Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism by Mary Hunter,Richard Will

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 concepts, 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 offers a close 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 means of Andre Johnson, is a set of essays that study the spiritual and religious in hip hop. The participants argue that the present narrative that hip hop bargains not anything within the method 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 non secular underpinnings in hip hop comforting, empowering, and freeing.

The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Abramo Basevi released his research of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the midst 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 tool in well known song through the Nineteen Sixties - was once challenged and consequently outmoded via the arrival of a brand new electrical bass tool. From the mid-1960s and in the course of the Seventies, a melismatic and inconsistent method in the direction of the bass function ensued, which contributed to an incredible swap in how the electrical bass used to be utilized in functionality and perceived within the sonic panorama of mainstream well known tune.