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Orchestration Theory

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387893
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Orchestration Theory written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of orchestration, instrumentation, and musical arranging with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 1,200 citations. The sources range from treatises, dissertations, and textbooks to journal articles and are cross-referenced and indexed. This is the only comprehensive bibliographic reference guide of its kind on the subject of orchestration. It will be of value to the music theory teacher, undergraduate and graduate students of orchestration, and the researcher. The book contains chapters devoted to book-length treatises; a general bibliography of journal articles and books partially related to orchestration; a chronological list of orchestration treatises; a list of jazz-arranging treatises; a list of band-related treatises; a list of treatises dealing with specific instruments or instrumental families; and an index. This is the first in a series of music theory reference books the author is developing.

The Forgotten Melodies

Author : Mehtab Ahmed Khan
Publisher : Mehtab Global LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Melodies written by Mehtab Ahmed Khan and published by Mehtab Global LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Melodies In the bustling city of Crescendo, once renowned for its rich musical heritage, lived a talented composer named Eliza. She had a gift for crafting enchanting melodies that could stir the deepest emotions of those who listened. However, for the past few years, Eliza had been plagued by a creative block that left her feeling like a mere echo of her former self. "The Forgotten Melodies" is a heartwarming tale of rediscovery and passion reignited. Eliza's journey takes her through the labyrinth of her own mind, where the haunting echoes of forgotten melodies beg to be heard once more. As she grapples with self-doubt and the pressure to create, she finds solace in the most unexpected places and rediscovers the beauty of music and composition.

American Masses and Requiems

Author : David P. DeVenney
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780914913146
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book American Masses and Requiems written by David P. DeVenney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving brief, essential information on some 700 works, this guide illustrates the scope of Mass and Requiem compositions of the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

California Soul

Author : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206281
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book California Soul written by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-05-12 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Documented with great care and affection, this book is filled with revelations about the intermingling of peoples, styles of music, business interests, night-life pleasures, and the strange ways lived experience shaped black music as America's music in California." —Charles Keil, co-author of Music Grooves

Alex North, Film Composer

Author : Sanya Shoilevska Henderson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786443332
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Alex North, Film Composer written by Sanya Shoilevska Henderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex North (1910-1991) was one of America's most renowned film composers. His musical scores enhanced more than 60 major motion pictures--A Streetcar Named Desire, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf among them. He had 15 Oscar nominations, and received the Lifetime Achievement Oscar. This book begins with his early life in Pennsylvania, and moves through his studies at Juilliard and in Russia and Mexico, his early experiences in modern dance, documentaries, and theater, and his major work in film. The book also offers analyses of North's musical scores for Streetcar, Spartacus, The Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Honor. Appendices include a bibliography, a filmography, a listing of other North compositions, a discography, and a listing of awards.

Soul on Soul

Author : Tammy L. Kernodle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025205248X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Soul on Soul written by Tammy L. Kernodle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages. In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.

Bassically Speaking

Author : Edward Berger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810826915
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Bassically Speaking written by Edward Berger and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both as a person and as a musician, he was number one in my book." --Benny Carter Bassist George Duvivier (1920-1985) was one of the most universally respected musicians in jazz. His impeccable musicianship graced the big bands in the 1940s and led to musical associations with virtually every important jazz and popular artist. His prolific recording career spanned all styles of music, from Eubie Blake to Eric Dolphy, Billie Holiday to Barry Manilow. Duvivier was a most astute and articulate observer of the musical scene. A large part of this book is devoted to his own reflections on growing up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, the evolution of the bass, life in the commercial studios, and his memories of close associates--Coleman Hawkins, Jimmie Lunceford, Bud Powell, Lena Horne, and many others. In addition, twenty of Duvivier's colleagues, including Louie Bellson, Ron Carter, Milt Hinton, Ed Shaughnessy, Arthur Taylor, and Joe Wilder, have contributed, covering a variety of musical and social issues, as well as providing a loving portrait of an extraordinary artist. Duvivier's musical style is discussed by David Chevan, who has included transcriptions of several solos. An extensive discography/solography traces Duvivier's incredibly diverse recording career. With dozens of previously unpublished photos.

Stan Getz

Author : Nicholas Churchill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786419490
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Stan Getz written by Nicholas Churchill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist, for his bossa nova hits "Desafinado" and "The Girl from Ipanema." However, Getz, born in 1927, began to play professionally at age 15, and his rich musical career lasted until shortly before his death on June 6, 1991. He played in a wide variety of musical settings such as big band, orchestral, quartet, and duo. The incredible beauty of his sound sparked the late jazz great John Coltrane to say, "We would all play like Stan Getz, if we could." When Getz died, jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie said, "He was sheer genius. And there's one thing about this man, he was the most melodic player on the jazz scene." This bibliography, the first of its kind, contains a total of 2,576 bibliographic citations with 2,292 of them annotated. It includes references to periodical literature, articles from news wire services, books, dissertations, films, videos, television programs, radio broadcasts, and Web sites. The citations are primarily from English-language sources. Materials in English and French as well as a handful of items from other languages are annotated. This work includes a preface that contains the scope of the work, a user's guide, and a list of more than 340 periodicals cited. The main body of the work is divided into the following sections: album reviews, performance reviews, discographies and discographical information, transcriptions, biographical and critical works, filmography, and appendix. Album reviews are provided for 240 albums, along with the discographical details for each of these albums. The appendix contains unannotated citations to materials in Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

Quincy Jones

Author : Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 161703861X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Quincy Jones written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the most influential creators and talents of the twentieth century

John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music

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Author : Christopher Coady
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053205
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music written by Christopher Coady and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study of John Lewis and the Third Stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Jazzology

Author : Robert Rawlins
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0634086782
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Jazzology written by Robert Rawlins and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information jazz theory for all types of musicians, and covers harmony, scales and modes, voicing, arrangement techniques, improvisational strategies, fundamentals, and other related topics; and also includes exercises.

