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Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease? This broad but comprehensive book deals with history and new...
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Elsevier
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2015-03-02
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Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been challenged, as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes. As experienced teacher, director, and performer Mark Ross Clark lays out in The Broadway Song, powerful performance communicates the central function of a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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What does music have to say about modernity? How can this apparently unworldly art tell us anything about modern life?
In Out of Time, author Julian Johnson begins from the idea that it can, arguing that music renders an account of modernity from the inside, a history...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-27
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This book is the first to cover the recently developed MPEG-V standard, explaining the fundamentals of each part of the technology and exploring potential applications. Written by experts in the field who were instrumental in the development of the standard, this book...
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Academic Press
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2015-02-24
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Die Komplexität der Musik Max Regers ist nicht leicht zu durchdringen. Hans-Peter Retzmann versucht diese schwierige Aufgabe zu lösen, indem er kompositorische und musikästhetische Fragestellungen mit Regers eigenem Wort entwickelt. Aus dem Zusammenwirken von Regers...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Mit diesem Band liegt erstmals seit fast hundert Jahren eine Veröffentlichung des Briefwechsels zwischen Franz Brentano und Carl Stumpf vor. Die beiden Philosophen gelten als Wegbereiter der international und interdisziplinär konzipierten phänomenologischen Bewegung,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-19
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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain...
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Elsevier Science
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2015-02-12
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The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-09
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Composer, cultural diplomat, and man about town, Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) counted among his intimate friends everyone from Igor Stravinsky to George Kennan. While today he is overshadowed by his more famous cousin Vladimir, Nicolas Nabokov was during his lifetime an...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-03
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In The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance, author Thomas J. Parente applies the concept of flow to the practice of piano playing, demonstrating how student musicians can experience enjoyment and confidence from succeeding at...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-03
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Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock'sChoral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-03
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American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category. The impact of digital technology on the creative process and the unprecedented diversity of contemporary composers are arguably among...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-02
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Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During this period,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-29
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There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with much analysis...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-20
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Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution auf die Oper des 19. Jahrhunderts. Unter Berücksichtigung der Oper der französischen Revolutionszeit, der neapolitanischen Oper unter französischer Herrschaft und der historischen Opern Rossinis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart?...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-14
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This book captures links between music and literature in the light of recent proposals from theorists of intertextuality and comparative literature, and at the same time diagnoses the current state of comparative literature as a field of literary research. The issue of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-06
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In The Country Music Reader Travis D. Stimeling provides an anthology of primary source readings from newspapers, magazines, and fan ephemera encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present. Presenting conversations that have shaped historical...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students' disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn, veteran teacher and pedagogue...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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