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How do composers build sustainable careers, ensuring their work aligns with their financial goals and personal well-being? Composing a Living is a practical and empowering guide for composers navigating the intersection of music, money, and business.
Drawing on...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-16
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Calling all Carpenters! This pocket-sized companion is a tribute to the viral pop star Sabrina Carpenter.With her catchy tunes, bedazzled lingerie looks and iconic bouncy blowout, this busy woman has amassed millions of fans around the world. It's no coincidence that...
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Summersdale
Parution :
2025-09-11
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Formed in 1988, and with 14 albums to their name, Manic Street Preachers are an established feature of British rock landscape. So much so, that it's easy to mistake the band's ongoing presence as an inevitability. Long before their narrative's traumatic fissure - the...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
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2025-09-11
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA ROUGH TRADE, RESIDENT, UNCUT, SHINDIG!, CLASH MAGAZINE AND TLS BOOK OFTHE YEAR'This is as definitive an account of the artist as we have to date' MOJO'It's a treasure trove of personal recollections, and the picture that emerges is of a band...
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Constable
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2025-09-11
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From the sonically sparse Pure Heroine to the epic pop euphoria of Melodrama, and from the sunny optimism of Solar Power to the raw, primal energy of Virgin, Lorde has been crafting music that defines the moment for over a decade. Now, in the year of 'Lorde Summer' and...
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Robinson
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2025-09-04
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Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by personal decree of Joseph Stalin in 1936. Dramatically revived byShostakovich's close friend, the cellist and Soviet émigré Mstislav Rostropovich in 1979,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-03
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This is the story of the game-changing collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, who channelled their inner fears and desires into films that would become the nightmarish narratives and soundtracks of our lives.
The 11-year...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-03
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When you attend a live classical music concert, have you noticed that the players are both younger and older musicians? The younger members are clearly competent players having received their position in the orchestra after a series of auditions and a trial period, but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-27
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Forced migration has led to the creation of unique spaces within varying contexts where music is made, shared, and experienced. Music Refuge charts over eight years of research to uncover the musical lives of those seeking asylum and refuge in 'host' countries. This...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-26
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How can we best understand the rules of Mozart's musical games? His first symphony, written in E flat major when he was just nine years old, sits at the opposite end of the tonal spectrum of his final concerto in A major. Through his diligent attention to -- and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-26
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The Queen of Country Pop is still “The One,” and her greatest hits, incredible life, bold style, and chart-topping songs are celebrated in this officially licensed gift book. Includes an exclusive interview with Shania Twain for this book! A...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2025-08-19
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In Dreaming and Thinking in Music, Bruce Adolphe harnesses his wide-ranging experiences as a composer and educator to tackle one of the more elusive questions in music composition: how to get from technical ability to creative creation. Unlike standard composition...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-18
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The Middle Matter is a reader which brings together thoughts on the nature of sound; its substance, specific qualities, and potential—with a specific curiosity to its propensity to occupy the spaces in-between, the instertitial gaps between different spaces, times,...
Editeur :
Les presses du réel
Parution :
2025-08-18
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By 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a "new thing" in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant change within and, for some, a dramatic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-15
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Historical performance research is undergoing a transformation as the research from different centers intersects in new ways. Practice in Context reflects this vibrant, diverse, and evolving field.
The Historically Informed Performance --shorted to HIP-- movement first...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-08
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The field of Film-Music Studies has been increasingly dominated by musicologists; this book brings the discipline back squarely into the domain of Film Studies, offering an approach in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game. Blending Neoformalism...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-08
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Chappell Roan - your favourite artist's favourite artist - is hot-to-go right now following her multiple Grammy Award nominations at next year's prestigious ceremony. With more than three billion streams on Spotify (after just one album!),Chappell has come a long way...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2025-08-07
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The Hiawatha trilogy of cantatas (1898--1900), based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poemThe Song of Hiawatha, were some of the most popular and widely performed pieces of music in the opening decade of the twentieth century. As a result, their young African British...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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A fascinating, influential musician of the late nineteenth century, Joachim Andersen was the founding principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a renowned virtuoso and composer of flute music, and a leader in Scandinavian musical life. Every flutist plays...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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The book explores the development of popular music research in the Czech lands and neighbouring socialist states, a field that was institutionalised here well before it was in the West. Based on the analysis of previously unprocessed archival sources, the authors...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-08-01
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