The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
ISBN: 9780195090574 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history reveals. Working through the blues and gospel movement. Harris reconstructs the rise of gospel blues within the context of early twentieth century African American cultural history.
After a nervous breakdown and a subsequent religious conversion in 1928. Dorsey began to write gospel songs with blues accompaniments. His introduction of these -goals- into Chicago's Afro-Baptist churches... Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be f...
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Harmonic Rhythm: Analysis and Interpretation
ISBN: 9780195150872 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm. Simply defined, harmonic rhythm is the relationship between changes in harmony and perceived changes in rhythm. This phenomenon plays a large role in shaping the texture and style of much of Western music, from Renaissance polyphonic pieces to the works of Debussy. Swain provides a clear and thorough discussion of how harmonic theory works, using a small core of repeated musical examples.
An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic r...
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493,43 zł |
Harmony in Western Music
ISBN: 9780393332551 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
ISBN: 9780415941792 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revivalist music that appeared around 1870, this American music genre has grown into popular culture and is known worldwide. The "Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music "is the first comprehensive reference to cover all aspects of gospel music in the United States, highlighting how African-American and white gospel tradition interconnect. By adopting an inclusive approach that incorporates both African-American and white gospel music, this work is a complete survey of this important genre, relating its origins and development.
Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and... A revivalist music that appeared around 1870, this American music genre has grown into popular culture and is known worldwide. The "Encyclopedia of Am...
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Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel
ISBN: 9780807853467 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions.
Marked by smooth, tight harmonies and a lyrical focus on the message of Christian salvation, southern gospel--particularly the white gospel quartet tradition--had its roots in nineteenth-century shape-note singing. The spread of white gospel music is intricately connected to the people who based... Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to...
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Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
ISBN: 9780807855300 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel.
Female gospel singers initially developed their musical abilities in churches where gospel prevailed as a mode of worship. Few, however, stayed exclusively in the religious realm. As recordings and sheet music pushed gospel... Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after Wor...
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The Inner World of Traditional Theory
ISBN: 9780819175724 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intended for first and second year college music courses, graduate students needing a concentrated review, and Private Theory instruction, this is a Music Theory treatise in the form of a workbook. The greater part of traditional theory is formatted into a set of 25 lessons, offering new insight, sequences and overviews. This teaching tool is designed to teach the most information with a maximum overview and minimal effort in the smallest amount of time.
Intended for first and second year college music courses, graduate students needing a concentrated review, and Private Theory instruction, this is a M...
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
ISBN: 9780826417527 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People Get Ready : A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America's greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians. From the nameless slaves of Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk Franklin, People Get Ready provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this... People Get Ready : A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America's greatest tre... |
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The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780879100346 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey of gospel singing, with attention to the relationship between gospel and other black musical forms such as jazz and rhythm and blues.
A survey of gospel singing, with attention to the relationship between gospel and other black musical forms such as jazz and rhythm and blues.
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Harmony: Its Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781410219206 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Introduction Key, or Tonality The General Laws of Part-Writing The Diatonic Triads of the Major Key The Inversions of the Triads of a Major Key The Minor Key: Its Diatonic Triads and Their Inversions The Chord of the Dominant Seventh Key Relationship -- Modulation to Nearly Related Keys -- False Relation Unessential Discords -- Auxiliary Notes, Passing Notes, and Anticipations Unessential Discords -- Suspensions The Chord of the Dominant Ninth The Chord of the Dominant Eleventh The Chord of the Dominant Thirteenth Chromatic Triads -- The Chromatic Scale Chromatic Cords of the Seventh...
CONTENTS Introduction Key, or Tonality The General Laws of Part-Writing The Diatonic Triads of the Major Key The Inversions of the Triads of a Major K...
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133,89 zł |
Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg
ISBN: 9781878822529 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical survey of Viennese treatises on harmony and their influence on the work of a number of 18th to 20th century composers.
A critical survey of Viennese treatises on harmony and their influence on the work of a number of 18th to 20th century composers.
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Southern Sounds from the North
ISBN: 9781436368988 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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191,65 zł |
Southern Sounds from the North
ISBN: 9781436368971 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,49 zł |
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music
ISBN: 9780393152746 / Angielski / Miękka / 771 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.
Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading prin...
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494,31 zł |
The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music
ISBN: 9780879724986 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isaac Watts and the social activism of the Wesleys, gospel music was established in eighteenth-century America. With the camp meetings songs of the Kentucky Revival and the spirituals and hymns that stemmed from the Civil War and beyond, gospel music grew through the nineteenth century and expanded through new technologies in the twentieth century.
Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isaac ...
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86,72 zł |
The A to Z of Sacred Music
ISBN: 9780810876217 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and...
The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, an...
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Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents
ISBN: 9780226318097 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an original and illuminating method for analyzing chromatic music. Combining theoretical innovations with a sound historical understanding, Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music will aid anyone studying this pivotal period of Western music history. "This book will clearly be of great importance to music theorists and historians... The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck,... |
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Make a Joyful Noise! A Brief History of Gospel Music Ministry in America
ISBN: 9780983363002 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Harmony: Its Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781108038799 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (1835 1909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah and as the man who put words to the fugue subjects in Bach's Well-tempered Klavier. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music (numbering Henry Wood amongst his pupils) and the reputation he established through his works on music theory gained him the post of Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin. This is the sixteenth (1903) edition, of his 1889 treatise on harmony which ran through over twenty editions, such was its popularity. This edition marks a significant change in...
The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (1835 1909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah and as the man who put words to th...
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364,18 zł |
Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music
ISBN: 9780252036972 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience,...
In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural ph...
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477,47 zł |