Mozart The Early Years 1756-1781

Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician

Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music

Punk Crisis The Global Punk Rock Revolution

The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio-This book encourages eighteenth-century ways of listening to J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. It explores the concept of musical style suggests ways to listen to works created by the re-use of music for new words and shows how modern performances are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century.

Through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires performance practices and theories Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm responds to the critical need for developing richer ways of describing rhythm in all its complexity. Focusing on tensions between the general and the culturally specific the book considers musics from Africa and Asia as well as jazz popular music and new music of the late 20th century.

The Classical Guitar Companion is a uniquely anthology that encourages students and teachers to create custom curricula for guitar study based on their own strengths and weaknesses.

Nearly a half century after her death Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field situates Jackson's journey from church singer in New Orleans and Chicago to national pop-cultural celebrity within the expanding visibility of black gospel in the U.S. during the decade following World War II.

Rethinking Prokofiev looks at the background context and musical mechanics of Sergei Prokofiev's work revealing much of what makes this composer an idiosyncratic genius and his music intriguing often dramatic and almost always beguiling.

First volume to explore the relationship between music and the creation of public in India in the twentieth century Looks at the intersection of culture and society Focues on folk classical and popular music Covers various regions and forms of music in India: Hindustani Carnatic and Film

Boldly asserting that everyone can and should improvise The Art of Becoming sets out a framework for understanding improvisation as a universal capability and a social behavior with important implications for contemporary artistic practices pedagogy and music therapy.

In The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau the second edition of his authoritative 1992 volume Albert R. Rice presents new and valuable research about the Baroque clarinet and the earlier related chalumeau including analysis of recently-discovered early instruments and historical scores.

Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz uncovers Latin jazz's rich intercultural heritage exploring its Caribbean and Latin American musical roots its ability to transcend genre boundaries and its inseparability from issues of ethnicity and nation.

Of Technology and Music Education-The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education situates technology in relation to music education from perspectives: historical philosophical socio-cultural pedagogical musical economic and policy.Chapters from a diverse group of authors provide analyses of technology and music education through intersections of gender theoretical perspective geographical distribution and relationship to the field.

Learning from the Theorists- The book enables the performer to better understand this music and advance their technical and expressive abilities outlining several major areas of knowledge and skill needed to perform the music of the Renaissance.

The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600- Provides a profound new understanding of how Renaissance composers understood their art.

Experiencing Music Expressing Culture- Designed for undergraduates with little or no background in world music Music in Bulgaria is one of several volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically the main book in the Global Music Series in any introductory world music or ethnomusicology course. Music in Bulgaria provides an overview of the cultural historical and political meaning of traditional Bulgarian music. It begins by exploring how Bulgaria's rural traditions affect the expression and interpretation of its music and goes on to examine how the country's social political and economic histories have influenced its music over manydecades. The book also shows how the musical traditions of Bulgaria have been preserved despite the social changes brought about by the post-WWII era of industrialization and urbanization. It analyzes how Bulgarian music has spread throughout other cultures and how it has made its mark on new forms of popular music. Music in Bulgaria features eyewitness accounts of local performances interviews with performers and numerous listening examples. It is packaged with a 70-minute CD that includes examples of the music discussed in the text.

A Catalogue with Introduction Paperback- An exhaustive catalogue examining this celebrated set of eight part-books (1670-1695) from both bibliographical and musical standpoints. Includes a systematic catalogue.

as Narrative of National Martyrdom- Chopin's Second Ballade Op. 38 is frequently performed and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood—disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade is a reexamination and close analysis of this famous work revealing the Ballade as a piece with a powerful political story to tell. Through the general musical styles and specific references in the Ballade which use both operatic strategies and approaches developed in programmatic piano pieces for amateurs author Jonathan Bellman traces aclear narrative thread to contemporary French operas. His careful historical exegesis of previously ignored musical and cultural contexts brings to light a host of new insights about this remarkable piece which as Bellman shows reflects the cultural preoccupations of the Polish émigrés in mid-1830s Paris pining with bitter nostalgia for a homeland now under Russian domination. This vital connection to the extramusical culture of its day forms the basis for a plausible relationship with the nationalistic poetry of Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade also solves the long-standing conundrum of the two extant versions of the Ballade making an important point about the flexible notion of 'work' that Chopin embraced.

The Notion of the Work in Dance