М.: Московская гос. филармония, 1945. — 31 с. Краткий исторический очерк. Американская музыка, точнее, музыка создаваемая композиторами Соединённых Штатов Америки, очень молода. Некоторые американские музыковеды определяют её возраст в 25—30 лет. Другие склонны (считать её еще более молодой. Немало противоречивых суждений вызывают попытки определить национальные корни...
Independent Music Press, 2008. — 208 p. Rage Against The Machine changed the shape of music with their rampant self-titled debut album in 1992. Here was a politically charged troupe who took advantage of major label backing yet spoke out on issues that few stars in the spotlight dared to - never afraid to insist their message was just as important as the music. The sales came...
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. — 336 p. — ISBN-10: 019507473; ISBN-13: 978-0195074734. In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia presents a fascinating accout of the lives in words and music of some of America's greatest popular lyricists. Full chapters are devoted to such golden names as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar...
Riverhead Books, 2022. — 198 р. — ISBN 978059354183 Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between...
Duke University Press, 2004. — 248 p. Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With more than 1,300 entries and 150...
3rd ed. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 600 p. — ISBN 9780190087210. An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time. Acclaimed by jazz...
University of North Texas, 2016. ― 43 p.: il.: figure: music examples. List of Musical Examples. List of Figures. Introductions. Compositional Influences on Krenek. Krenek and Neoclassicism Musical Neoclassicism. Influences on Krenek's Neoclassicism. Characteristics of Krenek's Neoclassicism. Analysis of Neoclassical Elements in George Washington Variations op. 120. Mucical...
Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата искусствоведения (научный руководитель — доктор искусствоведения Власова Е.С..) — Москва, 2022. — 240 с. Введение. Начальный этап формирования американской арфовой школы. Предыстория появления арфы в США. Эволюция инструмента. Первые сохранившиеся арфы. Первые арфовые концерты. Арфы в американской живописи XVIII - начала XX...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 217 p. In the mid-twentieth century, certain elements of the American popular music industry (publishers, recording companies, and broadcasters) began to redefine their product as something more than mere entertainment. This became evident in the arguments made by competing sides in a series of clashes that unfolded during that period, starting with the...
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1994. — 444 p. "The book give's readers a peek into how jazz musicians put together performances and how their methods have differed from style to style. There is discussion of how jazz originated, and... provides examples of the roots, the earliest recordings, and many major styles that developed later. Styles are described in ways that...
Second edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 605 p. — ISBN 978-1-315-85767-1. American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 506 p.: ill. The first decades of the twentieth century were a fertile and fascinating period in American musical history. This book and the two CDs that accompany it present an exceptional collection of interviews with and about the most significant musical figures of the era. Tapping the unparalleled materials contained in the Oral History...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 396 p.: musical examples: figures. Academic attention has focused on America’s influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground-breaking book, Derek B. Scott...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 370 p. Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown’s work by exploring his practices as a composer and...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 493 p. New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how...