Edison Denisov (Contemporary Music Studies, V. 8) by Kholopov

A Double Bassist’s Guide to Refining Performance Practices

Murray Grodner attracts on his wonderful profession as a double bass musician and instructor during this compendium of functionality philosophy, bowing and phraseology techniques, tutorials on fingerings and scales, and routines 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 enjoying.

Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality

City God speak: developing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited via Andre Johnson, is a suite of essays that learn the spiritual and non secular in hip hop. The individuals 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 spiritual views—and whereas now not orthodox or systemic, however, many in conventional orthodox religions might locate the theological and non secular underpinnings in hip hop comforting, empowering, and freeing.

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 coated the twenty works produced among 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, los angeles 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 tune throughout the Sixties - used to be challenged and hence outmoded through the arrival of a brand new electrical bass software. From the mid-1960s and through the Seventies, a melismatic and inconsistent strategy in the direction of the bass position ensued, which contributed to an important swap in how the electrical bass used to be utilized in functionality and perceived within the sonic panorama of mainstream renowned tune.