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Through musical analysis of compositions written between the mid-twelfth to late nineteenth centuries, this volume celebrates the achievements of eight composers, all women: Hildegard of Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-04
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For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-04
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Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-04
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The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-04
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Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Drawing upon methods and theories from disciplines such as ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, community development, and communication studies,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-04
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The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-31
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays zur Oper spannen einen weiten Bogen. Sie reichen vom Barock bis in die Moderne. Sie richten ihren Blick auf bekannte wie weniger bekannte Komponisten. Sie fragen nach deren Kunstkonzept, ihrer geschichtlichen Stellung und Wirkung....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-25
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The first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legendsThe MC5"Voyeuristically dramatic."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, the MC5 was on the cover of...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2018-08-14
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This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sound
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This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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Das Buch konzentriert sich auf die diatonische Mundharmonika mit zehn Tonkanälen. Es bietet einen allgemeinen Überblick über das Instrument und darüber, was man als Spieler mitbringen sollte. Behandelt wird auch, was man beim Kauf einer Mundharmonika beachten muss, wie...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-07-11
Collection :
Für Dummies
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In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-09
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Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-02
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Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural, and analytical investigation of the French composer's famous...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-02
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The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German. Written by Valentin Lanzrein and Richard Cross,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-26
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A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2018-06-19
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Immer wieder wird in der Geschichte der Symphonie die Grenze zwischen Instrumental- und Vokalmusik durchbrochen. Auffallend häufig begegnen gerade in der Finalgestaltung vokalmusikalische Melodien, imaginäre Choräle oder ganze Chortableaus. Welche kompositorischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-18
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Musikwissenschaft
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Great vocal teachers from the 16th century through the early 19th century discovered through trial and error how to properly develop the singing voice, and the term bel canto came to be applied to both the manner of singing and the vocal music of that period. But by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-15
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An explosive insider account of grime, from subculture to international phenomenon. *****A group of kids in the 2000s had a dream to make their voice heard - and this book documents their seminal impact on today's pop culture.DJ Target grew up in Bow under the shadow...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2018-06-14
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'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . . There is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a young man who instinctively knew that it...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2018-05-24
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