Search Results - "Evolution"

On Highway 61 : music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom / by McNally, Dennis

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Music in history : the evolution of an art / by McKinney, Howard Decker, 1889-

Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences : a study in the evolution of musical thought / by Cohen, Albert, 1929-

Russian émigré culture : conservatism or evolution? /

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Dub in Babylon : understanding the evolution and significance of dub reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to post-punk / by Partridge, Christopher H. (Christopher Hugh), 1961-

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Stravinsky & Balanchine a journey of invention / by Joseph, Charles M.

Table of Contents: “…Commonalities and contrasts : a meeting of minds -- At the crossroads : the intercession of Diaghilev -- An early encounter : Le chant du rossignol -- From Delos to Paris : the voyage of Apollo -- The evolution of Apollo : poetry, musical architecture, and choreographic equilibrium -- A new beginning : Kirstein, America, and Jeu de cartes -- The war years -- Passage to Orpheus -- Agon : recapturing the past and confronting the future -- The evolution of Agon's musical structure -- Choreography or carpentry? …”
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Music, language, and the brain by Patel, Aniruddh D.

Table of Contents: “…Sound elements: pitch and timbre -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Syntax -- Meaning -- Evolution.…”
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Rebels wit attitude subversive rock humorists / by Ellis, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: subversion, rock, humor -- The fifties: evolution to revolution -- The sixties: humor grows up-- and away -- The seventies: radical cynicism -- The eighties: postmodern regenerations -- The nineties: rock in flux -- The naughties: post-irony and identity humor.…”
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Prokofiev's piano sonatas a guide for the listener and the performer / by Berman, Boris

Table of Contents: “…Prokofiev : his life and the evolution of his musical language -- Prokofiev the pianist -- Sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 1 -- Sonata no. 2 in D minor, op. 14 -- Sonata no. 3 in A minor, op. 28 -- Sonata no. 4 in C minor, op. 29 -- Sonata no. 5 in C major, op. 38 (first version), op. 135 (second version) -- Sonata no. 6 in A major, op. 82 -- Sonata no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 83 -- Sonata no. 8 in B-flat major, op. 84 -- Sonata no. 9 in C major, op. 103 -- Sonata no. 10 in E minor, op. 137 -- Conclusion : To be a Prokofiev pianist.…”
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Highlife Saturday night popular music and social change in urban Ghana / by Plageman, Nate, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights -- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 -- The making of a middle class: urban social clubs and the evolution of highlife music, 1915-1940 -- The friction on the floor: negotiating nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 -- "The highlife was born in Ghana": politics, culture, and the making of a national music, 1950-1965 -- "We were the ones who composed the songs": the promises and pitfalls of being a bandsman, 1945-1970.…”
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Hip hop's amnesia from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement / by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: on the "old school" origins and evolution of rap music, hip hop culture, and the hip hop movement -- "Lifting as we climb!" …”
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Electronic and computer music by Manning, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The background, to 1945 -- Developments from 1945 to 1960 -- Paris and musique concrète -- Cologne and electronische musik -- Milan and elsewhere in Europe -- America -- New horizons in electronic design -- The voltage-controlled synthesizer -- The electronic repertory from 1960 -- Works for tape -- Live electronic music -- Rock and pop electronic music -- The digital revolution to 1980 -- The foundations of computer music -- From computer technology to musical creativity -- The microprocessor revolution -- The characteristics of digital audio -- MIDI -- The development of the MIDI communications protocol -- From analog to digital: the evolution of MIDI hardware -- From microcomputer to music computer: the MIDI dimension -- New horizons for MIDI-based technologies -- Desktop synthesis and signal processing -- Personal computers and sound processing -- Music workstations and related computing architectures -- The expanding perspective -- Performance controllers -- New horizons in synthesis and signal processing software.…”
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Music, theology, and worship selected writings, 1841-1896 /

Table of Contents: “…Hewins ; The Bible authority for church music (1875) / Wilbur Fisk Crafts ; The evolution of church music (1896) / F. Landon Humphreys ; The art of Gregorian music (1896) / Dom André Mocquereau / Thoughts on congregational singing (1842) / William Jones ; Congregational singing (1868) / Reuben T. …”
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Renewal and resistance Catholic church music from the 1850s to Vatican II / by Collins, Paul, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The renewal of Catholic church music in Germany/Austria, France and Italy in the nineteenth century / Eckhard Jaschinski -- Emissaries to "a believing and a singing land" : Belgian and German organists in Ireland, 1859-1916 / Paul Collins -- The Dublin Eucharistic Congress : Tra le sollecitudini in the Phoenix Park / Kieran Anthony Daly -- Ireland, music and the modern liturgical movement / Helen Phelan -- Victorian anti-semitism and the origin of Gregorian chant / Bennett Zon -- Catholic church music in England : the 1950s / Thomas E. Muir -- The evolution of liturgical music in the United States of America, 1850-1962 / Keith F. …”
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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga / by Baum, Robert Craig

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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. …”
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