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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices is a book about our deepest, most telling relationships with music. Nick Coleman examines the act of singing not as a performance, but as a close, difficult moment of hopeful connection. What does it do to us, emotionally and psychologically, to listen hard and habitually to somebody else's singing? Why is human song so essential to our lives? The book asks many other questions,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxii, 599 pages ; 25 cm
Description
An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music that includes individual chapters to groups and individuals -- the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna -- that changed the shape of pop music.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Great Books of China invites readers to discover--or rediscover--some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offers much insight into Chinese life. The long continuity of Chinese culture means that texts created more than two thousand years ago are still part of the education and background of today's China. Great Books of China introduces outstanding works...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 321 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
For many of us, classical music is something serious - something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 1172 pages ; 26 cm
Description
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally diverse, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa, influenced by great novelists working in other languages, and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey....
46) Ah, music!
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
Surveys the history and components of music, concentrating on Western musical traditions.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 212 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them and why? Why are the lost ones never taken into account? This extremely unusual scholarly book tells us an Umberto Eco-like story about the lost tragedies. By arguing that they would have given a radically...
58) Music
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm. + 1 poster (36 x 49 cm)
Description
Uses cartoon-style characters to explain basic concepts in music, discussing the basic characteristics of music, musical notation, musical instruments, and styles of music.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 428 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Description
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties - chanteys to Americans - but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
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