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What sweeter music (Sheet music, Violin 2): John Rutter What sweeter music (Sheet music, Violin 2)
John Rutter
R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and organ or string orchestra This is the violin 2 part in the accompaniment for string orchestra. Each string part is available separately.

What sweeter music (Sheet music, Cello): John Rutter What sweeter music (Sheet music, Cello)
John Rutter
R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and organ or string orchestra This is the cello part in the accompaniment for string orchestra. Each string part is available separately.

What sweeter music (Sheet music, Double bass): John Rutter What sweeter music (Sheet music, Double bass)
John Rutter
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SATB and organ or string orchestra This is the bass part to the accompaniment for string orchestra in an accessible setting.

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Ryan R. Weber Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Ryan R. Weber
R2,444 Discovery Miles 24 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared cosmopolitan affinities, including Arne Garborg, Hamlin Garland, Madison Grant, and Lathrop Stoddard. Each overlapping case study surveys the diachronic transmission of cosmopolitanism as well as the synchronic practices that animated these modernist ideas. Instead of taking a strictly chronological approach to organization, each chapter offers an examination of the different layers of identity that expanded and contracted in relation to a mutual interest in Nordic culture. From the burgeoning "universal" ambitions around 1900 to the darker racialized discourse of the 1920s, this study offers a critical analysis of both the idea and practice of cosmopolitanism in order to expose its common foundations as well as the limits of its application.

Lohengrin: Grande Opera Romantica in Tre Atti (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Paperback): Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Grande Opera Romantica in Tre Atti (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Paperback)
Richard Wagner
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music, Nostalgia and Memory - Historical and Psychological Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Sandra Garrido, Jane W... Music, Nostalgia and Memory - Historical and Psychological Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Sandra Garrido, Jane W Davidson
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the relationship between music and key life moments from birth to death, the text takes a cross-disciplinary approach, combining perspectives from a 'history of emotions' with modern day psychology, empirical surveys of modern-day listeners and analysis of musical works. The book traces the trajectory of emotional response to music over the past 500 years, illuminating the interaction between personal, historical and contextual variables that influence our hard-wired emotional responses to music, and the key role of memory and nostalgia in the mechanisms of emotional response.

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.

Hey! now and Farewell! Advent (Sheet music, Vocal score): Bob Chilcott Hey! now and Farewell! Advent (Sheet music, Vocal score)
Bob Chilcott
R158 Discovery Miles 1 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

two settings for SS and piano or orchestra Both are rhythmically exuberant settings of colourful medieval texts, sparkling with vitality and humour. Orchestral material is available on hire separately for each setting.

On the Sensations of Tone - As a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (Book, 3rd Revised edition): Hermann L.F. Helmholtz On the Sensations of Tone - As a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (Book, 3rd Revised edition)
Hermann L.F. Helmholtz; Translated by Alexander J. Ellis
R1,936 Discovery Miles 19 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-94) was a leading scientist who made important contributions to physiology, psychology, physics, philosophy and early neuroscience. Following his foundational work in ophthalmics during the 1850s, he became Professor of Physiology at Heidelberg and, in 1863, published On the Sensations of Tone. This investigation into the physical theory of music remains a central text for the study of physiological acoustics and aesthetics. In it, Helmholtz applies physics, anatomy and physiology. He explains how tones are built from a base tone with upper partial tones, and his later discussions on consonance and musical scales develop this theory and discuss how the ear perceives these tones. His work on consonance and dissonance was of particular interest to composers and musicologists well into the twentieth century. This English translation, published in 1875 from the third German edition, retains the original's straightforward language, making this classic work accessible to non-specialists.

The Three Kings (Sheet music, SSA version): Peter Cornelius The Three Kings (Sheet music, SSA version)
Peter Cornelius; Arranged by Ronald Corp
R131 Discovery Miles 1 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for soloist, SSA, and piano This setting of one of the most enduringly popular Christmas carols is an ideal piece for a school Christmas concert or nativity play. German and English singing texts are included. There is also a version for SATB.

Barn Dances (Sheet music, Score and parts): Libby Larsen Barn Dances (Sheet music, Score and parts)
Libby Larsen
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for flute, clarinet, and piano Barn Dances is a set of four abstract pieces drawing their titles from the name of a particular dance step used in cowboy dances. Taking the name of the step as a point of departure, Larsen's idea was to take a flight of fancy in each movement and to create the musical equivalent of a character drawing. Thus this lively set encompasses various styles including hoedown jig, swing, and a waltz. Suitable for concert use by conservatory students and accomplished school musicians.

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 Lamentations of Jeremiah (Sheet music, SAATB Vocal score): Thomas Tallis The Lamentations of Jeremiah (Sheet music, SAATB Vocal score)
Thomas Tallis; Edited by Philip Brett
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

for SAATB unaccompanied This is amongst the best-known works of the Tudor period, and holds an important place in the choral repertoire as a liturgical item for use in Holy Week and as a concert work. Includes an English singing translation.

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?

