“'Must' reading for any pianist concerned with Beethoven's music, which is to say almost every pianist alive.” —William Rothstein, Musical Times

A biography of Irish performer and recording artist Christy Moore, including music throughout his career.

Shares the 'pop music wisdom' of song titles, eg. 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'. Fun gift book for all music lovers.”

MTV and chart success for singing and praising the love of God? Only in America you might say, but the most powerful country in the world has become insular in its world-view and its music reflects what the nation is thinking. Featuring interviews and profiles from acts such as Sixpence None The Richer, Lenny Kravitz, Creed, U2 and Coldplay, Faith, God and Rock'n'Roll charts what's going on with God Stateside. Following on from his highly successful first book The Rock'n'Roll Rebellion, which discussed why people of faith were coming back into the music industry in the 1990s, Mark Joseph now updates the scene on religion and rock in America.

Libretto met vertaling en informatie over de opera van de Italiaanse componist (1792-1868).

This book begins with a pointed critique of the foundations of the understanding of Western music: that music from Pythagoras to the Renaissance has been viewed as the source and model of order in the universe and in society. Unfortunately that order was rigidly hierarchical, so that over the centuries music reinforced established social prejudices, particularly those against women. Nowhere was this more evident than in religious music that was regarded by male ecclesiastics and scholars as the instrument of choice for taming hysterical female eruptions. Through her mordant commentary on a rich selection of texts by major thinkers from two millennia of Christian theology, Heidi Epstein shows in the first part of Melting the Venusberg that music as the erotic embodiment of human engenderment has been ignored or suppressed, while music as the expression of transcendent harmony, order, and restraint has been extolled. The second re-constructive part of Melting the Venusberg draws on ignored sources and lost tropes from the Christian tradition as well as on insights from the music and thought of historical and contemporary woman composers and performers from Hildegard of Bingen and Lucrezia Vizzana to Rosetta Tharpe and Diamanda Galas. Through this recuperative synthesis, music's theological significance changes keys, as it moves beyond its symbolic function as divinely ordained, harmonious microcosm into more dissonant metaphorical registers. Those who have ears to hear will be delighted.

'Chanteuse in the City' provides a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers & film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Fréhel, & Damia. Conway offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasising its love affair with popular song.