Alberto Duman & Dan Hancox 
Regeneration Songs [EPUB ebook] 

Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to the screaming of underground rock, with a …

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communicati …

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States. Likewi …

Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of ”protest” music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment ”serio …

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer”s output in the context of his l …

”Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England” breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the pract …

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington”s bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written …

This is Volume V in a series of seven on the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Originally published in 1924. The trained musician may have made a thorough study of technical methods in c …

Listening to music is not merely something one does, but something central to a way of living. Listening has the power to transport one into another way of being. It is a mode of feeling and forms th …

Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner”s Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the …