Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Story of British Music
Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Story of Music
Author: Howard GoodallPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639361219
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A “masterful” tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review). Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialized and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels, and tired terminology. Instead, he leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation—harmony, notation, sung theater, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting—strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionized man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, why some chords sound discordant, and what all post-war pop songs have in common. The story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel—and entertain. Howard Goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking map of our musical journey.
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977
Author: Barry J. FaulkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171527
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s, when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album, the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society, and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups, mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men, made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status, compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock, rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups, the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way, but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion.
The story of British music
Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Story of British Music
Author: Frederick J. CrowestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Story of British Music
Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528178631
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of British Music: From the Earliest Times to the Tudor Period Britain's first musical breathings! Dear must such be to all who love Old England for in these earliest Pm, artistic symptoms lie the germs of much of atom? That happiness that pervades every home, whether palace or cot, in the land to-day, where cul tivated music is a factor in the round of daily life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Story of British Music
Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021067562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crowest offers a comprehensive history of British music from its earliest origins up to the Tudor period. This includes discussions of musical instruments, genres, and important composers. This edition is fully illustrated with musical examples and includes appendices on the music of ancient Greece and Rome. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Story of British Music
Author: Frederick James CrowestPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104707262
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Story of British Music
Author: Clement Antrobus HarrisPublisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
STORY OF BRITISH MUSIC
Author: Frederick James 1850-1927 CrowestPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371777234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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