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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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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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Æneas i Carthago von Joseph Martin Kraus bildete das umfangreichste und langwierigste Opernprojekt am Hofe des schwedischen Königs Gustav III. Das Libretto verfaßte der Dichter Johan Henrik Kellgren nach einem Entwurf des Königs. Etwa ein Jahrzehnt, von 1781 bis 1792,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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In Perséphone vereinten zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre mit André Gide und Igor Strawinsky zwei der bedeutendsten Kunstschaffenden ihrer Zeit ihr Können. Diese Studie zielt daher – neben der Nachzeichnung der Entstehungsgeschichte – auf eine Gegenüberstellung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Il libro raccoglie gli atti del convegno internazionale Sopra il gusto moderno: Civiltà musicale napoletana nell’età di Pergolesi, tenutosi a Napoli nel Gennaio del 2010 nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per i 300 anni della nascita di Pergolesi.Il volume esplora l’epoca e...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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'Packed with war stories from a golden age of rock, and insights into the stars that made that music' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE'On reading Getcha Rocks Off you realise just how drastically things have changed in the rock industry but books like this perfectly evoke what...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-06-18
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Amazonen, die Kriegerinnen aus der antiken Mythologie, sind seit Jahrhunderten Gegenstand der Literatur. Jennifer Villarama untersucht erstmalig vertiefend die Rezeption und literarische Bearbeitung des Amazonen-Stoffes im deutschsprachigen Raum der Frühen Neuzeit. Sie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Tips and ideas from transport to tents and style to scrimping Festivals come in every shape and size and cater for every type of music lover, but what unites them is that they are a wonderful opportunity to get away from daily life and have an awesome party! This savvy...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2015-05-14
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Five decades in the music industry, 100 albums, 10 Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Add high-profile activism for the legalisation of marijuana, the foundation of a ground-breaking philanthropic organisation, and a much-publicised...
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Sphere
Parution :
2015-05-05
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In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those...
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Virago
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2015-04-30
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In 1714, the 29 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to the position of concertmaster at the ducal court of Weimar. This post required him for the first time in his already established career to produce a regular stream of church cantatas-one cantata every four...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-01
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From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But his story is as...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2015-03-12
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Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution auf die Oper des 19. Jahrhunderts. Unter Berücksichtigung der Oper der französischen Revolutionszeit, der neapolitanischen Oper unter französischer Herrschaft und der historischen Opern Rossinis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-14
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At the age of 26, Théophanis Lamboukas meets Edith Piaf, in January 1962. He is to become her second husband and the duo will perform her last big hit, 'A quoi ça sert l'amour?'When the star's secretary, Claude Figus, introduces them to each other, Théo is so dazzled by...
Editeur :
L'Archipel
Parution :
2015-01-01
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This short book, taken from Remembered For A While, tells the stories and circumstances that surround every known recording in Nick Drake's canon (as well as a few unrecorded songs). The result is like a detailed, extended series of liner notes, something to read while...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-12-18
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This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set forth and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana.In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a blistering solo that announced a prodigious talent. Two years later he played a historic set at Woodstock, and the world came...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-11-06
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'Explodes in to life from the opening paragraph' RECORD COLLECTORThink you know the story of Jim Morrison and The Doors? This revelatory and explosive biography from critically acclaimed rock journalist Mick Wall will make you think again.'The pick of the best guitar...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-10-30
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