Douglas Moore
Author | : Jerry L. McBride |
Publisher | : A-R Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780895796660 |
MLA Index and Bibliography Series vol. 36 Additional information online at https://www.areditions.com/books/IB036.html
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Author | : Theodore Baker |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 1330 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Classical Musicians
Author | : Nicolas Slonimsky |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 1618 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
This new edition (last, 1992) includes entries on some 500 musicians who were not included in the eighth edition (such as violin virtuoso Sarah Chang) and updates many others (such as composer John Cage, who died after the 8th edition was published). As before, entries also include musicians and composers of the 1800s and artists from other musical genres whose work has significantly influenced 20th century classical music. A glossary of terms is included at the end of the volume. c. Book News Inc.
The A to Z of Sacred Music
Author | : Joseph P. Swain |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810876213 |
Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another, music is present. In fact, in some traditions the relation between the music and the ritual is so intimate that to distinguish between them would be inaccurate. The A to Z of Sacred Music covers the most important aspects of the sacred music of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other smaller religious groups. It provides useful information on all the significant traditions of this music through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions.
The Reference Librarian's Bible
Author | : Steven W. Sowards |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1440860629 |
Divided into dedicated categories about the subjects most meaningful to librarians, this valuable resource reviews 500 texts across all major fields. Drawing on their collective experience in reference services and sifting through nearly 30,000 reviews in ARBAonline, editors Steven Sowards, associate director for collection at Michigan State University Libraries, and Juneal Chenoweth, editor of American Reference Books Annual, curated this collection of titles, most of which have been published since 2000, to serve collections and reference librarians in academic and public libraries. From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences and Encyclopedia of the Civil War to the Encyclopedia of Physics, Encyclopedia of Insects, and Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants to the formidable Oxford English Dictionary, The Reference Librarian's Bible encompasses every subject imaginable and will be your first stop for choosing and evaluating your library's collections as well as for answering patrons' questions.
Evening the Score
Author | : Jan Bell Groh |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1994-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1557283257 |
Despite the suffragist activities of the 1920s and the heightened pressures brought to bear on traditionally “male-only” institutions in American society during the past three decades, many vocations remain sanctuaries of male dominance. One such area is the classical music world; though, as Jan Bell Groh asserts in Evening the Score, inroads into this field have bene made, sometimes at great cost. At the center of this work is a unique set of newsletters edited and published by Frédérique Petrides, one of America’s first and most influential female conductors. In Petride’s time, most women musicians were forced to ply their trade in all-female orchestras; through the thirty-seven issues of Women in Music published from 1935 to 1940, the achievements of these musicians were championed, and the prejudices, misconceptions, and deliberately discriminatory policies of many of their male counterparts were exposed and condemned. Evening the Score is an ambitious endeavor that seeks not only to preserve these early documents and explain them within the context of the 1930s music industry but also to garner for Petrides the long-overdue praise to which she is entitled. It is at once a celebration and a source of inspiration.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Author | : Robert E. Cunningham Jr. |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-10-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 031309540X |
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.