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A Broadway classic, a call to action, and an incredibly malleable popular song, "Ol' Man River" is not your typical musical theater standard. Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in the 1920s for Show Boat, "Ol Man River" perfectly blends two seemingly...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-20
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Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a study of how the recently developed techniques for the nation-wide transmission of music over radio were transforming the...
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Polity
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2014-10-16
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In the Middle Ages, relic cults provoked rich expressions of devotion not only in hagiographic literature and visual art but also in liturgical music and ritual. Despite the long-recognized inter-play between these diverse media, historians of the period rarely...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-09-11
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In Mismatched Women, author Jennifer Fleeger introduces readers to a lineage of women whose voices do not "match" their bodies by conventional expectations, from George du Maurier's literary Trilby to Metropolitan Opera singer Marion Talley, from Snow White and Sleeping...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-01
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In ten studies by Polish authors this book offers an overview of Polish artistic culture and its relation to Western European culture. Thematically, it ranges from fine arts, sculpture and architecture to music, drama and theatre, spanning seven centuries of European...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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In The History of Music Production, Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, musician, and author. Beginning in 1860 with the first known recording of an acoustic sound and moving forward chronologically, Burgess charts the highs and lows of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-25
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«Ein deutsches Requiem wird wahrscheinlich jenes Werk sein, mit dem Brahms in die kommenden Jahrhunderte hinüberlebt» – so in einer frühen Kritik. Davon legt die Hamburger Aufführungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte beredtes Zeugnis ab. Es dauerte jedoch Jahrzehnte, bis das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-23
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The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky'sThe Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history.The third in a series of works commissioned for Sergei...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-10
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Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourié. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-08
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Pro Mundo -Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-30
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The Politics of Appropriation uncovers a largely forgotten chapter in music history by considering the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany. While the influence of Greece on the literature, art, architecture, and philosophy of this period...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-03
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The volume includes detailed studies concerning various aspects of the musical culture of Silesia from the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries.The authors, who represent academic centres in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Holland, France and Great Britain,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Die Musikgeschichten von Hawkins, Burney und Forkel nehmen in der breitenwirksamen Vermittlung musikästhetischer Kategorien in der Aufklärungszeit einen zentralen Platz ein, da ihre Bücher explizit auf eine weite Leserschaft abzielen. Ziel des Buches ist es, Strömungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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In diesem Buch werden die aserbaidschanische Musikkultur im 20. Jahrhundert und die Rezeption westlicher Musik aus dem Kontext des aserbaidschanischen Bewusstseins heraus untersucht. Unter anderem wird den historisch tief verankerten musikalischen Formen und Inhalten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Do you enjoy listening to music while driving?Do you find radio traffic information indispensable?Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive?
This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, we turned...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-01
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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-17
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Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style,...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-19
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Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-11
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Rethinking Britten offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. In twelve essays, a diverse group of contributors--both established authorities and leading younger voices--explore a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-30
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