Century Of Song

Author : Ralf von Appen,André Doehring,Allan F. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317052692

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Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music by Ralf von Appen,André Doehring,Allan F. Moore Pdf

Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage and are given priority. The authors analyse and interpret them intensively from a variety of theoretical positions that illuminate the song. Thus, methods and theories have to prove their use value in the face of a heterogeneous, contemporary repertoire. The book brings together researchers from very different cultural backgrounds and encourages them to compare their different hearings and to discuss the ways in which they make sense of specific songs. All songs analysed are from the new millennium, most of them not older than three years. Because the most widely popular styles are too often ignored by academics, this book aims to shed light on how million sellers work musically. Therefore, it encompasses a broad palette, highlighting mainstream pop (Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Lucenzo, Amy McDonald), but also accounting for critically acclaimed ’indie’ styles (Fleet Foxes, Death Cab for Cutie, PJ Harvey), R&B (Destiny’s Child, Janelle Monae), popular hard rock (Kings of Leon, Rammstein), and current electronic music (Andrés, Björk). By concentrating on 13 well-known songs, this book offers some model analyses that can very easily be studied at home or used in seminars and classrooms for students of popular music at all academic levels.

Author : Gordon Sly,Michael R. Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000219760

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Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles by Gordon Sly,Michael R. Callahan Pdf

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Author : Julie Henigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320685

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Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song by Julie Henigan Pdf

Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.

Author : Barbara Meister
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253211751

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Nineteenth-Century French Song by Barbara Meister Pdf

"Song by song, this comprehensive study addresses each composer's complete works for solo voice and piano. When necessary, errors in popular published editions are pointed out and corrected. For each song, the full French text is given, followed by Barbara Meister's translation."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : E. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230308657

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Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England by E. Clarke Pdf

The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women.

Author : James Grande,Brian H. Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501376399

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Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Grande,Brian H. Murray Pdf

This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to opera, from parlour song to pantomime, and from hymn to broadside, nineteenth-century Britons continually encountered elements of the biblical past in song. Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology. This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history.

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226767710

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.

Author : Anthony J. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351752480

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German Secular Song-books of the Mid-seventeenth Century: An Examination of the Texts in Collections of Songs Published in the German-language Area Between 1624 and 1660 by Anthony J. Harper Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. The secular song of the 17th century represents a relatively neglected area of German culture. In this book, Anthony J. Harper first studies the songs of the two great models of the time, Martin Opitz and Paul Fleming, following this with an analysis of the song-books and collections from three regions: the North-East, Central Germany, and the North. The procedure is thus both historical and geographical. The texts of these songs are examined in relation to structural principles, thematic range and stylistic treatment. Harper establishes common features and regional variations of this genre, which involves love-poetry, songs of manners with colourful portrayals of everyday life, and comic songs in a lower stylistic register. Particular attention is paid to the work of Albert and Dach in Konigsberg, Finckelthaus, Schirmer, Krieger and Schoch in Leipzig and Dresden, and Rist, Voigtlander, Zesen, Greflinger and Stieler in the Hamburg region. Where appropriate, the book assesses the role of musical settings, while not seeking to offer technical insights into musical matters. Of value to scholars of German literature, this study should also be of interest to musicologists working on the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Author : Hal Leonard Corporation
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 1617741655

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Broadway Beat by Hal Leonard Corporation Pdf

(Music Express Books). Do you hear that beat? It's the sound of people entering the theater on the most famous street in the world. It's the sound of dancing feet and orchestras tuning up. It's the sound dreams are made of. It's the sound of Broadway! Celebrate musical theatre with hits from Hairspray , The Music Man , The King and I , Wicked , Rent and Grease , and a medley of favorites from George M. Cohan! This unique musical collection for upper elementary and middle school students features seven kid-friendly arrangements for unison voices, piano accompaniments, and fun facts about Broadway by John Jacobson. Extend learning further with a Broadway timeline, board game, and recorded history with music excerpts spanning over a century of song and dance. It's the beat of Broadway and nobody can stop it! Available separately: Teacher Edition, Singer Edition 20-Pak (full color), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (teacher, Singer 20-Pak, P/A CD). Duration: ca. 25 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

Author : Paul Watt,Derek B. Scott,Patrick Spedding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107159914

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Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century by Paul Watt,Derek B. Scott,Patrick Spedding Pdf

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

Author : Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813938011

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Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Elizabeth K. Helsinger Pdf

In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song. Looking in particular at individual poets and poems, Helsinger puts extensive close readings into productive conversation with nineteenth-century German philosophic and British scientific aesthetics. While she considers poets long described as "musical"—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Emily Brontë, and Algernon Charles Swinburne—Helsinger also examines the more surprising importance of song for those poets who rethought poetry through the medium of visual art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti. In imitating song’s forms and sound textures through lyric’s rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, these poets were pursuing song’s "thought" in a double sense. They not only asked readers to think of particular kinds of song as musical sound in social performance (ballads, national airs, political songs, plainchant) but also invited readers to think like song: to listen to the sounds of a poem as it moves minds in a different way from philosophy or science. By attending to the formal practices of these poets, the music to which the poets were listening, and the stories and myths out of which each forged a poetics that aspired to the condition of music, Helsinger suggests new ways to think about the nature and form of the lyric in the nineteenth century.

Author : Tish Oney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538128480

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Peggy Lee by Tish Oney Pdf

A June 2020 Library Journal Starred Review Lee stood out among her peers as an exquisite singer possessing a cool vocal style, a songwriter frequently collaborating with leading composers of American jazz and film music, and a globally-loved entertainer with star quality. Tish Oney sheds new light upon this Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner’s impressive musical talents while guiding the reader through the best of Lee’s fifty-plus albums, radio and TV performances, creative contributions to the film industry, and over half a century of finely-polished live performances. Oney focuses on the evolution of Peggy Lee’s recorded music, vocal development, artistic achievements, and contributions to American music while interviews with Lee’s family, friends, and music colleagues reveal new insights and memories of this musical icon. Peggy Lee enables readers to discover a brilliant artist’s inimitable legacy in the history of American popular music.

Author : George Kunkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015088979425

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Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother by George Kunkel Pdf

Author : John Greenway
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781512816426

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American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Suzanne LaVere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004313842

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Out of the Cloister: Scholastic Exegesis of the Song of Songs, 1100-1250 by Suzanne LaVere Pdf

In Out of the Cloister, Suzanne LaVere uncovers a particular strain of interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs in and around 12th and 13th-century Paris that champions an active life of preaching and reform for the secular clergy.