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Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young composers. Music Educators Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith bring a wealth of experience to bear a unique and thoughtfully curated series...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-15
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The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming biopic Elvis, a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-11-03
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Joni Mitchell has only visited the U.S. Top 40 singles chart four times in her long recording career - and the Top 20 just once. So much for 'stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song', as she sang in her 1974 song 'Free Man in Paris'.WhatJoni has done, on...
Editeur :
Constable
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2016-11-03
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The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-01
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During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict also used state-funded performances to articulate their positions in the polarized...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-01
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This book presents the editions of Chopin’s works as cultural texts and gives account of the main events in their reception history. Based on a new typology and an overview of copyright and economics, 140 editions evidence a dominance of a few popular works and genres...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Popular music's gay DNA is inarguable, from Elvis in eye shadow and Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' to The Velvet Underground's subversive rock'n'roll and Bowie's ambisexual alien Ziggy Stardust; from kd lang's female Elvis to Kurt Cobain in a dress; from Noughties...
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Constable
Parution :
2016-10-13
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'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-10-11
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HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ARTNow, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie during his lifetime - or who were his contemporaries - pay tribute to the icon through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Learn to play one of Bach's most exquisite preludes in just 6 weeks, even if you have never played the piano before.An accessible and inspiring book by the pianist and international bestselling writer James Rhodes, who promises that it gives anyone with two hands, a...
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Quercus
Parution :
2016-10-06
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The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. With seventeen Broadway theatres including the Ambassador, the Music Box, and the Winter Garden,The Shubert Organization perpetuates brothers Lee and Jacob Shubert's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-04
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Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music. The principal participants-Rousseau, Diderot, and d'Alembert-were responding to the views of the composer-theorist...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-28
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Von Aida bis Zauberflöte, von Monteverdi bis Mamma Mia - die Eckdaten zu 450 Opern, 150 Operetten und Musicals sind kurz und bündig zusammengestellt: Komponist, Librettist, Aufführungsdaten, Inhalt und Wirkung. Bestens informiert kann der Musikfreund jedes Opernevent...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-22
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The inside story ofThe Cure'Beautifully realised' Irish TimesComing of age in Thatcher's Britain in the late 70s and early 80s was really tough, especially if you lived in Crawley. But against the grinding austerity, social unrest and suburban boredom, the spark of...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Wie der Erstdruck vermerkt, vertonte Robert Schumann im Jahr 1849 die Ballade „Schön Hedwig" op. 106 „für Declamation mit Begleitung des Pianoforte". Unter derselben Besetzungsangabe wurden drei Jahre später die „Ballade von Haideknaben" und „Die Flüchtlinge" op. 122...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of this book was its streamlined approach, basing all aspects of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-21
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