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Concerto Grosso no. 1 is one of Alfred Schnittke's best-known and most compelling works, sounding the surface of late Soviet life while resonating with contemporary compositional currents around the world such as postmodernism. It marked a decisive point in Schnittke's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-17
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to keep us hooked, and his memories of Joy Division's Ian Curtis are poignant' Daily MirrorBefore he was responsible for some of the most...
Editeur :
Constable
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2019-05-16
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Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recording career to his substance abuse, final album, and posthumous Grammy AwardsAs is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and...
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Da Capo
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2019-05-07
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How does the state separate music from noise?How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of shared existence. In...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-05-07
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Foreword by Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang.3 days. 33 concerts. 2 deaths. 2 births. 500,000 people. And another 250,000 stuck in traffic trying to get in. Woodstock was a festival like no other. Now, on its 50th anniversary, relive every moment.Detailed text and...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2019-05-02
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'Hugely enjoyable ... Green's great achievement is to recapture exactly how those moments felt, but remain sufficiently detached about the whole thing to render the experience honestly' MOJOJohnny Green first met the Clash in 1977. A RIOT OF OUR OWN is his tale of three...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-05-02
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'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-04-18
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Die Autorin widmet sich musikalischen Monodramen, einer besonderen Strömung des Musiktheaters im 20. Jahrhundert. In den Bühnenwerken für nur eine Singstimme wird die Einsamkeit häufig zu einem zentralen und zeitlos aktuellen Thema. Ebenso aus musikhistorischer wie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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This book analyzes how people settle disputes in and outside of Polish courts. The preference for courts against informal settlements increased with the consolidation of the democratic legal state. Still, the compromise settlement remains the cultural ideal. The authors...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer. His music,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-12
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She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-11
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Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-04
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The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne"Riveting." -People Magazine"This is one of the great rock and roll stories." -New York Times Book Review Even...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2019-04-02
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2019-03-21
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_________‘Hepworth’s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious … [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP’s golden age’ The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with ‘Sgt Pepper’; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-03-21
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE ROCK 'N' ROLL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OFTHE YEAR' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Essential for fans and great reading for anyone else' Classic RockBreak-ups, make-ups, groupies, band politics, court battles, the tragic death of Rick Parfitt . . . This is Francis...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-03-14
ePub
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No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the provincial milieu of Berlioz's boyhood, showing how the son of a village doctor...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-03-07
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Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was persistently...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-03-07
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Ganz gleich was Sie als Gitarrist spielen wollen, Akkorde sollten Sie auf jeden Fall beherrschen: Ob Sie mit einer Band auftreten, auf Familienfesten und am Lagerfeuer Gesang begleiten, einfach nur gerne für sich selbst spielen oder auch eigene Songs komponieren....
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Für Dummies
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