.thegoodbookstall.org.uk/review/9780826439215/lucy-winkett/our-sound-is-our-wound/Mention on BBC websitehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8714177.stm‘This profoundly rich book skilfully weaves interpretations of scripture into Winkett's reflections on the theme of sound and listening, and her own personal stories.' -- The Anglican Messenger (Perth)‘A thoughtful, evocative book that was well chosen as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lenten book for 2010... This is a book to be enjoyed.' -- Theological Book ReviewFeatured in the Top Ten Books chosen by Sarum Bookshop -- thegoodbookstall.org.ukAttended Hay Festival 2011Table of ContentsForeword by the Archbishop of Canterbury Prelude. Chapter One: The Sound of Scripture; Chapter Two: The Sound of Lament; Chapter Three: The Sound of Liberation; Chapter Four: The Sound of Resurrection; Chapter Five: The Sound of the Angels; Chapter Six: Our Sound is Our Wound; Epilogue: a 'sound' story.
£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetics and Music Continuum Aesthetics
Book SynopsisPart of "The Continuum Aesthetics" series, this book offers a different exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It looks at: the experience of listening; rhythm and musical movement; what modernism has meant for musical aesthetics; the relation of music to other 'sound arts'; improvisation and composition; and more.Trade Review'A gifted philosopher, music critic and jazz performer, Andy Hamilton has produced a book which leaves neither the philosophy nor the music out. He guides us deftly through the aesthetics of Kant and Adorno without neglecting the reality of music as sound and rhythm, improvisation and composition, showing in an unusually open-minded, lively way - and in philosophical depth - how aesthetic experience is universal and human.' Professor John Skorupski, St Andrews University, UK'An innovative, cross-disciplinary contribution to the philosophy of music, weaving Adorno's Critical Theory with Analytic aesthetics.' Professor Max Paddison, Durham University, UK.'With a fine eye for argument, for teasing out and testing key assumptions within the philosophy of music, Andy Hamilton's Aesthetics And Music charts a knife-edge course between scholarship, clear and penetrating thinking, and above all sound intuitions.' Stephen Robinson, The Wire, December 2007'Aesthetics and Music is a rich and interesting study. Hamilton's approach is innovative ... [the book] should be recommended to anyone interested in the philosophy of music.' Stephen Davies, University of Auckland, Analysis'A deeply informed author thinking hard about the musical matters which he considers - with justification - to be the most important... a lively and stimulating contribution to a number of debates.' M.W. Rowe, British Journal of Aesthetics'Hamilton has read widely, listened hard and had his own practical engagement with music as a jazz pianist, and there is much to be learned from his argument ... The range of Hamilton's interests, and his familiarity with modern, postmodern, and post-postmodern culture, help to support an argument that is far more interesting in its detail than can be conveyed in a short review. There is a freshness in his approach, and a pleasing disregard for pedantic controversies, that will surely attract new readers to a subject that has not always been as well served by its practitioners as it is served by Hamilton.' Roger Scruton, MIND"The value of Aesthetics and Music lies in its producing the groundwork needed to present modern jazz as music worthy of Analytic philosophical treatment." Reviewed by Andrew McGettigan in Radical Philosophy, July 2008"Andy Hamilton's Aesthetics and Music is an unusual concoction: one part history of the aesthetics of music, one part review of recent work in the Analytic philosophy of music, and one part original contribution to musical aesthetics...Hamilton's respect for and sincere interest in improvised music, experimentalism, and sound-art is model for future writers on the philosophy of music." - Brian Kane, Current Musicology, No. 85, Spring 2008Reviewed in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden - Jan 2008'Hamilton's is a distinctive philosophical voice, and Aesthetics and Music is a lively and stimulating contribution to a number of important debates.' - British Journal of AestheticsTable of Contents1. Aesthetics and music in ancient Greece; 2. The concept of music; 3. The aesthetic of form, the aesthetic of expression, and "Absolute Music": Aesthetics of music in the late 18th and 19th centuries 4. The sound of music; 5. Rhythm and time; 6. Adorno and modernism: Music as autonomous and "social fact" 7. Improvisation and composition.
£41.99
Boydell Press The Study of Medieval Chant Paths and Bridges East and West. In Honor of Kenneth Levy
Book SynopsisComparative studies of medieval chant traditions in western Europe, Byzantium and the Slavic nations illuminate music, literacy and culture.Gregorian chant was the dominant liturgical music of the medieval period, from the time it was adopted by Charlemagne's court in the eighth century; but for centuries afterwards it competed with other musical traditions, local repertories from the great centres of Rome, Milan, Ravenna, Benevento, Toledo, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Kievan Rus, and comparative study of these chant traditions can tell us much about music, liturgy, literacy and culture a thousand years ago. This is the first book-length work to look at the issues in a global, comprehensive way, in the manner of the work of Kenneth Levy, the leading exponent of comparative chant studies. It covers the four most fruitful approaches for investigators: the creation and transmission of chant texts, based on the psalms and other sources, and their assemblage into liturgical books; the analysis and comparison of musical modes and scales; the usesof neumatic notation for writing down melodies, and the differences wrought by developmental changes and notational reforms over the centuries; and the use of case studies, in which the many variations in a specific text or melodyare traced over time and geographical distance. The book is therefore of profound importance for historians of medieval music or religion - Western, Byzantine, or Slavonic - and for anyone interested in issues of orality and writing in the transmission of culture.PETER JEFFERY is Professor of Music History, Princeton University. Contributors: JAMES W. McKINNON, MARGOT FASSLER, MICHEL HUGLO, NICOLAS SCHIDLOVSKY, KEITH FALCONER, PETER JEFFERY, DAVID G.HUGHES, SYSSE GUDRUN ENGBERG, CHARLES M. ATKINSON, MILOS VELIMIROVIC, JORGEN RAASTED+, RUTH STEINER, DIMITRIJE STEFANOVIC, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART.Table of ContentsLiturgical Psalmody in the Sermons of St Augustine: An Introduction - James W McKinnon The First Marian Feast in Constantinople and Jerusalem: Chant Texts, Readings, and Homiletic Literature - Margot Fassler The Cantatorium, From Charlemagne to the Fourteenth Century - Michel Huglo A New Folio for MS Chilandari 307, with Some Observations on the Contents of the Slavic Lenten Sticherarion and Pentekostarion - Nicolas Schidlovsky The Modes Before the Modes: Antiphon and Differentia in Western Chant - Keith Falconer The Earliest Oktoechoi: The Influence of Jerusalem and Palestine in the Beginnings of Modal Ordering - Peter Jeffery Guido's 'Tritus': An Aspect of Chant Style - David G Hughes Early Ekphonetic Notation in the Manuscript Scheide 2 at Princeton University - The Other Modus: On the Theory and Practice of Intervals in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Charles M Atkinson Russian Musical Azbuki: A Turning Point in the History of Slavic Chant - Milos Velimirovic Kontakion Melodies in Oral and Written Tradition - Jorgen Raasted On the Verses of the Offertory Elegerunt - Ruth Steiner The Trisagion in Some Byzantine and Slavonic Stichera - Dimitrije Stefanovic Proses in the Manuscripts of Roman Chant, and their Alleluias - Alejandro Planchart
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St Martins Press Group Here Come The Regulars
Book SynopsisHow-to book for the MySpace generation on running an indie label from the ground up.
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