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Three American Pieces (Sheet music): Aaron MINSKY Three American Pieces (Sheet music)
Aaron MINSKY; Edited by David Dalton
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for unaccompanied viola Transcribed for viola by David Dalton from Ten American Cello Etudes, these pieces are designed to encourage violists to improvise, play chords, use syncopation, and participate in popular musical forms.

In-Between Worlds - Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Hardcover): Sukanya Chakrabarti In-Between Worlds - Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Hardcover)
Sukanya Chakrabarti
R4,076 Discovery Miles 40 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the performance of Bauls, 'folk' performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer 'joy' and 'spirituality,' thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his famous 1942 speech had identified as 'reclamation of human personality'. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of 'folk' as a fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous historical representations of the Baul as a 'folk' performer and a wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that characterizes this group. Establishing 'folk-ness' as a performance category, and 'folk festivals' as sites of performing 'folk-ness,' contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality and multifocality. While this project has grounded itself firmly in performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature, ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.

Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing (Hardcover): Tatiana Chemi, Elvira Brattico, Lone Overby Fjorback, Laszlo... Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
Tatiana Chemi, Elvira Brattico, Lone Overby Fjorback, Laszlo Harmat
R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume explores the role of arts and meditation within educational settings, and looks in particular at the preventive and developmental function of the arts in educational contexts through different theoretical perspectives. Encompassing research from an array of disciplines including theatre, psychology, neuroscience, music, psychiatry, and mindfulness, the book draws insights relevant to a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary fields. Chapters are divided into thematic sections, each outlining praxes and emphasising how educating within and through the arts can provide tools for critical thinking, creativity and a sense of agency, consequently fulfilling the need of well-being and contributing towards human flourishing. Ultimately, the book focuses on the role the arts have played in our understanding of physical and mental health, and demonstrates the new-found significance of the discipline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With its interdisciplinary and timely nature, this book will be essential reading for scholars, academics, and post-graduate researchers in the field of arts education, creative therapies, neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness.

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ildar D. Khannanov, Roman Ruditsa Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ildar D. Khannanov, Roman Ruditsa
R6,502 Discovery Miles 65 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1. This Volume I of the Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 offers a smorgasbord of scientific approaches to music. The congress is one of a kind; it is dedicated not to a specific field but to the interdisciplinary developments and the interaction with the representatives from actual scientific disciplines. The languages of mathematics, computer science, semiotics, palaeography, and medicine are in the mix; geography of the studies is also impressive-Greece, Mexico, China, Russia, India, Poland, and USA, to name just a few. The purpose of such juxtaposition is to see how the terminology, categorical apparatus, and interpretations of music vary from science to science and how this can enrich the terminology of music theory. They cover a wide range of topics that the editors divided into four subfields: music in interdisciplinary contexts, music and current technology, musical instruments and voice, and music pedagogy and medicine. The opening section of the Proceedings is thus dedicated to the idea of interdisciplinarity, relationship of creator of theory of harmony Rameau to sciences of his time, the idea of number in music, co-creation, and the category of musical network. Three more chapters here deal with Russian palaeography, Indian musical genre, and the idea of musical semiotics. It is a kind of opening statement from music theorists. Part two, music and current technology, united three chapters, on "zero gravity" concept in modern music, discussion of scales as mathematical networks, and the innovation in digital music making, transforming it from stationary to mobile applications. The third part, musical instruments and voice, is of special interest because it is in the study of the instruments, the design, acoustic characteristics, and tuning, and sciences have cooperated with music theory for centuries. In addition to instruments, one chapter here is dedicated to voice. The last part, musical pedagogy and medicine, takes the reader even further into the interdisciplinary domain. The Proceedings is written in standard English language, prepared for the pleasure of reading of wide circles of professionals in different fields. The purpose of the editors is to bring this rather diverse set of texts into the context of a fruitful dialogue.

