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Engaging Bach

The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn

By: Matthew Dirst

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Engaging Bach

The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn

By: Matthew Dirst

More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107376289

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Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering

By: Matthew Dirst

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Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering

By: Matthew Dirst

Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is the first comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides produced in collaboration with Oxford University Press, it unpacks these famously cerebral collections as endlessly fascinating material for study and play. Intended for a general readership, this compact guide also summarizes for practitioners a considerable body of knowledge about these singular works. Bach scholar and keyboard player Matthew Dirst explains their idiosyncratic musical language in initial chapters while reviewing how both projects took shape during Bach's final decade, as he reoriented his creative energies around capstone works of various kinds. The most systematic of these, the Art of Fugue and Musical Offering reflect his lifelong fascination with learned counterpoint, as demonstrated in elaborate series of fugues and canons in both and in an unusually intricate trio sonata in the latter. Later chapters provide commentary on individual movements and groups of pieces and on the historical reception of this music, including its impact on other disciplines. Recurring themes include Bach's diligent exploration of contrapuntal types and techniques, his embrace of musical games of various sorts, and his creative assimilation of diverse musical styles"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197536638

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Vitalism

The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences

By: Matthew Wood

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Vitalism

The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences

By: Matthew Wood

Vitalism, the recognition that the physical body is animated by a vital life force, is the foundation of most natural healing therapies. The forefathers of alternative medicine discovered methods of healing the body by stimulating this life force. In Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, Matthew Wood describes the theories, lives, and work of nine great physicians who laid the groundwork for natural medicine.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556433409

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Anthology for Hearing Form

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

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Anthology for Hearing Form

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score, covering phrase endings and cadences, harmonic sequence types, modulations, formal sections, and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section, its own full-score anthology, and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual, test bank, and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences, and those teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship, Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This is the Hearing Form anthology only. For the Hearing Form textbook, see ISBN 978-0-367-70380-6. For the textbook and anthology package, see ISBN 978-0-367-70391-2.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000643646

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Hearing Form--Anthology

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

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Hearing Form--Anthology

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score, covering phrase endings and cadences, harmonic sequence types, modulations, formal sections, and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by a workbook, its own full-score anthology, and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual, test bank, audio streaming of recordings for the pieces in the anthology, and downloadable sound files. The second edition has been updated to include: Additional score-based exercises More music of the Romantic era and more vocal music New scores included in the Anthology, with twice as many composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship, Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. Please note: this is the Hearing Form anthology only. For the Hearing Form textbook, order ISBN 978-1-138-92968-5. For the textbook and anthology set, order ISBN 978-1-138-90069-1.

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Routledge

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1315527715

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Nation and Classical Music

From Handel to Copland

By: Matthew Riley,Anthony D. Smith

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Nation and Classical Music

From Handel to Copland

By: Matthew Riley,Anthony D. Smith

How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, sounds and resonances to be found in the repertory of each of the nations. Its scope is broad, extending well beyond the period 1848-1914 when national music flourished most conspicuously. The interplay of music and nation encompasses the oratorios of Handel, the open-air music of the French Revolution and the orchestral works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn and extends into the mid-twentieth century in the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Copland. The book addresses the representation of the national community, the incorporation of ethnic vernacular idioms into art music, the national homeland in music, musical adaptations of national myths and legends, the music of national commemoration and the canonisation of national music. Bringing together insights from nationalism studies, musicology and cultural history, it will be essential reading not only for musicologists but for cultural historians and historians of nationalism as well. MATTHEW RILEY is Reader in Music at the University of Birmingham. The late ANTHONY D. SMITH was Professor Emeritus of Nationalism andEthnicity at the London School of Economics.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271426

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Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

By: Robert W. Wason,Matthew Brown

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Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

By: Robert W. Wason,Matthew Brown

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.

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1580465757

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An Introduction to Christian Theology

By: Richard J. Plantinga,Thomas R. Thompson,Matthew D. Lundberg

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An Introduction to Christian Theology

By: Richard J. Plantinga,Thomas R. Thompson,Matthew D. Lundberg

A journey in Christian theology through biblical, historical, and thematic perspectives, with special attention to the context of today's world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108480047

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Sovereign Feminine

Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany

By: Matthew Head

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Sovereign Feminine

Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany

By: Matthew Head

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity—a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal—linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.

