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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen wichtigen Schritt zur systematischen musikwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Werk und Arbeitsweise der Komponistin Mela Meierhans dar, deren Schaffen bisher weder erfasst noch erforscht wurde. Dreiundzwanzig Vokalwerke aus der Zeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-01-29
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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
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2016-01-14
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In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-08
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Across the US, school budgets are tightening and music programs, often the first asked to compromise in the name of a balanced budget, face a seemingly grim future. Monetary restrictions combined with an increasing focus on test scores have led to heavy cuts in school...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-08
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In Getting Started in Ballet, A Parent's Guide to Dance Education, authors Anna Paskevska and Maureen Janson comprehensively present the realities that parents can anticipate during their child's training and/or career in ballet. It can be daunting and confusing when...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-07
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General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-06
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We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease, tracing its...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-10
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Johann Melchior Gletle (1626–1683), in Bremgarten/AG geboren und als Dom-Organist und -kapellmeister in Augsburg tätig, hat eines der umfangreichsten und beeindruckendsten Œuvres eines Schweizer Komponisten des 17. Jahrhunderts hinterlassen. In dieser Edition wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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New music teachers often struggle to find a way to connect the content learned in college classes with the content that will be taught in the classroom, since the nature of their work demands a high level of both musical and educational ability, while also the skills to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-04
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The American Song Book, Volume I:The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music, including covers, of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-02
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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 :
2015-12-01
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Research on translation and music has so far focused mainly on «art music» and on issues such as quality, singability and accessibility. Studies which seek to embed translation and music within their historical and sociocultural contexts are relatively rare. This book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of the composer-lyricist in American theater and, even more, in American culture. Over the course of eighteen shows, Mordden...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-19
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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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-17
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Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community. His father had a gift for farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. His mother picked...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-11-12
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Musikalisches Material – Themen, Motive, deren Komponenten – erscheint in der Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts im Verlauf von Kompositionen in neuen Zusammensetzungen. Für deren verschiedene Strukturen wird der Begriff «Synthese» mit differenzierenden adjektivischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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All the Songs is the most comprehensive exploration of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning music and lyrics yet, with the behind-the-scenes look at the studio recording session, album, and every single released during his remarkable 50+ year career.This New York...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2015-10-27
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Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-10-27
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