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Mozart's Ghosts traces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates howMozart's past status can...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-11
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One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid.One Decade: Britain in the Eighties was different. The culture was...
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Preface Digital
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2013-06-06
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"Industrial" is a descriptor that fans and critics have applied to a remarkable variety of music: the oildrum pounding of Einstürzende Neubauten, the processed electronic groans of Throbbing Gristle, the drumloop clatter of Skinny Puppy, and the synthpop songcraft of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-08
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What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war?
Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-19
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It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music...
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Polity
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2013-04-17
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Contemporary Political Communication
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The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career that spanned six decades and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals....
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-12
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Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-04
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Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians. How did this extraordinary change come about? Tim Blanning's brilliantly enjoyable book examines how everything from the...
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Penguin
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2013-03-07
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Di Carlo Donato Cossoni (1623-1700) sono conservate diverse migliaia di pagine autografe. Questa eccezionale circostanza rappresenta il punto di partenza di questo catalogo, pensato come uno strumento per studiare più a fondo i contesti nei quali il musicista è stato...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-28
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A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-10-01
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Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-11
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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
Parution :
2012-05-03
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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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Joe Strummer's untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. The quintessential Rude Boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist, Strummer wrote some of the most important and influential music of...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2012-03-06
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Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-02-13
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This book explores a paradox: how can a musical work that was written specifically for a certain architectural space «survive» dramatic changes in performance conditions, as in the case of Handel’s Messiah? From the chamber music hall in Dublin where it was first...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-09
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A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for his electrifying public performances. He was a pioneer in many arenas of classical music--establishing Berlioz in the canon, perfecting the orchestral work of Debussy and Ravel, and leading the world to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-01
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Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is...
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Da Capo
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2011-11-29
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