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Singing in the Wilderness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Singing in the Wilderness

Mellers (composer and professor emeritus, University of York) begins with the confusion of the (unfamiliar) forest within, audible in Wagner's late and Shoenberg's early works, in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet, and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. The next section, The Forest Without, examines Charles Koechlin's Le Foret Feerique and Milhaud's Le Boeuf Sur le Toit which embrace the real jungle without and the imaginative jungle within. Part 3 shows Villa-Lobos and Carlos Chavez connecting, as Mellers puts it, "the jungle within the mind and the asphalt jungle of a rapidly industrialized metropolis." Part four explores interrelationships between wilderness and machine through the work of Carl Ruggles, Varese, Partch, Reich, and the Australian, Peter Sculthorpe. Finally, the erasure of border between wilderness and civilization is the focus in works by Ellington and Gershwin. Suitable for both musicians and non-musicians. c. Book News Inc.

Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought

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Twilight of the Gods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Twilight of the Gods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bach and the Dance of God
  • Language: en

Bach and the Dance of God

Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic book on Bach.

Understanding Rock
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Understanding Rock

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpretation of older songs; and the use of the recording studio as a compositional tool. A broad range of styles and groups is covered, including Yes, the Beach Boys, Cream, k.d. lang, Paul Simon, Jimi Hendrix, and the Grateful Dead.

Stravinsky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 642

Stravinsky

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Musical Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Musical Performance

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Music in a New Found Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Music in a New Found Land

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Music in a New Found Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 638

Music in a New Found Land

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The subject of this book is accurately defined by its subtitle. Music in a New Found Land does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of American music. Nor does Mellers strive to catalog what he considers to be authentic American music. Instead, he deals, in some detail, with comparatively few composers, most of whom have wellestablished reputations. It has always been difficult to separate American music from its immediate relevance to the twentieth century. Mellers' theme involves the relationship between "art" music, jazz and pop music; he sees the segregation of these genres as both illogical and artifi cial. If the pop music of Tin Pan Alley may be anti-art, it has also produced Ger...

Angels of the Night
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Angels of the Night

Angels of the Night falls into three parts. From the Jazz explosion ignited by Black Musicians in the early years of the 1900s, in the Reliious context of Gospel Music and in the Secular context of the Blues.