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Vesper and Compline Music for Four Principal Voices: Agostino Agazzari, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Giovanni Battista Biondi da Cesena, Maurizio Cazzati, Antonio Cifra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Bonifazio Graziani, Giovanni Legrenzi, Isabella Leonarda, Tarquinio Merula, Lodovico Viadana (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music In Twenty Five Ser. #14)
by Jeffrey Kurtzman Anne SchnoebelenFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music in Twenty Five)
by Jeffrey KurtzmanClassics of seventeenth-century Italian sacred music set in modern notation, this second part of Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Legrenzi, Natale Monferrato, Agostino Steffani, Lorenzo Penna, Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Giovanni Paolo Colonna.
Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music in Twenty Five #20)
by Jeffrey KurtzmanClassics of seventeenth-century Italian sacred music set in modern notation, this third part of Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Giacomo Giacobbi, Viriglio Mazzochi, Tarquinio Merula and Francesco Soriano.
Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice: Vesper & Compline Psalms & Canticles for One & Two Voices (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music in Twenty Five #11)
by Jeffrey KurtzmanThis volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers.
Vesper and Compline Music for Three Principal Voices (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music in Twenty Five)
by Jeffrey KurtzmanFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Vesper and Compline Music for Two Principal Voices: Vesper And Compline Music For Two Principal Voices (Seventeenth Century Italian Sacred Music in Twenty Five #12)
by Jeffrey Kurtzman Anne SchnoebelenThis volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and offers modern notation for contemporary performers.
Vevishaal (The Promised Hand)
by Ashok Meghani Jhaverchand Kalidas MeghaniTwo merchant families pledge to marry their children Sukhlal and Sushila to each other when the two come of age. Without taking sides, Vevishaal tells the story of the ensuing struggle between a wealthy, ruthless man and his presumed meek adversaries.
Viaje al centro de mi cerebro: Las anécdotas más ácidas y salvajes del icónico batería de Lagartija Nick y Los Planetas.
by Eric JiménezTras Cuatro millones de golpes, el mejor batería español de pop-rock relata sus historias más ácidas y salvajes de sus giras con Los Planetas y Lagartija Nick. Leer este libro es como viajar durante una semana en el motor de un autobús. Un libro que mediante kilómetros de historias dentro de la furgoneta en la que van de gira Los Planetas o Lagartija Nick, a pie por las calles de Granada o incluso en disolución por el efecto de algún psicotrópico nos descubre el centro del cerebro del batería más legendario de este país. Un recorrido divertido y surrealista que podría ser el viaje iniciático de un héroe y, sin embargo, es el de un rockero (que quizá sea lo mismo). Reseñas:«Eric escribe para poner negro sobre blanco una aventura que por momentos se le antoja inconcebible, la de estar vivo.»Eldiario.es «Un libro divertido, sincero, revelador de la escena musical de los noventa y dos mil, estupendamente narrado.»El País «Hará pasar un buen rato a todos esos que veneran, y con más razón que un santo granadino, a uno de los tipos más peculiares, geniales y de verdad del mejor tinglado indie de por aquí.»Mondosonoro «Escribe, como él dice, porque lo ha pasado de puta madre, pero también las ha pasado putas.»El Español Los lectores han dicho...«Todo lo que puedas imaginar se queda corto, tienes que leerlo.» «¡Bienvenido a la locura elevada a la máxima potencia!» «Divertido, honesto, tierno y desgarrador.»
Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by Corey J. MilesWhere exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. Placing the local artists in conversation with other southern cultural creators such as 2 Chainz, Rod Wave, and Rapsody, these ethnographic narratives demonstrate that there are multiple Souths, with overlapping and distinct commitments to working through pain, sound, and belonging. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Pain music, a subgenre of trap music, is used to take the listener to moments of violence to allow them to hear the desires, anger, and silences that bind Black life in community. Through conceptions of ratchet, hood, and ghetto, Black artists turn away from respectable images and unmap the South. In trap music, they move the South to a space where multiple modes of being find respect and care.
Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators Of Jamaican Popular Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by Ray HitchinsVibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.
