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Engaging with Everyday Sounds
'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. Marcel Cobussen intertwines sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an impressively lucid and innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we should attend.
The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916)
The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) by Jack London explores drama, indians of north america.
Music and Dances from Central Nepal: The Works of Subi Shah: Volume 1
In this book, performer, educator, and writer Subi Shah presents an essential commentary and analysis of Himalayan folk music and performance. Having documented this musical tradition since the 1960s, Shah has created in-depth analyses of song, dance, music, poetry, and drama within their local and…
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Mathews traces musical instruments, scales and composition through successive periods. Illustrations, musical examples and accounts of composers accompany the historical survey.
The story of chamber music
Nicholas Kilburn follows the development of chamber music and the composers who shaped its principal forms. The discussion considers ensembles, instruments and the experience of listening to music on an intimate scale.
Research Paths in the Ukulele
Researchers, composers and performers explore the ukulele through its history, musical possibilities and instrument design. The essays connect performance and composition with questions of technique, sound and the changing place of the instrument in musical life.
Defining South African Music: Musicians & Aficionados Speak
Musicians and listeners reflect on the forms, traditions and meanings of South African music. Their perspectives explore performance, spiritual experience, artistic identity and the cultural settings in which music is made and heard.
Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven
George Alexander Fischer follows Beethoven’s life through his working habits, relationships and musical achievements. The study considers the development of his compositions and the influence of his music on Wagner, connecting biography with discussion of individual works.
Songs From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Lucy E. Broadwood sets songs from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books to music, with illustrations by Charles Folkard. The volume brings the verses, notation and pictures together, including familiar songs from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Remediating Opera: Crossing and Encounters Between Film and Music Studies
Essays on exchanges between opera, film and music studies. The contributors examine how works, performances and artistic techniques change as they move between musical and moving-image forms.
The Beggar's Opera
John Gay’s ballad opera follows the highwayman Macheath, the Peachum household and the people around Newgate prison. Songs and dialogue connect courtship, criminal enterprise and competing loyalties in eighteenth-century London.