Carl Van Vechten 
Caruso’s Mustache Off: and Other Writings about Music and Musicians [EPUB ebook] 

The term ”flow” refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part …

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 …

Liverpool”s dynamic music scene gave the world The Beatles. What city could hope to follow that? But 12 years later, in 1974, lightning nearly struck twice. Deaf School were a band formed in John Le …

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus exclusively on marketing movie music. Film composers like John Williams have become int …

First published in 2011, this research study includes a biography section as well as the works of Gabriel Urbain Fauré born on 12 May 1845. Much of Fauré’s music, especially the late pieces, remain l …

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of compositi …

First published in 1998. Volume 14 out of a collection of 25 of Seventeenth- Century Italian Sacred Music, focuses on the works of Vesper, and compline music for four principal voices. This series pr …

’The Craft of Modal Counterpoint’ is the companion book to Benjamin”s ’The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, ’ recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal counterpoint is the style of co …

Increasingly, it is becoming evident that those involved in socio-musical studies must focus their investigative lens on musical practice and articulation of the self, on music and community involvem …

With over 1, 700 entries, this book is the most comprehensive listing to date of writings about Tomas Luis de Victoria and his music as well as recordings and modern editions of his works. Among the …