A Dictionary of Musical Terms - Cambridge Library Collection - Music (Book): John Stainer, William Barrett A Dictionary of Musical Terms - Cambridge Library Collection - Music (Book)
John Stainer, William Barrett
R1,337 Discovery Miles 13 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This illustrated dictionary, written by the prolific Victorian composer Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) - best remembered today for his oratorio The Crucifixion - and W. A. Barrett, was first published by Novello in 1876. It provides definitions for 'the chief musical terms met with in scientific, theoretical, and practical treatises, and in the more common annotated programmes and newspaper criticisms', ranging from short explanations of the Italian words for tempi, through descriptions of ancient instruments to expansive articles on such topics as acoustics, copyright, hymn tunes, the larynx and temperament. That it subsequently ran to several further editions suggests that it provided welcome guidance for the concert-going public in the nineteenth century.

The History of the Royal Academy of Music - Compiled from Authentic Sources (Book): William Wahab Cazalet The History of the Royal Academy of Music - Compiled from Authentic Sources (Book)
William Wahab Cazalet
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Royal Academy of Music in London was founded in 1822 by Lord Burghersh (later the 11th Earl of Westmorland), a soldier and keen amateur musician, to whom this book is dedicated. He was supported by the French harpist and composer Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who had fled to London to avoid prosecution in France for fraud and forgery. In 1854, the Rev. William Wahab Cazalet (1808 75) wrote a history of the Royal Academy 'compiled from authentic sources' and beginning with an adulatory short biography of the Earl. Cazalet remarks in his preface that 'the history comprises only about eleven years of the life of the Institution; but it is this portion alone that has any interest, for when all the struggles and troubles attending its establishment are at an end, the records of a mere routine of business give no material for publication'.

A Short Historical Account - Of the Degrees in Music at Oxford and Cambridge (Book): C.F.Abdy Williams A Short Historical Account - Of the Degrees in Music at Oxford and Cambridge (Book)
C.F.Abdy Williams
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

C. F. Abdy Williams (1855 1923), a noted music scholar, traced the history of the discipline at Oxford and Cambridge from the fifteenth century to the late Victorian period in this 1894 book. He discusses the earliest records of degrees in the subject, the establishment of professorships, the requirements for degrees and the ceremonies associated with their conferral. He provides biographical information for graduates from as early as 1463, noting that English music of this early period was in a very advanced stage compared to that of the rest of Europe. He also includes, in an appendix, the names of those persons who are mentioned as graduates but whose names do not appear in the university records. His book reveals the importance attached to the cultivation of music at the ancient British universities and the prestige attached to their scholars over several centuries.

British Musical Biography - A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and Composers, Born in Britain and its Colonies (Book):... British Musical Biography - A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors and Composers, Born in Britain and its Colonies (Book)
James Duff Brown, Stephen S Stratton
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Co-authored by James D. Brown (also known for A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians) and Stephen S. Stratton, British Musical Biography is an alphabetical reference work to the key achievements of British musical artists, composers and authors from as early as 1042 AD to the end of the nineteenth century. It first appeared in 1897 as an experiment in publishing and was motivated partly by patriotism on the part of the authors. It includes the names of British composers and performers, their dates of birth and death, brief biographies, and details of important works, their first performance, and date of first publication. Interpreting their brief to include the whole of the British empire, the authors have included the names of well over 2,500 famous and lesser-known musicians born in Britain and its colonies.

The History of Music (Art and Science) - From the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Roman Empire (Book): William Chappell The History of Music (Art and Science) - From the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Roman Empire (Book)
William Chappell
R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This 1874 account of the music of ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome was the only volume of the author's proposed history of music to be published. William Chappell, eldest son of the founder of Chappell's the music publishers, was noted for his interest in ancient and traditional music and was the founder of the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1840. Best remembered for his Popular Music of the Olden Time, Chappell justifies the need for his study of ancient music in a long introduction to the volume which criticises the approaches of Charles Burney and Sir John Hawkins and attacks the validity of Helmholtz's work on acoustics. The work explores theory, practice, science, philosophy and the instruments of the time through analysis of ancient sources such as Aristotle, Pythagoras, Boethius and Vetruvius and of iconographical materials. A comprehensive glossary-cum-index is included together with topic summaries for each chapter.

A Dictionary of Musicians - From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Book): John Sainsbury A Dictionary of Musicians - From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Book)
John Sainsbury
R1,327 Discovery Miles 13 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff (Russian, writing in French), and his two notable English predecessors, Dr Burney and Sir John Hawkings. It contains a 'summary of the history of music', as well as biographies and memoirs of musicians. The range of the information provided is immense, including the most obscure as well as the most famous: fourteen pages on Mozart are followed by paragraphs on his wife Constanza and on the now completely forgotten B. F. Mozin, a French piano teacher and composer, while Beethoven is described when still living and composing, albeit afflicted by deafness. This work is a mine of information on musical life and perceptions of music history in the early nineteenth century.

A Dictionary of Musicians - From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Book): John Sainsbury A Dictionary of Musicians - From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Book)
John Sainsbury
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff (Russian, writing in French), and his two notable English predecessors, Dr Burney and Sir John Hawkings. It contains a 'summary of the history of music', as well as biographies and memoirs of musicians. The range of the information provided is immense, including the most obscure as well as the most famous: fourteen pages on Mozart are followed by paragraphs on his wife Constanza and on the now completely forgotten B. F. Mozin, a French piano teacher and composer, while Beethoven is described when still living and composing, albeit afflicted by deafness. This work is a mine of information on musical life and perceptions of music history in the early nineteenth century.

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