Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Songs of the Western Colleges
Author: Oxford History of Western Music
Author: Richard TaruskinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199813698
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 6390
Book Description
The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
The Most Popular College Songs
Author: College Fight Songs
Author: Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0789006650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This text serves as a unique anthology of American college fight songs with short historical annotations.
College Fight Songs
Author: William E StudwellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136384677
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Go, team, go! Rah, rah, rah! Boomalacka, boomalacka! Sis-boom-bah! Get your pennants and varsity colors and head for the stadium because College Fight Songs will make you an expert on the musical history of university athletic themes and anthems before the second-half kickoff. Here, in one anthology, you’ll find a unique collection of musical and historical information that hasn’t been compiled and updated since the days of Knute Rockne and the Galloping Ghost. This smart and spirited collection will give you plenty to rise and shout about, bringing together the complete lyrics, brief historical annotations, and musical scores for the songs of over 100 of the country’s most recognized colleges and universities.If you’re a researcher, librarian, musical enthusiast, band leader, musical historian, old-timer from way back when, or a young underclassmen interested in preserving a few cherished notes of your school’s history, College Fight Songs is the book for you. You’ll find plenty of hard-to-find facts about the songs and the people who inspired them, and you’ll get specific information in these areas: complete musical scores of college fight songs full lyrics of college fight songs basic historical background concerning the songs and their institutions information regarding the song creators and the college nicknamesSo, swing on the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, rally around the bonfire and give a holler for the Buckeyes, the Wildcats, the Sooners, the Boilermakers, and the Tigers! The Gipper, the Bear, and Johnny U await you in this fabulous compendium of nostalgia and musical scores. Even after a few pages, College Fight Songs will have you hailing your alma mater and jumping in the car to head for the hop.
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author: The Most Popular Plantation Songs
Author: Gilbert Clifford NoblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The American College Song Book
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with piano
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Cornellian
Author: Michiganensian
Author: Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description