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Author : Edward Green
Release : 2014
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 196/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington by : Edward Green
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington written by Edward Green. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Release : 2003-01-09
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 166/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by : Mervyn Cooke
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jazz written by Mervyn Cooke. This book was released on 2003-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.
Author : Edward Green
Release : 2015-01-08
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington by : Edward Green
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington written by Edward Green. This book was released on 2015-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.
Author : John Howland
Release : 2017-05-11
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Duke Ellington Studies by : John Howland
Download or read book Duke Ellington Studies written by John Howland. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke Ellington (1899–1974) is widely considered the jazz tradition's most celebrated composer. This engaging yet scholarly volume explores his long career and his rich cultural legacy from a broad range of in-depth perspectives, from the musical and historical to the political and international. World-renowned scholars and musicians examine Ellington's influence on jazz music, its criticism, and its historiography. The chronological structure of the volume allows a clear understanding of the development of key themes, with chapters surveying his work and his reception in America and abroad. By both expanding and reconsidering the contexts in which Ellington, his orchestra, and his music are discussed, Duke Ellington Studies reflects a wealth of new directions that have emerged in jazz studies, including focuses on music in media, class hierarchy discourse, globalization, cross-cultural reception, and the role of marketing, as well as manuscript score studies and performance studies.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Release : 2018-09-25
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 019/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite by : Anna Harwell Celenza
Download or read book Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite written by Anna Harwell Celenza. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a challenge to transform the "Nutcracker Suite's" romantic orchestra into jumpin' jazz melodies, but that's exactly what Duke Ellington and his collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, did. Ellington's band memebers were not so sure that a classical ballet could become a cool-cat jazz number. But Duke and Billy, inspired by their travels and by musical styles past and present, infused the composition with Vegas glitz, Hollywood glamour, and even a little New York jazz.
