Search results for “[Subject: genres-styles-musicals]”

• Author(s): Grosvenor Cooper • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & TraditionalIn this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a ...

• Author(s): David J. Levin • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaWhat happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethough...

• Author(s): Fabian Holt • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralThe popularity of the motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? brought an ext...

• Author(s): Gilles de Van | Gilda Roberts • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaIn this innovative study, Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect ...

• Author(s): Bruno Nettl | Melinda Russell • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - CompositionIn the Course of Performance is the first book in decades to illust...

• Author(s): Laura Vasilyeva • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaThe first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera an...

• Author(s): Bruno Nettl • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - CompositionIn the Course of Performance is the first book in decades to illustrate and explain t...

• Author(s): Anselm Gerhard | Mary Whittall • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaAnselm Gerhard explores the origins of grand op�ra, arguing that its aesthet...

• Author(s): Leonard B. Meyer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralLeonard B. Meyer's writings on the theory, history, perception, and aesthetics of mu...

• Author(s): John M. Chernoff • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - General"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical...

• Author(s): Margaret J. Kartomi • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - GeneralKartomi first moves through a culture-specific inspection of several societies in Eur...

• Author(s): Philip Gossett • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaWinner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007...

• Author(s): Sydney Hutchinson • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyTigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional ...

• Author(s): László Somfai • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano & KeyboardInterest in the authentic performance of early music has grown dramatically in...

• Author(s): Adam Kielman • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyA fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolita...

• Author(s): Rebecca Cypess • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralA study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the sa...

• Author(s): Christopher Hatch • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryIn recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from ...

• Author(s): Ronald M. Radano • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Ethnomusicology"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Phil...

• Author(s): Christopher Morris • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaAn ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace...

• Author(s): John Blacking | Reginald Byron • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyOne of the most important ethnomusicologists of the century, John Blacking achieved inte...

• Author(s): F. Alberto Gallo | Anna Herklotz • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - InternationalWritten by one of Italy's most eminent scholars of music, this boo...

• Author(s): Leslie A. Tilley • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyMost studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. ...

• Author(s): John Spitzer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ClassicalStudies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large...

• Author(s): Eric Weisbard • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalIf you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find...

• Author(s): Nathan Hesselink • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyIn 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the...

• Author(s): Gary Tomlinson • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: GeneralMagic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium an...

• Author(s): Peter Jeffery • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - InternationalStudying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most im...

• Author(s): Morgan James Luker • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyIn Argentina, tango isn't just the national music--it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary A...

• Author(s): Anthony M. Cummings • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - InternationalA comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until th...

• Author(s): Celia Applegate | Pamela M. Potter • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyIs it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music--Bach, Beethoven, ...

• Author(s): Meredith Schweig • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip HopA close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way ...

• Author(s): Matthew Collin • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ElectronicPeace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechni...

• Author(s): Paul Steinbeck • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzA groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of ...

• Author(s): Thomas Hodgson • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyAn empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions ab...

• Author(s): Philip Gossett • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaWinner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007...

• Author(s): William Russo • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - SongwritingAimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composit...