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Explore the seductive story of the unique artist that was Prince through this stunning collection of rarely seen items and photographs. Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia is a beautifully illustrated biography of a musician of unparalleled...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2021-09-30
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On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh read out the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence over a makeshift wired loudspeaker system to thousands of listeners in Hanoi. Five days later, Ho's Viet Minh forces set up a clandestine radio station using equipment brought to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-26
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Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville surveys the opera's fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations, and taking into account...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education. They determine the knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes, and values deemed necessary for today's students. Beyond musical competencies, a curriculum is, therefore, the most important responsibility facing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler's struggle to create what he called the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-16
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Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-15
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A compelling narrative biography of the legendary drummer John Bonham, his wild ride with iconic rock band Led Zeppelin, and the highs and lows that made up his wild (and tragically short) life. John Bonham is considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2021-09-07
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This Volume II of the Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 continues the line of publications of the first volume in a highly interdisciplinary mode.This time, we offer eight chapters that provide the in-depth study of music in four large sub-fields:...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-07
Collection :
Current Research in Systematic Musicology
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Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm of
intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. Author SanSan Kwan looks specifically at duets, focusing on "East" "West" pairings, and how dance artists...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-07
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Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four,Paul McCartney: The Stories...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2021-09-02
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***Decode the secret language of metal.Metal music has a rich and powerful visual language like no other genre. From death and the devil to mythology and the occult, the artworks of its greatest albums carry a complex hidden code of deeper meanings.Codex Metallum is...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2021-09-02
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Alma Moodie’s letters from 1918 to 1943 span two of the most tumultuous decades of modern German history. They document the responses of an individual professional musician to the vicissitudes of her public and private life: the challenges of post-war economic and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-01
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Ferramonti di Tarsia was the largest internment camp in Southern Italy, both in terms of its size and number of internees - mainly Jews from Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia. An almost forgotten chapter of the Italian history, it served as an absurd and ephemeral meeting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-30
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***'A wonderful document of the last great gathering of the pre-internet age. No camera phones, no social media, just a band and its fans as one' Noel Gallagher'Stunning... The iconic images by Furmanovsky capture the glorious madness of it all.' Rolling...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2021-08-26
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***This is the story of the great lost Beatles album.The end of the Beatles wasn't inevitable. It came through miscommunication, misunderstandings and missed opportunities to reconcile.But what if it didn't end? What if just one of those chances was taken, and the...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2021-08-26
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Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-18
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An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page.
Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-18
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This practical resource for music educators provides 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans with assessments that are aligned to articulate learning from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons and adaptations for K-12 music...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-10
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The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtracks of several key films of the New Hollywood Cinema of the late...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-06
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Der Schutz des Mieters bei der Veräußerung der vermieteten Immobilie (»Kauf bricht nicht Miete«, § 566 BGB) ist in Deutschland etabliert und rechtspolitisch gewollt. Die Entstehungsgeschichte zeigt allerdings, dass hierüber lange Zeit kein Konsens bestand. Andere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-30
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