Author: Nicholas CookPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662567
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Nicholas CookPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662567
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
Author: Jim SamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521590174
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought
Author: Terence BallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Author: Anna Maria Busse BergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1427
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Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.
The Cambridge History of American Music
Author: David NichollsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454292
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
Author: Laura MarcusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Exploring Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Arnold WhittallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521016681
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Cambridge History of World Music
Author: Philip V. BohlmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025667
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Tim CarterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521792738
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
Author: Thomas ChristensenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025489
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
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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.