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Author : Oscar George Sonneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Concert-life in America (1731-1880) written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar George Sonneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Concert-life in America (1731-1800) written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Lloyd Winstead
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317902
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book When Colleges Sang written by J. Lloyd Winstead and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present. Before fraternity songs, alma maters, and the rahs of college fight songs became commonplace, students sang. Students in the earliest American colleges created their own literary melodies that they shared with their classmates. As J. Lloyd Winstead documents in When Colleges Sang, college singing expanded in conjunction with the growth of the nation and the American higher education system. While it was often simply an entertaining pastime, singing had other subtle and not-so-subtle effects. Singing indoctrinated students into the life of formal and informal student organizations as well as encouraged them to conform to college rituals and celebrations. University faculty used songs to reinforce the religious practices and ceremonial observances that their universities supported. Students used singing for more social purposes: students sang to praise their peer’s achievements (and underachievements), mock the faculty, and provide humor. In extreme circumstances, they sang to intimidate classmates and faculty, and to defy college authorities. Singing was, and is, an intrinsic part of campus culture. When Colleges Sang explores the dynamics that inspired collegiate singing and the development of singing traditions from the earliest days of the American college. Winstead explores this tradition’s tenuous beginnings in the Puritan era and follows its progress into the present. Using historical documents provided by various universities, When Colleges Sang follows the unique applications and influences of song that persisted in various forms. This original and significant contribution to the literature of higher education sheds light on how college singing traditions have evolved through the generations and have continued to remain culturally relevant even today.
Author : Grosvenor Library (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Relating to Music in the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y. written by Grosvenor Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Brookes
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846130
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Guitar written by Tim Brookes and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble folk instrument to American icon, the story of the guitar is told in this “exceptionally well-written” memoir by the NPR commentator (Guitar Player). In this blend of personal memoir and cultural history, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes narrates the long and winding history of the guitar in the United States as he recounts his own quest to build the perfect instrument. Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes learns how a perfect piece of cherry wood is hued, dovetailed, and worked on with saws, rasps, and files. He also discovers how the guitar first arrived in America with the conquistadors before being taken up by an extraordinary variety of hands: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents’ wives. In time, the guitar became America’s vehicle of self-expression. Nearly every immigrant group has appropriated it to tell their story. “Part history, part love song, Guitar strikes just the right chords.” —Andrew Abrahams, People
Author : James R. Heintze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042977334X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865 written by James R. Heintze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. This study covers a wide cross-section of topics, individuals, groups, and musical practices representing various regions and cities. The subjects discussed reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality of the American musical experience as well as the impact on cultural society provided by the arrival of new musical immigrants and the internal movements of musicians and musical practices. The essays are arranged principally on the basis of the historical chronology of the cultural practices and subjects discussed. Each article helps to shed additional light on cultural expressions through music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.
Author : Maurice Edwards
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810856660
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book How Music Grew in Brooklyn written by Maurice Edwards and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Brooklyn Philharmonic is one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times. Maurice Edwards provides a personal and comprehensive history of this institution. How Music Grew in Brooklyn includes more than two dozen historical photographs and illustrations and an eighty-page appendix providing detailed listing of the orchestra's programs, including the Marathons."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Joshua R. LeHuray
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662843
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Virginians Will Dance or Die! written by Joshua R. LeHuray and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music was everywhere in pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1771, plantation owner Landon Carter noted in his diary that he could hear instruments through the windows of every house in town. In taverns and private homes, at formal performances and dances and casually around the campfire, music filled the daily lives of the people of Williamsburg. While the average citizen enjoyed music during public events, the city's elite, emulating their British counterparts, spent lavishly on instruments, sheet music and private lessons and held private concerts and dances. Williamsburg's theater, the first of its kind in America, provided a venue for all Virginians and brought numerous musical acts to the stage. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to explore how some 18th-century Williamsburg citizens experienced the growing musical world around them.
Author : Tim Brookes
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142580
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Guitar: an American life written by Tim Brookes and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reunion is the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years separation. Dark Pony is the telling of a mythical story by a father to his young daughter as they drive home in the evening.
Author : James A. Keene
Publisher : Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 0944435661
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)
Download or read book A History of Music Education in the United States written by James A. Keene and published by Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keene provides a detailed account of music instruction in colonial and nationalized America from the 1600s to the end of the 1960s. (Music)
Author : Charles H. Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Music of Eighteenth Century New Jersey written by Charles H. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses musical activities in eighteenth-century New Jersey and the contributions of the various ehtnic groups that settled there.
Author : John Ogasapian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061890
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era written by John Ogasapian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonial days of America marked not only the beginnings of a country, but also of a new culture, part of which was the first American music publishers, entrepreneurs, and instrument makers forging musical communities from New England to New Spain. Elements of British, Spanish, German, Scots-Irish, and Native American music all contributed to the many cultures and subcultures of the early nation. While English settlers largely sought to impose their own culture in the new land, the adaptation of native music by Spanish settlers provided an important cultural intersection. The music of the Scots-Irish in the middle colonies planted the seeds of a folk ballad tradition. In New England, the Puritans developed a surprisingly rich—and recreational—musical culture. At the same time, the Regular Singing Movement attempted to reduce the role of the clergy in religious services. More of a cultural examination than a music theory book, this work provides vastly informative narrative chapters on early American music and its role in colonial and Revolutionary culture. Chapter bibliographies, a timeline, and a subject index offer additional resources for readers. The American History through Music series examines the many different types of music prevalent throughout U.S. history, as well as the roles these music types have played in American culture. John Ogasapian's volume on the Colonial and Revolutionary period applies this cultural focus to the music of America's infancy and illuminates the surprisingly complex relationships in music of that time.
Author : Jeffrey Noonan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733020
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Guitar in America written by Jeffrey Noonan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America\'s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America\'s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late nineteenth-century musical and com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments into America\'s elite musical establishments. Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement\'s heyday, tracing the guitar\'s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments. Chapters consider the BMG movement\'s impact on jazz and popular music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America\'s musicians. This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the BMG community within America\'s larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country\'s uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce. Jeffrey J. Noonan, associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, has performed professionally on classical guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, and theorbo for over twenty-five years. His articles have appeared in Soundboard and NYlon Review .
Author : George Everett Hastings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson written by George Everett Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Groce
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728975
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Musical Instrument Makers of New York written by Nancy Groce and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of any skilled urban trade is ultimately tied to the growth and development of the city in which it is located. From its humble eighteenth-century beginnings, instrument making grew to be one of New York City's most sizable and important trades. By the 1840s, the city was the largest producer of instruments in the Western Hemisphere, and, in the decades that followed, designs and innovations pioneered by New York artisans influenced and inspired instrument makers throughout the world. Although many of the these instruments survive in American museums, there existed no comprehensive guide to their makers. Nancy Groce's biographical dictionary chronicles all of these master craftsmen in colorful detail, from the obscure work of Geoffry Stafford in 1691, to the zenith of the 1890s, and on to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Information on Music: The Americas written by Guy A. Marco and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Clowes Chorley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church written by Edward Clowes Chorley and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."
