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The Three Kings (Sheet music, SSA version): Peter Cornelius The Three Kings (Sheet music, SSA version)
Peter Cornelius; Arranged by Ronald Corp
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 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.

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.

It Came From Memphis - Updated and Revised (Paperback): Robert Gordon It Came From Memphis - Updated and Revised (Paperback)
Robert Gordon; Foreword by Peter Guralnick, Hanif Abdurraqib
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 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
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 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
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 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
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 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
R1,279 Discovery Miles 12 790 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
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 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
R1,450 Discovery Miles 14 500 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.

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.

Magic: A Journal of Song (Hardcover): Paul Weller Magic: A Journal of Song (Hardcover)
Paul Weller
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautiful fully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that fascinating. It's magic.' - PAUL WELLER In Magic: A Journal of Song, Paul Weller talks about his life and music through a personally curated selection of over 100 songs spanning his entire musical career. As one of the most innovative and remarkable songwriters of the last 50 years, Paul Weller has proved to be the ultimate shapeshifter, moving from The Jam's punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council, and later through a remarkable 30-year solo career. Alongside Lennon and McCartney, Weller is one of few artists that has attained a UK number one album over five consecutive decades, and has also received career defining awards from the BRITs (Lifetime Achievement Award), NME Awards (Godlike Genius Award) and a GQ Award for Songwriter of the Year. Magic: A Journal of Song is the definitive book of Weller's songwriting career from founding The Jam in his teenage years, to creating The Style Council, through to his years as a solo musician. Offering unprecedented insight into Weller's creative process, his lyrics are accompanied by more than 450 photographs and items of memorabilia, and an illuminating commentary of over 25,000 words. As told to journalist and author, Dylan Jones, Magic is Paul Weller's most candid and intimate account of his musical life to date. 'Paul Weller has proved that he is not only beyond reproach, in some senses he is quite possibly without equal.' - DYLAN JONES OBE 'The thing I have discovered is that music in its truest sense is beyond any trend or movement or category.' - PAUL WELLER

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.

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