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Book An account of the musical performances in Westminster abbey  and the Pantheon  May     and June     1784  in commemoration of Handel

Download or read book An account of the musical performances in Westminster abbey and the Pantheon May and June 1784 in commemoration of Handel written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey  and the Pantheon  May 26th  27th  29th  and June the 3d  and 5th  1784  In Commemoration of Handel

Download or read book An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon May 26th 27th 29th and June the 3d and 5th 1784 In Commemoration of Handel written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charles Avison s Essay on Musical Expression

Download or read book Charles Avison s Essay on Musical Expression written by Pierre Dubois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Charles Burney as the first essay devoted to 'musical criticism' proper, it established the primary importance of 'expression' and reconsidered the relative importance of harmony and melody. Immediately after its publication it was followed by William Hayes's Remarks (1753), to which Avison himself retorted in his Reply. Taken together these three texts offer a fascinating insight into the debate that raged in the 18th century between the promoters of the so-called 'ancient music' (such as Hayes) and the more 'modern' musicians. Beyond matters of taste, what was at stake in Avison's theoretical contribution was the assertion that the individual's response to music ultimately mattered more than the dry rules established by professional musicians. Avison also wrote several prefaces to the published editions of his own musical compositions. This volume reprints these prefaces and advertisements together with his Essay to provide an interesting view of eighteenth-century conceptions of composition and performance, and a complete survey of Avison's theory of music.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society written by Sacred Harmonic Society (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brass Bands of the World  Militarism  Colonial Legacies  and Local Music Making

Download or read book Brass Bands of the World Militarism Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making written by Katherine Brucher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world. Although these ensembles draw upon European military traditions that spread globally through colonialism, militarism and missionary work, local musicians have adapted the brass band prototype to their home settings, and today these ensembles are found in religious processions and funerals, military manoeuvres and parades, and popular music genres throughout the world. Based on their expertise in ethnographic and archival research, the contributors to this volume present a series of essays that examine wind band cultures from a range of disciplinary perspectives, allowing for a comparison of band cultures across geographic and historical fields. The themes addressed encompass the military heritage of band cultures; local appropriations of the military prototype; links between bands and their local communities; the spheres of local band activities and the modes of sociability within them; and the role of bands in trajectories toward professional musicianship. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in ethnomusicology, colonial and post-colonial studies, community music practices, as well as anyone who has played with or listened to their local band.

Book A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player

Download or read book A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player written by Elisa Koehler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the contemporary musical student or performer. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to playing technique and major works to key figures. A must-have for any musician’s personal library! Trumpeters today perform a vast repertoire of musical material spanning 500 years, much of it in a variety of styles and even on a number of related instruments. In A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player, scholar and performer, Elisa Koehler has created a key reference work that addresses all of the instruments in the high brass family, providing ready answers to issues that trumpeters, conductors, and musicians commonly—and sometimes not so commonly—encounter. Drawing on a broad range of scholarly sources, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player includes entries on historic instruments like the cornetto, keyed bugle, and slide trumpet; jazz trumpet techniques; mutes and accessories; and ancient ancestors of the trumpet and related non-Western instruments. In addition to its concise and detailed definitions, this work includes biographies of prominent performers, teachers, instrument makers, and composers of trumpet solo and ensemble literature often omitted from other musical references. Carefully labeled illustrations illuminate the inner workings of various valve mechanisms, allowing readers to visualize the more technical points of high brass instruments. Appendixes include a time line of trumpet history, a survey of valve mechanisms, a list of prominent excerpts from the orchestral and operatic repertoire, and an extensive bibliography. From quick definitions of confusing terms in a musical score to an in-depth overview of trumpet history, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player is an ideal reference for students, professionals, and music lovers.

Book The Trombone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor Herbert
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300100952
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Trombone written by Trevor Herbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries. The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.

Book Bibliotheca Norfolciensis

Download or read book Bibliotheca Norfolciensis written by Jeremiah James Colman and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annunciations  Sacred Music for the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Annunciations Sacred Music for the Twenty First Century written by George Corbett and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relationship between the sacred and the composition, performance, and appreciation of music. Through the theme of ‘annunciations’, this volume interrogates how, when, why, through and to whom God communicates in the Old and New Testaments. In doing so, it tackles the intimate relationship between Scriptural reflection and musical practice in the past, its present condition, and what the future might hold. Annunciations comprises three parts. Part I sets out flexible theological and compositional frameworks for a constructive relationship between the sacred and music. Part II presents the reflections of theologians and composers involved in collaborating on new pieces of sacred choral music, alongside the six new scores and links to the recordings. Part III considers the reality of programming and performing sacred works today. This volume provides an indispensable resource for scholars and artists working at the interface between theology and the arts, and for those involved in sacred music. However, it will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the ways in which the Divine communicates through word and artistry to humanity.

Book Pilgrimage and England s Cathedrals

Download or read book Pilgrimage and England s Cathedrals written by Dee Dyas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant breakthrough in pilgrimage studies. An exemplary study that shows how to bring together different academic and institutional interests in a common cause – understanding the relationship between pilgrimage and English cathedrals over time. A publication that will, hopefully, inspire similar collaborative studies around the globe." - John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Roehampton, UK "People who oversee, minister, lead worship, guide, welcome, manage, market, promote and maintain cathedrals will find this book an indispensable treasure. It is aware of the awesome complexity inherent in cathedral life but it doesn’t duck the issues: its clear-eyed focus is on the way people experience cathedrals and how these extraordinary holy places can speak and connect with all the diversity represented by the people who come to them. In a spiritually-hungry age, this book shows us how to recognise and meet that hunger. This book will be required reading for all us “insiders” trying to invite and signpost access to holy ground." - The Very Reverend Adrian Dorber, Dean of Lichfield, Chair of the Association of English Cathedrals This book looks at England's cathedrals and their relationship with pilgrimage throughout history and in the present day. The volume brings together historians, social scientists, and cathedral practitioners to provide groundbreaking work, comprising a historical overview of the topic, thematic studies, and individual views from prominent clergy discussing how they see pilgrimage as part of the contemporary cathedral experience.

Book Music in the Georgian Novel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Dubois
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-13
  • ISBN : 1316352536
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Music in the Georgian Novel written by Pierre Dubois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music was an essential aspect of life in eighteenth-century Britain and plays a crucial role in the literary strategies of Georgian novels. This book is the first to investigate the literary representation of music in these works and explores the structural, dramatic and metaphorical roles of music in novels by authors ranging from Richardson to Austen. Pierre Dubois explores the meaning of 'musical scenes' by framing them within contemporary cultural issues, such as the critique of Italian opera or the theoretical shift from mimesis to the alleged autonomy and mystery of music. Focusing upon both eighteenth-century theories of music, and the way specific musical instruments were perceived in the collective imagination, Dubois suggests new interpretative perspectives for a whole range of novels of the Georgian era. This book will be of interest to a wide readership interested not only in literature, but also in music and cultural history at large.

Book The Historical Performance of Music

Download or read book The Historical Performance of Music written by Colin Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

Book Trombone

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. M. Guion
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-03-18
  • ISBN : 1134287933
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Trombone written by D. M. Guion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning in the middle of the seventeenth century, and then from Mozart to the present, few deal with the intervening years. This book reproduces the texts from two dozen treatises, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, along with English translations, published between 1697 and 1811. It provides an overview of the use of the trombone during that time in America and seven European countries and examines its use in choral music, opera, symphonic music and military music.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society   Part 1  Printed books

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society Part 1 Printed books written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: