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Book Maestros of the Pen

Download or read book Maestros of the Pen written by Mark N. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of music criticism in the United States.

Book Who Killed Classical Music

Download or read book Who Killed Classical Music written by Norman Lebrecht and published by Birch Lane Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the villains and heroes of contemporary classical music, looking at the star system, commercialism, recording and management politics, concert agencies, and the festival racket. Includes bandw photos. For general readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Book Music of the Gilded Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : N. Lee Orr
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2007-05-30
  • ISBN : 0313343098
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Music of the Gilded Age written by N. Lee Orr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Gilded Age was a time of great musical evolution. As the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe, its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. Music-as-entertainment also evolved, with marching bands at public events and the new musicals in theaters. This volume presents the composers, musicians, songwriters, instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age. Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras; Grand Opera; Composers, Critics, and Conservatories; Amateurs and Music at Home; Sacred Music, Black and White; Ragtime, Vaudeville, and the American Musical Stage; Music, Politics, and the Progressive Movement; and Music Industries and Technology

Book Fritz Reiner  Maestro and Martinet

Download or read book Fritz Reiner Maestro and Martinet written by Kenneth Morgan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kenneth Morgan, who began collecting Reiner's recordings while still a schoolboy, has consulted printed and archival resources and undertaken new interviews with Reiner's associates, critics, and family. Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet also offers the first close and systematic look at Reiner's recordings, interpretations, and musicality, vividly characterizing Reiner's distinctive qualities as a conductor."--Jacket.

Book Critics  Ratings  and Society

Download or read book Critics Ratings and Society written by Grant Blank and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics, Ratings, and Society is the first comprehensive study of the review as social institution. Its theories and data encompass reviews of all types of products--including the arts (e.g. theater, books, and music) and consumer products (e.g. cars, software, and appliances). According to Blank, the core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. The connoisseurial-procedural distinction describes the production of credibility and its assessment under different types of rating systems.

Book Maestros in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roderick L. Sharpe
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2008-05-30
  • ISBN : 1461669480
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Maestros in America written by Roderick L. Sharpe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century provides short biographical and critical essays of over 100 American conductors-and conductors in America-in the twenty-first century. Roderick L. Sharpe and Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman made their selections based on three categories of persons: American-born; naturalized US citizens; and foreign conductors holding a permanent appointment in the US. In addition, all individuals included had to have been active as conductors at the start of the new millennium. These criteria allowed the authors to incorporate up-and-comers as well as those more established, offering an extensive cross-section of the upper echelons of the conducting profession focused on the present, recent past, and future. Each entry is a biographical essay containing essential facts of the conductor's life and work, as well as assessment and commentary gleaned from articles, interviews, reviews, and, in some cases, personal observation. The entries conclude with the conductor's website, a list of further reading, and selected recordings. These sketches of currently or recently practicing conductors provide insight into the state of orchestral music-making in the US as it is, has been, and may become, highlighting the efforts these conductors made to ensure its survival. Complete with two appendixes and an index, this important reference will be beneficial to music students and faculty, reference librarians, orchestral administrators, and music lovers alike.

Book Journalism 1908

Download or read book Journalism 1908 written by Betty Houchin Winfield and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1908 was not remarkable by most accounts, but it was an auspicious year for journalism. As newspapers sought to recover from big-city yellow journalism and circulation wars that reached their boiling point a few years earlier during the Spanish-American War, press clubs began to champion higher education. And schools dedicated to journalism education, led by the University of Missouri, began to emerge. Now sanctioned by universities, journalism could teach acceptable behavior and establish credentials. It was nothing less than the birth of a profession. Journalism—1908 opens a window on mass communication a century ago. It tells how the news media in the United States were fundamentally changed by the creation of academic departments and schools of journalism, by the founding of the National Press Club, and by exciting advances that included early newsreels, the introduction of halftones to print, and even changes in newspaper design. Journalism educator Betty Houchin Winfield has gathered a team of well-known media scholars, all specialists in particular areas of journalism history, to examine the status of their profession in 1908: news organizations, business practices, media law, advertising, forms of coverage from sports to arts, and more. Various facets of journalism are explored and situated within the country’s history and the movement toward reform and professionalism—not only formalized standards and ethics but also labor issues concerning pay, hours, and job differentiation that came with the emergence of new technologies. This overview of a watershed year is national in scope, examining early journalism education programs not only at Missouri but also at such schools as Colgate, Washington and Lee, Wisconsin, and Columbia. It also reviews the status of women in the profession and looks beyond big-city papers to Progressive Era magazines, the immigrant press, and African American publications. Journalism—1908 commemorates a century of progress in the media and, given the place of Missouri’s School of Journalism in that history, is an appropriate celebration of that school’s centennial. It is a lode of information about journalism education history that will surprise even many of those in the field and marks a seminal year with lasting significance for the profession.

Book Notes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Music Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Harmonicon

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1830
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book The Harmonicon written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maestro

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melissa Rea
  • Publisher : Satin Romance
  • Release : 2021-11-16
  • ISBN : 1955784345
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Maestro written by Melissa Rea and published by Satin Romance. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriella stands on a gallows one day before her 19th birthday in 1718. She tells her story to a young blacksmith, a surly milkmaid, and a mute dwarf who is much more than the muckraker he seems. The pampered daughter of a count, Gabriella’s entire existence has been her music, until one afternoon’s sensual exploration leads to the shame of two noble families and her exile to a convent school for orphan girls, the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, Italy. Antonio Vivaldi, the school’s Maestro of the Concerto, teaches the students and composes. She tells of her friend, Veronica, a sublimely talented violinist whose cold eyes hide tragic secrets and of whose murder she now stands convicted. With tears in her eyes, she speaks of her love, Raphael, the handsome overseer whom she had planned to marry. The story of her desperate attempt to learn the truth of a terrible curse that took her own child’s life, and save Veronica from a dark affair, holds the crowd’s rapt attention. Now she must escape with the help of her friends, from the Ospedale, and perhaps those in the crowd assembled to watch her hang.

Book All Aboard Overnight

Download or read book All Aboard Overnight written by Betsy Maestro and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a number of compound words, such as suitcase, railroad, and tablecloth, through the story of a family taking a train trip.

Book Maestros  Masterpieces and Madness

Download or read book Maestros Masterpieces and Madness written by Norman Lebrecht and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. This book charts its rise since Caruso's first gramophone bestseller of 1902 and predicts the industry's imminent doom in the face of schmaltzy crossover albums and technology.

Book The Sketch

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Harmonicon

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  • Author : William Ayrton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1827
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Harmonicon written by William Ayrton and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Course in Spanish

Download or read book First Course in Spanish written by Joseph Emanuel Alexander Alexis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Music Connoisseur

Download or read book The New Music Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: