Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them

Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them PDF Author: Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Category : Choruses, Secular, Unaccompanied
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them

Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them PDF Author: Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Category : Choruses, Secular, Unaccompanied
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Familiar Songs

Familiar Songs PDF Author: Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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American Popular Song

American Popular Song PDF Author: Alec Wilder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019093994X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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"Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--

The Most Popular Home Songs

The Most Popular Home Songs PDF Author: Gilbert Clifford Noble
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Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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All Music Guide

All Music Guide PDF Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306274
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1508

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Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.

Popular Irish Songs

Popular Irish Songs PDF Author: Florence Leniston
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486267555
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Reprints. Originally published 1808-1914 (various publishers).

The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song

The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song PDF Author: Michael Ingham
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527585697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Popular song is a liminal, hybrid form of cultural production. As a manifestation of adaptation studies, it has lacked visibility by comparison with more dominant adaptation practices, especially those for the screen. This book serves to fill this gap. It investigates what songwriters read and write before they start singing, showing that they need either to adapt material from existing sources or write their own lyrics drawn from a wide range of source texts and personal experiences. They are subject to myriad influences, and among these are other song lyrics, poems, novels, plays, films and hybrid cultural forms. This deep-structure intertextuality is embedded in the cultural flux of language, and operates at both conscious and subconscious levels. This book thus explores the complex and multifarious intertextual connections between popular songs of various genres, styles and eras and literary works, including, but by no means limited to, the Bible and Shakespeare. As such, it offers a valuable resource, by exploring the deep intertextual significance of literary source material for the intellectual and emotional diversity that can be found in the popular song form; the inverse reciprocal relationship, while much less common, is also considered in the study.

Song

Song PDF Author: Carol Kimball
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476853525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 781

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(Book). Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition.

Art Song

Art Song PDF Author: Carol Kimball
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1480352527
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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(Book). Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is a follow-up to author Carol Kimball's bestselling Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature . Rather than a general survey of art song literature, the new book clearly and insightfully defines the fundamental characteristics of art song, and the integral relationship between lyric poetry and its musical settings. Topics covered include poetry basics for singers, exercises for singers in working with poetry, insights into composers' musical settings of poetry, building recital programs, performance suggestions, and recommended literature for college and university classical voice majors. The three appendices address further aspects of poetry, guidelines for creating a recital program, and representative classical voice recitals of various descriptions. Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is extremely useful as an "unofficial" text for college/university vocal literature classes, as an excellent resource for singers and voice teachers, and of interest to all those who are fascinated by the rich legacy of the art song genre.

Popular World Music

Popular World Music PDF Author: Andrew Shahriari
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317345371
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Exploring Popular World Music is the first introductory level text written to introduce students to popular music styles from around the world. Focusing on styles that all students will know -- from Reggae to Klezmer, from Afro-Pop to Kodo drums--the book offers a comprehensive, listening-oriented introduction to the world's popular musical cultures. Each chapter will focus on a specific music style and its associated geographic locale. The salient musical and cultural features associated with each example are discussed in detail to increase our appreciation of the music. Relevant artists will be highlighted and suggestions for further reading and listening will be offered. By the end of the book, the student should be able to 1) recognize a variety of world music styles, 2) articulate musical and cultural knowledge associated with each style, and 3) identify important artists related to the genre. Supplementing the text will be a web site fcreated by the author) featuring the author's world music map, enabling students to explore pop music cultures as they relate to each other; as well as an iTunes playlist for all the highlighted selections in the book. This book should strongly appeal to Intro to World Music Courses for non-majors who wish to study popular rather than traditional musics of the world, which would encompass a large majority of students enrolled in these courses.