Music category: 21679 books
Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations
In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Music semiotics asks what music signifies...
by Naomi Waltham-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In what ways is music implicated in the politics of belonging? How is the proper at stake in listening? What role does the ear play in forming a sense of community? Music and Belonging argues that music, at the level of style and form, produces certain modes of listening that in turn reveal the conditions...
Psychology of Music
From Sound to Significance
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and scope that was a hallmark...
by Dee Hansen, Elaine Bernstorf, Gayle M. Stuber
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the pre-K, elementary, and secondary levels. This edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beyond the familiar forms of Mississippi Delta Blues and mainstream country music, the vernacular music of the South also ranges from the ceremonial music of Native Americans, to "shout" singing in South Carolina sea islands, Cajun fiddling, and Mexican-American conjunto music. Sounds of...
Ballet Music for Exercises 5
Original Scores to the Soundtrack - Sheet Music for Your eBook
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Original Musicscores of the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 5", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an iPad or Kindle, to read music whilst playing an Instrument. Klaus...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This book examines the functional place of music in contemporary European philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries. The chapters explore the musical dimensions of lesser known figures as well as well-known philosophical figures in relation to their lesser-known musical dimensions. Edmund Husserl,...
by Ludovico Einaudi
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Ludovico Einaudi's beautifully evocative music lends itself so perfectly to use in films that for many years directors have been using it to complement their images. 17 of the best examples of his music for film over the past two decades are included here in this Film Music collection, arranged for...
Doctor Sonja's Bitches Brew
A 'Telling' Journey Through Music Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
What threads could possibly stitch together wide-ranging music spaces? Here Dr. Sonja Strode tells a magical tale sewing together her links in an inter-connected world of musicians. On a music-packed journey, like Taliesin's salmon her 'telling' flips its way back and forth places in Wales, London,...
Issues in African American Music
Power, Gender, Race, Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics...
Collaborative Action for Change
Selected Proceedings from the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Collaborative Action for Change presents new directions in the preparation and lifelong professional development of music educators. The book's chapters are based on some of the most effective presentations from the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher Education. The Symposium focused on examples of successful...
by Willie H. Alls, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Over the last few years gospel music has blown up. No longer limited to hymns, anthems and spirituals, gospel music now transcends musical styles, including jazz, blues, rock, country and urban contemporary. Like never before, there are opportunities for motivated, talented musicians to make a career...
For Those Tears I Died
The Amazing Story About How One Song Brought Healing to Millions and Birthed Contemporary Christian Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
“The mother of contemporary Christian music" - Excerpt from "The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music", Sept. 2002
“She is Conservative Christianity’s worst nightmare: a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, God-fearing lesbian Christian." - Christian Century Magazine
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The Reinvention of Religious Music
Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious...