From Studio to Stage

From Studio to Stage
Author: Barbara M. Doscher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002
Genre: Vocal music
ISBN: 0810842394

The late Doscher was a singing teacher at the U. of Colorado-Boulder. This volume compiles the note cards on songs and arias that she composed in order to aid her teaching. The entries are broadly organized by type of piece, with notes on difficulty, author, keys available, ranges, tessitura, voice types, and other comments included. Five indexes allow readers to find compositions by composer, lyricist, title, range, and difficulty level. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire

Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire
Author: Steven L. Rickards
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2008-08-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780810861039

This significant reference of over 600 entries compiles and catalogues information about repertoire composed specifically for the countertenor from 1950 to 2000. Representing more than 350 composers, it provides a resource for countertenors and voice teachers to identify and become more familiar with contemporary works for countertenor.

Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999

Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999
Author: Judith E. Carman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780810841376

Originally created as a teaching tool, this bibliography has taken on a second life as a research tool for various facets of American art song, including, in this edition, both current and historical discography.

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature
Author: J. Davis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2011-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230339700

Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
Author: Don Michael Randel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674372993

Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

Worship, Music, and Interpretation

Worship, Music, and Interpretation
Author: Wendy J. Porter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This unique volume brings together wide-ranging research that could only be written by someone singularly expert in the full range of Christian worship and music from ancient to modern. These essays by Wendy Porter span eras and areas of study from the New Testament to the present and encompass an expansive view of worship, music, and liturgy. Some focus on what is known (or not) about early Christian worship, including the early creeds and hymns in the New Testament and whether music originated in Jewish or Greco-Roman contexts. Some introduce firsthand work on ancient liturgical manuscripts, such as a sixth-century manuscript by hymnwriter and preacher Romanos Melodus or a tenth-century ekphonetic liturgical manuscript. Extending her research on sixteenth-century English composers as musical interpreters, Porter includes several papers on how musicians have functioned as theological interpreters in worship and music. One chapter engages theological comparisons between well-known compositions by Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky, another creatively explores what contemporary worship leaders can learn from sixteenth-century songwriter and worship leader William Byrd, while others invite thoughtful reflection on what we can all learn if we stop to consider how Christians have functioned and fared in their worship through the centuries.

Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music
Author: Murray Steib
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135942625

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).