Download or read book 35 Song Hits by Great Black Songwriters written by David A. Jasen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of ballads, show tunes, and other works written by black songwriters from 1895 to 1921.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American Music 3 volumes written by Tammy L. Kernodle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and dreams through spirituals. Inspired by African civilization and culture, as well as religion, art, literature, and social issues, this influential, joyous, tragic, uplifting, challenging, and enduring music evolved into many diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, swing, and hip hop. Providing a lyrical history of our nation, this groundbreaking encyclopedia, the first of its kind, showcases all facets of African American music including folk, religious, concert and popular styles. Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others. Offering balanced representation of key individuals, groups, and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and other perspectives not usually approached, this indispensable reference illuminates the profound role that African American music has played in American cultural history. Editors Price, Kernodle, and Maxile provide balanced representation of various individuals, groups and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and perspectives. Also highlighted are the major record labels, institutions of higher learning, and various cultural venues that have had a tremendous impact on the development and preservation of African American music. Among the featured: Motown Records, Black Swan Records, Fisk University, Gospel Music Workshop of America, The Cotton Club, Center for Black Music Research, and more. With a broad scope, substantial entries, current coverage, and special attention to historical, political, and social contexts, this encyclopedia is designed specifically for high school and undergraduate students. Academic and public libraries will treasure this resource as an incomparable guide to our nation's African American heritage.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present O T written by Paul Finkelman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.
Download or read book The American Song Treasury written by Theodore Raph and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful sing-along favorites with easy-to-play piano arrangements, guitar chords, and complete lyrics: Greensleeves, Auld Lang Syne, Down in the Valley, My Wild Irish Rose, Yellow Rose of Texas, and many more.
Download or read book Tin Pan Alley written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
Download or read book Ragtime rediscoveries written by Trebor Jay Tichenor and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 64 works from the golden age of rag, most long unavailable, including rare works by James Scott, Cy Seymour, E.J. Stark, Bob Hoffman, Harry L. Cook, Max Hoffmann, and 51 other composers, among them several women. Original cover, too.
Download or read book Complete piano rags written by Scott Joplin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from the publishers' original editions, offers all thirty-eight piano rags by the respected master of the form, along with the original sheet music covers.
Download or read book 60 Handel Overtures Arranged for Solo Keyboard written by George Frideric Handel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic overture had its beginnings in Renaissance court entertainments, which often began with a flourish of trumpets. It reached a high point of inspiration in the overtures that George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) composed for his operas and oratorios. This volume presents 60 Handel overtures and sinfonias, originally scored for orchestra, superbly arranged for solo keyboard. They have been reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed, probably in the 1750s, by Handel's London publisher, John Walsh. Happily, these brilliant works have lost nothing in translation of their Handelian vitality and interest. Many of them, such as the overtures to "Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Alexander s Feast, Julius Caesar, "the second overture in "Solomon" (known as the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"), and the so-called Water Musick, are very familiar to music lovers. Some will be fresh discoveries for keyboard players. Together they demonstrate Handel s exciting theatrical sense, his technical virtuosity in composition, and his dazzling mastery of musical forms, which he often combined into his own unique creations. This edition preserves the original keyboard notation, amazingly precise in its elegant execution and, of course, entirely legible to present-day performers."
Download or read book Danse Macabre and Other Piano Transcriptions written by Franz Liszt and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original collection features Liszt's interpretations of his own "Totentanz" plus Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre, " Berlioz's "Dance of the Sylphes" from" The Damnation of Faust, "Weber's "Overtures to Die ""Freischutz" and "Oberon, "and several other pieces.
Download or read book Bach s the Art of Fugue a Companion to the Art of Fugue written by Donald Francis Tovey and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devices and offers keen observations on the composer's craftsmanship.
Download or read book Russian Piano Music written by Andor Pinter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 44 pieces spotlights the works of important Russian composers who popularized their native folk music. Contributors include Michael Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and others.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings written by Steve Sullivan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.
Download or read book 3 petites pi ces mont es written by Erik Satie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Associated with the avant-garde artistic movements of early 20th-century Paris, Satie created a "cubist manifesto"' with his 1916 work "Parade." This compilation includes the celebrated ballet, plus "La belle excentrique," "En habit de cheval," "Trois morceaux en forme de poire," and "Trois petites pièces montées." Students and performers of four-hand piano music will delight in this new edition, perfect for both rehearsal and recital purposes. Introduction. Glossary.
Download or read book Dances for Solo Piano written by Antonin Dvorak and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Dover edition, first published in 2013, is a new compilation of works by Antonain Dvoeraak, reprinted from early authoritative editions"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Petrie s complete Irish music written by George Petrie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of 100 years and three generations of archivists, this compilation, which originally appeared in 1905, encompasses the musical wealth of a nation.
Download or read book Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs written by James William Elliott and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic collection of nursery rhymes set to music. Elliott's melodies perfectly capture the charms of these verses; many, including "Sing a Song of Sixpence," have become inseparable from the original rhymes. Lavishly illustrated with 66 beautiful engravings by the Dalziel brothers — renowned Victorian-era illustrators of children's books.
