The Listener's Guide to Music
Author: Percy A. Scholes
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Percy A. Scholes
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James M. Keller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 019020639X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present.
Author: Kip Lornell
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive listener's guide to American folk music provides a concise history of the musical genre and its most important performers, along with an A-to-Z glossary of terms, information on stylistic variations, helpful resources, and a listing of dozens of essential folk music CDs.
Author: Chris Nickson
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780399530326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso
Author: John Corbett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-03-13
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 022635380X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first book of its kind, John Corbett's A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation provides a how-to manual for the most extreme example of spontaneous improvising: music with no pre-planned material at all. Drawing on over three decades of writing about, presenting, playing, teaching, and studying freely improvised music, Corbett offers an enriching set of tools that show any curious listener how to really listen, and he encourages them to enjoy the human impulse-- found all around the world-- to make up music on the spot.
Author: Timothy K. Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-08-06
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1440674159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
Author: Max Morath
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-02-05
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1101203110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery major singer from Frank Sinatra to Christina Aguilera. Every major composer from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim. Every major song from a century of favorites. Every major musician and lyricist. Every major styling from blues, jazz, and country to folk, big band, and rock and roll The most recorded songs of all time. A guide to understanding the "standard" lingo. The evolution of popular music from Tin Pan Alley to contemporary musical theater, and more.
Author: John Schaefer
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll kinds of modern music from minimalism to electronic jazz are described and discographies of each are provided.
Author: Robert Reilly
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 1681497042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.
Author: Percy A. Scholes
Publisher:
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 152
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