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History of English Music - Cambridge Library Collection - Music (Book): Henry Davey History of English Music - Cambridge Library Collection - Music (Book)
Henry Davey
R1,390 Discovery Miles 13 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The British musicologist Henry Davey (1853 1929) was a noted scholar of the manuscript sources of Tudor music. He published the first edition of History of English Music in 1895 with the aim of providing his fellow-musicians with the first clear scholarly account of the full range of English musical achievements. His main focus is the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which he considered the heyday of English music, and he claims that the earliest known free instrumental compositions, as well as the polyphonic style, originated in England during the fifteenth century. In Davey's view, these controversial findings were his most important contribution to general musical knowledge. His work was widely discussed in his own time, attracting both praise and aggressive criticism, and continues to be read with great critical interest today, not least because of its parallels with the socialist utopianism of Ruskin and Morris.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book): George Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book)
George Grove
R1,616 Discovery Miles 16 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reissue of the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which has since evolved to become the largest and most authoritative work of its kind in English. The project grew in the making: the title page of Volume 1 (1879) refers to 'two volumes', but by the time Volume 4 appeared in 1889 there was also a 300-page appendix and a separate index volume. The dictionary was an international undertaking, with contributors from Paris, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna and Boston alongside those based in Britain. It was 'intended to supply a great and long acknowledged want' arising from the increased interest in all aspects of music, which was 'rapidly becoming an essential branch of education', and to cater for the professional while being accessible to the amateur. It is a fascinating document of musical tastes and values in the late Victorian period.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book): George Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book)
George Grove
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reissue of the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which has since evolved to become the largest and most authoritative work of its kind in English. The project grew in the making: the title page of Volume 1 (1879) refers to 'two volumes', but by the time Volume 4 appeared in 1889 there was also a 300-page appendix and a separate index volume. The dictionary was an international undertaking, with contributors from Paris, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna and Boston alongside those based in Britain. It was 'intended to supply a great and long acknowledged want' arising from the increased interest in all aspects of music, which was 'rapidly becoming an essential branch of education', and to cater for the professional while being accessible to the amateur. It is a fascinating document of musical tastes and values in the late Victorian period.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book): George Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book)
George Grove
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reissue of the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which has since evolved to become the largest and most authoritative work of its kind in English. The project grew in the making: the title page of Volume 1 (1879) refers to 'two volumes', but by the time Volume 4 appeared in 1889 there was also a 300-page appendix and a separate index volume. The dictionary was an international undertaking, with contributors from Paris, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna and Boston alongside those based in Britain. It was 'intended to supply a great and long acknowledged want' arising from the increased interest in all aspects of music, which was 'rapidly becoming an essential branch of education', and to cater for the professional while being accessible to the amateur. It is a fascinating document of musical tastes and values in the late Victorian period.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book): George Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book)
George Grove
R1,448 Discovery Miles 14 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reissue of the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which has since evolved to become the largest and most authoritative work of its kind in English. The project grew in the making: the title page of Volume 1 (1879) refers to 'two volumes', but by the time Volume 4 appeared in 1889 there was also a 300-page appendix and a separate index volume. The dictionary was an international undertaking, with contributors from Paris, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna and Boston alongside those based in Britain. It was 'intended to supply a great and long acknowledged want' arising from the increased interest in all aspects of music, which was 'rapidly becoming an essential branch of education', and to cater for the professional while being accessible to the amateur. It is a fascinating document of musical tastes and values in the late Victorian period.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book): George Grove A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - By Eminent Writers, English and Foreign (Book)
George Grove
R1,217 Discovery Miles 12 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reissue of the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which has since evolved to become the largest and most authoritative work of its kind in English. The project grew in the making: the title page of Volume 1 (1879) refers to 'two volumes', but by the time Volume 4 appeared in 1889 there was also a 300-page appendix and a separate index volume. The dictionary was an international undertaking, with contributors from Paris, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna and Boston alongside those based in Britain. It was 'intended to supply a great and long acknowledged want' arising from the increased interest in all aspects of music, which was 'rapidly becoming an essential branch of education', and to cater for the professional while being accessible to the amateur. It is a fascinating document of musical tastes and values in the late Victorian period.

Deep Peace (Sheet music, SA vocal score): Andrew Carter Deep Peace (Sheet music, SA vocal score)
Andrew Carter
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for SA unaccompanied, this work contains a short and easy canonic setting.

The Lark in the Clear Air (Sheet music, Vocal score): Andrew Carter The Lark in the Clear Air (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Andrew Carter
R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for flute or solo soprano and SATB. The lark is depicted either by a solo soprano, as originally written, or by a flute.

