Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Musical Instruments - General

The ukulele has gone from strength to strength in recent years, undergoing a massive resurgence. You can hear the uke all over the place, from trendster indie rock to top ten pop songs, from unshakeable TV ads to YouTube megahits. And this obsession shows no sign of abating - all over the country people are picking up a ukulele and starting to strum, at home, in classes and down at the pub. Schools are even replacing the faithful recorder with a jazzy, inexpensive uke. Famous idlers Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson have spent hours idling away on their ukuleles to produce the...

Althought there are numerous books dealing with the science and acoustics of speech, there are relatively few that deal with the singing voice as distinct from the speaking voice. Now, Johan Sundberg's "The Science of the Singing Voice" illustrated with over a hundred instructive and significant diagrams and drawings thoroughly describes the structure and functions of the vocal organs in singing, from the aerodynamics of respiration through the dynamics of articulation."

In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event--for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection presents compositions that are known or suspected to be instrumental dances from before ca. 1420. The 47 pieces vary in length and style and come from French, Italian, English, and Czech sources. Timothy McGee relates medieval dances to the descriptions found in literary, theoretical, and...

The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world.

Explore the rich heritage, contemporary culture, and society of the Virgin Islands by delving into its wonderful music.

Dale Francis, a resident of the Virgin Islands whose ancestry there dates back to the early 1700s, examines what Africans, Europeans, and Tainos contributed to Virgin Islands quelbe. He also chronicles key genres that were played between 1672 and 2012.

As you immerse yourself into a fascinating blend of African and European music traditions, you?ll learn about the anthropology of the music, what it tells us about power dynamics, the relationship between the music...

Explore the rich heritage, contemporary culture, and society of the Virgin Islands by delving into its wonderful music.

Dale Francis, a resident of the Virgin Islands whose ancestry there dates back to the early 1700s, examines what Africans, Europeans, and Tainos contributed to Virgin Islands quelbe. He also chronicles key genres that were played between 1672 and 2012.

As you immerse yourself into a fascinating blend of African and European music traditions, you?ll learn about the anthropology of the music, what it tells us about power dynamics, the relationship between the music...