| Author | : Matt Brennan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2021-06-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1108489834 |
An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.
| Author | : Russell Hartenberger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-03-10 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1316546217 |
Percussion music is both the oldest and most recent of musical genres and exists in diverse forms throughout the world. This Companion explores percussion and rhythm from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors, instrument builders, scholars, and cognitive scientists. Topics covered include percussion in symphony orchestras from the nineteenth century to today and the development of percussion instruments in chapters on the marimba revolution, the percussion industry, drum machines, and the effect of acoustics. Chapters also investigate drum set playing and the influences of world music on Western percussion, and outline the roles of percussionists as composers, conductors, soloists, chamber musicians, and theatrical performers. Developments in scientific research are explored in chapters on the perception of sound and the evolution of musical rhythm. This book will be a valuable resource for students, percussionists, and all those who want a deeper understanding of percussion music and rhythm.
| Author | : Russell Hartenberger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2020-09-24 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1108492924 |
An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.
| Author | : David Nicholls |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2002-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521789684 |
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| Author | : Simon P. Keefe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2005-10-27 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521834834 |
A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
| Author | : Charles Youmans |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2010-11-18 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1139828525 |
Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.
| Author | : Beate Perrey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2007-06-28 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1139826379 |
This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.
| Author | : Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 565 |
| Release | : 2009-03-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521884756 |
This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies.
| Author | : Amanda Bayley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2001-03-26 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1139826093 |
This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part reveals the wide variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States, both during and after his lifetime. It includes a comparison of analytical approaches to his music and an evaluation of performances including those of the composer himself. The book is written by a team of specialists, who represent more recent thinking on the composer and his music.
