Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521662567
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Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521563543
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Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521820776
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Author : Thomas Christensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316025489
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521454292
The Cambridge History of American Music, first published in 1998, celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. American music is an intricate tapestry of many cultures, and the History reveals this wide array of influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and other sources. The History begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the social, historical, and cultural events of musical life in the period until 1900. Other contributors examine the growth and influence of popular musics, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional musics. The volume also includes valuable chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.
Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316025667
Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.
Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108671276
Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
Author : Christopher Dingle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108730549
Music criticism has played a fundamental and influential role throughout music history, with numerous composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, and Wagner, as well as many contemporary musicians, also maintaining careers as writers and critics. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism goes beyond these better-known accounts, reaching back to medieval times, expanding the geographical reach both within and beyond Europe, and including key issues such as women and criticism of recordings, as well as the story of criticism in jazz, popular music and world music. Drawing on a blend of established and talented young scholars, this is the first substantial historical survey of music criticism and critics, bringing unprecedented scope to a rapidly expanding area of musicological research. An indispensable point of reference, The Cambridge History of Music Criticism provides a broad historical overview of the field while also addressing specific issues and events.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521663199
The eighteenth century arguably boasts a more remarkable group of significant musical figures, and a more engaging combination of genres, styles and aesthetic orientations than any century before or since, yet huge swathes of its musical activity remain under-appreciated. This History provides a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining little-known repertories, works and musical trends alongside more familiar ones. Rather than relying on temporal, periodic and composer-related phenomena to structure the volume, it is organized by genre; chapters are grouped according to the traditional distinctions of music for the church, music for the theatre and music for the concert room that conditioned so much thinking, activity and output in the eighteenth century. A valuable summation of current research in this area, the volume also encourages the readers to think of eighteenth-century music less in terms of overtly teleological developments than of interacting and mutually stimulating musical cultures and practices.
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521792738
First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
