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"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel.
When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading for countless...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-28
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The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science.The 80 experts from 13 countries...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-24
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This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure. Taking as its starting point "the art of living"...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-21
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Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to listeners,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-17
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Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 reveals for the first time how the sounds and rhythms of the natural world were listened to, interpreted and used amid the pressures of early twentieth century life. The book argues that despite and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-15
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Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 reveals for the first time how the sounds and rhythms of the natural world were listened to, interpreted and used amid the pressures of early twentieth century life. The book argues that despite and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-15
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'David Katz's in-depth portrayal of his genius is to be commended and is an essential addition to any serious music fan's collection' David Rodigan MBE OD'For the complete picture of this musical genius you can't get better than David Katz's People Funny Boy - if you're...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
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2021-12-14
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Deep Cuts
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Stefan Lückel untersucht in der vorliegenden Arbeit, inwiefern im Kontext des vokalen Musizierens innerhalb des Musikunterrichtes der Sekundarstufen I und II - im Besonderen beim Singen - neben musikspezifischen auch allgemeine Bildungserfahrungen erzielt und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-03
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This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the eighteenth century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-11-30
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The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Like a firework against the night sky, the DJ and producer Tim Bergling exploded onto the music scene. A musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European...
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Sphere
Parution :
2021-11-30
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'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it and be inspired, as I was' Bobby Gillespie'Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective. He...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This book presents a comprehensive view of children's musical artistry and how to develop it in both the music classroom and children's chorus. Presenting the musical mind as the gateway to children's artistry, and addressing the power of movement in its embodiment and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-12
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In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-11
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With a foreword by MARK KNOPFLER'An uplifting journey through the sheer hard work, pitfalls and thrills of navigating a great rock band to the pinnacle of success. I so enjoyed the ride!' ROGER TAYLOR__________Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2021-11-11
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Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-09
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***With a foreword by James NaughtieWithin the pages of this book lie musical prescriptions that offer comfort, solace and strength in the face of dark times.Whether you suffer from loneliness or laziness, from bereavement or betrayal, a heartbreak or a mere hangover,...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2021-11-04
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The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-02
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The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback‘Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder – his life is in every line of these songs ... pure joy’ Sunday Times, Book of the Year With seven songs...
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Penguin
Parution :
2021-11-02
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'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew bands are as...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2021-10-28
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* Contributions from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood* Over 1,400 photographs, featuring many rare and previously unpublished items of priceless memorabilia* Foreword by Craig Kallman, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records* Covers the entire...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2021-10-28
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