The Witches' Trio (Sheet music, Vocal score): Libby Larsen The Witches' Trio (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Libby Larsen
R147 Discovery Miles 1 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Set for SSAA unaccompanied, this piece is Larsen's take on the famous witches' incantation, 'Double, double, toil and trouble, ' from Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features lurid word-painting and rhythmic tricks

Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance - Anthropologies of Sound and Movement (Paperback): Evangelos Chrysagis, Panas... Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance - Anthropologies of Sound and Movement (Paperback)
Evangelos Chrysagis, Panas Karampampas
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. Highlighting the sheer physicality of the ethnographic encounter, as well as the forms of sociality that gradually emerge between self and other, each contribution demonstrates how dance and music open up pathways and give shape to life trajectories that are neither predetermined nor teleological, but generative.

The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education (Paperback): Ruth Wright, Geir Johansen, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos,... The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education (Paperback)
Ruth Wright, Geir Johansen, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Patrick Schmidt
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education is a comprehensive, authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current research in the field. The opening introduction orients the reader to the field, highlights recent developments, and draws together concepts and research methods to be covered. The chapters that follow are written by respected, experienced experts on key issues in their area of specialisation. From separate beginnings in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century, the field of the sociology of music education has and continues to experience rapid and global development. It could be argued that this Handbook marks its coming of age. The Handbook is dedicated to the exclusive and explicit application of sociological constructs and theories to issues such as globalisation, immigration, post-colonialism, inter-generational musicking, socialisation, inclusion, exclusion, hegemony, symbolic violence, and popular culture. Contexts range from formal compulsory schooling to non-formal communal environments to informal music making and listening. The Handbook is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals, but will also be a useful text for undergraduate students in music, education, and cultural studies.

Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism - From State Control to Free Market (Paperback):... Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism - From State Control to Free Market (Paperback)
Pauline Fairclough; Edited by Patryk Galuszka
R1,296 Discovery Miles 12 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the 'communist music industries' - such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines how these processes have all affected the music scene, industries, and markets in various Eastern European countries.

Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies (Paperback): Antoine Hennion, Christophe Levaux Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies (Paperback)
Antoine Hennion, Christophe Levaux
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies draws together a wide range of both leading and emerging scholars to offer a critical survey of STS applications to music studies, considering topics ranging from classical music instrument-making to the ethos of DIY in punk music. The book's four sections focus on key areas of music study that are impacted by STS: organology, sound studies, music history, and epistemology. Raising crucial methodological and epistemological questions about the study of music, this book will be relevant to scholars studying the interactions between music, culture, and technology from many disciplinary perspectives.

Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures - Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis (Paperback): Antonio Cascelli, Denis Condon Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures - Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis (Paperback)
Antonio Cascelli, Denis Condon
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms and music. The chapters are organized around three core concepts - threshold, intermediality, and synchresis - which offer ways of understanding and discusssing the interplay between the arts of sounds and images. Refuting the idea that music and visual art forms only operate in parallel, the contributors instead consider how the arts of sound and vision are entwined across a wide array of materials, genres and time periods. Contributors delve into a rich variety of topics, ranging from the art of Renaissance Italy to the politics of opera in contemporary Los Angeles to the popular television series Breaking Bad. Placing these chapters in conversation, this volume develops a shared language for cross-disciplinary inquiry into arts that blend music and visual components, integrates insights from film studies with the conversation between musicology and art history, and moves the study of music and visual culture forward.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts (Paperback): Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts (Paperback)
Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of scholars, are accessible for students and researchers alike. The volume is organized into four main sections: I Art and Improvisation: Theoretical Perspectives II Art and Improvisation: Aesthetical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives III Improvisation in Musical Practices IV Improvisation in the Visual, Narrative, Dramatic, and Interactive Arts Key Features: Treats improvisation not only as a stylistic feature, but also as an aesthetic property of artworks and performances as well as a core element of artistic creativity. Spells out multiple aspects of the concept of improvisation, emphasizing its relevance in understanding the nature of art. Covers improvisation in a wide spectrum of artistic domains, including unexpected ones such as literature, visual arts, games, and cooking. Addresses key questions, such as: - How can improvisation be defined and what is its role in different art forms? - Can improvisation be perceived as such, and how can it be aesthetically evaluated? - What is the relationship between improvisation and notions such as action, composition, expressivity, and authenticity? - What is the ethical and political significance of improvisation?

The Lord's Prayer (Sheet music, Vocal score): William Mathias The Lord's Prayer (Sheet music, Vocal score)
William Mathias
R136 Discovery Miles 1 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Suitable for SATB and organ or piano duet.

