Art

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can...

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated...

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem...

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts...

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie?...

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the...

Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's...

A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In...

A notable feature in cultural life is the growing demand to preserve and promote public...

Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of...

This is a readable and imaginative book presenting, with infectious enthusiasm, a sensible simplification of...

Academic musical studies have gone through a period of rapid change in recent years; the...

In The Ultimate Musical Theatre College Audition Guide, author, acting teacher, and musical theatre program...

In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to...

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On...

Shakespeare's texts have a long and close relationship with many different types of dance, from...

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data...

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse...

Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and...

Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the...

One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910)...

Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard...

Musical Theater in Schools: Purpose, Process, and Performance is a comprehensive resource for general classroom...

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone,"...

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This is a tender setting of a text by American...

for SATB and piano This celebration of friendship is rich in expressive melodies and poignant...

Passion Music continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Will...

for unison or 2-part choir and organ or piano This setting of the well-known hymn...

for SA and piano In this charming piece for upper voices and piano, Ramsey's characterization...

for SSA and piano This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like...

Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike....

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined...

Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost...

Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the...

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our...