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Univ of California Press

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0520954769

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1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

By: Matthew Rye,Steven Isserlis

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1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

By: Matthew Rye,Steven Isserlis

A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.

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Chartwell Books

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0785835822

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Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment

Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

By: Matthew Riley

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Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment

Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

By: Matthew Riley

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century. Those critics explained numerous technical features of the music of their time as devices for arousing, sustaining or otherwise influencing the attention of a listener, citing in illustration works by Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Georg Benda and others. Two types of attention were identified: the uninterrupted experience of a single emotional state conveyed by a piece of music as a whole, and the fleeting sense of 'wonder' or 'astonishment' induced by a local event in a piece. The relative validity of these two modes was a topic of heated debate in the German Enlightenment, encompassing issues of musical communication, compositional integrity and listener competence. Matthew Riley examines the significant writers on the topic (Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Rousseau, Meier, Sulzer and Forkel) and provides analytical case studies to illustrate how these perceived modes of attention shaped interpretations of music of the period.

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Routledge

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1351556908

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Art Music

Love, Listening and Soulfulness

By: Matthew Del Nevo

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Art Music

Love, Listening and Soulfulness

By: Matthew Del Nevo

Listening to music is not merely something one does, but something central to a way of living. Listening has the power to transport one into another way of being. It is a mode of feeling and forms the bedrock of deep emotion. Written from the viewpoint of a philosophy of sensibility, Matthew Del Nevo notes that this perspective may not be in fashion, but it follows a long tradition.Del Nevo emphasizes the aesthetic experience of listening to art music as it has developed and disintegrated in Western civilization. He recognizes a deep psychological element to what he calls soul—or more accurately sensibility. He addresses music in a non-technical way, taking up the powerful art theory of Charles Baudelaire, the music philosophy of Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner, and takes a strong critical stand against modernist intellectual art music.The importance of this book for the musically- literate reader is its insight into the metaphysics of nostalgia. This comprehension is missing from nearly all musical instruction because we have lost sight of it. Del Nevo asserts that this understanding must be brought back into our culture. And since this is a book about listening to art music, it is no less about sensibility and its cultivation, which in its object form we call culture. An engaging book, Art Music will appeal to those interested in music, culture, and philosophy.

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1351531069

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Explaining Tonality

Schenkerian Theory and Beyond

By: Matthew Brown

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Explaining Tonality

Schenkerian Theory and Beyond

By: Matthew Brown

A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580461603

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Hearing Form

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

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Hearing Form

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score, covering phrase endings and cadences, harmonic sequence types, modulations, formal sections, and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by an integrated workbook section, its own full-score anthology, and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual, test bank, and audio streaming and downloads of recordings for the pieces in the anthology. Key updates in the third edition include: Treatment of phrases and cadences now allows the book to be used by both instructors who teach that all phrases end with cadences and those who teach that some phrases do not New pieces added to the anthology widen the range of composers represented With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship, Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. This is the Hearing Form textbook only. For the Hearing Form anthology, see ISBN 978-0-367-70388-2. For the textbook and anthology package, see ISBN 978-0-367-70391-2.

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1000643603

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Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler

By: Matthew Mugmon

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Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler

By: Matthew Mugmon

Although Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical style, he was strongly attracted to the music of Gustav Mahler. Drawing extensively on archival and musical materials, this is the first detailed exploration of Copland's multifaceted relationship with Mahler's music and its lasting consequences for music in America. Matthew Mugmon demonstrates that Copland, inspired by Mahler's example, blended modernism and romanticism in shaping a vision for American music in the twentieth century, and that he did so through his multiple roles as composer, teacher, critic, and orchestral tastemaker. Copland's career-long engagement with Mahler's music intersected with Copland's own Jewish identity and with his links to such towering figures in American music as Nadia Boulanger, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein"--

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Statistics Alive!

By: Wendy J. Steinberg,Matthew Price

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Statistics Alive!

