Kategoria BISAC: Music >> General

Analysis of the elements of musical expression, correlating musical theme with the nervous tension and impulses which characterize human emotion.

This is one of the earliest discographies published on jazz. Organized alphabetically by performer, this is still one of the most comprehensive discographies for the period it covers, and thus is especially helpful to the jazz collector.

Standard library cataloging rules are ill-adapted for the most part to serving the needs of the users or the compilers of discographies. . . . Rust offers a broad] view of how the discipline has developed to date, since his interests lie in jazz and popular music, where much of the early discographical work was done. Choice

The life of a great musician is always interesting, but the story of Hazel Harrison is exceptional. Her achievement was particularly impressive because she had been schooled entirely at home and was the first black pianist, male or female, to perform with a major European orchestra. Harrison's extraordinarily long and impressive performing career spanned more than half a century, from the days when Brahms was still alive and Stravinsky had not yet composed The Rite of Spring to the time of the civil rights struggle in the deep South.

American Music Librarianship is a biographical and historical review of the musical situation in American libraries from its roots in the late 19th century to the 1980s. Beginning with the period from 1854-55 when the Boston Public Library began to buy music for its collections, Bradley tracks the development of the Music Division in the Library of Congress under the guidance of chief librarian Oscar Senneck.

The opening section examines the professional careers of America's first music librarians and the subsequent development of music libraries, taken from information provided in...

Robert Browning interests musicians because he was a major poet as well as a competent musician. Music was a central theme in his poetry and formed the basis for many of his images and ideas. This unusual element compels musicological criticism as well as literary. The subject of Nachum Schoffman's book is the nature of Browning's musicality and the role and influence of music in his poetry.

Schoffman carries the musicological analysis of Browning's poetry to its logical conclusions, revealing more than other literary critics have of the poet's musicality. On the basis of his analysis,...