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The Anatomy of Melody: Exploring the Single Line of Song.(Book review)
The Anatomy of Melody: Exploring the Single Line of Song, by Alice Parker, GIA Publications, Inc. (7404 South Mason Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618), 2006. 194pp. $26.95.
Alice Parker is an acclaimed vocal music expert, with more than 600 published original works, arrangements and books, plus 14 record albums and four videos. After 50 years as a teacher, conductor, clinician and composer, she offers this fifth book that provides a thorough approach to analyzing, performing, listening, composing and appreciating music based on a single line: melody. It would be an excellent resource or even a basic textbook for composition, appreciation, music education and general music classes. Her beliefs about the importance and supremacy of melody are attributed to her life-long experiences and to working with Robert Shaw for more than 20 years. She has developed a "profound respect" for any enduring melody that has been sung, loved and passed on to successive generations.
This thought-provoking book is organized in eight parts with 20 chapters. Each chapter ends with a short section entitled "Reflections," with instructions for some sort of musical involvement by the reader and/or questions to be answered, the purposes of which are to engage the reader in experimentation and ...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...recognize the melody. The rhythm of many melodies is extraordinarily...of a particular melody, or what it is that gives some melodies durability while...the long-lived melodies possess the valuable...itself strongly in melody, particular scales...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire March 20, 2001 700+ words
...BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 20, 2001 Melody Interactive Solutions in collaboration...mobile phones. The agreement provides for Melody Embedded WAP Server to be installed in...says Ulf Anggard, President and CEO of Melody Interactive Solutions. "The collaboration...
- Forbes: Melody Is The Number 1 Brand In Egypt.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 10, 2006 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 2006-Melody: Forbes: Melody Is The Number 1 Brand In Egypt(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10112006 Cairo, Egypt - Melody is the number 1 brand in Egypt and number 33 in the Arab...
- Melody Launches Bluetooth Over IP.
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 5, 2001 700+ words
...Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Melody Interactive Solutions has developed a new technology...Bluetooth over IP (BoIP). Based on this technology Melody now launches a new product, Melody Bluetooth Emulation Environment, which enables...