Left-Hand Guitar Chord Book (Paperback): William Bay Left-Hand Guitar Chord Book (Paperback)
William Bay
R289 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R20 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Contains chord forms for all of the most commonly used chords. Chords include major, minor, altered 7ths, diminished, augmented and many more. All forms are shown in picture and diagram form for the left-handed guitarist.

The Social Life of Sound (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Sophia Maalsen The Social Life of Sound (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Sophia Maalsen
R2,094 Discovery Miles 20 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Social Life of Sounds argues for the agency of sounds and music and the acceleration of their social lives in the Digital Age. Drawing upon research with composers, producers, record collectors, DJs and record labels, the book problematises the notion of artistic authorship as it is framed in Western systems of property. Acknowledging that 'things' - sounds, samples, and recorded music - and people are co-constituted and that personhood is distributed through things and their reuse, Maalsen makes a case for understanding sound as multibiographical and challenges the possessive individual that is the basis of artistic copyright.

Messiah (Oratorio, 1741) (Paperback): George Frideric Handel Messiah (Oratorio, 1741) (Paperback)
George Frideric Handel
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Two Elizabethan Lyrics (Sheet music): Robert A Harris Two Elizabethan Lyrics (Sheet music)
Robert A Harris
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and chamber orchestra or piano These two settings of the well-known texts by Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh are an excellent blend of old and new. The arrangement carries a madrigal feel, but includes lush harmonies with beautiful resolving dissonances. Two Elizabethan Lyrics are perfect for honors high school, college, and community choirs. Orchestral material is available on hire.

Audio Drama Modernism - The Missing Link between Descriptive Phonograph Sketches and Microphone Plays on the Radio (Hardcover,... Audio Drama Modernism - The Missing Link between Descriptive Phonograph Sketches and Microphone Plays on the Radio (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Tim Crook
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Audio Drama and Modernism traces the development of political and modernist sound drama during the first 40 years of the 20th Century. It demonstrates how pioneers in the phonograph age made significant, innovative contributions to sound fiction before, during, and after the Great War. In stunning detail, Tim Crook examines prominent British modernist radio writers and auteurs, revealing how they negotiated their agitational contemporaneity against the forces of Institutional containment and dramatic censorship. The book tells the story of key figures such as Russell Hunting, who after being jailed for making 'sound pornography' in the USA, travelled to Britain to pioneer sound comedy and montage in the pre-Radio age; Reginald Berkeley who wrote the first full-length anti-war play for the BBC in 1925; and D.G. Bridson, Olive Shapley and Joan Littlewood who all struggled to give a Marxist voice to the working classes on British radio.

Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (Paperback, New Ed): Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (Paperback, New Ed)
Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus
R1,703 Discovery Miles 17 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and cultural constructions of the meaning of disability.

Although there has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in musicology or music theory. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability.

Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.

The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New): Thomas S. Hischak The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New)
Thomas S. Hischak
R2,471 R2,245 Discovery Miles 22 450 Save R226 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first encyclopedia of theatre songs from Broadway shows ranging from The Black Crook (1866) to the 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion, this handy guide features over 1,800 songs from over 500 musicals. It gives such information as the songs' authors, original performers, and dates and history of recordings. Each song is described and briefly analyzed, explaining how the song fit in the original production and what is notable about its music, lyrics, and presentation. Thoroughly indexed by song title, show, authors, and performers. Of interest to scholars, students, and fans alike. The musical theatre song is conceived, written, and produced as part of a whole. While it may eventually stand on its own and join the ranks of popular hits, its immediate purpose is clear: it must "work" in the show. This book is about how hundreds of famous and not-so-famous songs have functioned in the American musical. In addition to identifying the authors and the source of the song, it hopes to explain the song: what kind of song it is, what it is about, what purpose it has in the show, as well as who originally sang it, what the song's history is, and what may be unique about this particular number. It is a book about songs as little pieces of playwriting for the musical theatre. The song entries are presented alphabetically, but the Musicals Listing at the end of the work includes all the songs discussed from a particular show.

Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France (Hardcover): Hedy Law Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France (Hardcover)
Hedy Law
R3,305 Discovery Miles 33 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression? This book explains the relationships between music, pantomime and freedom in pre-Revolutionary France. It argues that composers and performers recognized their agency when they attempted, from the 1730s through the end of the Old Regime, to revive a lost art called 'pantomime' for their compositions. In musical settings of pantomimes in French operas and instrumental works, leading composers of the time - Rameau, Rousseau, Gluck, and Salieri - used pantomime as a type of expressive dance and acting style that marked an aesthetic rupture between Louis XIV's absolutist governance and the Enlightenment ideals of free expression. In musical settings of pantomime, these composers cultivated various forms of freedom theorized in Enlightenment writings: artistic freedom for the composer; freedom as self-governance; interpretive freedom for spectators; freedom of action for performers; and freedom from dance convention. Thus, pantomime was not only a dance genre; it also functioned as an expressive medium for top performers and invited spectators to draw their own interpretative conclusions. Placing the cultural phenomenon of pantomime in the intellectual context of the Enlightenment, the book explains how composers helped develop thinking and feeling subjects in pre-Revolutionary France.

Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Francesco Finocchiaro Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Francesco Finocchiaro
R3,812 Discovery Miles 38 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist composers' exploration of cinema reached such a degree of pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic paradigm for the very process - of deliberate misinterpretation, creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of the Classic-Romantic tradition - which realized the "dream of Otherness" of the Modernist generation.

Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education - From Understanding to Application (Paperback, 2nd edition): Constance L.... Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education - From Understanding to Application (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Constance L. McKoy, Vicki R. Lind
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- One-stop resource explains culturally responsive teaching conceptually and offers practical ways to apply in the classroom - Specifically addresses culturally responsive teaching in music education context, with vivid first-person examples from music educators - Single-authored narrative makes this book clear and accessible for students

Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education - From Understanding to Application (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Constance L.... Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education - From Understanding to Application (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Constance L. McKoy, Vicki R. Lind
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- One-stop resource explains culturally responsive teaching conceptually and offers practical ways to apply in the classroom - Specifically addresses culturally responsive teaching in music education context, with vivid first-person examples from music educators - Single-authored narrative makes this book clear and accessible for students

Music and Mental Imagery (Hardcover): Graham Welch Music and Mental Imagery (Hardcover)
Graham Welch; Edited by Liila Taruffi; Series edited by Ian Cross, Adam Ockelford; Edited by Mats B. Kussner, …
R4,086 Discovery Miles 40 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the various types of mental imagery associated with music. The four main parts cover an introduction to the different types of mental imagery associated with music such as auditory/musical, visual, kinaesthetic, and multimodal mental imagery; a critical assessment of established and novel ways to measure mental imagery in various musical contexts; coverage of different states of consciousness, all of which are relevant for, and often associated with, mental imagery in music, and a critical overview of applications of mental imagery in health, educational, and performance settings. By both critically reviewing up-to-date scientific research and offering new empirical results, this book provides a unique overview of the different types and origins of mental imagery in musical contexts, various ways to measure them, and intriguing insights into related mental phenomena such as mind-wandering and synaesthesia. This will be of particular interest for scholars and researchers of music psychology and music education. It will also be useful for practitioners working with music in applied health and educational contexts.

Of a Rose, a lovely Rose (Sheet music, Vocal score): John Rutter Of a Rose, a lovely Rose (Sheet music, Vocal score)
John Rutter
R136 Discovery Miles 1 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work is suitable for SATB and piano or orchestra. This tranquil setting of a fifteenth-century English text is ideal as a stand-alone item. It is also the second movement of "Magnificat" and is scored in two versions: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, harp and strings; and Chamber version for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, harp, and strings (without cello and bass divisis). Scores and parts are available for hire.

