Songs of the University of Rochester
Author: University of Rochester
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
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Jazz Theory
Author: Dariusz Terefenko
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1135043019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study is a comprehensive textbook ideal for Jazz Theory courses or as a self-study guide for amateur and professional musicians. Written with the goal of bridging theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation beginning with music fundamentals through post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation. It includes a DVD with 46 Play Along audio tracks and a companion website, which hosts the workbook, ear training exercises, and audio tracks of the musical examples featured in the book.
The Hatred of Music
Author: Pascal Quignard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-03-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0300220944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard’s masterful exploration of the power of music and what history reveals about the dangers it poses. From prehistoric chants to challenging contemporary compositions, Quignard reflects on music of all kinds and eras. He draws on vast cultural knowledge—the Bible, Greek mythology, early modern history, modern philosophy, the Holocaust, and more—to develop ten accessible treatises on music. In each of these small masterpieces the author exposes music’s potential to manipulate, to mesmerize, to domesticate. Especially disturbing is his scrutiny of the role music played in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Quignard’s provocative book takes on particular relevance today, as we find ourselves surrounded by music as never before in history.
Gone Missing
Author: Steven Cosson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780822222965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: A wry and whimsical documentary musical of loss devised from interviews with real-life New Yorkers by The Civilians, the acclaimed New York-based company. This collection of very personal accounts of things gone missing--everything from
Songs of Ourselves
Author: Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0674042964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.
Music in German Immigrant Theater
Author: John Koegel
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1580462154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
The Shanty Book
Author: Richard Runciman Terry
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGay Guerrilla
Author: Renée Levine Packer
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 158046534X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.
The Songs of Fanny Hensel
Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190919582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFanny Hensel created some of the most imaginative and original music of her era, making her arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century. While Hensel has finally stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn, as scholars have begun to study her life and writings, her music has remained surprisingly underexamined. This collection places Hensel's music at the center, focusing on the genre that not only made up more than half of her creative output but also, as Hensel herself put it, "suits her best": song. In eleven new essays, leading scholars in the fields of music theory and musicology consider Hensel's songs from a wide range of angles, covering topics such as Hensel's fascination with particular poets and poetic themes; her innovative harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and textual strategies; and her connection to larger literary and musical trends. The chapters also provide insight into Hensel's efforts to break free from the constraints placed on her as a woman and her place in the larger history of the nineteenth-century Lied. Drawing on diverse biographical, historical, cultural, and musical contexts for their detailed discussions of Hensel's songs, the authors underline Hensel's historical importance and deepen our understanding and appreciation of her compositions. This volume, in short, finally gives Fanny Hensel and her songs the stage that they deserve.
The Musical Language of Rock
Author: David Temperley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190653795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis to offer an innovative and insightful approach to the genre. With examples from across a broadly defined rock idiom encompassing everything from the Beatles to Deep Purple, Michael Jackson to Bonnie Raitt, The Musical Language of Rock shows how rock musicians exploit musical parameters to achieve aesthetic and expressive goals-for example, the manipulation of expectation and surprise, the communication of such oppositions as continuity/closure and tension/relaxation, and the expression of emotional states. A major innovation of the book is a three-dimensional model of musical expression-representing valence, energy, and tension-which proves to be a powerful tool for characterizing songs and also for tracing expressive shifts within them. The book includes many musical examples, with sound clips available on the book's website. The Musical Language of Rock presents new insights on the powerful musical mechanisms which have made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape.
