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HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ARTNow, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie during his lifetime - or who were his contemporaries - pay tribute to the icon through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius...
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Cassell
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2016-10-06
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This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-31
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A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-03
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The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith. Unsurprisingly, many performers and listeners consider Messiaen's strong religiosity central to their appreciation of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. The term environmental sound art is generally applied to the work of sound artists who incorporate...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-10
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The Gesamtkunstwerk ('total work of art'), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic. This book sheds light on this conundrum by first tracing the development of the concept in the 19th century through selected examples, some of which include...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-15
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When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story. This new and expanded edition-more...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-30
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Sie sind Musiker mit Leib und Seele und wollen nun den nächsten Schritt wagen? Ihre Musik soll gehört werden und statt im Proberaum zu versauern, wollenSie auf die Bühne oder mit Ihren Songs ins Radio? Christoph A. G. Klein zeigt Ihnen, wie es geht: Denn gute Musik zu...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-03-22
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Für Dummies
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Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual? With the continual evolution of digital technology, this distinction grows increasingly hazy. But perhaps the distinction has become...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-14
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Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-18
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During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the United States. With few exceptions, this repertoire is virtually forgotten today. In Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-06
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From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple ways our...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Have you ever wondered…how the orchestra got its name?who wrote the longest-ever symphony?just how do we know when to clap – and when not to?From Bach to Beethoven, Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams, the world of classical music has something to enchant every listener....
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2015-10-08
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There can be no doubt as to the authenticity of BWV 143 as a genuine cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. While the originals are lost, there are second and third «generation» copies. This study considers all known facts since the work’s composition in the 18th century and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-11
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Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-31
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Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-06
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Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-06
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In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the cultural work of the other until the composer's death in 1971....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-03
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Il presente volume raccoglie i risultati di due seminari svoltisi nel 2011 a Roma e nel 2013 a Friburgo. Un’ampia gamma di soggetti è rappresentata nei saggi pubblicati, che spaziano dal tardo Cinquecento al pieno Settecento. Un saggio esce dalla città di Napoli per...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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