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The first study of this volume looks for reminiscences of Dies Irae in Chopin’s works. A great number of allusions and affinities are found in the preludes as well as in Chopin’s output.The study also yields insights into Chopin’s composition method. These intertextual...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Winner of the 2015 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society
When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-25
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Winner of the 2015 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society
When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-25
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Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-23
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Solfege and Sonority is a guide for teaching music literacy in a choral rehearsal, with a focus on the needs of teachers who work with young singers. The book lays out teaching sequences for melodic and rhythmic concepts, lesson plans, and concise strategies for...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-21
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Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of JohannesBrahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-18
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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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The Musical Experience proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education.The editors and contributors define musical experience as being...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-15
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The book defines and describes the relationships between Chopin’s music and one of the oldest but still used monastic rules, the Rule of Saint Benedict. Its goal is to construct bridges between music and spirituality. Since these two realms both refer to human life, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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Die Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen der nationalsozialistischen Kunst- und Kulturpolitik im Bereich des Musiktheaters, dargestellt am Beispiel der Bayerischen Staatsoper in München. Anhand eines rekonstruierten Spielplans der Weimarer Zeit und des Dritten Reiches,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rare ability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies an engaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-03
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Written by an expert in the field who is both a teacher and a teacher-educator, this book is an in-depth and practical resource for educators and parents who wish to introduce music to children with hearing loss.
Author Lyn Schraer-Joiner makes a compelling case for...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-02
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Revival movements aim to revitalize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial, and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America,those occurring and recurring...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-26
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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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«(This book) is the first extensive study of the works of Antoni Szalowski, which provide a clear example of the adaptation of the principles of Neoclassicism and the norms of Nadia Boulanger. The heritage of the émigré composers – generally speaking not well known,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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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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In der ersten Dekade des neuen Jahrtausends war Balkanmusik auf den Weltmusikfestivals, in den Jazzclubs und Tanzlokalen Österreichs allgegenwärtig. Ein musikalischer Balkanboom hatte das Land erfasst. Doch wie kam es dazu? Welche Voraussetzungen waren nötig, damit sich...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-13
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This book explores the alliance of theology and music in the Christian liturgical tradition, interrogating the challenges posed by the gendered nature of church leadership in many areas of its life. It examines the relationship between theology, spirituality and music,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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