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Der Autor befasst sich mit der Kammermusik des finnischen Komponisten Jean Sibelius. Bevor dieser für seine Orchesterwerke berühmt wurde, schrieb er fast ausschließlich für kleinere Besetzungen. In späteren Jahren gab es hingegen nur noch einzelne Kompositionen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Das Buch thematisiert den Einfluss von Johann Christoph Gottsched auf den sich gegen Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts etablierenden Klassizismus in Deutschland. Als Verfasser und Herausgeber moralischer wie literaturkritischer Schriften schuf dieser erst die ästhetischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Exceptional Music Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities offers readers in music education, music therapy, and music in special education communities a new, important, and globally-informed resource for effective music pedagogies. Volume editors Deborah VanderLinde...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-22
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Discoveries from the Fortepiano uncovers eighteenth-century performance practices and philosophical beliefs, enabling modern performers to craft an authentic, historically influenced style. Using a variety of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, noted keyboard...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-20
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The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music.The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-15
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Featuring a foreword by Tricia Rose and an Afterword by Cathy J. Cohen
Barack Obama flipped the script on more than three decades of conventional wisdom when he openly embraced hip hop--often regarded as politically radioactive--in his presidential campaigns. Just as...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-14
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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....
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Summersdale
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2015-10-08
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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
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2015-10-07
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The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise.The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-25
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In Modern Etudes and Studies for the Total Percussionist, band director and percussionist Chris Colaneri lays out a comprehensive system of total percussion education. The lessons are gleaned from interviews, research, and the nearly two decades he has spent directing...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-24
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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-16
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-11
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The fast and easy way to learn how to play the ukulele With the help of Ukulele For Dummies, learning to play this popular string instrument at a basic level has never been easier. Now in a fully updated second edition, this hands-on, friendly guide provides everything...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2015-09-08
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Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction -- twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise --...
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Da Capo
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2015-09-08
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In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-01
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To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it.
Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-01
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-31
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