This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Daugiau...
This innovative volume explores the potential of alternative seating practices (ASP) to revolutionize orchestral music teaching in US schools and beyond, by improving musicians social and musical experiences, including peer mentorship....Daugiau...
Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures presents fresh data and debates drawn from extensive research to broaden the study of African music by focusing on fiddle playing, exploring rhythm aesthetics and tonal systems within cultural contexts....Daugiau...
Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogical treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments....Daugiau...
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola damore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings....Daugiau...
This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigos writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection reveals an outstanding critical mind, equally illuminating on the main developments in the history of classical music and its most...Daugiau...
Tanja Goldberg reveals the extent to which gender and socially constructed identity influenced female violinists separate but unequal status in a great male-dominated virtuoso lineage, by focussing on the few that stood out. Goldberg provides a more...Daugiau...
String Methods for Beginners is designed for students to receive the essential playing and teaching skills on all orchestral string instruments. The goal is to be truly methodical in approach and to assist the instructor, completely eliminating the...Daugiau...
The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late fifteenth century well into the late eighteenth. Bettina Hoffmann offers an introduction to the instrument-its construction, technique and history-for the non-specialist wit...Daugiau...
First published in 1999, this biography from David Tunley draws on newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campolis early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist....Daugiau...
This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams....Daugiau...
In this valuable study, the bass and its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in jazz language, musical style, and even transformed creative hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked....Daugiau...
Teaching Strings in Todays Classroom assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators. The author describes how becoming an effective string teacher requires content...Daugiau...
Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds examines the violin as an object of meaning in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, and as a vehicle for introducing anthropological issues. Each chapter highlights concepts as taught in lower-lev...Daugiau...
This in-depth study on the history of the harp in Scotland draws on unpublished documents, family papers and manuscripts, which throw new light on the background of these ancient and beautiful instruments....Daugiau...
Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically ex...Daugiau...
This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Quranic scholars are also increasingly seeking to place the life of Muha...Daugiau...
The massive and complex process of change in East Asia over recent decades has brought about a transformation in the nature of law and legal institutions in the region. This volume brings together a selection of the most important writings on East A...Daugiau...
