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Gamelan Manual by
This manual offers the first comprehensive description of the performance practice of the central Javanese gamelan. Aimed mainly at the many gamelan players in the West, it will also appeal to composers and music lovers wanting an extended account of one of the world's major musical cultures, and to teachers interested in new resources for MUSIC in schools. The book provides detailed information on the parts played by the various instruments of the gamelan, as well as on the principles on which the music is based. It also sketches the cultural background to musical performance in Java. Numerous illustrations and helpful tips for beginners are included, but also pointers to where more advanced students can find additional material. Owners of the book have access to further content via the associated website.
Call Number: ML1251.I53 P53 2005ISBN: 9780955029509Publication Date: 2005-11-18
The Registration of J. S. Bach's Organ Works by
Part A. Bach's registration practices and preferences: general observations. Knowledge of organ registration ; Peculiar manner of combining stops ; Playing in accord with the Affekt of the text ; Necessity of copious, steady wind, and for gravity ; Spacious layout of organ chests ; Clarity and prompt speech of large pipes ; Preference for reed stops ; Agricola's comments on merits and faults of Silbermann organs -- What do the organs available to Bach tell us?. Eisenach: Georgenkirche ; Altenburg: castle chapel ; Naumburg: Wenzelskirche ; Other middle German organs ; Organ building in central Germany after Bach -- Part B. Selecting and prioritizing sources in chapters III-V. Sources providing general principles of registration or comments on registration. Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus (1687) / Andreas Werckmeister ; Erweiterte und verbesserte orgel-probe (1698) / Andreas Werckmeister ; Musicalische handleitung, Anderer Theil (1706/10; 1721) / Friedrich Erhard Niedt/Johann Mattheson ; Der critische musicus (1739) / Johann Adolph Scheibe ; Musica mechanica organoedi (1768) / Jacob Adlung ; Anleitung zu der musikalischen gelahrtheit (1758) / Jacob Adlung -- Sources providing specific stop combinations or remarks on the use of certain stops. Ausfuhrliche beschreibung der grossen neuen orgel zu Gorlitz (1704) / Christian Ludwig Boxberg ; Disposition of the renovation of the organ at St. Blasius's (1708) / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Die in der Garnisonkirche zu Berlin neue orgel (1726) / Johann Friedrich Walther ; Registrations for the castle church at Lahm, 1732 ; Der volkommene Kapellmeister (1739) / Johann Mathheson ; Gottfried Silbermann's suggestions for registrations on his organs at Grosshartmannsdorf (1741) and Fraureuth (1742) ; Der critische musicus an der Spree (1749) / Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg ; Information on organ stops and registration in Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Historisch-kritische beytrage (1758) / Johann Friedrich Agricola ; Deutliche anweisung zum General-Bass (1772) / Christoph Gottlieb Schroter -- Sources providing registration instructions applied to specific pieces of organ music. Registration indications found in works by Bach and Johann Gottfried Walther ; Registrations found in Georg Friedrich Kauffman's Harmonische Seelenlust (1733-36) ; Registrations found in four sets of chorale variations by Daniel Magnus Gronau (ca. 1730-47) -- Part C. Change of manuals.
Call Number: ML410.B13 F38 2008ISBN: 9781881162278Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Indian blues : American Indians and the politics of music, 1879-1934 by
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautauqua circuits.
Call Number: ElectronicISBN: 9780806150000Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Sing me back home : southern roots and country music by
This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music.
Call Number: ElectronicISBN: 0806158514Publication Date: 2017- Köchel-Verzeichnis (KV) : thematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by
Vorwort -- Preface -- Hinweise zu Anlage, Inhalt und Benutzung -- Notes on layout, contents, and use -- Abkürzungen. Allgemeine Abkürzungen, Kürzel und Namen ; Zeitschriften ; Werkvezeichnisse ; Bibliothekssigel -- Thematische Werkübersicht -- Chronologische Werkübersicht -- Konkordanz der überholten Werknummern -- Thematisches Verzeichnis -- Anhänge. Anhang A : Abschriften und Bearbeitungen von Werken anderer Komponisten ; Anhang C : Fehlzuschreibungen ; Anhang G : Kadenzen, Eingänge und Auszierungen ; Anhang H : Studien, Unterrichtsmaterial und sonstige musikalische Aufzeichnungen -- Übersichten und Indices. Fragmente (Fr) ; Skizzenblätter (Skb) ; Rollen ; Historische Ausgaben ; Bibliographie ; Namen ; Werktitel und Textanfänge.
