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From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother...
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Headline
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2012-05-24
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Who doesn't want to learn how to play the ukulele? The uke is hot. And learning to play this instrument at a basic level is quick and easy for even the most inexperienced musicians - especially with Ukulele in a Day For Dummies! With this great introductory package,...
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For Dummies
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2012-05-22
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In A Day For Dummies
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A colourful collection of pieces on the enigmatic genius of Scott Walker from THE WIRE.Scott Walker has travelled from teen idol to the outer limits of music. From 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More' reaching No.1, through to recordings of meat being punched on his...
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Orion
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2012-05-17
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Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-05-16
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Nicht nur für das Theater geschriebene Musik verfügt über eine theatrale Schicht. Diese nicht als etwas der Musik Hinzugefügtes, sondern als etwas genuin Musikalisches zu begreifen, ist das Hauptanliegen dieses Buches. Der zweite Schlüsselbegriff neben dem Theatralen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-04
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Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-05-03
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"The fact is, you will teach."
from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp, Dean Emeritus, The Julliard School.
Whether serving on the faculty at a university, maintaining a class of private students, or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-30
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Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter is subject to a number of...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-26
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Die Arbeit soll die Wissenslücken über das Leben und Werk Anton Zimmermanns, des Musikers der Theresianischen Zeit in Preßburg (heute Bratislava), schließen und ihm die gebührende Eingliederung in die Musikgeschichte sichern. Sie besteht aus einem Studien- und einem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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Now in paperback and with a new foreword, a kaleidoscopic look at the many faces of Bob Dylan, legendary folk singer-songwriter and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock's shifting...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2012-04-24
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Drawing generously from four centuries of Italian, German and French art song, Exploring Art Song Lyrics embraces the finest of the literature and presents the repertoire with unprecedented clarity and detail. Each of the over 750 selections comprises the original poem,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-13
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'A fascinating analysis of both children and instruments' GUARDIANThis unique book offers a simple and practical method of selecting the right instrument for the individual child.Starting with the physical and emotional make-up of the child and using questionnaires and...
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Orion
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2012-04-12
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'Excellent ... paints an affectionate portrait of this unpretentious, humorous presenter who seems to have been loved by everyone who met him' SUNDAY TIMES'A leisurely stroll through the life of an "irreplaceable man" - [a] thoughtful, well-paced portrait' OBSERVERA...
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Orion
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2012-04-09
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Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history. Berlin was the first Tin Pan Alley songwriter to go uptown to Broadway with a complete musical score...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-06
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From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-06
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Though incomplete at the time of his death in 1849, Chopin's Projet de méthode was nonetheless revolutionary in many respects. But with his Fundamental Pattern, Chopin announced the recognition, if not discovery, of the keyboard's extraordinary topographical symmetry...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-06
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In diesem Buch werden zentrale Verknüpfungen zwischen den Bach-Interpretationen und der NS-Ideologie untersucht. Die Detailschärfe basiert auf zahlreichen Originaldokumenten aus Archiven sowie auf literarischen Zeugnissen. Erstaunlicherweise reichen einige der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-03
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At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from the basso continuo...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-03
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It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.
Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-01
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