Musik

Learn to play the flute with popular pieces - lessons and sheet music for beginners

Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.

The Catholic Beethoven offers a new view of Beethoven and his religious music by demonstrating that both the composer and his sacred works were influenced by the German Catholicism of his era to a much greater extent than has been thought. It draws on revisionist historical research into the role of religion in the Enlightenment, especially the Catholic Enlightenment, to interpret both the composer's religious works and documentary evidence of his spiritual outlook. In addition, it is the first book-length treatment of Beethoven's sacred music that is not focused only on the Missa solemnis, but also examines the Mass in C, Christus am Ölberge, and the Gellert Lieder.

Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andraé Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction. His compositions--"The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power," "Through It All," "My Tribute (To God be the Glory)," "Jesus is the Answer," "Soon and Very Soon," and others--remain staples in modern hymnals, and he is often spoken of in the same "genius" pantheon as Mahalia Jackson, Thomas Dorsey and the Rev. James Cleveland. As the definitive biography of Crouch published to date, Soon and Very Soon celebrates the many ways that his legacy indelibly changed the course of gospel and popular music.

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Boyz II Men 40th Anniversary Celebration salutes the men, the fan culture, and the music they created through interviews, photos, and more.

501 Essential Albums of ’80s is the ultimate curated list detailing dozens of the decade’s most influential releases across all genres, featuring descriptions of the releases, album art, and artist imagery.

The rollicking autobiography of the iconic guitarist who took thrash metal behemoths Megadeth from the edge of collapse to their highest peak before departing to Japan for the joy of J-Pop. “The story of how he got where he is is fascinating. The Megadeth years have been well documented, but there’s so much more to Marty Friedman’s story and it’s well worth reading about in Dreaming Japanese.” —Decibel Magazine

The official music quiz book from the iconic Greatest Hits Radio and Channel 4 TV show, with 1,500 new questions - get ready to take on the ultimate PopMaster challenge!DO YOU STOP FOR POPMASTER?Test your pop music knowledge with the official PopMaster quiz book, covering songs and artists in the UK music chart from the 1950s through to the present day. Featuring 1,500 brand new questions and brain teasers from all your favourite segments, including:general knowledgeanagrams of song titlesmissing wordswhat's the connectionsame title but different songwho am I?With questions for music lovers of all ages and tastes, this is the ultimate music quiz book, covering artists ranging from ABBA to ZZ Top and everything in between. Are you a PopMaster Champion or will you be 'one year out'?

This book examines Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll to dive deep on the value of artistic ambiguity, the limits of language, and what we can learn about creative practice from this once-in-a-lifetime band. Throughout the 80s and 90s Cocteau Twins defined dream pop and opened the door for shoegaze. Robin Guthrie's reverb-soaked guitar sound and production set the template for a generation, while Elizabeth Fraser's mesmerising voice and mysterious lyricism beguiled listeners. Blue Bell Knoll was their fifth album and their first to be released on a major label in the US. The lead single 'Carolyn's Fingers' remains their biggest hit. And yet this album represents the band at their most unknowable; the songs inscrutable and the lyrics entirely indecipherable, while somehow being deeply emotive. So often, music is understood through lyrical analysis or framed by what we know about the musicians' lives. Famously reserved in interviews, Cocteau Twins offered up neither. Their belief was that music can express something beyond the capabilities of language. Which poses the question: what does it mean to really know a song - is it simply to feel something?

Mute is a story about the lies we tell to keep going - until westop. Daniel plays keys in a famous rock band. When not on the road,he goes home to his mum. Scarred by a childhood accident, in a world ofmake-believe, it's his haven. But it's 1999 and change is coming

This book examines the state of collegiate music teaching prior to 2020 and captures these radical and sudden changes through the eyes of music conservatory leaders from around the world. It is essential reading for researchers and music educators considering the future of the field in light of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and Me Too.

This volume brings together a selection of essential articles from the journal Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (RIEM), a Spanish-language journal published by the International Society for Music Education, making this work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgment of harm, and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.

This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice. The book provides many fresh ideas for practitioners wanting to utilise arts-based research in development programming.

The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthetics, as well as on his career as a charismatic and at times controversial public figure who was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, particularly in Hungary. The book facilitates a much-needed reevaluation of a public figure and private individual caught up in the web of twentieth-century politics, resulting in a picture that is more complete than ever of one of the most elusive musicians of the twentieth century.

A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshakar's songs that she chose as her favorites.Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers was known as "the Nightingale of India." For her album My Favourites, Vol. 2, Lata chooses 50 songs as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of over 5,000. This book covers an expanse of nearly forty years, connecting you to the real-life events behind the songs, going back to when music listening in India was limited to the radio, the 78 RPM shellac, the occasional visit to the cinema, and later, the vinyl records, cassettes, and the 30 minutes Chitrahaar on television every week.