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Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan

Mark Slobin

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Description:A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan UniversityThis is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life―first as the "Singing College of New England" and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from accounts in the campus newspaper over the earlier decades and eyewitness accounts by key figures in recent times, the book compactly surveys a wide range of musical formations, practices, repertoires, and events from the 1830s to the early 2000s. Vividly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, Music at Wesleyan presents a portrait of the school that today blends educational innovation and cultural diversity with creative passion and intellectual rigor, and includes a foreword by Richard K. Winslow, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus at Wesleyan University. A companion digital archive at features audio files of glee club, gamelan, jazz, experimental, African, Indian, and other performances.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan. To get started finding Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan UniversityThis is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life―first as the "Singing College of New England" and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from accounts in the campus newspaper over the earlier decades and eyewitness accounts by key figures in recent times, the book compactly surveys a wide range of musical formations, practices, repertoires, and events from the 1830s to the early 2000s. Vividly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, Music at Wesleyan presents a portrait of the school that today blends educational innovation and cultural diversity with creative passion and intellectual rigor, and includes a foreword by Richard K. Winslow, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus at Wesleyan University. A companion digital archive at features audio files of glee club, gamelan, jazz, experimental, African, Indian, and other performances.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan. To get started finding Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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