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*The Sunday Times Bestseller**Featuring an exclusive new chapter*On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour dates, the entry for 24 September...
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Headline
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2015-03-26
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Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-16
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From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But his story is as...
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Headline
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2015-03-12
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Wie verändert sich afrikanische Kirchenmusik, wenn sie aufgeschrieben wird?Wie gelingt es Dorfchören, Lieder mündlich zu überliefern? Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches steht das Werk des Kameruner Dorfpfarrers Elias E. Ngole (1913-2005). Ausgehend von der britischen Tonic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit ‘You Really Got Me’. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-03-05
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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 is not only Oliver's finest book on the blues, but is perhaps the finest overall survey of the subject that has yet been written. ' FINANCIAL TIMES The influence of the blues on popular mainstream music is immense. Its fascinating history reaches back to the end...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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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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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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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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2015-02-03
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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
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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
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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