Brass Music of Black Composers

Author : Aaron Horne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313064865
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Brass Music of Black Composers written by Aaron Horne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-05-16 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Horne provides the most comprehensive guide to brass music written by black composers. He covers composers from around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Included in the book is biographical information; commission, duration, instrumentation, date of publication, premiere, publisher, discography for each piece; bibliographical sources; and an index which groups the music by numbers, medium, and ensemble. This is the fourth volume in Aaron Horne's monumental effort to provide the most comprehensive guide to music composed by black composers. In this volume he covers composers from around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, including William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, Anthony Davis, John Coltrane, and other major figures from the world of classical, jazz, and popular music. The main body of the book is divided into sections devoted to African, African American, Afro-European, and Afro-Latino composers. Within each section composers are arranged alphabetically; each entry provides biographical information as well as commission, duration, instrumentation, date of publication, premiere, publisher, discography for each composition. Backmatter includes a Brass Music Index which groups the music by numbers, medium, and ensembles; a title index; discography; and bibliography. As with the earlier volumes, this is an essential reference tool for anyone with an interest in researching and/or performing the music of black composers.

Portrait of Johnny

Author : Gene Lees
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307489698
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of Johnny written by Gene Lees and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Something’s Gotta Give”—the honor roll of Mercer’s songs is endless. Both Oscar Hammerstein II and Alan Jay Lerner called him the greatest lyricist in the English language, and he was perhaps the best-loved and certainly the best-known songwriter of his generation. But Mercer was also a complicated and private man. A scion of an important Savannah family that had lost its fortune, he became a successful Hollywood songwriter (his primary partners included Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern), a hit recording artist, and, as co-founder of Capitol Records, a successful businessman, but he remained forever nostalgic for his idealized childhood (with his “huckleberry friend”). A gentleman, a nasty drunk, funny, tender, melancholic, tormented—Mercer was a man immensely talented yet plagued by self-doubt, much admired and loved but never really understood. In music historian and songwriter Gene Lees, Mercer has his perfect biographer, who deals tactfully but directly with Mercer’s complicated relationships with his domineering mother; his tormenting wife, Ginger; and Judy Garland, who was the great love of his life. Lees’s highly personal examination of Mercer’s life is sensitive as only the work of a friend of many years could be to the conflicts in Mercer’s nature. And it is filled with insights into Mercer’s work that could come only from a fellow lyricist (whose own lyrics were much admired by Mercer). A poignant, candid, revelatory portrait of Johnny.

Before Motown

Author : Lars Bjorn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067657
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Before Motown written by Lars Bjorn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Detroit jazz comes alive with remarkable photographs, advertisements, and interviews

An Unsung Cat

Author : Safford Chamberlain
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461656427
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book An Unsung Cat written by Safford Chamberlain and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unsung Cat explores the life and music of jazz saxophonist, Warne Marsh. Safford Chamberlain follows the artist from his start in youth bands like the Hollywood Canteen Kids and The Teen-Agers through his studies under Lennie Tristano, his brilliant playing of the 1950s, his disappearance from public view in the 1960s, his re-emergence in the 1970s, and his belated recognition in the 1980s as one of the finest tenor players of the post-World War II era. Through interviews with the Marsh family and friends, Chamberlain offers an inside view of Marsh's private life, including his struggles with drug abuse. Detailed analysis of outstanding performances complements the personal story, while an extensively researched discography and photographs reveal the public and private face of this unique performer. In addition to the book, Scarecrow is pleased to offer a companion compact disc, released by Storyville Records. The tracks on the CD provide a representative sampling of Marsh's best work, while providing a historical overview of his development, from the beginning track, "Apple Honey," which is a private, low-fidelity tape from an NBC radio broadcast in 1945 of the Hoagy Carmichael Show, to the final track, "Sweet and Lovely," captured months before his death in 1987.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616661
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by Bill C. Malone and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the first time a stand-alone reference to the music and music makers of the American South. With nearly double the number of entries devoted to music in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 30 thematic essays, covering topics such as ragtime, zydeco, folk music festivals, minstrelsy, rockabilly, white and black gospel traditions, and southern rock. And it features 174 topical and biographical entries, focusing on artists and musical outlets. From Mahalia Jackson to R.E.M., from Doc Watson to OutKast, this volume considers a diverse array of topics, drawing on the best historical and contemporary scholarship on southern music. It is a book for all southerners and for all serious music lovers, wherever they live.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765027
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain's most distinguished composers. This source book documents as much of the material on his music as is available to 2001. As Richard McGregor points out in his foreword to the volume, Stewart Craggs has made valuable advances in sorting out the origins of many unknown works and gleaning details of many private compositions. The book also supplies details of those unknown works which haven't appeared in any previous catalogues, including broadcasts of early works from the BBC Archives. With information given on first performances, manuscript locations and recordings, in addition to details of composition dates, authors/librettists, durations, commissions and dedications amongst much else, this book is a key reference source for all those interested in Peter Maxwell Davies and his music.