Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1037 books were found.

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship...

Author: Kofi Agawu (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197664063
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays...  Read More >>

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid...

Author: Adriana N. Helbig (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197631775
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In ReSounding Poverty, author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures...  Read More >>

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Author: Stephen Blum (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780199303533
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology outlines a conception of music theory suited to cross-cultural research on musical...  Read More >>

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Author: Stephen Blum (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780199303526
Format: Hardback
$209.00

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology outlines a conception of music theory suited to cross-cultural research on musical...  Read More >>

The Music of India

The Music of India

Author: Herbert A. Popley
ISBN: 9788119139392
Format: Hardback
$34.65

The author, interestingly, also narrates the biographies of Indian musicians. This book is highly recommended for...  Read More >>

What in the World is Music?

What in the World is Music?

Author: Alison E. Arnold (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jonathan C. Kramer (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032341491
Format: Paperback
$183.00

What in the World is Music? Second Edition, is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared...  Read More >>

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century Composers

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century...

Author: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363230
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A groundbreaking music history book from BBC Radio 3 broadcaster...  Read More >>

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality...

Author: Norton Dudeque ,  Judith Lochhead
ISBN: 9781032100630
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualised and critically examined according to its structure...  Read More >>

Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island

Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant...

Author: Nancy Guy
ISBN: 9780367529420
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book vibrantly demonstrates how the study of music allows for identification and interpretation of the forces...  Read More >>

Rebetika – Music from the Old Greek Underworld

Rebetika – Music from the Old Greek Underworld

Author: Giannis Chorbajoglou ,  Yannis Chorbajoglou
ISBN: 9781551643397
Format: Hardback
$105.57

A fascinating history of the anguish of an uprooted people as expressed through their music.  Read More >>

The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950...

Author: Alison McQueen Tokita ,  Joys H. Y. Cheung
ISBN: 9781032321622
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth century East Asia and Australia....  Read More >>

intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance: race, gender, vulnerability

intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance:...

Author: Professor Sidra Lawrence ,  Professor Michelle Kisliuk
ISBN: 9781648250637
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in...  Read More >>

Quietude: "A Musical Anthropology of ""Korea's Hiroshima"""

Quietude: "A Musical Anthropology of ""Korea's Hiroshima"""...

Author: Joshua D. Pilzer (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780197615096
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Quietude considers Korean Hiroshima victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national...  Read More >>

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Author: Ritwik Sanyal ,  Richard Widdess
ISBN: 9781032389165
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Author: Ritwik Sanyal ,  Richard Widdess
ISBN: 9781032389172
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing

50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing

Author: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781738835225
Format: Paperback
$92.37

"""50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing"" features a collection of 50 easy-to-play melodies for anyone interested...  Read More >>

50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing

50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing

Author: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781738835201
Format: Hardback
$105.57

"""50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing"" features a collection of 50 easy-to-play melodies for anyone interested...  Read More >>

Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva

Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for...

Author: William Tallotte
ISBN: 9781032313757
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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The Big Book Of Armenian Songs: Composed and Folk Songs of XVIII-XX Centuries

The Big Book Of Armenian Songs: Composed and Folk Songs...

Author: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781777999087
Format: Hardback
$131.97

In the first edition of The Big Book Of Armenian Songs, you'll find over 200 songs written by Armenian composers...  Read More >>

Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in The Third Space

Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous...

Author: Katelyn Barney
ISBN: 9781032265049
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to...  Read More >>

The Big Book Of Armenian Songs: Composed and Folk Songs of XVIII-XX Centuries

The Big Book Of Armenian Songs: Composed and Folk Songs...

Author: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781777999094
Format: Paperback
$145.20

In the first edition of The Big Book Of Armenian Songs, you'll find over 200 songs written by Armenian composers...  Read More >>

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs...

Author: Henry Spiller
ISBN: 9781032299341
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Sheram In Love

Sheram In Love

Author: Grigor (Sheram) Talyan
ISBN: 9781777999056
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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A Treatise on Qanun Musical Ornaments: Risāla fī Zakhārif al-Qānūn al-Mūsīqiyya

A Treatise on Qanun Musical Ornaments: Risāla fī Zakhārif...

Author: George Dimitri Sawa
ISBN: 9789004527713
Format: Hardback
$282.48

A double edition in English and Arabic about the art of ornamentations in the performance of the Arabic qanun (psaltery),...  Read More >>

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