Music in the Rhondda (Archive Photographs: Images of Wales)
by Dean Powell
Bringing the World to Our Neighborhood (Quarry Books)
Tuva...Madagascar...Paris...Bloomington Traditional...experimental...acoustic...electric Dozens of countries...dozens of cultures Each September, the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival-a celebration of music, song, dance, and art--transforms a southern Indiana college town into an international oasis, featuring a dazzling array of talent, high spirits, and bonhomie. Bringing the World to Our Neighborhood portrays this unique event in photographs and music, and documents how Lotus has blossomed...
Twisted Muse, The: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
by Distinguished Research Professor of History Michael H Kater
Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419 (Musicological Studies; V. 28, #28)
by Professor Craig Wright
Noise of the World captures the world music scene through the eyes of the musicians who create it, all in their own words. Drawn from original interviews conducted over the last 20 yearswith artists who left a massive musical legacy, like Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and artists that continue to make crucial recordings, like Winston "Burning Spear" Rodneyit will feature artists whose music has become part of the "mainstream," like the Gipsy Kings and Gloria Estefan and artists like Hugh Masa...
Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell
by Emma Hornby and David Maw
Among the most memorable innovations of music and poetry in thirteenth-century France was a genre that seemed to privilege sound over sense. The polytextual motet is especially well-known to scholars of the Middle Ages for its tendency to conceal complex allegorical meaning in a texture that, in performance, made words less, rather than more, audible. It is with such musical sound that this book is concerned. What did it mean to create a musical effect so potentially independent from the meaning...
Music and Manners in France and Germany; A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society
by Henry Fothergill Chorley
This study explores music's place in the cultural, artistic and literary life of medieval Italian courts, paying particular attention to the influence of French culture on Italian artistic and musical traditions. In the first of three essays, Gallo examines the troubadours who travelled to northern Italian courts from Provence during the 13th century. He discusses their performance practices, the verbal and musical sophistication of their songs and their role in the daily life of courtiers at Ge...
Polish Music Since Szymanowski
by Professor of Biomechanics Adrian Thomas
Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty. This included such topics as the role of consent in marriage, women and public life, same-sex relationships, freedom of the press, and the freedom to worship (or not). Among the most common vehicles for stimula...
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor errors in the first edition, adding young composers and documenting deaths since 1996, when the first edition appeared. Hundreds of composers are represented in this volume, which presents biographical...