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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.

Trinity College London Rock & Pop 2018 Drums Grade 3 (Sheet music): Trinity College London Rock & Pop 2018 Drums Grade 3 (Sheet music)
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music 109 (Paperback): Alvin Lucier Music 109 (Paperback)
Alvin Lucier; Contributions by Robert Ashley
R499 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Composer and peformer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.

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.

Stories to Tell - A Memoir (Paperback): Richard Marx Stories to Tell - A Memoir (Paperback)
Richard Marx
R437 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

National Bestseller Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career. Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular music. His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist (and second solo artist overall after Whitney Houston) to have four singles from their debut crack the top three on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up, 1989’s Repeat Offender, was an even bigger smash, going quadruple platinum and landing two singles at number one. He has written fourteen number one songs in total, shared a Song of the Year Grammy with Luther Vandross, and collaborated with a variety of artists including NSYNC, Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, and Keith Urban. Lately, he’s also become a Twitter celebrity thanks to his outspokenness on social issues and his ability to out-troll his trolls. In Stories to Tell, Marx uses this same engaging, straight-talking style to look back on his life and career. He writes of how Kenny Rogers changed a single line of a song he’d written for him then asked for a 50% cut—which inspired Marx to write one of his biggest hits. He tells the uncanny story of how he wound up curled up on the couch of Olivia Newton-John, his childhood crush, watching Xanadu. He shares the tribulations of working with the all-female hair metal band Vixen and appearing in their video. Yet amid these entertaining celebrity encounters, Marx offers a more sobering assessment of the music business as he’s experienced it over four decades—the challenges of navigating greedy executives and grueling tour schedules, and the rewards of connecting with thousands of fans at sold-out shows that make all the drama worthwhile. He also provides an illuminating look at his songwriting process and talks honestly about how his personal life has inspired his work, including finding love with wife Daisy Fuentes and the mystery illness that recently struck him—and that doctors haven’t been able to solve. Stories to Tell is a remarkably candid, wildly entertaining memoir about the art and business of music.

Punk Art History - Artworks from the European No Future Generation (Paperback, New edition): Marie Arleth Skov Punk Art History - Artworks from the European No Future Generation (Paperback, New edition)
Marie Arleth Skov
R806 R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Save R96 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the ‘rear-guard’. Skov draws on personal interviews with punk art protagonists from London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, among others the members Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris), members of Værkstedet Værst (The Workshop Called Worst), Nina Sten-Knudsen, Marc Miller, Diana Ozon, Hugo Kaagman, as well as email correspondence with Jon Savage, Anna Banana, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. A large portion of the discussed materials stem from the protagonists' private archives, while some very public—scandalous and spectacular—events are discussed, too, such as the Prostitution exhibition at the ICA in London in 1976 and Die Große Untergangsshow (The Grand Downfall Show) in West-Berlin in 1981. The examined materials cover almost all media: paintings, drawings, bricolages, collages, booklets, posters, zines, installations, sculptures, Super 8 films, documentation of performances and happenings, body art, street art. What emerges is how crucial the concept of history was in punk at that point in time. The punk movement's rejection of the tale of progress and prosperity, as it was being propagated on both sides of the iron curtain, evidently manifested itself in punk visual art too. Central to the book is the thesis that punks placed themselves as the rear-guards, not the avant-gardes, a statement which was in made by Danish punks in 1981, when they called themselves “bagtropperne". Behind the rear-guard watchword was the rejection of the inherent notion of progress that the avant-garde name brings with it; how could a "no future" movement want to lead the way? Although aimed at students and scholars of art, design, music and performance history, the subject as well as the author’s accessible, occasionally playful style will no doubt draw readers with an interest in punk, music, and urban histories.

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 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.

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 Johnny Cash Record Catalog (Hardcover, New): John L. Smith The Johnny Cash Record Catalog (Hardcover, New)
John L. Smith
R1,900 Discovery Miles 19 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This catalog is divided into four major sections: singles, extended-play albums, long-play albums, and compact discs. An appendix lists the liner notes Cash has written for his own releases, as well as those of a number of prominent performers over the years. It also lists music videos Cash has appeared in. An accompanying index is a composite of the four sections and the appendix, listing albums and compact disc titles as well as the song titles included in those releases.

Johnny Cash's popularity seems to have reached new heights during 1994, making this Catalog, along with the two earlier discographies, invaluable to fans, who will appreciate the comprehensive coverage. That coverage includes over 1,000 song titles on 228 different record labels, 431 singles, 108 extended-play albums, 1,408 long-play albums, and 254 compact discs from the United States, Canada, and 26 foreign countries.

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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