The Listener's Guide to Music
Author : Percy A. Scholes
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Music
ISBN :
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
Author : John Corbett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2016-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 022635380X
Book Description
In the first book of its kind, John Corbett's A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation provides a how-to manual for the most extreme example of spontaneous improvising: music with no pre-planned material at all. Drawing on over three decades of writing about, presenting, playing, teaching, and studying freely improvised music, Corbett offers an enriching set of tools that show any curious listener how to really listen, and he encourages them to enjoy the human impulse-- found all around the world-- to make up music on the spot.
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music
Author : Chris Nickson
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780399530326
Book Description
Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso
Chamber Music
Author : James M. Keller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 019020639X
Book Description
Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present.
Guide to Chamber Music
Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486316726
Book Description
Authoritative guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces by 55 composers. A must for music lovers and musicians alike. "No lover of chamber music should be without this Guide." — John Barkham Reviews.
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to American Folk Music
Author : Kip Lornell
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
A comprehensive listener's guide to American folk music provides a concise history of the musical genre and its most important performers, along with an A-to-Z glossary of terms, information on stylistic variations, helpful resources, and a listing of dozens of essential folk music CDs.
Listener's Guide to Musical Understanding
Author : Leon Dallin
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music
Author : Timothy K. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1440674159
Book Description
For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
Listeners Guide to Musical Understanding
Author : Leon Dallin
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
"...Designed as a textbook for introductory music courses...No prior training or experience in music is assumed or needed..."--preface.
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards
Author : Max Morath
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1101203110
Book Description
Every major singer from Frank Sinatra to Christina Aguilera. Every major composer from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim. Every major song from a century of favorites. Every major musician and lyricist. Every major styling from blues, jazz, and country to folk, big band, and rock and roll The most recorded songs of all time. A guide to understanding the "standard" lingo. The evolution of popular music from Tin Pan Alley to contemporary musical theater, and more.
