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takes a retrospective look at the theories of media and mass
culture which were elaborated during Adorno's exile; a historical
approach is used to reconstruct the philosophical and sociological
origins of the texts that Adorno dedicated to these topics.
This volume of primary source material examines music and society
in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore religion,
politics, class, and gender. The collection of materials are
accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as
headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of
great value to students and scholars.
This volume of primary source material examine the thoughts and
ideas behind music in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources
explore music critics, listening to music, music education, and
philosophy. The collection of materials are accompanied by an
introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes
contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value
to students and scholars.
This volume of primary source material examines music and British
national identity during the ninteenth century. Sources explore the
reception of British music, continental and other foreign music,
English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish music, and Empire. The
collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by
Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces.
This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.
"Within the contents of this book, I wanted to include items from
my personal archive that have played a part in my career over 60
years, to illustrate the detail behind the detail." - Jimmy Page
From his early days as a young session musician, through his years
on the world stage with Led Zeppelin, to his solo work and
collaborations, Jimmy Page has lived a spectacular life in music.
Throughout it all, he has amassed an extensive private archive of
iconic guitars, stage costumes and personal memorabilia. Now, in
The Anthology, Jimmy Page is granting exclusive access to his
archive for the first time, and telling the inside story of his
phenomenal career. In a new text of over 70,000 words, Jimmy Page
guides the reader through hundreds of rare items, many of which are
previously unseen, and others of mythic status, such as the Gibson
double neck guitar, his dragon-emblazoned suit, his white
embroidered poppy suit, and the outfit worn in the concert film The
Song Remains the Same. Also included are handwritten diaries,
correspondence, rare vinyl pressings, previously unpublished
photographs and much, much more. Jimmy Page has personally selected
each piece to be photographed in this book, which has been created
with his full participation. The result is Jimmy Page: The
Anthology. Both reflective and revealing, it is quite simply the
legendary musician's most comprehensive and fascinating account of
his life to date.
Suitable for SS and piano, this carol is characterized by a simple
and effective melody. The voices are in unison for much of the
piece, dividing in the latter part to proclaim the marvel of
Christ's birth.
for soprano and piano Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by
the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim
Burden's memories of Antonia Shimerda during their shared
experiences of the pioneering period of European settlement on the
tall-grass prairie of the American Midwest.
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores
current challenges for music education in relation to wider
philosophical and political debates. Seeks to find a way forward
for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic
knowledge in the wake of postmodern critiques. Focusing on
secondary school music, and considering changes in approaches to
teaching over time, this book seeks to understand the forces at
play that enhance or undermine music's contribution to a socially
just curriculum for all. The author argues that the unique nature
of disciplinary-derived knowledge provides students with essential
cognitive development, and must be integrated with the turn to more
inclusive, student-centred, and culturally responsive teaching.
Connecting theoretical issues with concrete curriculum design, the
book considers how we can give music students the benefits of
specialized subject knowledge without returning to a traditional
past.
Granville Bantock's letters to the Scottish composer William
Wallace and the music critic Ernest Newman provide a fascinating
window into British music and musical life in the early twentieth
century and the 'dawn' of musical modernism. British music and
musical life before the Great War have been relatively neglected in
discussions of the idea of the 'modern' in the early twentieth
century. This collection of almost 300 letters, written by
Granville Bantock (1868-1946) to the Scottish composer William
Wallace (1860-1940) and the music critic Ernest Newman (1868-1959)
places Bantock and his circle at the heart of this debate. The
letters highlight Bantock's and Wallace's development of the modern
British symphonic poem, their contribution (with Newman) to music
criticism and journalism, and their attempts to promote a young
generation of British composers - revealing an early frustration
with the musical establishment. Confirming the impact of visits to
Britain by Richard Strauss and Sibelius, Bantock offers opinions on
a range of composers active around the turn of the twentieth
century, identifying Elgar and Delius as the future for English
music. Along with references to conductors, entertainers and
contemporary writers (Maeterlinck, Conrad), there are fascinating
details of the musical culture of London, Liverpool and Birmingham
- including programming strategies at the Tower, New Brighton, and
abortive plans to relaunch the New Quarterly Musical Review. Fully
annotated, the letters provide a fascinating window into British
music and musical life in the early twentieth century and the
'dawn' of musical modernism. MICHAEL ALLIS is Professor of
Musicology at the School of Music, University of Leeds.
for SATB and organ or piano This enchanting setting of a text by
Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith is a welcome addition to the carol
repertoire. With its endearing yet straightforward melody, it has
broad appeal and is suitable for choirs of all abilities.
Replete with interviews with key practitioners (both in the book
and online) will give up-to-date information on the techniques,
forms and concepts used by leading figures in contemporary Live
Visuals.
This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic
connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in
The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern
literature: Romain Rolland's Nobel Prize winning novel
Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce's modernist epic Ulysses
(1922), and Thomas Mann's late masterpiece Doctor Faustus (1947).
Juxtaposing Nietzsche's conception of the Apollonian and Dionysian
with narrative depictions of music and myth, Josh Torabi challenges
the common view that the latter half of The Birth of Tragedy is of
secondary importance to the first. Informed by a deep knowledge of
Nietzsche's early aesthetics, the book goes on to offer a fresh and
original perspective on Ulysses and Doctor Faustus, two
world-famous novels that are rarely discussed together, and makes
the case for the significance of Jean-Christophe, which has been
unfairly neglected in the Anglophone world, despite Rolland's
status as a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual and
literary history. This unique study reveals new depths to the work
of our most enduring writers and thinkers.
Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor
to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented
to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as
the basis for creating embodied mappings. The contributors to this
fascinating volume seek to draw conclusions about the constitution,
character and morphology of urban space as public, habitable and
sustainable by monitoring the reactions of the human body as a form
of urban sensor. This co-authored book is centrally concerned, as a
symptom of the degree to which cities are evolving in the 21st
century, to examine the effects of this change on the practices and
behaviours of urban dwellers. This takes into account such factors
as: defensible, retail and consumer space; legacies of modernist
design in the built environment; the effects of surveillance
technologies, motorised traffic and smart phone use; the
integration of 'wild' as well as 'domesticated' nature in urban
planning and living; and the effects of urban pollution on the
earth's climate. Drawing on three years of funded practical
research carried out by a multi-medial team of researchers and
artists, this book analyses the presence and movement of the human
body in urban space, which is essential reading for academics and
practitioners in the fields of dance, film, visual art, sound
technology, digital media and performance studies.
The Journey from Music Student to Teacher: A Professional Approach,
Second Edition helps prospective educators transition from music
student to professional music teacher. This textbook acknowledges
that students must first reconcile their assumptions about learning
and teaching before they can make thoughtful, informed decisions
about their own professional education. Building upon personal
experience is essential to an enhanced approach to the profession,
and the topics and activities presented here guide readers to think
not as students but as professionals, addressing the primary stages
of teacher development. In three parts-Discovery of Self, Discovery
of Teaching, and Discovery of Student Learning-the authors connect
readers to theoretical foundations and the processes of becoming an
insider to the profession. This updated Second Edition includes:
Integration of the 2014 National Core Arts Standards Discussion of
NAfMEs Model Cornerstone Assessments Explorations of issues of
equity, access, and inclusion for marginalized populations and new
examples of culturally responsive pedagogy Added coverage of
innovative practices including popular music, technology for
autonomous music-making, songwriting, and composition Streamlined
discussion of learning theory, focusing on the basic foundations of
behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism The accompanying
companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/raiber provides revised
and updated "Connecting to the Profession" features that help
enhance students' understanding of the ideas presented in the text,
links to videos of K-12 music teaching and interviews with
teachers, and additional resources for instructors. Featuring
networking activities to aid in self-reflection, a glossary of
terms, and a wealth of online resources and tools, The Journey from
Music Student to Teacher is the culmination of more than 25 years
of experience in secondary music classrooms, providing a framework
for establishing professional role identity among preservice music
educators during their introduction to the field.
Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough, or
factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key
texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to
explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the
journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to
the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect
of industrialisation. The first part of the book discusses how
widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial
manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how
musical silence reigned with industrialisation, until the carefully
controlled introduction of Music While You Work in the 1940s.
Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labour
explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on
the radio in desperate and creative ways.
This collection of essays delves into the historiographical
traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar
avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of
that history writing from new perspectives. The contributors
revisit subjects as varied as the impact of long-playing records on
the emergence of open works, Messiaen’s interest in non-European
musical traditions, Xenakis’s turn to information theory,
Kagel’s strategic invention of a new genre, Berio’s dependence
on funding from American foundations, and the ways in which figures
like Boulez, Stockhausen, Pousseur, and Nono constructed their
musical ancestries. Leading experts in their respective fields, the
volume’s authors have sought to rethink the historiography of
European experimental music of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s in ways
that resituate that small but influential milieu in broader
historical and cultural contexts. In doing so, they suggest new
directions and insights for students and specialists of
twentieth-century music and music historiography.
This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment
of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin
professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative
to enable the potential of professional musicians in our
contemporary societies to be more fully realised, recognising both
intense challenges that are currently threatening some traditional
music practices, and significant scope for new practices to be
imagined in response to deep veins of societal need.
Professionalism encompasses the conduct, aims, values,
responsibilities and ongoing development of a practising
professional in the field. Professional higher music education
engages both with providing future professionals with relevant
education in particular craft skills, and with nurturing their
visions for their work as artists in future societies. The major
focus of the book is on performance traditions that have dominated
professional higher education, notably western classical music.
Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political
changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays
offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events
of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam
War, the May riots in France and the assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. From underground folk music in Japan to antiauthoritarian
music in Scandinavia and Germany, Music and Protest in 1968
explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent not
just in the US and the UK but in Asia, North and South America,
Europe and Africa. Contributors extend the understanding of musical
protest far beyond a narrow view of the 'protest song' to explore
how politics and social protest played out in many genres,
including experimental and avant-garde music, free jazz, rock,
popular song, and film and theatre music.
Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of
detailed fieldwork, Mans's book is about musical worlds and how we
as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of
our musical worlds can be a transformative educational tool that
could have a significant role to play in multicultural music and
arts education. She explores the way in which musical expression,
with its myriad cultural variations, reveals much about identity
and cultural norms, and shows how particular musical sounds are
aesthetically related to these norms. The author goes further to
suggest that similar systems can be detected across cultures, while
each world remains colored by a distinctive soundscape.
Mans also looks at the way each cultural soundscape is a
symbolic manifestation of a society's collective cognition, sorting
musical behavior and sounds into clusters and patterns that fulfill
each society's requirements. She probes the fact that in today's
globalized and mobile world, as people move from one society to
another, cross-cultural acts and hybrids result in a number of new
aesthetics.
Finally, in addition to three personal narratives by musicians
from different continents, the author has invited scholars from
diverse specializations and locations to comment on different
sections of the book, opening up a critical dialogue with voices
from different parts of the globe. Musical categorization,
identity, values, aesthetic evaluation, creativity, curriculum,
assessment and teacher education are some of the issues tackled in
this manner.
A hymn arrangement for SATB unaccompanied. This is the second of
five hymns from The Sacred Harp.
for SATB and piano This short, light-hearted setting of a Julie
Kane text is suitable for school or youth choirs, its homophonic
texture and fun words making it easy to learn.
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