Books by "C. Stephen Foster"
6 books found
The second edition continues to be a valuable source to printed music, music software, and Web sites useful to musicians, and includes interesting essays on the history of printed music, copyright laws, music theory fundamentals, and other topics. Manyquestions posed by musicians and others concerned with music production and instruction are answered with short, effective explanations (e. g., the duration of copyright, the concept of fair use, writing lead sheets, publishing music). Axford's volume will be especially useful to young musicians or others beginning a career in some aspect of music. A useful section, "Web Sites for Musicians," reveals the book's currency: very few dead links were detected, attesting to careful updating from the first edition. The section "Tech Talk: Terms A - Z" provides brief definitions for many new terms used by musicians or technology specialists. A valuable desk reference for everyone involved in the music industry.
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled—including Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell
Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2 (Book & CD)
by Maurice Hinson, June C. Montgomery
1997 · Alfred Music Publishing
Book contains important facts about each composer's life, an essay about the composer's music, and an activity for children to do.
Southern Music/American Music
by Bill C. Malone
Begins with southern folk music in its British and American types during the 18th century; traces their respective developments into the streams of ragtime, blues and jazz in the early 20th century; discusses such offshoots as Hillbilly, Cajun and Gospel music; analyzes the variegated trends whereby this music moved from its southern regionalism to a more national kind of expression and acceptance.