Our Tuneful Heritage

Author : Laurence Libin
Publisher : Brigham Young Univ Creative Works
ISBN 13 : 9780842523257
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Tuneful Heritage written by Laurence Libin and published by Brigham Young Univ Creative Works. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog highlights over sixty American musical instruments, most drawn from the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each instrument, whether toy or masterpiece, offers us much more than just sound. Through their varied forms and functions, each embodies some meaningful aspect of American life: immigration, acculturation, nationalism and warfare, handicraft and industry, entertainment and worship, tradition and innovation. These instruments have evolved to serve complex social purposes that continue to change over the years. Even when silent, their designs, materials, and decorations, reflect our multifaceted culture.

Author : Carol A. Traupman-Carr
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223607
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Pleasing for Our Use" written by Carol A. Traupman-Carr and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of eight essays, most of which were presented at a November 1995 conference dedicated to the life and works of Moravian organ builder David Tannenberg (1728-1804)." "The collection includes a complete bibliography, as well as a list of additional related resources on the topic of American Moravian organs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dennis G. Waring
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565082
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing the Muse written by Dennis G. Waring and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.

Author : Martha Novak Clinkscale
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198166252
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860 written by Martha Novak Clinkscale and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (OUP, 1993). Although a few of the biographies overlap, the majority of the makers are completely new. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London; more than 200 of the London makers have not been discussed in previous publications.

Author : Helen Sheumaker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076482
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Culture in America written by Helen Sheumaker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.

Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650330
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe written by Christopher Page and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vouge throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.Contemporary critics viewed the fashion for the guitar with sheer hostility, seeing in it a rejection of true musical value. After all, such trends advanced against the grain of mainstream musical developments of ground-breaking (often Austro-German) repertoire for standard instruments. Yet amateur musicians throughout Europe persisted; many instruments were built to meet the demand, a substantial volume of music was published for amateurs to play, and soloist-composers moved freely between European cities. This book follows these lines of travel venturing as far as Moscow, and visiting all the great musical cities of the period, from London to Vienna, Madrid to Naples. The first section of the book looks at eighteenth-century precedents, the instrument - its makers and owners, amateur and professional musicians, printing and publishing, pedagogy, as well as aspects of repertoire. The second section explores the extensive repertoire for accompanied song and chamber music. A final substantive section assembles chapters on a wide array of the most significant soloist-composers of the time. The chapters evoke the guitar milieu in the various cities where each composer-player worked and offer a discussion of some representative works. This book, bringing together an international tally of contributors and never before examined sources, will be of interest to devotees of the guitar, as well as music historians of the Romantic period.

Author : Ric Alviso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465213655
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Multicultural Music in America written by Ric Alviso and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural Music in America: An Introduction to Our Musical Heritage

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Brass Society Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Rippon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors ... Thirteenth-an Enlarged Edition, Etc written by John Rippon and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns with Dr. Rippon's Selection written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: