The book focuses primarily on unconventional approaches to guitar performance, which include alternative tunings, extended techniques, instrumental preparations, electronic augmentations, and issues related to performing and recording with ...
De redactie werd gevormd door prof. dr. Kees Vellekoop, prof. dr. Ignace Bossuyt, dr. Rudolf Rasch, prof. dr. Emile Wennekes, prof. dr. Rokus de Groot, prof. dr. Mark Delaere, dr. Lutgard Mutsaers.
In considering the need for a different way of telling the story of Western music, Conventional Wisdom bravely tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds ...
Each of Franck's twelve major organ works is discussed in detail: the manuscript, the work's history and association with Franck and his circle, published editions, corrections to the 1959 Durand edition, and recorded performances.
This revised second edition has been expanded to include chapters on teaching adult students and teaching popular, sacred, and other familiar music.
The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith ...
Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an ...
The book addresses: market research marketing strategy value creation branding customer acquisition market distribution pricing strategy sustaining customers and value Features include: Discussion questions and classroom activities Case ...
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed.
This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music ...