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Canadian Geography
A Scholarly Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Canadian Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography is a compendium of published works on geographical studies of Canada and its various provinces. It includes works on geographical studies of Canada as a whole, on multiple provinces, and on individual provinces. Works covered include books, monographs,...
Music in Puerto Rico
A Reader's Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2002
Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late...
Theatrical Space
A Guide for Directors and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Too often directors and stage designers approach the architectural layout of theatres as obstructive to the creative process. Condee's book teaches theater professionals to work creatively within even the most restrictive theatrical space and transform it into an asset rather than an obstacle.
Condee...
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs,...
New York Philharmonic
The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
The intent of any discography is comprehensiveness, aiming to include every recording within its chosen area, and to list all the important details of each. The discography, New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005 is no exception. Author James H. North has compiled more than 1500...
Composers in the Classroom
A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have...
Hans von Bülow's Letters to Johannes Brahms
A Research Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Hans von Bülow (1830-1894) is a towering figure of late 19th-century music. In his early years, he was crucial to championing Franz Liszt's instrumental works. He would also conduct the premières of Richard Wagner's musical dramas Tristan and Isolde and The Mastersingers and become the first to...
The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers
Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Thea Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ). Earning solid reputations in Britain through their varying compositional styles, their music has revealed them to be...
Victorian Songhunters
The Recovery and Editing of English Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 1820-1883
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular...
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Although five-time Academy-Award nominee Ennio Morricone has scored numerous films in various genres, his westerns will undoubtedly remain his most memorable cinematographic accomplishments. This guide demonstrates Morricone's unique and enduring contributions to the art of film music through a discussion...
by John Sundholm, Isak Thorsen, Lars Gustaf Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a disproportionately large contribution to world cinema. Indeed, some of their films are among the best known of all times, including The Seventh Seal, Dancer in the Dark, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And Scandinavian...
by James M. Welsh, Donald M. Whaley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam war (Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July), insider trading (Wall Street), presidential assassination...
Danny Elfman's Batman
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his collaboration with Tim Burton on his films including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman...
Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice
A Guide for Small Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Unlike most jazz arranging books, which focus on the rudiments of arranging (transposition, ranges, notation, and so forth), this book deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments. Rinzler devotes a chapter to each of the following arranging elements:...