Vibes Up: Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn
by Sabia McCoy-TorresExamines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian DiasporaIn popular media Caribbean culture has either been reduced to stereotypes of laziness, marijuana, and reggae music, or conversely, to an identity centered around a refutation of colonialism. Both are oversimplifications, and do not explain the enduring Caribbean identity and empowerment throughout the diaspora. Vibes Up offers an exploration of Caribbean culture as it is felt, understood, and expressed, centered on research conducted in Brooklyn and Costa Rica.Sabia McCoy-Torres demonstrates how reggae culture—which encompasses the music and performance modes of both “roots” and “dancehall”—helps to shed light on dynamics relating to migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity. Through an examination of elements of the Black outdoors, including nightlife venues, sidewalks, and streets in front of homes, the book shows the important role that reggae plays in articulating the frustrations of migration, establishing community and belonging, and forming transnational relationships.Although reggae’s creators and producers are often perceived as homophobic, Vibes Up also offers a more nuanced examination of the transforming relationships between hetero and LGBTQ+ people in reggae spaces and the accommodation of an array of queer intimacies. The framing of Caribbean Blackness as an expression of perseverance, agency, joy, and the erotic, as opposed to a reaction to colonization, oppression, and enslavement, is a distinctly important and timely view.
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
by Talib KweliFrom one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political forceBefore Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given their son an Afrocentric name in hope of securing for him a more traditional sense of pride and purpose). Kweli’s was the first generation to grow up with hip-hop as established culture—a genre of music that has expanded to include its own pantheon of heroes, rich history and politics, and distinct worldview.Eventually, childhood friendships turned into collaborations, and Kweli gained notoriety as a rapper in his own right. From collaborating with some of hip-hop’s greatest—including Mos Def, Common, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick Lamar—to selling books out of the oldest African-American bookstore in Brooklyn, ultimately leaving his record label, and taking control of his own recording career, Kweli tells the winding, always compelling story of the people and events that shaped his own life as well as the culture of hip-hop that informs American culture at large.Vibrate Higher illuminates Talib Kweli’s upbringing and artistic success, but so too does it give life to hip-hop as a political force—one that galvanized the Movement for Black Lives and serves a continual channel for resistance against the rising tide of white nationalism.
Vibrazioni Rock
by Daniel IchbiahNatale 1976: il nuovo album degli Eagles arriva sugli scaffali. Una settimana dopo, un milione di copie vengono vendute. Eppure nessuno sa che Hotel California, puro momento di grazia musicale, è nata in un‘atmosfera in cui c’era una tensione infernale. In quel periodo, c’era burrasca tra i membri del gruppo e spesso arrivano addirittura alle mani dopo un concerto. È proprio vero, le canzoni di punta del rock hanno tutte la loro storia e sono affascinanti. Like a Rolling Stone, Stairway to Heaven, Mélodie Nelson, Sultans of Swing, Losing my religion, oppure Un autre monde e Smells Like Teen Spirit e molti altri successi mitici non sono altro che il risultato perfetto della passione e del romanticismo che solo il rock poteva creare. Dietro le quinte delle grandi etichette, guadagnando la fiducia sia degli autori che dei musicisti, Daniel Ichbiah ha fatto le sue ricerche e ha ricostruito il puzzle del successo dagli Stones ai Nirvana passando per Bashung. Che dire? Raccontare la genesi dei successi del rock non è stato facile. Ma più di un lettore lo ha ammesso: è impossibile lasciare andare queste pagine una volta che ci si è avventurati nei meandri di molte canzoni diventate mitiche. Ricco di rivelazioni, impregnato di testimonianze esclusive, questo documento d'eccezione ci trascina nel cuore delle canzoni che hanno segnato la nostra epoca. Raccontandoci l'elaborazione e le saghe di successi leggendari, Vibrazioni Rock ci fa rivivere il brivido di decenni di storia del rock.
Victor and Hugo
by Robert J. BlakeFrom the creator of beloved stories about dogs--their bravery, loyalty, and companionship--comes a celebration of music, friendship, Paris, and puppies set against an exquisitely illustrated Parisian backdrop!On a beautiful bridge in Paris, performing dogs Victor and Hugo dance and sing as their Maestro plays his music. But when Maestro&’s accordion falls over the side of the bridge and onto a barge, the music stops—not only for Maestro, but for everyone! Victor and Hugo must rescue the accordion, and as they chase after it, they know that saving the accordion for their Maestro will mean saving music for the entire city as well. In this rollicking adventure through Paris, Victor and Hugo show us that friendship and music can combine to create the greatest magic of all.Praise for Victor and Hugo:"A high-energy, exuberant romp through the City of Light. For lovers of art, music, and action-packed adventure."--School Library Journal
Victor Feldbrill: Canadian Conductor Extraordinaire
by Walter PitmanVictor Feldbrill is an account of the life and cultural contribution of one of Canada’s most talented conductors. Born in 1924, he made his Toronto Symphony conducting debut at 18. He went on to become the artistic director of the Winnipeg Symphony, a conductor with the Toronto Symphony, and a guest conductor of virtually every major symphony orchestra in Canada. Feldbrill was also the first conductor-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music from 1968 to 1982. However, what really set Feldbrill apart was his limitless enthusiasm and support of Canadian music and young musicians, as well as his insistence on playing the music of Canadian composers despite the reluctance of some orchestral managers and the initial opposition of audiences at the time. In doing so he reached out to young people and trained many to take their places as members of Canadian orchestras from coast to coast.
Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life
by Neil GouldVictor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores of songs, marches, concerti, and other works. But his most enduring legacy is on a different kind of stage, as one of the grandfathers of the modern musical theater. Now, Victor Herbert has the biography he deserves. Neil Gould draws on his own experience as a director, producer, and scholar to craft the first comprehensive portrait in fifty years of the Irish immigrant whose extraordinary talents defined the sounds of a generation and made contemporary American music possible. Mining a wealth of sources—many for the first time—Gould provides a fascinating portrait of Herbert and his world. Born in Dublin in 1859, Herbert arrived in the United States in 1886. From his first job in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera, Herbert went on to perform in countless festivals and concerts, and conduct the Pittsburgh Orchestra. In 1894, he composed his first operetta, Prince Ananias, and by the time of his death in 1924, he’d composed forty-two more—many of them, such as Naughty Marietta, spectacular Broadway hits. Along the way, he also wrote two operas, stage music for the Ziegfeld Follies, and the first full score for a motion picture, The Fall of a Nation. Gould brilliantly blends the musical and the theatrical, classical and popular, the public and the private, in this book. He not only gives a revealing portrait of Herbert the artist, entrepreneur, and visionary, but also recreates the vibrant world of the Herbert’s Broadway. Gould takes us inside the music itself—with detailed guides to each major work and recreations of great performances. He also makes strong connections between Herbert’s breakthrough compositions, such as the operetta Mlle. Modiste, and the later contributions of Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and other giants of the musical theater. As exuberant as Herbert himself, this book is also a chronicle of American popular culture during one of its most creative periods. For anyone enraptured by the sound of the American musical, this book is delightfully required reading.
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity (Martin Classical Lectures #29)
by Simon GoldhillHow did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.
Victorian Vocalists
by Kurt GanzlVictorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Kurt Gänzl paints a vivid picture of the Victorian operatic and concert world, revealing the backgrounds, journeys, successes, failures and misdemeanours of these singers. This volume is not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the era, but also a compelling, meticulously researched picture of life in the vast shark tank that was Victorian music.
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
by Stanley CrouchThe grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays. With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time—was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite. Beloved yet cantankerous, Crouch delighted and enflamed the passions of his readers in equal measure, whether writing about race, politics, literature, or music. In these essays—some discovered on his computer, unpublished until now—Crouch tackles subjects ranging from Malcolm X (“a thorned bud standing in the shadow of sequoias”) to the films of Quentin Tarantino (“With Django, Tarantino has slipped down . . . into a shallow and bloodstained hip-hop turn that his own best work has well-refuted”). Introduced by Jelani Cobb, with an afterword by Wynton Marsalis, and collected by his longtime editor Glenn Mott, Victory Is Assured canonizes the legacy of an inimitable, indispensable American critic.
Una Vida
by Ednita Nazario“Ednita siempre ha sido la “gran dama” que nos señaló el camino, con un espíritu de innovación, tenacidad y entendiendo lo que es la música actual”. —Ricky Martin Pocos cantantes han sido capaces de generar el interés internacional y multigeneracional del que ha disfrutado la artista Ednita Nazario. Una de las estrellas del pop latino más admiradas y con más grabaciones que han resultado en hits, es reconocida por su riqueza vocal y su magnética presencia en los escenarios. En estas páginas Ednita, la diva más amada de Puerto Rico, por primera vez abre su corazón narrando su vida entera, con detalles nunca antes revelados al público. Desde sus humildes comienzos en Ponce, pasando por la pérdida de su gran amor, la bancarrota emocional y financiera y finalmente el regreso al estrellato. Ednita nos abre su corazón y su historia con absoluta sinceridad y transparencia, desde los momentos más felices de su vida hasta los más desgarradores. Una historia de inspiración, amor, familia: esta es Ednita Nazario con toda la pasión y el talento que la han convertido en una de las estrellas más celebradas de nuestra era.
