ilość książek w kategorii: 60851
Conducting Technique : For Beginners and Professionals
ISBN: 9780193868540 / Angielski / Spiral bound / 2004 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful advice on coducting subtleties. This latest edition takes into account avant-garde music and new music notation.
For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful ad...
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109,32 zł |
The Story of Jazz
ISBN: 9780195012699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz's cultural effects on American and the world.
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader ...
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103,20 zł |
The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780195038767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in...
The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison say...
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129,87 zł |
A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians
ISBN: 9780195040418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introduction to the symphony and short pieces on the orchestra and musical styles. Mordden goes on to describe, chronologically, over 700 pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Further aids to the reader include two lists of repertory builders and a glossary of musical terms.
"Easy and pleasurable to read...a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introductio...
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103,20 zł |
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
ISBN: 9780195040432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings.
Early Jazz... Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to...
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64,43 zł |
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909
ISBN: 9780195043105 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing tech...
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660,77 zł |
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, Volume III: From 1900-1984
ISBN: 9780195043112 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the "fall and rise" of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business.
This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood t...
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1060,71 zł |
Opera Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780195056617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and witty style that prompted Publishers Weekly to hail him as "one of the most entertaining and provocative writers around."
Mordden has selected a vast collection of classic, arcane and unusual anecdotes, including Giuseppe Verdi's advice on how to run an opera house and how to write an aria, Enrico Caruso's... From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alter...
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64,43 zł |
Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music
ISBN: 9780195058369 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and...
In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to b...
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527,45 zł |
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195058499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Varese, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein,...
New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from ...
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769,84 zł |
Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller
ISBN: 9780195059212 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller offers his reflections on jazz, insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins, and several essays on "the third stream," the genre where jazz and classical music intersect. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music,"...
This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Linc...
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74,12 zł |
The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's
ISBN: 9780195060829 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper and the Gangster.
The Jazz... F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this f...
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180,78 zł |
Singers and the Song
ISBN: 9780195060874 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Led by Frank Sinatra, the generation that emerged during and after World War II raised the performance of the popular song to the level of art. Gene Lees' fascinating book examines some of the most gifted of these singers, including Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, and Sarah Vaughan.
Far from being the simple intuitive performers the public thought it knew, these people emerge--in Singers and the Song--as intelligent, skillful, and fully conscious artists dedicated to their work. Lees also discusses the composers, including the great film composer, Hugo Friedhodfer, and the... Led by Frank Sinatra, the generation that emerged during and after World War II raised the performance of the popular song to the level of art. Gene L...
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127,45 zł |
The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780195063288 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century. He argues that because improvisation--the essence of jazz--must often fail under the pressure of on-the-spot creativity, we should view jazz as an "imperfect art" and base our judgments of it on an "aesthetics of imperfection."
Incorporating the thought of such seminal thinkers as Walter Benjamin, Jose Ortega y... Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history,...
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129,87 zł |
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey
ISBN: 9780195063349 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western urban music styles, from increasingly familiar genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, non-Western Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia, Portugal), Asia, and the Near East. Manuel establishes parameters that distinguish popular music from both folk and classical music, defining popular music as music created with the mass media in mind and reproduced on a large scale basis as a...
Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western urban music...
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180,78 zł |
Musical Perceptions
ISBN: 9780195064766 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Musical Perceptions is a much-needed text that introduces students of both music and psychology to the study of music perception and cognition. Because the book aims to foster a closer interaction between research in the science and the art of music, both psychologists and musicians contribute chapters on a wide range of topics, including the philosophy of music; research in musical performance; perception of melody, tonality, and rhythm; pedagogical issues; language and music; and neural networks. With their unique ability to introduce musical and psychological concepts to...
Musical Perceptions is a much-needed text that introduces students of both music and psychology to the study of music perception and cognitio...
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731,24 zł |
Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
ISBN: 9780195068917 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era. The first of three projected volumes investigating music written for films, this thoughtful and pathbreaking study demonstrates the richness of silent film music as it details the way in which scores were often planned from the start as an integral part of the whole cinematic experience. Following an introductory chapter that outlines several key theoretical questions and surveys eight decades of writing on film music, Martin Miller Marks focuses on those scores created between 1895 and 1924. He begins...
In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era. The first of three projected volumes investigating music writt...
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721,36 zł |
Jazz in Its Time
ISBN: 9780195069044 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From record album liner notes to serious academic pieces, Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for over three decades. In this, his newest collection of jazz writings, Williams brings together many of his best pieces and covers new ground, with short columns on Teddy Wilson and George Winston and a longer article, "How Long Has This Been Going On?," examining the current state of jazz. In this last work, Williams notes that jazz is experiencing a period of "stylistic retrenchment or, if you will, a period of conservatism," and questions the fusion of jazz...
From record album liner notes to serious academic pieces, Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for over three dec...
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69,27 zł |
The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America & the Meaning of Jazz
ISBN: 9780195074796 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation" (Malcolm Cowley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein), along with many other Americans celebrated it--both as an expression of black culture and as a symbol of rebellion against American society. But an equal number railed against it. Whites were shocked by its raw emotion and sexuality, and blacks...
Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on thi...
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95,94 zł |
The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780195078169 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "the best one-volume of jazz we have," and the Jazz Journal praised it as "a brilliant study of the whole of jazz." Perhaps the greatest tribute was paid by Louis Armstrong himself who raved: "it held Ol' Satch spellbound." Now thoroughly revised and expanded, the new edition of The Jazz Tradition offers readers a unique history of jazz, as seen through its greatest practitioners.
An original blend of history and criticism, this book explores... When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "...
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95,94 zł |