Search Results - Modernism (music)

Traditional folk song in modern Japan sources, sentiment and society / by Hughes, David W.

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The art of being Jewish in modern times

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Modern rhetoric in culture, arts, and media 13 essays / by Knape, Joachim

Table of Contents: “…Rhetorical fallacies and the foundations of intercultural contrastive research in rhetoric -- Rhetoric between historicism and modern science -- Oratorical image, prestige, reputation and ethos in Aristotelian rhetoric -- Language or rhetoric? …”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel -- Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi -- After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.…”
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Enduring loss in early modern Germany cross disciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Wade -- Loss and emotion in funeral works on children in seventeenth-century Germany / Claudia Jarzebowski -- Enduring death in pietism : regulating mourning and the new intimacy / Ulrike Gleixner -- Between the old faith and the new : spiritual loss in Reformation Germany / Christopher Ocker -- Loss and gain in a Salzburg convent : Tridentine reform, princely absolutism, and on the nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to 1696) / Barbara Lawatsch Melton -- Themes of exile and (re-)enclosure in music for the Franciscan convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years' War / Alexander J. …”
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The Jazz Republic Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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The revolutionary roots of modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 by Trachtenberg, Barry

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Concepts in String Playing : Reflections by Artist-Teachers at the Indiana University School of Music /

Table of Contents: “…The many faces of musical talent / James Buswell IV -- Advice to aspiring young symphony musicians / Josef Gingold -- The double bass : a string instrument / Murray Grodner -- Evolution of violin technique in relation to interpretive problems of our time / Franco Gulli -- Reflections on tempo indications / Georges Janzer -- A few moments of beauty / Albert Lazan -- Cello sounds of today / Fritz Magg -- The violin student in search of himself / Laurence Shapiro -- Water seeks its own level / Abraham Skernick -- An organized method of string playing / Janos Starker -- Musical aspects of motion analysis / Helga Ulsamer Winold -- A plan for modernizing violin pedagogy / Tadeusz Wroński.…”
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Louisiana hayride radio and roots music along the Red River / by Laird, Tracey E. W.

Table of Contents: “…A cradle of the stars -- The character of a region -- Shreveport music before modern media -- Hillbilly music and the phonograph -- Hillbilly music and KWKH radio -- Country music crossroads -- Beyond country music.…”
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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. …”
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Writing against time by Clune, Michael W.

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The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 / by Murchison, Gayle Minetta

Table of Contents: “…Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky -- Boulanger and compositional maturity -- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz? -- Paris and jazz : French neoclassicism and the new modern American music -- Back in the United States : popular music, jazz, and the new American music -- European influence beyond Stravinsky and les Six : Hába and Schoenberg -- Toward a new national music during the 1930s : Copland's populism, accessible style, and folk and popular music -- Copland's journey left -- "Folk" music and the popular front : El salón Mexico -- Billy the Kid -- A vision for American music -- .…”
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Center Stage : Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe / by Ther, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…Constructing National Culture; 3. Europeanization and Musical Modernism; Part Three: The Polish Theater in Lemberg; 4. …”
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Listening well on Beethoven, Berlioz, and other music criticism in Paris, Boston, and New York, 1764-1890 / by Saloman, Ora Frishberg, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Chabanon and Chastellux on music and language, 1764-73 ; Lacépède, critical contemporary of Chabanon : divergent perspectives in the music treatises of 1785 ; French revolutionary perspectives on Chabanon's De la musique of 1785 ; Classic and romantic : Berlioz's "Aperçu" (1830) and musical modernity in Paris during the 1820s ; Chrétien Urhan and Beethoven's Ninth symphony in Paris, 1838 ; Literary and musical aspects of the hero's Romance in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, 1838 ; "The harmony of opposites" : characterizing Cellini's apprentice -- Boston and New York. …”
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Southern fiddlers and fiddle contests by Goertzen, Chris

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Jim Crow's counterculture the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945 / by Lawson, R. A., 1974-

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Trains, literature, and culture reading/writing the rails /

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White Gypsies race and stardom in Spanish musicals / by Woods Peiró, Eva

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Broadway and economics : economic lessons from show tunes / by Rousu, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter On the Twentieth Century -- chapter Once on This Island -- chapter 1 One Man, Two Guvnors -- chapter Pacific Overtures -- chapter Phantom of the Opera -- chapter Pippin -- chapter Ragtime -- chapter Rent -- chapter School of Rock -- chapter She Loves Me -- chapter Shrek the Musical -- chapter Something Rotten -- chapter Sunday in the Park with George -- chapter Sunny Afternoon -- chapter Sunset Boulevard -- chapter 10 Tenderloin -- chapter The Addams Family -- chapter The Bridges of Madison County -- chapter The Fix -- chapter The Full Monty -- chapter The Last Five Years -- chapter The Last Ship -- chapter The Lion King -- chapter The Little Mermaid -- chapter The Music Man -- chapter The Pajama Game -- chapter The Producers -- chapter The Rothschilds -- chapter The Sound of Music -- chapter The Wedding Singer -- chapter Thoroughly Modern Millie -- chapter Tovarich -- chapter Urinetown -- chapter Working -- chapter You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown -- chapter Notes -- chapter Song Reference Table.…”
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John Milton life, work, and thought / by Campbell, Gordon, 1944-

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