Call Number: ML134.M9 K55 2024ISBN: 3765103004Publication Date: 2024
Traveler : the musical odyssey of Tim O'Brien by
For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim O'Brien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While Appalachia and Ireland eventually became facets of the defining myth surrounding him and his music, he has digested a broad array of roots styles, reshaping them to his own purposes. Award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone have teamed again, this time to chronicle O'Brien's career and trace the ascent of Hot Rize and its broadening and enrichment of musical traditions. At the beginning of that career, O'Brien moved from his native West Virginia to the Rocky Mountain West. In just a few years, he became the lead singer, mandolin and fiddle player, and principal songwriter of beloved 1980s bluegrass band Hot Rize. Seeking to move beyond bluegrass, he next went to Nashville. O'Brien's success in navigating the shoals of America's vast reservoir of folk musical expressions took him into the realm of what is now called Americana. The core of Tim O'Brien's virtuosity is his abiding and energetic pursuit of the next musical adventure. As a traveler, he has ranged widely in choosing the next instrument, song, style, fellow musicians, or venue. Written with O'Brien's full cooperation and the input of family, friends, colleagues, and critics, Traveler provides the first complete, behind-the-scenes picture of a thoroughly American self-made musical genius--the boy who grew up listening to country artists at the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree and ended up charting a new course through American music.
Call Number: ML419.O25 M35 2022ISBN: 9780806190624Publication Date: 2022-09-15
Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues by
Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard," dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a red-dirt road, a battered guitar strapped to his back. But unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does here, and you'll find an abstract painter and sculptor who wrote about atomic energy and Ingrid Bergman and developed advanced theories of dialectical materialism and human engineering--in short, a folk singer who was deeply engaged with the art, ideas, and issues of his time. Guthrie may have been born in the Oklahoma hills, but his most productive years were spent in the metropolitan centers of Los Angeles and New York. Machines and their physics were among his favorite metaphors, fast cars were his passion, and airplanes and even flying saucers were his frequent subjects. His career-long immersion in radio, recording, and film inspired trenchant observations concerning mass media and communication, and he contributed to modern art as a prolific abstract painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. This book explores how, through multiple artistic forms, Guthrie thought and felt about the scientific method, atomic power, and war technology, as well as the shifting dynamics of gender and race. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, Kaufman brings to the fore what Guthrie's insistently folksy popular image obscures: the essays, visual art, letters, verse, fiction, and voluminous notebook entries that reveal his profoundly modern sensibilities. Woody Guthrie emerges from these pages as a figure whose immense artistic output reflects the nation's conflicted engagement with modernity. Capturing the breathtaking social and technological changes that took place during his extraordinarily productive career, Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues offers a unique and much-needed new perspective on a musical icon.
Call Number: ML410.G978 K39 2017ISBN: 9780806157610Publication Date: 2017-10-12- Lucio Silla by
An opera in three acts, composed on a libretto by Giovanni de Gamerra, as adapted by Mattia Verazi. The work was premiered in Mannheim, 1775. This edition is based on the only source, a manuscript copy dated 1775-1776. With an introduction, texts and translations, and critical report.
Preface and critical report in English.
Call Number: M3 .B105 1984 v.11ISBN: 9781938325632Publication Date: 2024
Cadence by
Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation. Rooted in Caplin's broader theory of formal functions, the book first develops concepts of cadence for music of the high classical style and then extends these ideas to gauge cadential practice in earlier and later style periods. Throughout the study, various manifestations of cadence are defined in terms of their morphology (their harmonic and melodic profiles) as well as their function (the specific formal contexts in which they are deployed). Cadence introduces a host of theoretical concepts illustrated by copious musical examples, all of which contain extensive analytical annotations of harmony, melody and form. Though the book is addressed primarily to music theorists, the many issues of compositional practice raised in this study will resonate with the interests of composers, historians, and performers alike.
Call Number: ElectronicISBN: 9780190056445Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Electronic and Experimental Music by
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture,Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded and revised with the needs of both students and instructors in mind. The reader-friendly style, logical organization, and pedagogical features provide easy access to key ideas, milestones, and concepts. Now a four-part text with fourteen chapters, the new fourth edition features new content: Audio CD of classic works of electronic music--a first for this book. Listening Guides providing annotated, moment-by-moment exploration of classic works--a new chapter feature that improves critical listening skills. Expanded global representation with new discussions of classic electronic music in the United Kingdom, Italy, Latin America, and Asia New discussion of early experiments with jazz and electronic music More on the roots of electronic rock music. Additional accounts of the under-reported contributions of women composers in the field, including new discussions of Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Lily Greenham, Teresa Rampazzi, and Jacqueline Nova Two appendices that trace the evolution of analog and digital synthesis technology. The companion website, launching June 2012, includes a number of student and instructor resources, such as additional Listening Guides, links to audio and video resources on the internet, PowerPoint slides, and interactive quizzes.
Call Number: ML1380 .H64 2012 (and electronic access)ISBN: 9780415896467Publication Date: 2012-03-01
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