This richly illustrated book is the first to showcase famous and obscure lutenists, professional musicians and amateurs, the lute music in books and manuscripts, the lute makers and the international lute trade, while also exploring the place of the...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Loe edasi...
This innovative volume explores the potential of alternative seating practices (ASP) to revolutionize orchestral music teaching in US schools and beyond, by improving musicians social and musical experiences, including peer mentorship....Loe edasi...
Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invizibilized force driving classical music. This hybrid study, combining text and multimedia, explores its history, evolution, and transformation into a recognized academic discipline through archi...Loe edasi...
Mixing in Flow is a focused guide for mix engineers who are familiar with the basics of mixing and now seek greater consistency and refinement in their work. This book picks up where many mixers experience a plateau when they know the mechanics but...Loe edasi...
Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble: Validating Immigrant Identities addresses themes of immigration, identity, and culturally responsive teaching in music education using a deep case study of Brazilian samba music in...Loe edasi...
Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulezs later output....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long been held in high regard, not only for its erudition, but for its originality of approach....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times. The book begins with a...Loe edasi...
Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures presents fresh data and debates drawn from extensive research to broaden the study of African music by focusing on fiddle playing, exploring rhythm aesthetics and tonal systems within cultural contexts....Loe edasi...
The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things is a book about sonic sampling and DIY (or DIT, that is, do it yourself or do it together) instrument making as two highly innovative yet inclusive forms of 21st century music making and is written by some...Loe edasi...
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Loe edasi...
Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into China, and how these instruments became linked to various forms of social, cultural, ethnic, and religious marginality within and at C...Loe edasi...
Modular Synthesis brings together scholars, artists, composers, and musical instrument designers in an exploration of modular synthesis, an unusually multifaceted musical instrument that opens up many avenues for exploration and insight, particularl...Loe edasi...
Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship: Concert Dramaturgy and Project Development for the Performing Arts offers a conceptual and applied introduction to the musical and dramaturgical challenges involved in developing and producing concer...Loe edasi...
Through a collection of extensive interviews with choral conductors, educators, singers, and professional leaders, this book documents the choral music communitys journey through crisis and change during the COVID-19 pandemic, and aids in its rebuil...Loe edasi...
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques....Loe edasi...
Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? This, and other related questions, form the central focus of this book with each chapter offering a fresh perspective on a particular topic in mus...Loe edasi...
Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively....Loe edasi...
Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogical treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments....Loe edasi...
Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has alr...Loe edasi...
Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to connect the material aspects of musical instruments with their social functions, this volume brings together leading voices from new wave of research on musical instruments at the center of cultural interac...Loe edasi...
Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-cr...Loe edasi...
Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and presentbetween traditional and modern values....Loe edasi...
Community music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivize and express themselves. This co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist intercultural and internationalist concepts to reveal the complexity of social wa...Loe edasi...
Schuberts Workshop offers a fresh study of the composers compositional technique and its development, rooted in the authors experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schuberts unfinished works....Loe edasi...
Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book reflects on the sustainability crisis of the orchestra by framing it as a legitimacy crisis that affects both the orchestras artistic and organizational identity....Loe edasi...
By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player pia...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola damore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings....Loe edasi...
Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition. Drawing on perspectives from a range of experienced composers, the book introduces readers to the compositional process, emphasizing ho...Loe edasi...
Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent, versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity....Loe edasi...
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical understanding of Stravinskys heritage, based on the extant material available....Loe edasi...
Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegm Flute Performance describes the taegm as a representation of Korean culture in the contemporary world....Loe edasi...
This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigos writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection reveals an outstanding critical mind, equally illuminating on the main developments in the history of classical music and its most...Loe edasi...
In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s, and remain important in the modern repertory....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including little-known types of Gaelic song, the bagpipes and their music, including the esoteric subject of pibroch...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1975, and written by an authority on Scottish music, this book traces the evolution of the bagpipe whilst also narrating the fortunes of the Great Highland Bagpipe itself....Loe edasi...
The work of French musicologist, ethnologist and critic André Schaeffner grew out of his first organological studies of the history of Western classical instruments in the late 1920s and encapsulated in his wide-ranging Origine des Instruments de Mu...Loe edasi...
What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound found a...Loe edasi...
Using primary sources including Conservatoire method books, accounts of performances and technological advances, and other evidence, this book tells the story of the transition from natural horn to valved horn at the Conservatoire, from 1792 to 1903...Loe edasi...
Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students, and student teachers....Loe edasi...
Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies, solutions, and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned...Loe edasi...
Tanja Goldberg reveals the extent to which gender and socially constructed identity influenced female violinists separate but unequal status in a great male-dominated virtuoso lineage, by focussing on the few that stood out. Goldberg provides a more...Loe edasi...
English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists treated it as seriously as vocal music. This book draws together important research on the music, its sources an...Loe edasi...
Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy covers a wide range of topics pertinent to the critical reception and analysis of Finnissys practices, including: the connection between his works and cinema; performance practices; political contexts and pr...Loe edasi...
This book is both a celebration and extension of Paynter and Astons ground-breaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence, published in 1970. Building on the central themes of the original work the authors and contributors provide a co...Loe edasi...
As percussion music has progressed and become woven into the fabric of Western musical culture, several divergent paths comprised of various traditions and a multiplicity of aesthetic sensibilities have since emerged for the percussionist to pursue....Loe edasi...
Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original s...Loe edasi...
Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and lit...Loe edasi...
