Author: John Sullivan DwightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author: John Sullivan DwightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Saying It With Songs
Author: Katherine SpringPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199842213
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.
The Music of John Ireland
Author: Fiona RichardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351750089
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author: Catalog of Music-rolls for the Duo-art Reproducing Piano
Author: Aeolian CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Player piano rolls
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Musical America
Author: The Wreath, Composed of One Hundred and Forty Poems and Songs, Never Before Published; with a Number of Other Pieces, Published in Different Works
Author: James Pringle (Poetical Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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