Routledge, 2018. — 433 p. — ISBN: 1315299291, 9781315299297 The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-935716-1. Language: English. History of sound recording - industry, equipment and technology, leading sound engineers and producers. Beginnings. Understanding Sound. Toward Recording. The Phonograph. The First Producers. The Acoustic Period. Acoustic Recording. International Expansion. The Third Major Label. The Sooys....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1789. — 835 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 0722250223; ISBN-13: 9780722250228. Burney's History is not a period History it is a General History, and it is an intensely personal one. The age of Burney was an age of frank speaking, and one must not ignore this fact when reading works of that period. Burney often uses words which have, since his day, received a...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 509 p. This 1874 account of the music of ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome was the only volume of the author's proposed history of music to be published. William Chappell, eldest son of the founder of Chappell's the music publishers, was noted for his interest in ancient and traditional music and was the founder of the Musical Antiquarian...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 182 p. This book is the first thoroughgoing study in any language of the philosophy of music history. Drawing on competing philosophies of history throughout the ages, from the Enlightenment to the French structuralists, from the German idealist tradition to Russian formalism, the late Carl Dahlhaus applies the thoughts of these various...
IVY PRESS (January 30, 2016) - 139 p. - ISBN-10: 1782403094 - ISBN-13: 978-1782403098. For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging the way that popular music should be. For non-aficionados, it can be slippery and difficult to grasp: without familiar forms or a hard-and-fast format, and largely ruled by improvisation, jazz leaves the novice baffled, not sure how to...
Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. — 463 p. An Historical Survey of Music for Harspichord and Piano. John Gillespie has written an invaluable resource for anyone interested in solo keyboard music. There are brief biographies of the most important composers, and the author's recommendations of each composer's best solo keyboard works. Gillespie also...
Basic Books, 2019. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5416-4436-6, 978-1-5416-1797-1. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History , historian Ted Gioia reclaims the...
Harmony Books. 2007. 363 p. ISBN: 9780307405494. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me, Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy...
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,1912. — 1016 p. the Book contains a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, &c., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages; many charts; an explanation of the construction of music for the uninitiated; a pronouncing biographical dictionary; the stories of the operas; and numerous biographical and...
Kraków: Musica Iagellonica, 2005. — 693 s. — ISBN: 83-7099-102-5. Książka adresowana jest przede wszystkim do uczniów średnich szkół muzycznych, ale też do tych, którzy muzykę traktują jako obszar pozazawodowych zainteresowań. Publikacja ma na celu uporządkowanie wiedzy z zakresu historii muzyki powszechnej i polskiej oraz ma stanowić impuls do dalszych, bardziej wnikliwych...
Routledge, 1999. — 296 p. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include: contexts in which music played a role a detailed discussion of instruments an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning the principal types of...
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2012. — 185 p. Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. Overture: Lotfi in the Underworld The Temple Shall Not Fall Tonight Prompting the...
A Popular History Of The Art Of Music, From The Earliest Times Until The Present, Regan Printing House, Chicago, 1891. PDF file based on a Gutenberg E-text, with 117 illustrations, 263 p., A-4 (original book: 540 p., 15,49 x 23,11 cm). From Amazon: "This is an excellent book to read by those interested in music as a generic concept and those that are curious to know how did we...
Varlık Yayınlan, 1995. — 233 s. Giriş Tekses'ten Çokses’e On Yedinci Yüzyıl: Evrim Hazırlanıyor On Sekizinci Yüzyılın İlk Yarısı: Yöntemler Özetleniyor On Sekizinci Yüzyılın İkinci Yansu Yeni Bir Tüme Varış On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl: Bireysel Bilinç Yirminci Yüzyıl: Deneyler Çağı Müziğin Türlü Alanları, Sorunları, Konulan Bibliyografya
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 1474416365; ISBN13: 978-1474416368 This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how...
Bloomigton: Indiana University Press, 2001. — 529 p. This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 324 p. Choral music history and context A brief anatomy of chors 1470-1770 Choral music in the culture of nineteents century Choral music in the twentieth and early twenty first century The nature of Chorus Choral music the World Order
New York: Routledge, 2019. — 529 p. Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective....
The Great Courses, 2016. — 232 p. Discover the fascinating ways in which great works of music have interacted with historical events, in this eye-opening course taught by a celebrated composer and music historian.
London: Trübner & Co., 1885. — 382 p. Introduction: "Music is a Dualism. It is formed of the conjunction of two elements-the one purely musical, the other poetical - the one sensuous, the other spiritiual or intellectual - the one owing its origin and development to Instruments, and based othe mere animal delight in Sound; the other owing its origin and development to Language,...
London: Trübner & Co., 1886. — 666 p. "Now I will pursue the fortunes of Musk among our Aryan ancestors, and here will be the beginning of a consecutive narrative that will reach to our own times. For hitherto we have been unable to trace the story of a regular development by the light of actual history, but since we left the half-fledged art on the verge of Prehistoric times,...
London: Trübner & co. 1887. — 648 p. The decline of paganism and the dark ages. "Such was the state of Tragedy at the time of Sophocles ; and the chorus, and the acting, and the solo singing, and the flute-playing were all knit together into one beautiful whole, and each in turn grew naturally out of the action of the drama in the part that it came, and there was no visible...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 569 p. — (Cambridge Library Collection - Music). — ISBN10: 1108004253, 13 978-1108004251. The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 480 p. — (Cambridge Library Collection - Music). — ISBN10: 1108004032, 13 978-1108004039. The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0521279100. Arvo Part is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in...
Ivy Press (26 August 2015) - 142 p. - ISBN-10: 1782402721 - ISBN-13: 978-1782402725. 30-Second Opera raises the curtain so that anyone can enjoy opera, classical or contemporary, without elitism. The best-selling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it...
Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1995. — 155 p. This monograph is the first comprehensive account of the influence of Ukrainian motifs on the classical music of Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth.
Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1995. — 155 p. This monograph is the first comprehensive account of the influence of Ukrainian motifs on the classical music of Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth.
ISI Books, 2007. — 89 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4976-4508-0. A brief introduction to the study of music history. From the Beginnings to 1600. From the Gabrielis and Monteverdi to Bach and Handel. From Gluck and Bach’s Sons to Beethoven and Schubert. From Weber and Rossini to Wagner and Verdi. From Brahms and Bruckner to Sibelius and Stravinsky. Between the Wars. Epilogue: Since 1945.
2nd Ed. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 402 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). — ISBN10: 1442264624, 13 978-1442264625. Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to...
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 665 p. — ASIN B007WUOH1E. When we speak of “classical music” it often refers rather loosely to serious “art” music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. This was truly one of the most glorious periods for both composition and performance and it is this classical music which is still at...
New York: DK Publishing, 2013. — 482 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4654-1436-6. History of musical art from antiquity to the present day. Early beginnings 60,000 bce – 500 ce Introduction and Timeline Man, the Music Maker Music’s Cradle A Philosophical View Myth and Tragedy Ancient Instruments Sound the Trumpet Music in the middle ages 500 – 1400 Introduction and Timeline Sacred Chant...
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