Author: Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: music, performance, troubadours, scholarship
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-07-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253213894
ISBN-13: 9780253213891
"[I]nvaluable for musicologists and troubadour scholars interested in knowing about the ’whole song’, and it also provides an excellent introduction to troubadour music for the historian, philologist or, indeed, anyone with a passing interest." -- David Cashman, Parergon "It is a down-to-earth treatment of the discernible facts, ordered according to the type of evidence that survives. It is a book to sober up the discipline." -- Daniel Leech-Wilkinson,Times Literary Supplement"[A]
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Publisher: A-R Editio
Keywords: music, researches, renaissance, recent, lumley, church, tudor, books
Published: 1985-06-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0895791471
ISBN-13: 9780895791474
Author: Jamie Jame
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: music, universe, order, science, spheres, natural
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-04-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0387944745
ISBN-13: 9780387944746
For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes that formed chordes and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) that composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if
Author: Albert Glinsky
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: music, life, american, espionage, theremin, ether
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-09-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0252025822
ISBN-13: 9780252025822
Author: Dan Daley
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: music, country, business, rules, unwritten, machine, nashville
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0879517700
ISBN-13: 9780879517700
Doing for country music what Hit Men did for pop music, this daring book reveals the inner workings of the city that is synonymous with country music--Nashville. This insider’s guide explores all the parts of this byzantine system and its group of tightly knit power players: the producers, writers, artists, publishers, session musicians, studios, labels, and the promotion machine, as well as the deep roots and the promising future of country music and its role in today’s culture. 16 photos.
Author: Maxwell Steer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: music, part, review, parts, mysticism, contemporary
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 371865931X
ISBN-13: 9783718659319
This transcultural collection of articles attempts to open the way for musicians to rediscover a tradition of wisdom and imagination which has always existed as an element of the psyche.
Author: Jane W. Davidson
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: music, listener, teacher, research, practitioner, performer
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754604659
ISBN-13: 9780754604655
This is the first book to provide a wide assessment of what ptactical benefits this research can bring to the music practitioner. With 25 chapters be writers representing a broad range of perspectives, this volume is able to highlight many of the potential links between music reserach and practice.
