Reflections on Gospel Songs (David Carr Glover Christian Piano Library)
"Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo ('Jehovah's music'), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in these styles, he illustrates the extent to which va...
_A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody_ should be seen as a method to help the artist to develop his or her own way when trying to improvise chromatically. Through the concepts and examples offered, the improvisor should be able to use this material alongside already familiar tonal ideas. Specifically, the book serves as a guide for organizing chromaticism into a coherent musical statement meant to satisfy both the intellectual and emotional needs of artistic creation. The reader will...
To Do This, You Must Know How (American Made Music)
by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals with formal choral music disciplines, and established a permanent bond between spiritual singing and music education. Early in the twentieth century there were countless initiatives in support...
This Gift (Original Sheet Music Edition)
by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
History of Key Characteristics in the [A Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
by Rita Steblin
The concept of key characteristics - the association of a mood or meaning with an individual key -has long been a controversial matter. Taking an historical approach, this book aims to further a better understanding of what the various keysmeant to, and how they were used by, composers in different eras. Of particular importance is the discussion of many `new' sources, adding considerably to knowledge of what the keys meant to the composers of the baroque,classical and romantic eras.RITA STEBLIN...
Short stories of heroism and horror from one of the best-loved children's authors * Story: Four short stories focusing on the experience of children during World War II* Themes: conflict, images of war, growing up, the author's craft* Genre: short stories