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Absolutely on Music - Conversations (Paperback): Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa Absolutely on Music - Conversations (Paperback)
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa; Translated by Jay Rubin 1
R356 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R89 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
200 Last Verses for Manuals (Book): Noel Rawsthorne 200 Last Verses for Manuals (Book)
Noel Rawsthorne; Volume editing by Donald Thomson
R665 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R64 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Choral Repertoire (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Dennis Shrock Choral Repertoire (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Dennis Shrock
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now in its second edition, Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts alike, it is an account of the complete choral output of the most significant composers of this genre throughout recorded history. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era; trends and styles unique to various countries; biographical sketches of over 500 composers; and performance annotations of more than 5,000 individual works. This book has been an essential guide to programming, a reference tool for program notes and other research, and, most importantly, a key resource for conductors, instructors, scholars, and students of choral music. This new edition features dozens of additional composers, updated biographical data, and broadly expanded scholarship that brings new life to this essential text.

Music-Making in U.S. Prisons - Listening to Incarcerated Voices (Paperback): Mary L. Cohen, Stuart P. Duncan Music-Making in U.S. Prisons - Listening to Incarcerated Voices (Paperback)
Mary L. Cohen, Stuart P. Duncan
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and punishment keep societies safe. The book's synthesis of historical research, contemporary practices, and pedagogies of music-making inside prisons reveals that, prior to the 1970s tough-on-crime era, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and radio shows bridged lives inside and outside prisons. Mass incarceration had a significant negative impact on music programs. Despite this setback, current programs testify to the potency of music education to support personal and social growth for people experiencing incarceration and deepen social awareness of the humanity found behind prison walls. Cohen and Duncan argue that music-making creates opportunities to humanize the complexity of crime, sustain meaningful relationships between incarcerated individuals and their families, and build social awareness of the prison industrial complex. The authors combine scholarship and personal experience to guide music educators, music aficionados, and social activists to create restorative social practices through music-making.

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (Paperback): Aaron Cohen Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (Paperback)
Aaron Cohen
R359 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R109 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots. Her influential minister father stood by her on the pulpit. Her mentor, Clara Ward, sat in the pews. Franklin responded to the occasion with the performance of her life and the resulting double album became a multi-million seller - even without any trademark hit singles. But that was just one part of the story. Franklin's warm inimitable voice, virtuoso jazz-soul instrumental group and Rev. James Cleveland's inventive choral arrangements transformed the course of gospel. Through new interviews, musical and theological analyses as well as archival discoveries, this book sets the scene, traces the recording's traditional origins and pop infusions and describes the album's enduring impact. "33 1/3" is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 60 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike. "It was only a matter of time before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for whom "Exile on Main Street" or "Electric Ladyland" are as significant and worthy of study as "The Catcher in the Rye" or "Middlemarch"...The series, which now comprises 29 titles with more in the works, is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration." ("The New York Times Book Review", 2006).

Loose Leaf for Harmony in Context (Loose-leaf, 3rd ed.): Miguel Roig-Francoli Loose Leaf for Harmony in Context (Loose-leaf, 3rd ed.)
Miguel Roig-Francoli
R6,499 Discovery Miles 64 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Nouveaux Hymnes sur les Psaumes ou les Evangiles (Paperback): W. A. Young Six Nouveaux Hymnes sur les Psaumes ou les Evangiles (Paperback)
W. A. Young
R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christmas for Solo Singers (Paperback): Jay Althouse Christmas for Solo Singers (Paperback)
Jay Althouse
R640 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R127 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of 14 holiday favorites wonderfully arranged for voice and piano. Appropriate for school or church use. Includes "O Holy Night," "Good King Wenceslas," "All Through the Night" and more!

Rave on - Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music (Paperback): Matthew Collin Rave on - Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music (Paperback)
Matthew Collin
R587 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world. In this searching, lyrical account of dance music culture worldwide, Matthew Collin takes stock of its highest highs and lowest lows across its global trajectory. Through firsthand reportage and interviews with clubbers and DJs, Collin documents the itinerant musical form from its underground beginnings in New York, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1980s, to its explosions in Ibiza and Berlin, to today's mainstream music scenes in new frontiers like Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Dubai. Collin shows how its dizzying array of genres--from house, techno, and garage to drum and bass, dubstep, and psytrance--have given voice to locally specific struggles. For so many people in so many different places, electronic dance music has been caught up in the search for free cultural space: forming the soundtrack to liberation for South African youth after Apartheid; inspiring a psychedelic party culture in Israel; offering fleeting escape from--and at times into--corporatization in China; and even undergirding a veritable "independent republic" in a politically contested slice of the former Soviet Union. Full of admiration for the possibilities the music has opened up all over the world, Collin also unflinchingly probes where this utopianism has fallen short, whether the culture maintains its liberating possibilities today, and where it might go in the future.

The Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music (Sheet music): Robert Gower The Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music (Sheet music)
Robert Gower
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume is a collection of 37 of the best pieces for use at carol services, Christmas services, and Christmas concerts. It includes a number of exciting new pieces on established tunes (from Andrew Carter, Gerre Hancock, and David Willcocks, among others), as well as excellent new arrangements of popular Christmas pieces.

The Oxford Book of Wedding Music for Manuals (Sheet music): Malcolm Archer The Oxford Book of Wedding Music for Manuals (Sheet music)
Malcolm Archer
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The definitive collection of 27 of the most popular classics of the wedding repertoire in simplified arrangements for manuals only. All the best-loved processionals, marches, and more reflective pieces are included.

Music for the Movies (Paperback, 2rev Ed): Tony Thomas Music for the Movies (Paperback, 2rev Ed)
Tony Thomas
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Music for the Movies is the one book that should be in the library of anyone interested in learning about this art of the twentieth century". -- Elmer Bernstein

"A fascinating read for the film music lover". -- Jerry Goldsmith

"Music for the Movies is the best overview of the history of the art I've so far come across". -- David Newman

Film music fans have eagerly awaited this updated and greatly expanded edition of Tony Thomas' popular history of Hollywood film music (from the '30s through the '90s) as viewed through portraits of many of its foremost practitioners.

Includes discussions of the lives, works and influence of
-- Alfred Newman
-- Victor Young
-- Dimitri Tiomkin
-- Franz Waxman
-- Miklos Rosza
-- Max Steiner
-- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
-- Bernard Herrmann
-- Hugo Friedhofer
-- David Raksin
-- Aaron Copland
-- Alex North
-- Elmer Bernstein
-- Henry Mancini
-- Leonard Rosenman
-- Jerry Goldsmith
-- Lalo Schifrin
-- David Shire
-- Bruce Broughton
-- Basil Poledouris ... and others.

Standard of Excellence: 1 (Trombone) (Sheet music): Bruce Pearson Standard of Excellence: 1 (Trombone) (Sheet music)
Bruce Pearson
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam (Paperback): Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam (Paperback)
Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression. Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies, and Islamic studies, the volume's contributors consider sonic performances ranging from poetry recitation to art, folk, popular, and ritual musics-as well as religious expressions that are not usually labeled as "music" from an Islamic perspective-in relation to monumental, vernacular, ephemeral, and landscape architectures; interior design; decoration and furniture; urban planning; and geography. Underscoring the intimate relationship between traditional Muslim sonic performances, such as the recitation of the Qur'an or devotional songs, and conventional Muslim architectural spaces, from mosques and Sufi shrines to historic aristocratic villas, gardens, and gymnasiums, the book reveals Islam as an ideal site for investigating the relationship between sound and architecture, which in turn proves to be an innovative and significant angle from which to explore Muslim cultures.

Songs for the Fast and Pascha (Hardcover): St Ephrem the Syrian, Blake Hartung, Joshua Falconer, J Edward Walters Songs for the Fast and Pascha (Hardcover)
St Ephrem the Syrian, Blake Hartung, Joshua Falconer, J Edward Walters
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Among the writers of the Syriac Christian tradition, none is as renowned as St. Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307-373), known to much of the later Christian world simply as "the Syrian." The great majority of Ephrem's works are poetry, with the madrase ("teaching songs") especially prominent. This volume presents English translations of four complete madrase cycles of Ephrem: On the Fast, On the Unleavened Bread, On the Crucifixion, and On the Resurrection. These collections include some of the most liturgically oriented songs in Ephrem's corpus, and, as such, provide a window into the celebration of Lent and Easter in the Syriac-speaking churches of northern Mesopotamia in the fourth century. Even more significantly, they represent some of the oldest surviving poetry composed for these liturgical seasons in the entire Christian tradition. Not only are the liturgical occasions of the springtime months a source of colorful imagery in these texts, but Ephrem also employs traditional motifs of warm weather, spring rainstorms, and revived vegetation, which likely reflect Hellenistic literary influences. Like all of Ephrem's poetry, these songs express early Christian theology in language that is symbolic, terse, and vibrant. They are rich with biblical allusions and references, especially to the Exodus and Passion narratives. They also reveal a contested religious environment in which Ephrem strove to promote the Christian Pascha and Christian interpretations of Scripture over and against those of Jewish communities in the region, thus maintaining firm boundaries around the identity and practices of the churches.

