Bach Perspectives, Volume 8: J. S. Bach and the Oratorio by Daniel R Melamed

A Double Bassist’s Guide to Refining Performance Practices

Murray Grodner attracts on his individual profession as a double bass musician and instructor during this compendium of functionality philosophy, bowing and phraseology suggestions, tutorials on fingerings and scales, and workouts for bowing and string crossing. Grodner addresses technical stumbling blocks in musical functionality, deals suggestion on tool and bow buy, and gives an in depth method of the basics of bass taking part in.

Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality

City God speak: developing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by way of Andre Johnson, is a suite of essays that study the spiritual and religious in hip hop. The members argue that the present narrative that hip hop bargains not anything within the approach of faith and spirituality is fake. From its starting, hip hop has had a profound spirituality and advocates non secular views—and whereas no longer orthodox or systemic, however, many in conventional orthodox religions could locate the theological and religious underpinnings in hip hop comforting, empowering, and releasing.

The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Abramo Basevi released his learn of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the course of the composer’s occupation. the 1st thorough, systematic exam of Verdi’s operas, it lined the twenty works produced among 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, l. a. traviata, and Aroldo.

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass: From Jamerson to Spenner (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

The double bass - the popular bass software in well known track throughout the Sixties - used to be challenged and accordingly outmoded by means of the appearance of a brand new electrical bass device. From the mid-1960s and in the course of the Seventies, a melismatic and inconsistent method in the direction of the bass position ensued, which contributed to a big switch in how the electrical bass was once utilized in functionality and perceived within the sonic panorama of mainstream well known track.