Edward J Dent - Selected Essays (Book): Edward J. Dent Edward J Dent - Selected Essays (Book)
Edward J. Dent; Edited by Hugh Taylor
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During his long career, Edward Dent wrote on a variety of musical subjects, ranging from substantial articles in the most learned journals to less weighty pieces in Radio Times. This volume aims to reflect that variety. Some of the articles are now of primarily historical interest, others offer insights of a fundamental kind; all are informed by Dent's witty and distinctive prose style. In editing this collection, Hugh Taylor has drawn on writings from 1903 to 1951 and included two pieces originally written in Italian and published here in English for the first time. As well as providing footnotes, which amplify certain of Dent's statements and draw attention to subsequent research, Mr Taylor has listed sources for Dent's many textual references and quotations. Brought together in this way Dent's learned but always readable criticism will appeal to the reader with a general interest in music as well as to the music student and specialist.

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality (Hardcover): Martha Mockus Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality (Hardcover)
Martha Mockus
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental music. While other scholars have studied Oliveros as a disciple of John Cage and a contemporary of composers Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Gordon Mumma, and Robert Ashley, Sounding Out resituates Pauline Oliveros in a gynecentric network of feminist activists, writers, artists and musicians. This book shows how the women in Oliveros??'s life were central sources of creative energy and exchange during a crucial moment in feminist and queer cultural history. Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros??'s work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory.

Sounding Out combines key elements of feminist theories of lesbian sexuality with Oliveros??'s major compositions, performances, critical essays, and interviews. It also includes previously unpublished correspondence between Oliveros and Edith Guttierez, Jill Johnston, Annea Lockwood, Kate Millett, and Jane Rule.

Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for solo baritone and SATB unaccompanied This setting perfectly captures the essential simplicity of this Christmas spiritual, with a wordless chorus backing a solo baritone. Also available in 100 Carols for Choirs.

Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Andrew C. Wenaus Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Andrew C. Wenaus
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel's content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt's ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.

Music Production Cultures - Perspectives on Popular Music Pedagogy in Higher Education (Hardcover): Brendan Anthony Music Production Cultures - Perspectives on Popular Music Pedagogy in Higher Education (Hardcover)
Brendan Anthony
R4,086 Discovery Miles 40 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides cutting-edge research in the growing areas of Audio Education and Popular Music Pedagogy Offers an ideal blend of theory and practice as well as acknowledging the practical elements of music production pedagogy A variety of international viewpoints are included, making it accessible to educators in the US, UK, Australia and beyond

Music in Star Trek - Sound, Utopia, and the Future (Hardcover): Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Evan Ware Music in Star Trek - Sound, Utopia, and the Future (Hardcover)
Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Evan Ware
R4,088 Discovery Miles 40 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series. The chapters in this edited collection consider how the aural, visual, and narrative components of Star Trek combine as it constructs and deconstructs the utopian and dystopian, shedding new light on the series' political, cultural, and aesthetic impact. Considering how the music of Star Trek defines and interprets religion, ideology, artificial intelligence, and more, while also considering fan interactions with the show's audio, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, science fiction, and popular culture.

Music in Star Trek - Sound, Utopia, and the Future (Paperback): Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Evan Ware Music in Star Trek - Sound, Utopia, and the Future (Paperback)
Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Evan Ware
R1,423 Discovery Miles 14 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series. The chapters in this edited collection consider how the aural, visual, and narrative components of Star Trek combine as it constructs and deconstructs the utopian and dystopian, shedding new light on the series' political, cultural, and aesthetic impact. Considering how the music of Star Trek defines and interprets religion, ideology, artificial intelligence, and more, while also considering fan interactions with the show's audio, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, science fiction, and popular culture.

Peer Mentoring in Music Education - Developing Effective Student Leadership (Hardcover): Andrew Goodrich Peer Mentoring in Music Education - Developing Effective Student Leadership (Hardcover)
Andrew Goodrich
R4,075 Discovery Miles 40 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explains peer mentoring in the context of music teaching, showing the benefits of this technique and how to apply it in a music-specific context. Draws on real-life case studies to demonstrate applications of peer mentoring in practice. Shows how peer mentoring can be used to support diversity, equity, inclusion and access in the music context.

Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Hardcover): Peter Cheyne Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Peter Cheyne
R4,099 Discovery Miles 40 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Uniquely bridges the aesthetics of imperfection with areas of philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. Divided into seven thematic sections to offer a comprehensive study of how imperfectionist aesthetics connect to art and everyday life. As an interdisciplinary study, this book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced students working in philosophical aesthetics, cultural studies, and across the humanities.

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