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This comprehensive handbook details the fundamentals and forms of choral composition and expands upon the coverage and number of topics in Archibald T. Early chapters focus on characteristics of voice, notation, text, devices, part writing, a cappella and instrumental accompaniments, and choral forms.

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In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling offers short essays on over 28 works, from major masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew's Passion to off-the-beaten path choral works such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha and Freder...

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In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling offers short essays on over 28 works, from major masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew's Passion to off-the-beaten path choral works such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha and Freder...

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David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs, he documents the expansion of choral singing beginning in the early 1800s.

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"The first account of the public life of choral music shaped by imperialistic, cosmopolitan and indigenous characteristics in the regions of Goa in Western India and Shillong in the North-Eastern part of India"--

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The 20th century, especially the latter decades, was a time of explosive growth and importance in hymnody, and yet published material about the hymnody of this period has been scattered and difficult to come by.

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This book explores the symbolic relationship between Christianity and heavy metal music as forms of cultural critique. By focusing on death, sacrifice, and the mystical side of human life, both Christianity and heavy metal challenge oppressive forms of ideology within Western culture.

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A tribute to the transgressive women of the underground music scene, who not only rocked as hard as the boys, but also tested the limits of what is culturally acceptable"even in the anarchic world of punk rock.

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Classical Listening: Two Decades of Reviews of Reviews from The American Record Guide collects the several hundred reviews produced since Rob Haskins's start in the mid-1990s. A performer and musicologist, Haskins writes delightful, cogent reviews that unapologetically reflect...

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In Classical Music in a Changing Culture, Donald Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible successes that confront America's future as a nation of music listeners. Vroon delves into a variety of topics: orchestra finances, contemporary musi...

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Offers advice on appreciating the forty most important and popular works of classical music from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2" to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".

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An indispensable supplement to even the most recent published reference works in the field of the vocal arts, Classical Singers of the Opera and Recital Stages should remain a standard work for years to come.

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Providing a general overview of comic music, this reference outlines the history of important comic musical genres, considers interconnections among seemingly disparate humorous repertory, and includes an extensive bibliography and discography.

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This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover the multiple identities and complex positionalities of former combatants who wish to memorialize a military catastrophe that coincided with the foundation of nation states.

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This reference provides a new perspective on the work of music's great composers from Bach to Stravinsky, by compiling the comments and criticism offered by other composers, such as Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and many others.

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Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The essays explore Bachs sacred vocal music from the perspectives of historical theology, music analysis, the study of parody procedures, and reception history.

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A collection of Crouch's greatest works

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A reference to a range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly. It also includes discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; and, typical features of performance and presentation.