ilość książek w kategorii: 60851
Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806
ISBN: 9780195134896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, the book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth century through their suppression under the French and Austrian governments of Venice in the early nineteenth century. The first section of the book treats the scuole grandi, the largest and most important of the Venetian confraternities, and the only ones to maintain musical establishments for long periods. The second portion of the book is...
This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, ...
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878,91 zł |
The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650
ISBN: 9780195135374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, a follow-up to his 1996 monograph Celestial Sirens, Robert Kendrick examines the cultural contexts of music in early-modern Milan. This book describes the churches and palaces that served as performance spaces in Milan, analyzes the power structures in the city, discusses the devotional rites of the Milanese, and explores the connections among city politics, city-scape, and music.
In this book, a follow-up to his 1996 monograph Celestial Sirens, Robert Kendrick examines the cultural contexts of music in early-modern Mil...
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878,91 zł |
Organ Technique: Modern and Early
ISBN: 9780195137453 / Angielski / Spiral bound / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The authors' new approach to learning two playing techniques offers a systematic method for mastering the modern, legato technique needed for organ music composed after 1750, as well as an articulated technique for earlier works. The authors also present useful information on accompanying anthems and solos and on adapting piano and orchestral accompaniments to the organ.
The authors' new approach to learning two playing techniques offers a systematic method for mastering the modern, legato technique needed for organ mu...
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229,06 zł |
The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780195138108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, Richard Parncutt and Gary McPherson assemble relevant current research findings and make them accessible to musicians and music educators. This book describes new approaches to teaching...
What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield t...
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335,96 zł |
Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD]
ISBN: 9780195138337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Carnival Music in Trinidad is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to...
Carnival Music in Trinidad is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the...
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112,91 zł |
Praxial Music Education
ISBN: 9780195138344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Praxial Music Education is a collection of essays by nineteen internationally recognized scholars in music education. Each essay offers critical reflections on a key topic in contemporary music education. The starting point of each essay, and the unifying thread of this collection, is the "praxial" philosophy of music education explained in Elliott's Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education (OUP, 1995). This philosophy argues for a socially and artistically grounded concept of music and music education, challenging the field's traditional "absolutist"...
Praxial Music Education is a collection of essays by nineteen internationally recognized scholars in music education. Each essay offers criti...
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408,67 zł |
The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning: A Project of the Music Educators National Conference
ISBN: 9780195138849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 1248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Featuring chapters by the world's foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on music teaching and learning. This comprehensive work includes sections on arts advocacy, music and medicine, teacher education, and studio instruction, among other subjects, making it an essential reference for music education programs. The original Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, published in 1992 with the sponsorship of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), was hailed as "a welcome addition to the...
Featuring chapters by the world's foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on ...
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1412,18 zł |
The Richard Rodgers Reader
ISBN: 9780195139549 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Excellent."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "A useful and informative anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism drawn from a diversity of published and unpublished sources.... The Richard Rodgers Reader is like surfing the Internet. One can dip into it or read it section by section." --Mel Gussow, New York Times Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and the musicals he wrote with...
"Excellent."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "A useful and informative anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism drawn from a diversity of published a...
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129,87 zł |
Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942
ISBN: 9780195139891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. This discography documents--in alphabetical order by...
More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With prima...
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588,04 zł |
Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD]
ISBN: 9780195139938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Music in North India is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the...
Music in North India is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the |
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112,91 zł |
Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
ISBN: 9780195140231 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music...
This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to exp...
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355,34 zł |
Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
ISBN: 9780195141061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian prairies and America's Upper Midwest, scores of groups have wed squeezeboxes with string bands, hoe downs with hambos, and sentimental Southern balladry with comic "up north" broken-English comedy, to create a new and uniquely American sound.
The Goose Island Ramblers played as a house band for a local tavern in... A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled Ame...
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297,17 zł |
Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice
ISBN: 9780195141085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume discusses the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Music printers occupied a unique niche in the Renaissance printing world because their product appealed to those with sophisticated taste and was not readable by the entire literate public. Bridging the gap between music and other disciplines, Bernstein demonstrates here that the role of a music printer can be discussed as part of the larger cultural and economic question of the success of a commercial enterprise.
This volume discusses the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Music printers...
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481,39 zł |
Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD]
ISBN: 9780195141498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present....
Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Glob...
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580,20 zł |
Sound Advice: Becoming a Better Children's Choir Conductor
ISBN: 9780195141788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today's conductor and will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry.
This book will be useful on many levels: for the college student studying the child voice and elementary teaching methods; for the teacher beginning to direct choirs in schools, synagogues, churches and communities; for experienced children's choir directors who wish to know more about orchestral... Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the ...
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282,63 zł |
Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music: A Practical Guide to Innovations in Performance and Repertoire
ISBN: 9780195141986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio, Larsen, and Vercoe--presents exciting opportunities for singers to stretch their talents and demonstrate their vocal flexibility. Contemporary composers can be very demanding of vocalists, requiring them to recite, trill, and whisper, or to read non-traditional scores. For singers just beginning to explore the novelties of the contemporary repertoire, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music is an ideal guide.
Drawing on over thirty years of experience teaching and performing the twentieth... The vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio, Larsen, and Vercoe--presents exciting opportunities for s...
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263,24 zł |
Ottaviano Petrucci: A Catalogue Raisonné
ISBN: 9780195142075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 1296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves. He created the defining moment when Italy took the lead in book printing in the Renaissance.
This book is a bibliographic study of the output of the Petrucci presses, laying emphasis on the professional career of Petrucci. It includes a detailed study of technique and house-style, examining the market forces that drove Petrucci's publishing decisions, and provides a detailed catalogue of editions and... The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all ...
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1400,06 zł |
Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
ISBN: 9780195143997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It emphasizes the notion of formal function, that is, the specific role a given formal unit plays in the structural organization of a classical work.
Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental mu...
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297,17 zł |
The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time: North European Reflections, 1610-2000 [With CD]
ISBN: 9780195144154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any other instrument, continues to reflect the spirit of the age in which it was built. The Organ as a Mirror of its Time, the first book to consider this instrument's historical and cultural significance, reflects the efforts of twenty leading scholars of the organ.
The book chronicles the history of six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, at least one specimen for every century from 1600 to the present. By considering their... Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any ot...
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355,34 zł |
The Clarinet in the Classical Period
ISBN: 9780195144833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets. Rice also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period.
A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provi...
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757,72 zł |