Authors:Patricia Shehan Campbell, Bonnie C. Wade,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: music, expressing, experiencing, includes, books, global, series, package, thinking, globally, cultureiand, teaching, musically, culture
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0195171438
ISBN-13: 9780195171433
Teaching Music Globally guides readers in using Thinking Musically and its accompanying case studies. Essential for anyone who wishes to teach beginning students of any age about music from around the world, it describes many instructional techniques and offers a wealth of learning activities.
Author: Christopher Hogwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: music, cambridge, handbooks, fireworks, royal, water, handel
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-12-19
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 0521836360
ISBN-13: 9780521836364
This Handbook covers Handel’s best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of the two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context. Practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry into Handel’s compositional processes, and the relationship of these pieces to his other large-scale orchestral compositions.Book DescriptionThis Handbook covers Handel’s best known public mu
Author: Scott L. Marcu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: music, includes, global, culture, expressing, egypt, experiencing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-11-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 019514645X
ISBN-13: 9780195146455
The Global Music Series is an innovative introduction to world music that focuses on how people make music meaningful and useful in their lives. It includes captivating case studies that feature eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with performers, and vivid illustrations. Each volume is packaged with an audio CD that contains representative examples of the music discusses in the book. Numerous listening activities encourage readers to engage actively with the music. Music in the Middle East focuses on the varieties of music that fill the eastern Arab world--with special emphasis on
Author: Bonnie C. Wade
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: music, global, series, culture, expressing, japan, experiencing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-09-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195144880
ISBN-13: 9780195144888
Music in Japan is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present.The website also includes instructional mate
Author: Frederick Lau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: music, includes, global, culture, expressing, china, experiencing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-11-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195301242
ISBN-13: 9780195301243
Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of
Author: Thomas Turino
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: music, global, culture, experiencing, andes, expressing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195306740
ISBN-13: 9780195306743
Music in the Andes is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a lis
Author: Wallace T. Berry
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: music, history, books, dover, structural, functions
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1987-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0486253848
ISBN-13: 9780486253848
A brilliant investigation into musical structure and experience through a systematic exploration of tonality, melody, harmony, texture and rhythm, and their important interpretations. These are illuminated in penetrating analyses of musical works ranging from early madrigals and Gregorian chants through Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to Ravel, Bartk and Berg. Index. Prefaces. Introduction.
