A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan.Traditional Japanese ko–uta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating «flower and willow world.» Literally, these are «little songs» sung by a geisha who accompanies herself on the three–stringed sham ...
Music is a highly relaxing and motivating activity to young learners. But more than these, music boosts the brain power by stimulating the parts of the brain that are responsible for math, emotional and reading development. So expose your child to music and let him/her pick the right musical instruments to learn. Start with a copy of this book now! ...
Make your kids listen to the chime of faith and Jesus with this Christian Songs and Rhymes for Children. Composed of numerous Christian songs, your kids will surely have fun praising the name of Jesus by singing their hearts out. Hear them sing and watch them lift their hands for God’s child. Get this book here. ...
In California's Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music's hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names, and it aggressively pushed style, instrumentation, and attitude that countered the orchestral country pop churned out from Nashville. In this compellin ...
Richard Taruskin’s sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of music studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of taste. <I>Cursed Questions, </I>invoking a famous catchphrase from Russian intellectual history, gra ...
In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and violins that were pure LA mariachi by way of Mexico, “The Tide Is High& ...
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption.&am ...
The <I>Treatise on Musical Objects</I> is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in <I>musique concrète</I> to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the ...
Where do you place the hyphen in «Beethoven» if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane’s album <I>A Love Supreme</I>? Is it «premiere» or «premiere»? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers—anyone who deals with music in print. Extending the principles devised for the classical repertoires, this revised and expanded edition now includes e ...
