The End of Early Music

The End of Early Music
Author: Bruce Haynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-07-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199885125

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition.

Songwriter's Market, 1996

Songwriter's Market, 1996
Author: Cindy Laufenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780898797114

Songwriters will find the inside tips on how--and where--to place their songs, in more than 2,200 up-to-date listings of song markets, songwriter organizations, contests and workshops, and more.

Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century

Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century
Author: Rachelle Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351254944

The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b. 1931) as one of this revival’s leaders. The content reflects international research on early keyboard music, sources, instruments, theory, editing, and discography. Considerations that echo throughout the book are the problematics of source attributions, progressive institutionalization of early music, historical instruments as agents of artistic change and education, antecedents and networks of the revival seen as a social phenomenon, the impact of historical performance and the quest for understanding style and genre. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Author: Nicolas Slonimsky
Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780028655253

This 6-volume set of Bakers covers all musical genres, with entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles of Nicolas Slonimsky. More than 15, 000 biographies span the medieval ages to the present.This work continues the tradition of offering the most comprehensive and authoritative information on the musicians, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world. Bakers remains the most affordable, comprehensive and readable of all music reference works, providing everyone from the student to scholar a one-stop resource for all their music biographical needs. Some of the artists featured include: Louis Armstrong Johann Sebastian Bach The Beatles Ludwig van Beethoven James Brown John Cage Maria Callas Johnny Cash Miles Davis Claude Debussy Marvin Gaye Philip Glass George Frideric Handel Charlie Parker Luciano Pavarotti Arturo Toscanini Tom Waits And many more