Music : Instruction & Study

Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: An Atmosphere of Controversy. PART ONE: The Middle Ages, Plainchant, and "Otherness". 1. A Different Sense of Time-Marcel Peres on plainchant. 2. You Can't Sing a Footnote--Susan Hellauer on performing medieval music. 3. Vox Feminea--Barbara Thornton on Hildegard von Bingen. 4. The Colonizing Ear--Christopher Page on medieval music. Postscript: The Middle Ages, Plainchant, and "Otherness". PART TWO: The Renaissance, Oxbridge, and Italy. The Modern "English Countenance". 5. There Is No Such Thing as a Norm--Paul Hillier on Renaissance sacred vocal music. 6. Other Kinds of Beauty--Peter Phillips on Palestrina and the Tallis Scholars. 7. Singing Like a Native--Alan Curtis, Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Anthony Rooley on Monteverdi; Afterword. 8. Emotional Logic--Andrew Lawrence-King on instrumental music and improvisation. PART THREE: The Baroque. 9. Consistent Inconsistencies--John Butt on Bach. 10. "One Should Not Make a Rule"--Gustav Leonhardt on Baroque keyboard music. 11. Aladdin's Lamp-- Anner Bylsma on the 'cello (and Vivaldi). 12. Beyond the Beautiful Pearl--Julianne Baird on the Italian and English styles. 13. You Can Never Be Right for All Time--Nicholas McGegan on Handel. 14. At Home with the Idiom--William Christie on the French Baroque. 15. Triple Counterpoint:--Jeffrey Thomas, Philippe Herreweghe, and John Butt on Singing Bach's Sacred Works. PART FOUR: Classic and Romantic. 16. Restoring Ingredients--Malcolm Bilson on the Fortepiano. 17. Speaking Mozart's Lingo--Robert Levin on Mozart and Improvisation. 18. Taking Music off the Pedestal--Roger Norrington on Beethoven. Postscript: "Classical" and "Romantic" Performance Practice in Beethoven. 19. Reviving Idiosyncrasies--John Eliot Gardiner on Berlioz and Brahms. 20. Reinventing Wheels--Joshua Rifkin on Interpretation and Rhetoric. Epilog more...

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Drawing together information from a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, in particular treatises and tutors, David Golby demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century. Discussion of general developments and issues is followed by a detailed examination of violin pedagogy, method and content which is used as a guide to society's influence on cultural trends and informs the discussion of other instruments and institutional training that follows.The book includes a chronology of developments in 19th-century British music education, and a particularly useful feature for future researchers in this field is a representative chronology of principal British instrumental treatises 1780-1900 that features over 700 items. more...

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Kate Bush is widely respected as one of the most unique solo female performers to have ever emerged in the field of popular music. She has achieved that rare combination of great commercial success and critical acclaim, with Hounds of Love considered widely to be her masterpiece. The album regularly features in 'best album' lists, and in the 2004 Observer poll was the highest placed work by a solo female artist. The album allows the author, Ron Moy, the critical opportunity to explore a wide range of issues relating to technology, production, authorship, grain of the voice, iconography, critical and commercial impact, collaboration, gender, sexuality, narrative, and social and cultural context. more...

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Introduction. 1. Constructing a Teaching Portfolio. 2. Kodaly Concept of Music Education. 3. Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage. 4. Children as Performers. 5. Children as Critical Thinkers. 6. From Sound to Symbol A New Learning Theory Model. 7. Developing Musicianship Skills. 8. Teaching Strategies for Rhythmic and Melodic Musical Elements. 9. Sequencing and Lesson Planning. 10. Teaching Musicianship Skills to Older Beginners. 11. Evaluation and Assessment. 12. Endnotes. 13. Appendix for Chapter 2. 14. Appendix for Chapter 3. 15. Appendix for Chapter 5. 16. Appendix for Chapter 7 more...

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In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. This sudden influx of female musicians into the male domain of rock music was brought about partly by the enabling ethic of punk rock ('anybody can do it!') and partly by the impact of the Equal Opportunities Act. But just as suddenly as the phenomenon arrived, the interest in these musicians evaporated and other priorities became important to music audiences. Helen Reddington investigates the social and commercial reasons for how these women became lost from the rock music record. more...

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