Sinatra and Me - In the Wee Small Hours (Paperback): Tony Oppedisano, Mary Jane Ross Sinatra and Me - In the Wee Small Hours (Paperback)
Tony Oppedisano, Mary Jane Ross
R434 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra-from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life-features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about some of the most famous people of the past fifty years, including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. "If you are a Frank fan, buy this book" (Jimmy Kimmel). More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him-a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol that offers "new information on almost every page" (The Wall Street Journal). Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse-about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath. "Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer's inner circle" (Parade magazine)-Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain on a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.

Go down, Moses (Sheet music, Vocal score): Robert A Harris Go down, Moses (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Robert A Harris
R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for unaccompanied SATB chorus, with soprano and tenor soloists This setting of a popular spiritual is unique with its rich solos and their expressive ornaments. It makes for a very exciting piece and is ideal for a state music festival or concert.

Can You Count the Stars? (Sheet music, SATB version): Jonathan WILLCOCKS Can You Count the Stars? (Sheet music, SATB version)
Jonathan WILLCOCKS
R147 Discovery Miles 1 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and piano (or organ) A happy, fluent piece in popular vein.

A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover): Anthony McDonald A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
Anthony McDonald
R2,855 Discovery Miles 28 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed into law a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, the holiday was first formally observed by the federal government. In response to the growing number of musical celebrations surrounding the holiday, Anthony McDonald published in 1996 the first edition of The Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, more than a decade since its second edition in 1999, McDonald presents his definitive third edition of the catalog. McDonald organizes information on music suitable for concert performances by symphony orchestras, school music departments, church choirs, or solo performers, including works that celebrate not only Martin Luther King Day, but Black History Month as well. His selections comprise musical work written to honor King, as well as other Americans engaged in the struggle for equality and freedom such as Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and John F. Kennedy. McDonald also incorporates works that more broadly address African American history and culture, such as William Grant Still s Afro-American Symphony. This third edition contains a considerable number of revisions, updates, and new work and includes entirely new sections devoted to jazz and blues songs, sample programs of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concerts, and a discography, along with appendixes of works listed by orchestration, subject, and a list of publishers and sources. A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. is the ideal tool for symphony orchestras, choruses, music departments, and other performing groups and organizations seeking to present concerts that celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., his legacy, and African American history more broadly.

The Spain Book Bass Trombone N-1 - Madrid (Paperback): Jose Pardal Merza, Jose Lopez Perez, Pardal Music Company Ltd The Spain Book Bass Trombone N-1 - Madrid (Paperback)
Jose Pardal Merza, Jose Lopez Perez, Pardal Music Company Ltd
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Blues Lyric Formula (Paperback, New ed): Michael Taft The Blues Lyric Formula (Paperback, New ed)
Michael Taft
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form.

Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics.

This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures.

A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.

He that is down need fear no fall (Sheet music, SATB version): Ralph Vaughan Williams He that is down need fear no fall (Sheet music, SATB version)
Ralph Vaughan Williams; Arranged by Brian Judge
R136 Discovery Miles 1 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An anthem for soprano or baritone soloist, with SATB and an instrumental obbligato for flute, oboe, or organ.

Four Coronation Anthems (Sheet music, Violin 1): George Frideric Handel Four Coronation Anthems (Sheet music, Violin 1)
George Frideric Handel; Edited by Clifford Bartlett
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These four splendid anthems were composed for the coronation of George II in October 1727 and have since retained a position at the heart of the English choral tradition. The popular anthem Zadok the priest has been performed at all subsequent coronations, and Handel's other contributions to the royal occasion - Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice, and My heart is inditing - have the same majestic grandeur, with affecting contrasts between different sections of the sacred texts. The editor, Clifford Bartlett, has corrected various inconsistencies in Handel's score, and complete details of sources and editorial method, additional performance notes, and a critical commentary can be viewed in the companion full score available on hire.

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