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William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
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Evening Standard Book of the Year. Observer Book of the Year. Guardian Book of the Year. Sunday Times Book of the Year. Telegraph Book of the Year. New Statesman Book of the Year. Herald Book of the Year. Mojo Book of the Year.Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2018-03-01
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Find out why Chet Atkins had a Gretsch guitar named after him, why The Who's John Entwistle called his favourite guitar "Frankenstein", and how John Lennon elevated the Rickenbacker 325 to one of the most desirable guitar brands of the 1960's.1001 Guitars to Dream of...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2018-02-22
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1001
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Dawn ot the DAW tells the story of how the dividing line between the traditional roles of musicians and recording studio personnel (producers, recording engineers, mixing engineers, technicians, etc.) has eroded throughout the latter half of the twentieth century to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-08
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Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-08
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In recent years, academics and professionals in the social sciences have forged significant advances in quantitative research methodologies specific to their respective disciplines. Although new and sophisticated techniques for large-scale data analyses have become...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Mit der Bezeichnung Ambient verbinden sich jene zugleich unaufdringlichen wie hörintensiven Klänge und Klangfolgen, die der Musikproduzent Brian Eno als Spielart populärer Musik etabliert hat. Dieser Band fragt, wie der Einfluss der Ambient Music (= Hintergrundmusik) zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-01-29
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In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-25
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With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-18
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With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product. Organized by four main topics -...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-11
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The international bestseller 'Hysterical, harrowing, honest... I really loved this book' Jarvis Cocker 'A brilliant, jangling opus to Rhodes's frantic mind... I cannot write anything more affecting about Rhodes than he can write himself.' Katie Glass, Sunday Times...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2018-01-11
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In Statistics in Music Education Research, author Joshua Russell explains the process of using a range of statistical analyses from inception to research design to data entry to final analysis using understandable descriptions and examples from extant music education...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-09
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Il volume offre uno studio retorico del linguaggio di Benito Mussolini, concentrandosi sull’elocutio e sull’actio. L’analisi si poggia su un ricco corpus di discorsi pronunciati durante tutta la carriera del Duce. Con gli strumenti dell’indagine retorica, l’autrice...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2018-01-08
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Y7 Studios co-founders Sarah and Mason Levey bring their sweat-dripping, beat-bumping practice to readers with We Flow Hard, a fitness and lifestyle book from the original hip-hop yoga studio.Y7 embodies a modern, streamlined approach to the ancient practice of...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2018-01-02
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Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
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To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role – at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and expressions....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-12-29
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Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer. But this overlooks the distributed and interactive nature of the creative processes on which so...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-13
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