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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-07
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A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-19
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The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church’s efforts, during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, to cultivate a more appropriate liturgical...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-05
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A memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mandela' [THE TIMES]'The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-09
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Audio recordings are the calling card with which musicians share and promote their work so a knowledge of recording techniques and technologies is essential to the 21st century musician. Recording On a Budget provides a comprehensive introduction to the recording arts...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-06
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Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-03
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Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-30
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«Carmen» ist für uns der Inbegriff der andalusischen Zigeunerin. Entspricht sie dem Frauenbild, das wir in den Liedertexten des Flamenco finden? In dieser Arbeit werden zuerst die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse gegen den «Mythos Flamenco» abgegrenzt. Es wird...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Kurt Blaukopf (1914-1999) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Musiksoziologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ausgehend von einer empiristischen Tradition österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturforschung begründete Blaukopf die «Wiener Schule der Musiksoziologie», zu deren Zielsetzung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familiarity with opera was still a part of American "cultural literacy." During the Ragtime era, hundreds of humorous...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-18
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Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-17
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David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in music theory,...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-16
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'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK 'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as engaged and...
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Orion
Parution :
2010-11-11
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Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is...
Editeur :
Da Capo
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2010-11-09
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The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.'Electrifying' New York Times'A masterpiece' The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday TelegraphWith the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-10-26
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Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-10-25
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Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans.
In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-10-11
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