Music
-
The Science and Psychology of Music Performance : Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning
McPherson, GaryOxford University Press 2002 1. editionIntroduction Part I. The Developing Musician 1. Musical Potential, Anthony E. Kemp & Janet Mills 2. Environmental Influences, Heiner Gembris & Jane W. Davidson 3. Motivation,...
-
Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music : A Practical Guide to Innovations in Performance and Repertoire
Mabry, SharonOxford University Press 2002 1. editionThe vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio, Larsen, and Vercoe--presents exciting opportunities for singers to stretch their talent...
-
Solutions for Singers : Tools for Performers and Teachers
Miller, RichardOxford University Press 2004 1. editionWhile many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique and performance, few have time to delve into the specific questions they spawn. Soluti...
-
Writings on Music, 1965-2000
Reich, Steve; Hillier, PaulOxford University Press 2002 1. editionIn the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentles...
-
Kodaly Today : A Cognitive Approach to Elementary Music Education
Houlahan, Micheal; Tacka, PhilipOxford University Press 2008 1. editionIntroduction 1. Constructing a Teaching Portfolio 2. Kodaly Concept of Music Education 3. Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage 4. Children as Performers...
-
Web Marketing for the Music Business
Hutchison, TomElsevier 2008 1. editionInterested in promoting, selling and distributing music online, got the website but not sure what to do next? is Web Marketing for the Music Business designed to help develop the e...
-
Acoustic and MIDI orchestration for the contempopary composer [a practical guide to writing and sequencing for the studio-orchestra]
Pejrolo, Andrea.; DeRosa, RichardFocal Press 2007Get complete guidance on both traditional orchestration and modern production techniques with this unique book. With effective explanations and clear illustrations, you will learn...
-
SchenkerGUIDE: A Brief Handbook and Web Site for Schenkerian Analysis
Pankhurst, ThomasTaylor & Francis Group 2008 1. editionSchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website,...
-
Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices
Miller, RichardOxford University Press 2008 1. editionPerhaps the most renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller has delivered a new and outstanding contribution to the study of vocal technique in Securing Bariton...
-
Unfinished Music
Kramer, RichardOxford University Press 2008 1. editionPreface I: First Things 1. Language and the Beginnings of Creation Preamble A Rhetoric of Sonata Sketches and the Improvisatoyr Fragments/Patrimonies II: Emanuel Bach and the Allur...
-
Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics
Pasler, JannOxford University Press 2007 1. editionList of Illustrations List of Musical Examples Introduction I. Time, Narrative, and Memory 1. Narrative and Narrativity in Music 2. Postmodernism, Narrativity, and the Art of Memor...
-
Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost
Russell, TonyOxford University Press 2007 1. editionAcknowledgments Introduction Notes on Playlists 1. Eck Robertson 2. Fiddlin' John Carson 3. Henry Whitter 4. Ernest V. Stoneman 5. Uncle Dave Macon 6. Vernon Dalhart 7. Fiddlin' Po...
-
The naked voice a wholistic approach to singing
Smith, W. StephenOxford University Press 2007In The Naked Voice, W. Stephen Smith invites all singers to improve their vocal technique through his renowned and time-tested wholistic method. Focusing not only on the most impor...
-
The end of early music a period performer´s history of music for the twenty-first century
Haynes, BruceOxford University Press 2007Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, d...
-
Gypsy jazz in search of Django Reinhardt and the soul of gypsy swing
Dregni, MichaelOxford University Press 2008Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And t...
-
Psychology for musicians understanding and acquiring the skills
Lehmann, Andreas C.; Sloboda, John A.; Woody, Robert HOxford University Press 2007What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be...
-
Music, language, and the brain
Patel, Aniruddh DOxford University Press 2008In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief th...
-
Jazz : the basics / Christopher Meeder
Meeder, ChristopherRoutledge 2007This is by no means the fi rst single volume devoted to providing an introduction to the history and appreciation of the jazz tradition. Since jazz is still an active and constantl...
-
The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815
Spitzer, John; Zaslaw, NealOxford University Press 2004 1. editionThis is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization...
-
Roots of the classical the popular origins of western music
Van der Merwe, Peter.Oxford University Press 2004Roots of the Classical identifies and traces to their sources the patterns that make Western classical music unique, setting out the fundamental laws of melody and harmony, and ske...