ilość książek w kategorii: 60862
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
ISBN: 9780195082357 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of -The Star Spangled Banner, - he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied -talking- guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a tradition rooted in...
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of -The Star Spangled Banner, - he was building on a foundation reachin...
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225,68 zł |
The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990
ISBN: 9780195082708 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. No one can tell us more about jazz than the musicians themselves. Unfortunately, most oral histories have limited scope--focusing on a particular era or style--and fail to capture the full, rich story of jazz. Now, in this vivid oral history, W. Royal Stokes presents nearly a century of jazz--its people, places, periods, and styles--as it was seen by the artists who created America's most distinctive music.
Here, along with the author's enlightening commentary, are the words of musicians famous and little-known, veterans of the early years and pathbreakers of the present, telling us about... No one can tell us more about jazz than the musicians themselves. Unfortunately, most oral histories have limited scope--focusing on a particular era ...
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103,77 zł |
Jazz Changes
ISBN: 9780195083491 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, rehearsals, and performances, important liner notes, and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The collection includes thirty years of Williams's finest pieces taking readers on an engaging tour of the changing jazz world. There are appreciation-profiles and comments on such performers as Ross Russell--about the noted Dial Record sessions with Charlie Parker--and greats like John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Jelly Roll Morton,...
Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, ...
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113,53 zł |
Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas
ISBN: 9780195086171 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in forging a new Jewish Israeli national identity, in maintaining a separate Sephardic identity, and in preserving a traditional Jewish life. Contributions include "On the Jewish Presence in Nineteenth Century European Musical Life," by Ezra Mendelsohn, "Musical Life in the Central European Jewish Village," by Philip V. Bohlman, "Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture," by Judit Frigyesi, "New Directions in the Music of the Sephardic...
This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in forgin...
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859,64 zł |
The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin
ISBN: 9780195090208 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Even as orchestras, performers, enthusiasts, and critics across the nation--and across the globe--celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, George Gershwin (1898-1937) remains one of America's most popular yet least appreciated composers. True, he is loved and revered for his wonderful popular songs, a few instrumental works, and the majestic opera Porgy and Bess. But most of his music is virtually unknown; hundreds of compositions, Broadway show tunes, and even several large and important instrumental works are gradually disappearing with the generations that first heard...
Even as orchestras, performers, enthusiasts, and critics across the nation--and across the globe--celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth...
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713,35 zł |
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
ISBN: 9780195090222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it.
Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing... If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of H...
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120,84 zł |
Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music
ISBN: 9780195090581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a great variety of musical forms--symphonies, concertos, operas, vocal music, and chamber music--he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes such famous compositions as the Adagio for Strings, the orchestral song Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three concertos, and his two operas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra, a commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House...
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a great variety of musical...
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186,67 zł |
Sound Choices
ISBN: 9780195092080 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What should you do when your three-year-old Sesame-Street aficionado suddenly announces that he wants to study the violin? Or when your seven-year old informs you that he does not want the shiny new red bicycle you just bought him for his birthday, nor the spiffy new box of high-tech paints, but really wants to have piano lessons--today? What should you say when your ten-year old shouts that she hates that nasty new $1500 violin you just invested in, hates violin period, and is never going to practice again? Are there any software packages that can teach that teen-age Jimi Hendrix rehearsing...
What should you do when your three-year-old Sesame-Street aficionado suddenly announces that he wants to study the violin? Or when your seven-year old...
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113,53 zł |
Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930
ISBN: 9780195092608 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, Prohibition and segregation, a town where jazz would flourish into the musical statement of an era.
In Chicago Jazz, William Howland Kenney offers a... The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilli...
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103,77 zł |
Etudes for Piano Teachers: Reflections on the Teacher's Art
ISBN: 9780195093223 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the "etudes" in Stewart Gordon's new book also focus on ideas which prepare piano teachers for meeting the problems encountered in piano performing and teaching. This major new collection on the piano teacher's art opens with an assessment of the role of the piano teacher, and goes on to explore various types of students and the challenge each presents: the moderately talented, but ambitious, student; the late beginner; the unusually gifted. Drawing on thirty years...
Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the "etudes" in Stewa...
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181,80 zł |
Poetry Into Song: Performance & Analysis of Lieder
ISBN: 9780195093285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Focusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, "The Language of Poetry," provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the methods of analysis for German Romantic poetry. Part II, "The Language of the Performer," deals with issues of concern to performers: texture, temporality, articulation, and interpretation of notation and unusual rhythm accents and stresses. Part III provides clearly defined...
Focusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introd...
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713,35 zł |
Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical
ISBN: 9780195096019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times called Stephen Sondheim "the greatest and perhaps best known artist in the American musical theater," while two months earlier, the same paper referred to his contemporary, Andrew Lloyd-Webber as "the most commercially successful composer in history." Whatever their individual achievements might be, it is agreed by most critics that these two colossi have dominated world musical theater for the last quarter century and hold the key to the direction the musical stage will take in the future.
Here in the third volume of Stephen Citron's distinguished series... The New York Times called Stephen Sondheim "the greatest and perhaps best known artist in the American musical theater," while two months ear...
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375,80 zł |
The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
ISBN: 9780195096200 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent?
These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's... Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused...
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762,11 zł |
Jazz: The American Theme Song
ISBN: 9780195096354 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Praised by the Washington Post as a "tough, unblinked critic," James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. With the publication of "Jazz: The American Theme Song," Collier does nothing to soften his reputation for hard-hitting, incisive commentary. Questioning everything we think we know about jazz-- its origins, its innovative geniuses, the importance of improvisation and spontaneous inspiration in a performance-- and the jazz world, these ten provocative essays on the music and its place in American culture overturn tired assumptions and will alternately...
Praised by the Washington Post as a "tough, unblinked critic," James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. With the...
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86,71 zł |
Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
ISBN: 9780195098228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvorak so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond. In Dvorak to Duke Ellington, Peress begins by recounting the music's formative years: Dvorak's three year residency as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1892-1895), and his students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark,...
Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvorak so presciently spo...
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391,52 zł |
Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz
ISBN: 9780195098693 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music crisscrosses the globe with ever greater speed, musicians seize what's useful, and expand their idioms more rapidly.
More and more since the 1960s, musicians, both in America and abroad, have shown an uncanny but consistent ability to draw inspiration from quite unexpected sources. We think of Paul Simon in Graceland, blending Afropop rhythms and Everly Brothers harmonies into a remarkable new sound... It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a...
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125,72 zł |
Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
ISBN: 9780195098877 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling virtuosity and spectacular live concerts made it hugely popular with fans during the 1970s, who saw bands such as King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull...
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage sho...
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415,91 zł |
Basic Techniques of Conducting
ISBN: 9780195099379 / Angielski / Spiralna / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Systematic, practical, and thorough, Basic Techniques of Conducting offers a clear instructional strategy and a basic methodology for teaching the physical gestures and concepts essential for the development of a convincing conducting technique. Taking a competency-based approach, this text provides a clear, step-by-step system for mastering the physical gestures required for good conducting. Paying special attention to the psychomotor skills needed for clear and expressive conducting, it establishes a solid foundation on which to build an advanced and personal conducting style.
... Systematic, practical, and thorough, Basic Techniques of Conducting offers a clear instructional strategy and a basic methodology for teachin...
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1040,82 zł |
Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis
ISBN: 9780195100051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation;...
Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse ...
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337,88 zł |
Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
ISBN: 9780195100464 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the...
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more importan...
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786,49 zł |