Music for the Orchestrelle & Aeolian Grand

Music for the Orchestrelle & Aeolian Grand
Title Music for the Orchestrelle & Aeolian Grand PDF eBook
Author Aeolian Company
Publisher
Pages 694
Release 1901
Genre
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Entertaining Lisbon

Entertaining Lisbon
Title Entertaining Lisbon PDF eBook
Author Joao Silva
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 337
Release 2016-09-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0190215712

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During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These theatrical forms became an important site for the display of modernity, and the representation of a new national identity. Author João Silva argues that the rise of these genres is inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building, showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations between local, national, and transnational influences on identity, Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in the development of material culture.

The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music

The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music
Title The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music PDF eBook
Author Rollin Smith
Publisher Andesite Press
Pages 568
Release 1998
Genre Music
ISBN

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It will soon be 20 years since The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music was published by the Organ Historical Society. This landmark volume has been out of print for so long that copies now sell for more than $500. A second edition, revised and greatly expanded, is now in publication and, in addition to emendations and many new photographs, the annotated opus list of over 900 organs (with contract dates, prices, additions, and alterations) has been updated to reflect subsequent activity. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music is the story of America's oldest, largest, and longest-lived residence organ company, whose instruments provided music in the home in the era before the wide-spread use of the phonograph and radio. A list of Aeolian patrons is a veritable Who's Who in American business, industry, and finance. This book not only documents the organs, but also the music they were programmed to reproduce, Aeolian's commissions from Saint-Sa ns, Stravinsky, Stokowski, and Humperdinck, and their reproduction of performances of renowned artists. A special section features a wealth of unpublished photographs of Aeolian installations. In addition to a study of the 54 recording organists, dozens of stoplists are included and complete catalogues of Aeolian organ rolls. As a companion volume to Rollin Smith's Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous, this notable publication makes for reading as fascinating as it is entertaining.

Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection

Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection
Title Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher
Pages 808
Release 1964
Genre Music
ISBN

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The Pianist's Resource Guide

The Pianist's Resource Guide
Title The Pianist's Resource Guide PDF eBook
Author Joseph Rezits
Publisher
Pages 1524
Release 1978
Genre Music
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Anthems and Minstrel Shows

Anthems and Minstrel Shows
Title Anthems and Minstrel Shows PDF eBook
Author Brian Christopher Thompson
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 462
Release 2015-05-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0773584161

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Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallée travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music. Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallée emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation – or nations – Lavallée and “O Canada” really belong.

The Official Price Guide to Music Collectibles

The Official Price Guide to Music Collectibles
Title The Official Price Guide to Music Collectibles PDF eBook
Author Random House Information Group
Publisher
Pages 820
Release 1986
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9780876375259

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