50 Christmas Carols for All Harps (Spiral bound): Hal Leonard Corp 50 Christmas Carols for All Harps (Spiral bound)
Hal Leonard Corp
R586 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cantique de Jean Racine (Sheet music, SATB vocal score): Gabriel Faure Cantique de Jean Racine (Sheet music, SATB vocal score)
Gabriel Faure; Edited by John Rutter
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Cantique de Jean Racine was written in 1865 during Faure's final year at the Ecole Niedermeyer, winning him the first prize for composition, and this elegant work now holds a cherished place in the choral repertory for both sacred and secular occasions. Presented with an English singing translation in addition to the original French, John Rutter's edition includes an accompaniment for organ or piano, and the work may also be performed with the transcription for harp and strings (available separately), compatible with the instrumentation for the OUP edition of the Faure Requiem in its 1893 version. Complete orchestral and vocal material is available on hire/rental and on sale. In addition, an arrangement for upper voices (SSAA) with Faure's original keyboard accompaniment is available on sale.

Blowing Zen - Finding an Authentic Life: 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Ray Brooks Blowing Zen - Finding an Authentic Life: 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Ray Brooks
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As a young, up and coming electrical engineer living in England, Ray Brooks had everything he could want a high paying job, late nights, and fast cars. All he was missing in his life was the meaning. A series of events brought him to Japan, where he met a man who played the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese flute. That fortuitous interaction motivated Brooks to embark on a journey to learn this very difficult instrument. Through playing the shakuhachi, he began to understand the Zen discipline that is a crucial aspect of Japanese culture. This understanding greatly changed his outlook on life, putting him in touch with his authentic self. Blowing Zen s humor and its irresistible story of cultures converging lets the underlying message come through without preachiness: life is about finding your true calling, not just what brings you superficial joy. Brooks spontaneous approach to the collaboration of art, mind, body, and spirit is inspiring and instructive. This uplifting memoir has been entrancing readers since its release in 2000, and it is now being re-released with a new chapter and lots of photographs. This is the expanded and revised edition with photos.

Lift Every Voice and Sing II - An African American Hymnal (Hardcover): Church Publishing Lift Every Voice and Sing II - An African American Hymnal (Hardcover)
Church Publishing; Edited by Horace Clarence Boyer
R976 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R69 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in addition to the Negro spirituals, gospel songs, and hymns.

Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Hardcover): S. Redhead Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
S. Redhead
R3,115 Discovery Miles 31 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In "Subculture to Clubcultures" Steve Redhead responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain the most recent developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene. The coverage in this book includes: the dance pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s; global youth culture as it was dynamized in this period by Garage, House, Electro, Techno and other contemporary dance music forms; and, the consequences of this for the continued importance of various forms of rock and pop music and a range of theoretical approaches to the economic and cultural condition of the postmodern.

Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War (Hardcover): Christina Gier Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War (Hardcover)
Christina Gier
R2,625 R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Save R1,073 (41%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An advertisement in the sheet music of the song "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" (1917) announces: "Music will help win the war!" This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse about gender, soldiering and music, evince a more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of sheet music and military singing practices in America during the First World War that critically situates them in the social discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were also singing songs in their military training. Close musical analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier and civilian music making at this time.

For the beauty of the earth (Sheet music, SA vocal score): John Rutter For the beauty of the earth (Sheet music, SA vocal score)
John Rutter
R97 Discovery Miles 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contains two versions of the vocal parts - for SATB and piano or orchestra, or SS or SA and piano or orchestra.

Original Lyric Composition - A song of love, wisdom, and Christianity (Hardcover): Erwin Parent Original Lyric Composition - A song of love, wisdom, and Christianity (Hardcover)
Erwin Parent
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily (Hardcover): Bartolomeo Di Salvo Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily (Hardcover)
Bartolomeo Di Salvo
R2,284 R1,910 Discovery Miles 19 100 Save R374 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Book & DVD. This book presents for the first time the complete chant repertory of an orally transmitted repertory of church hymns for the celebration of the Byzantine Rite in Sicily. This body of chant has been cultivated by the Albanian-speaking minorities since their predecessors from Albania and northern Greece arrived in Sicily as refugees in the late fifteenth century, as a result of the Turkish invasion of the Balkan region. Bartolomeo di Salvo (19161986), a Basilean monk from the monastery of Grottaferrata, prepared the transcriptions for the series Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae in the 1950s, but they were never published. Girolamo Garofalo, ethnomusicologist from Palermo, and Christian Troelsgard, secretary of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Copenhagen, have discovered the transcriptions and related documents in archives in Sicily, Grottaferrata, Rome and Copenhagen. As a result of their findings, this unique chant collection is now being made available for the first time. The languages used in the book are English / Italian (front matter and indices) and Greek (the chant texts).

Rock The Dancefloor - The proven five-step formula for total DJing success (Paperback): Phil Morse Rock The Dancefloor - The proven five-step formula for total DJing success (Paperback)
Phil Morse
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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