La vida de María Callas: Tan fiera, tan frágil
by Alfonso SignoriniUna biografía novelada de la vida íntima de la gran Maria Callas, la diva por excelencia. «Fiera inmortal [...], generosa y vengativa, [...] majestuosa y vulnerable, Maria Callas marcó su época.»Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País Mucho se ha escrito y dicho sobre Maria Callas, uno de los mitos del siglo XX, pero casi nadie ha tenido acceso a su correspondencia privada, unas cartas en las que Maria expresaba su yo más íntimo. Alfonso Signorini, devoto desde la infancia de la voz de la gran artista, tenía entre manos estos documentos cuando se puso a escribir La vida de Maria Callas. Tan fiera, tan frágil, la biografía novelada de la diva que nació en Nueva York en 1923 en una familia de inmigrantes griegos. Toda la vida de Maria Callas desfila por estas páginas, pero no a través de sus éxitos, sino buceando en las dudas y miedos de una mujer que empezó cantando en los peores bares de Nueva York, que fue explotada por la codicia de su madre, que cuando llegó a Italia para iniciar una verdadera carrera tuvo que hospedarse en una pensión de ínfima categoría y que luchó con uñas y dientes por dejar atrás a la niña que había sido. Desde su feroz enamoramiento de Aristóteles Onassis, que la abandonó por Jackie Kennedy, hasta su declive vocal, esta apasionante biografía devuelve a la vida a la gran Callas en un retrato único y descarnado de una diva triste que conoció, a la par, la gloria y la soledad. Reseñas:«Crecí comiendo pan y Callas porque mis abuelos se conocieron escuchando La Traviatta, y toda mi vida he estado acompañado por su voz».Alfonso Signorini «Fiera inmortal, criatura capaz de desafiar una vida de humillaciones para convertir su constante drama personal en arte, icono del divismo [...] en la era de los fenómenos globales, revitalizadora de un modo de expresión caduco como la ópera [...]. Generosa y vengativa, fiera indomable [...] majestuosa y vulnerable, Maria Callas marcó su época».Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País
La vida secreta del rock argentino
by Marcelo Fernandez BitarEste libro rescata el trabajo de los héroes anónimos que ayudaron a consolidar la carrera de figuras como Spinetta, Charly García y Soda Stereo. Un aspecto poco conocido en la historia del rock nacional es el vertiginoso avance técnico que ocurrió durante la década del 80 a la par del alcance masivo de las canciones más emblemáticas, la exportación de artistas hacia otros rincones de Latinoamérica y la llegada al país de figuras internacionales de primera línea. Detrás de escena hubo un puñado de actores que acompañaron el crecimiento del rock local con pasión, entusiasmo desbordante, amor por su profesión y ganas de trascender las fronteras. Marcelo Fernández Bitar rescata el trabajo de estos héroes anónimos que rodean los éxitos de la época de oro de figuras como Spinetta, Charly García y Soda Stereo. Figuras que, contra viento y marea, sorteando las crisis económicas, lograron que la escena musical creciera y sentara las bases para el fenómeno actual del rock en la Argentina.
Vida y Música de Alejandro Marcovich
by Alejandro MarcovichEn este libro, Alejandro Marcovich, el legendario guitarrista de Caifanes, uno de los grupos más influyentes del rock en español, reproduce su andar a través de la música, recuerda su infancia y sus primeras canciones. En esta autobiografía, el músico nos relata su vida y cómo se convirtió en uno de los pocos guitarristas con un sonido propio, identificable desde las primeras notas, capaz de hacer hablar a la guitarra desde lo más dulce hasta lo más desgarrado y extremo, para transformarse en una inspiración para varias generaciones.
The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven
by Erica BuurmanThe repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom was highly influential in the broader histories of both social dance and music in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. This book positions Viennese social dances in their specific performing contexts and investigates the wider repertoire of the Viennese ballroom in the decades around 1800, most of which stems from dozens of non-canonical composers. Close examination of this material yields new insights into the social contexts associated with familiar dance types, and reveals that the ballroom repertoire of this period connected with virtually every aspect of Viennese musical life, from opera and concert music to the emerging category of entertainment music that was later exemplified by the waltzes of Lanner and Strauss.
A View of Berg's Lulu: Through the Autograph Sources
by Patricia HallAfter 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. Patricia Hall's new book represents a primary contribution to that understanding—the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera as well as other related autograph material and previously inaccessible correspondence to Berg. In 1959, Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. The complete collection of autographs for Lulu was made accessible to scholars in 1981, and a promising new phase in Lulu scholarship unfolded. Hall begins her study by examining the format and chronology of the sketches, and she demonstrates their unique potential to clarify aspects of Berg's compositional language. In each chapter Hall uses Berg's sketches to resolve a significant problem or controversy that has emerged in the study of Lulu. For example, Hall discusses the dramatic symbolism behind Berg's use of multiple roles and how these roles contribute to the large-scale structure of the opera. She also revises the commonly held view that Berg frequently invoked a free twelve-tone style. Hall's innovative work suggests important techniques for understanding not only the sketches and manuscripts of Berg but also those of other twentieth-century composers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.