The first book on the subject, covering influences, key works, and reception history. ...

"This book is an extremely significant contribution to the field. It moves considerably beyond much that has been written in music semiotics and is strikingly original."--Robert S. Hatten, author of "Musical Meanings in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation" ...

"This collection will join a select and widely read group of books from the past decade dealing with classical music--and opera in particular--from the perspective of feminist and gender studies, sexuality, subject formation, and related cultural theory. "Siren Songs" will be a valuable book."--Thomas S. Grey, Stanford University""Siren Songs" is provocative and engaging. As a whole, the collection should become required reading among ...

This book celebrates the power of music, dance, and oral narrative to create identities by imaginatively connecting performers and audiences with ethnic and political groupings, global and sacred landscapes, histories and heroes, spirits and gods.<P>Three distinct cultural eras of Mongolian society are represented. Many Mongols are now performing publicly the diverse traditions of Old Mongolia that they practiced in private following the ...

Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the "etudes" in Stewart Gordon's new book also focus on ideas which prepare piano teachers for meeting the problems encountered in piano performing and teaching. This collection of essays, many of which first appeared in the "New Davidites" series in American Music Teacher, examines the many challenges involved in ...

Includes 16 pop and country chart-toppers expertly arranged by Phillip Keveren for big-note piano: Amazed * Angel * Breathe * Fallin' * Hero * I Hope You Dance * I Need You * It's Your Love * Love of My Life * Only Time * Reflection * Thank God I Found You * There You'll Be * The Way You Love Me * When You Say Nothing at All * Written in the Stars. ...

A super collection of 33 seasonal songs in standard notation and tab. Includes: All Through the Night * Angels We Have Heard on High * Coventry Carol * The First Noel * I Saw Three Ships * Joy to the World * O Come All Ye Faithful * O Holy Night * Silent Night * Toyland * What Child Is This? * and more. ...

Based on the musical seership of Richard Wagner, who was a New Age messenger of music. A full understanding of the purpose of his music and work belongs to the world of tomorrow. Wagner's operas play upon the inner and finer points of man, awakening and stimulating certain latent centers therein which the pioneers of the New Aquarian Age are in the process of developing. Understanding Wagner's operas should form a part of the equipment necessary ...

In this book/CD pack, Musicians Institute instructor Sid Jacobs, who organized the school's Jazz Guitar elective, translates the playing of quintessential jazz pianist Bill Evans for guitarists to enjoy. Includes music, instruction and analysis of 14 Evans' pieces, all in their original keys and with full demonstration tracks on the accompaniment CD. Songs include: Funkallero * Laurie * Letter to Evan * My Bells * Orbit * Peace Piece * Peri's ...

A collection of six poems, Husa's String Quartet No. 4 explores the possibilities of unusual sonorities in virtuosic writing. The individual poems speak of Bells, Sunlight, Darkness, Hope, Wild Birds, and Freedom and are performed without interruption. ...