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Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486173245
Exceptionally clear, systematic presentation of the evolution of musical style from Gregorian Chant (AD 700) to mid-20th-century atonal music. Over 140 musical examples. Bibliography.
Author : Homer Ulrich,Paul Amadeus Pisk
Publisher : London : R. Hart-Davis
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106001359824
"The authors' purpose in writing this history of music has been to offer a clear, straightforward presentation of historical developments in musical style. The men who contributed ideas, principles, and compositions are of course brought into the account, but the emphasis is on the contributions and not on the men. Thus the book is 'music-centered' rather than 'composer-centered.' Another aim of this book has been to restore an equitable balance among the various eras." --Preface.
Author : Robert P. Morgan,ROBERT C. MORGAN
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 039395272X
Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky
Author : Marina Lobanova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136652295
This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as too avant-garde and published there only in a bowdlerized version in 1990. Drawing on baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary music, Dr. Lobanova proposes an original concept of musical syntax with special emphasis on the role of the categories of time, space, and motion. Embracing such aspects of cultural life as poetry and philosophy, she deals with the problems of cultural dialogue and the disintegration of the concept of absolute music.
Author : Leon Plantinga
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393951960
A survey of the development of romantic music includes analyses of the careers of composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt
Author : DerekB. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351556873
Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time and again to examining how conventions of representation arise and how they become established. Among the themes of the collection are social class, ideology, national identity, imperialism, Orientalism, race, the sacred and profane, modernity and postmodernity, and the vexed relationship of art and entertainment. A wide variety of musical styles is discussed, ranging from jazz and popular song to the symphonic repertoire and opera.
Author : Robert Philip
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521235280
In this fascinating study, Robert Philip argues that recordings of the early twentieth-century provide an important, and hitherto neglected, resource in the history of musical performance.
Author : Colin Lawson,Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521627389
A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.
Author : Michael Spitzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526602749
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago came the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet it is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, from global history to our everyday lives, from insects to apes, humans to artificial intelligence. 'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin 'A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind' Ian Bostridge
Author : Jeffrey Kallberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674127919
The complex cultural status of Chopin--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this book situates Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.
Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Style, Musical.Music Performance History
ISBN : OCLC:460056693
Author : Adam von Ahn Carse
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486212586
This well-known study by an eminent musicologist constitutes one of the best mid-level explorations of the nature and function of the orchestra. Tracing the beginnings of modern music from the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries, the survey presents forty-four musical excerpts and thirteen sketches of instruments, plus appendices and quotations related to conducting methods. Featured composers include Purcell, Scarlatti, Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Wagner, Debussy, Elgar, and many others. Author Adam Carse examines the evolution of individual musical instruments along with varying performance techniques and concepts of instrumental color. He further explores the recognition of major instrumental groups and their musical distinctions, decisions regarding volume and balance of tone, the influence of musical subject matter upon orchestration, and many similar topics. This volume represents a splendid resource for music students, enthusiasts of musical history and classical music, and music lovers of all ages.
Author : Leonard B. Meyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226521524
Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. "A monumental work. . . . Most authors concede the relation of music to its cultural milieu, but few have probed so deeply in demonstrating this interaction."—Choice "Probes the foundations of musical research precisely at the joints where theory and history fold into one another."—Kevin Korsyn, Journal of American Musicological Society "A remarkably rich and multifaceted, yet unified argument. . . . No one else could have brought off this immense project with anything like Meyer's command."—Robert P. Morgan, Music Perception "Anyone who attempts to deal with Romanticism in scholarly depth must bring to the task not only musical and historical expertise but unquenchable optimism. Because Leonard B. Meyer has those qualities in abundance, he has been able to offer fresh insight into the Romantic concept."—Donal Henahan, New York Times
Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781440863776
Listen to Pop! discusses the evolution of pop music in America from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, and its enduring legacy. Listen to Pop!: Exploring a Musical Genre provides readers with an overview and a history of the pop music genre. The bulk of the book is devoted to analysis of 50 must-hear musical examples, which include artists, songs, and albums. Additionally, the book contains chapters that analyze the impact of pop music on American popular culture and the legacy of pop music, including how the music is used today in film and television soundtracks and in television commercials. The book deals with all of the various subgenres of pop music from the 1950s to the present. The selection of material discussed reflects the artists, songs, and albums topping the pop music charts of the period, and while the volume examines these items individually, it also discusses how our definition of pop music has evolved over the decades. This combination of detailed examination of specific songs, albums, and artists and discussion of background, legacy, and impact distinguishes it from other books on the subject and make it a vital reference and interesting read for all readers and music aficionados.
Author : Peter Tregear
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882638
Ernst Krenek has been described as a “one-man history of twentieth-century music.” His vast compositional output encompasses many of its extremes and expresses many of its contradictions. Few have attempted, however, to contextualize Krenek’s compositional output because our understanding of classical music in the first half of the twentieth century still largely remains focused on the music of a few canonical figures. Responding to renewed interest from performers in Krenek’s work, particularly his operas, Peter Tregear’s Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style addresses this gap in the scholarly literature and makes an important contribution to our comprehension of the ways in which his music reflected and informed broader social and political debates in Austria and Germany at the time. Focusing on Krenek’s compositional path from the eclectic musical language of Jonny spielt auf to the austere twelve-tone technique of Karl V, Tregear provides an historical and critical context to this most historically significant period of Krenek’s creative life. His study also enriches our understanding of many of Krenek’s contemporaries, such as Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. This book should interest students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in modern opera, and contemporary classical music as well as early-20th-century German history more generally.