West African Rhythms for Drumset

West African Rhythms for Drumset
Author: Royal Hartigan
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780897247320

With Freeman Kwazdo Donkor and Abraham Adzenyah. Based on four Ghanaian rhythmic groups (Sikyi, Adowa, Gahu and Akom), this book and CD will provide drumset players with a "new" vocabulary based on some of the oldest and most influential rhythms in the world. A groundbreaking presentation!

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation
Author: Frank D. Gunderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2019
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190659807

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives. The Handbook provides a dynamic and richly layered collection of stories and critical questions for anyone engaged or interested in repatriation or archival work. Repatriation often is overtly guided by an ethical mandate to "return" something to where it belongs, by such means as working to provide reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. Essential as these mandates can be, this remarkable volume reveals dimensions to repatriation beyond those which can be understood as simple acts of "giving back" or returning an archive to its "homeland." Musical repatriation can entail subjective negotiations involving living subjects, intangible elements of cultural heritage, and complex histories, situated in intersecting webs of power relations and manifold other contexts. The forty-eight expert authors of this book's thirty-eight chapters engage with multifaceted aspects of musical repatriation, situating it as a concept encompassing widely ranging modes of cultural work that can be both profoundly interdisciplinary and embedded at the core of ethnographic and historical scholarship. These authors explore a rich variety of these processes' many streams, making the volume a compelling space for critical analysis of musical repatriation and its wider significance. The Handbook presents these chapters in a way that offers numerous emergent perspectives, depending on one's chosen trajectory through the volume. From retracing the paths of archived collections to exploring memory, performance, research goals, institutional power, curation, preservation, pedagogy and method, media and transmission, digital rights and access, policy and privilege, intellectual property, ideology, and the evolving institutional norms that have marked the preservation and ownership of musical archives-The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation addresses these key topics and more in a deep, richly detailed, and diverse exploration.

The Art of the Violin

The Art of the Violin
Author: Pierre Baillot
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1991-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810133016

Never before available in English, this classic work is a major contribution to the art and technique of violin playing and an important document in the history of performance practice. A contemporary of Kreutzer and Rode, Pierre Marie Francois de Sales Baillot provides in his treatise many insights into the style of nineteenth-century fingering, bowing, ornamentation, and expressiveness that are not apparent from the directions and markings found in scores of that time. Such information will be invaluable for performers interested in understanding the intentions of composers such as Viotti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. This complete, unabridged translation, which includes an extensive introduction by the translator, Louise Goldberg, and a foreword by Zvi Zeitlin, will be indispensable for musicologists, performers, and lovers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classical music.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures
Author: Patricia Shehan Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199737630

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives of children in a variety of cultures, and their role as both preservers and innovators of music. Drawing on a wide array of fields from ethnomusicology and folklore to education and developmental psychology, the chapters presented in this handbook provide windows into the musical enculturation, education, and training of children, and the ways in which they learn, express, invent, and preserve music. Offering an understanding of the nature, structures, and styles of music preferred and used by children from toddlerhood through childhood and into adolescence, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is an important step forward in the study of children and music.

Queer Latinidad

Queer Latinidad
Author: Juana María Rodríguez
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814775497

The author documents the ways in which identity formation and representation within the gay Latinidad population impacts gender and cultural studies today.

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (The Complete Two-Volume Edition)

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (The Complete Two-Volume Edition)
Author: Gomes Eannes de Zurara
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Chronicle of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in two volumes is a historical source which is considered the main authority for the early Portuguese voyages of discovery down the African coast and in the ocean, more especially for those undertaken under the auspices of Prince Henry the Navigator. The work is written by Portuguese chronicler Zurara and is serves as the principal historical source for modern conception of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Henrican age of Portuguese discoveries (although Zurara only covers part of it, the period 1434-1448). Zurara's chronicle is openly hagiographic of the prince and reliant on his recollections. It contains some account of the life work of that prince, and has a biographical as a geographical interest.

Amusements in Mathematics

Amusements in Mathematics
Author: Henry Ernest Dudeney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752309725

Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Engaging Haydn

Engaging Haydn
Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107015146

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.