Music Styles and Genres Books

Manuel de l'accompagnateur de chant grégorien et de cantiques populaires, written in French by P. Chassang and originally published in 1922, is a guide for accompanying Gregorian chant and popular hymns. This manual provides practical instruction...

Notices sur Luigi et Federico Ricci offers a biographical and critical examination of the lives and works of the Ricci brothers, two prominent Italian opera composers of the 19th century. Franz de Villars delves into their personal histories and provides...

Le drame lyrique en France depuis Gluck jusqu'à nos jours explores the evolution of lyric drama in France from the era of Gluck to the late 19th century. Jacques Hermann provides a detailed analysis of the key composers, works, and trends that...

Le balcon de l'opéra by Joseph Louis d'Ortigue, published in 1833, offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century French opera and musical criticism. D'Ortigue, a prominent music critic of his time, provides insightful commentary and...

De Lulli à Rameau, 1690-1730; l'esthétique musicale explore l'évolution de la musique française durant une période cruciale, marquant la transition entre l'ère de Lully et l'ascension de Rameau. Jules...

"Chiquito, le joueur de Pelote; scènes de la vie basque en 4 actes d'après Pierre Loti" is a dramatic work by Jean Nouguès with a poem by Henri Cain. This French text, reflecting Basque life, presents a compelling narrative in four...

Chapelle-musique des rois de France, written by Castil-Blaze, offers a detailed exploration of the musical chapels associated with the kings of France. This historical study, originally published in 1832, delves into the organization, repertoire, and...

In "Our Angel Friends in Ministry and Song," Alfred Fowler explores the profound connection between angels, Christian ministry, and the power of song. This inspirational work delves into the role of angels in our lives, offering comfort, guidance, and...

"Trust and Obey," and Other Songs is a collection of timeless hymns by John H. Sammis (1846-1919). This compilation features some of the most beloved and enduring pieces of gospel music, offering solace, inspiration, and spiritual upliftment. Sammis's...

Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique: La Seconde Salle Favart, Volume 1, by Albert Soubies and Charles Malherbe, offers a detailed historical account of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, specifically focusing on the second Salle Favart. This volume...

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.A performer who rivaled Sinatra, Bobby Darin rose from dire poverty to become one of the biggest stars of his generation. Dogged by chronic...

Introduces the traditional songs of Himalayan Ladakh through their history, ethnology, poetry, and Tibetan Buddhism beliefs.Singing the Himalayan Crossroads places the traditional song repertoires of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh in both their...

`Sangeet Aur Bharatiya Darshan' explores the deep connection between Indian music and ancient wisdom. This book reveals how the Upanishads, Vedas, and Puranas not only shaped the roots of Indian music but also infused it with depth, spirituality,...

The Limeliters were the most vibrant urban folk group of the early 1960s, second only to the Kingston Trio in popularity at their peak. They were a diverse, volatile mix of highly intelligent personalities: Lou Gottlieb, a bass-playing comic with a Ph.D...

Кніга з'яўляецца вынікам мэтанакіраванага і шматгадовага даследавання музычнага фальклору старавераў заходняга Падзвіння. Яна складаецца з трох раздзелаў: "Валачобныя песні", "Крутухі, хараводы, пахадушкі", "Лірычныя песні". Кожны з раздзелаў мае...

From a rebellious teen with a powerhouse voice to an iconic pop-rock sensation, P!nk's journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. In Glitter in the Air: The Evolution of P!nk, discover the career story of Alecia Moore, the fierce spirit behind the...

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history,...

The Bradford-born Frederick Delius (1862-1934) was one of the most original and radical of all English composers, leading a cosmopolitan life that saw him living in Florida and France as well as spending periods in Germany and Norway, and he was unique...

45 fab images for you to colour, plus articles on every single act, by Kev F Sutherland, of Beano and Marvel comics fame. Paperback edition.Who is in this definitive volume of pop stars to colour, from the decade of psychedelia? There's...Adam Faith, The...

It is the first hours of Thursday, July 6, 1961 and a young man lies dead on a road near Geneva, 300 miles from New York, his body burnt beyond recognition on a hot summer night. A star of the American jazz scene has been extinguished. In a few moments,...

Over the last three decades Slavoj Žižek has become an iconic figure of intellectuel engagé and his works have engendered ongoing reflection within as different academic disciplines as philosophy, literature or cultural, gender, postcolonial and film...

Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline and...

Are you dreaming of playing the guitar like a pro? Are you a beginner looking for simple and effective methods to learn the basics of guitar chords and notes?Look no further!This comprehensive guide is designed to help aspiring guitarists embark on their...

Have you always been interested in learning how to play an instrument? Have you listened to some of your favorite musicians and you want to be able to play like them but you think it may be too hard to even look at getting started? Do you want to get...

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country.

Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate,...

Knotwork is a collection of 12 violin duets composed by Helen Adam, all based on Welsh traditional music.The tunes include well known song melodies as well as lesser known dance tunes. The original melody is given in full as well as the duets in clear...

In 1941 and ’42 African American scholars from Fisk University—among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.—joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the...

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime...

Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart. Now, in a completely updated and...

Expression in Pop-Rock Music is a collection of critical and analytical essays written by today's top scholars on pop and rock music. Applying a wide variety of analytical techniques and critical approaches in the study of songs by artists such as Tori...

"Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those...

This is the ultimate guide to the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of...

Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to...

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard's contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance...

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended. Today's CEE...

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images all...

An Exposition Of The Psalm Miserere Mei Deus is a book written by Girolamo Savonarola in 1889. The book is a detailed analysis of the Psalm Miserere Mei Deus, which is also known as Psalm 51. The Psalm is a prayer of repentance and is often used during...

A volume uniform with the two previously published, English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century and Religion Lyrics of the XIVth Century. In covering the field of the fifteenth century the editor has been able to select from a wide range of unpublished...

""Geschichte der heutigen oder modernen Musik Teil 2 (1841)"" ist ein Buch des deutschen Musikwissenschaftlers Gustav Schilling. Es ist der zweite Teil einer umfassenden Darstellung der Entwicklung der modernen Musik von der Renaissance bis zur Romantik...

""Italiens Wunderhorn: Volkslieder"" ist eine Sammlung von Volksliedern aus Italien, die 1878 von Woldemar Kaden ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch enth�����lt eine Vielzahl von traditionellen Liedern aus verschiedenen Regionen Italiens, darunter...

Il Turco in Italia ����� un'opera buffa scritta dal compositore italiano Gioacchino Rossini nel 1826. La trama segue le vicende di un poeta, Prosdocimo, che cerca ispirazione per la sua opera. Durante la sua ricerca incontra un turco, Selim, che si...

Il Teatro Di Musica Alla Moda ����� un'opera scritta da Benedetto Marcello nel 1841. Questo libro ����� una raccolta di scritti che descrivono la musica teatrale dell'epoca in cui ����� stato scritto. Marcello esamina le tendenze musicali del tempo e le...

Il Salterio O Canti Nazionali Del Popolo D'Israele: Spiegati E Commentati (1885) di Consolo, Beniamino ����� un libro che esplora il Salterio, ovvero la raccolta di canti e preghiere del popolo ebraico. L'autore fornisce una spiegazione e un commento...