By: Wendy J. Steinberg,Matthew Price

Statistics need not be dull and dry! Engage and inspire your students with Statistics Alive! Presenting essential content on statistical analysis in short, digestible modules, this text is written in a conversational tone with anecdotal stories and light-hearted humor; it’s an enjoyable read that will ensure your students are always prepared for class. Students are shown the underlying logic to what they′re learning, and well-crafted practice and self-check features help ensure that that new knowledge sticks. Coverage of probability theory and mathematical proofs is complemented by expanded conceptual coverage. In the Third Edition, new coauthor Matthew Price includes simplified practice problems and increased coverage of conceptual statistics, integrated discussions of effect size with hypothesis testing, and new coverage of ethical practices for conducting research. Give your students the SAGE Edge! SAGE Edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning.

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1544328249

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Second-Class Saints

Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Matthew L. Harris

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Second-Class Saints

Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Matthew L. Harris

On June 9, 1978, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, including Spencer W. Kimball, Matthew L. Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.

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Oxford University Press

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019769571X

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So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll

A Guide for Professionals

By: Matthew Edwards

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So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll

A Guide for Professionals

By: Matthew Edwards

Rock ‘n’ roll is a style that was born out of the great American melting pot. An outgrowth of the blues, rock 'n' roll music combines driving rhythms, powerful chords, and lyrics that communicate the human experience to audiences around the world. Although rock singing was once seen as a vulgar use of the human voice and was largely ignored by the academic community, voice teachers and singers around the world have recently taken a professional interest in learning specialized techniques for singing rock 'n' roll. So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll gives readers a comprehensive guide to rock history, voice science, vocal health, audio technology, technical approaches to singing rock, and stylistic parameters for various rock subgenres. Matthew Edwards, assistant professor of voice at Shenandoah Conservatory, provides easy-to-understand explanations of technical concepts, with tips for practical application, and suggestions for listening and further reading. So You Want to Sing Rock ‘n’ Roll includes guest-authored chapters by singing voice researchers Dr. Scott McCoy and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne, as well as audio and visual examples available from the website of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. This work is not only the ideal guide to singing professionals, but the perfect reference work for voice teachers and their students, lead and back-up singers, record producers and studio engineers. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442231947

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Just Medicine

A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care

By: Dayna Bowen Matthew

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Just Medicine

A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care

By: Dayna Bowen Matthew

Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.

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NYU Press

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1479851620

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Hearing Form - Textbook Only

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

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Hearing Form - Textbook Only

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By: Matthew Santa

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score, covering phrase endings and cadences, harmonic sequence types, modulations, formal sections, and musical forms. Hearing Form is supported by a workbook, its own full-score anthology, and a companion website containing an instructor’s manual, test bank, audio streaming of recordings for the pieces in the anthology, and downloadable sound files. .The second edition has been updated to include: Additional score-based exercises, More music of the Romantic era and more vocal music, New scores included in the Anthology, with twice as many composers represented. With an engaging and practical approach informed by recent scholarship, Hearing Form enables students to recognize musical elements both by sight and by ear. Please note: this is the Hearing Form textbook only. For the Hearing Form anthology, order ISBN 978-1-138-92967-8. For the textbook and anthology set, order ISBN 978-1-138-90069-1.

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1000421309

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A Dictionary for the Modern Singer

By: Matthew Hoch

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A Dictionary for the Modern Singer

By: Matthew Hoch

Titles in the Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to technique, major works to key figures—a must-have for any musician’s personal library! A Dictionary for the Modern Singer is an indispensable guide for students of singing, voice pedagogues, and lovers of the art of singing. In addition to classical singing, genres, and styles, musical theatre and popular and global styles are addressed. With an emphasis on contemporary practice, this work includes terms and figures that influenced modern singing styles. Topics include voice pedagogy, voice science, vocal health, styles, genres, performers, diction, and other relevant topics. The dictionary will help students to more fully understand the concepts articulated by their teachers. Matthew Hoch’s book fills a gap in the singer’s library as the only one-volume general reference geared toward today’s student of singing. An extensive bibliography is invaluable for students seeking to explore a particular subject in greater depth. Illustrations and charts further illuminate particular concepts, while appendixes address stage fright, tips on practicing, repertoire selection, audio technology, and contemporary commercial music styles. A Dictionary for the Modern Singer will appeal to students of singing at all levels. For professionals, it will serve as a quick and handy reference guide, useful in the high school or college library and the home teaching studio alike; students and amateurs will find it accessible and full of fascinating information about the world of the singing.

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