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During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of their exotic subjects. Resonances of the Raj examines the ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of Britain and India...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-15
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This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up sections: music parents. Within these pages, more than 150 veteran music parents contribute their experiences, reflections, warnings, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-15
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Die wissenschaftliche Musikpädagogik ist auf vielfältige Weise mit benachbarten Disziplinen vernetzt. Hinter dem Titel Rollenspiele verbergen sich 28 Grenzgänge in den Bereichen Musik und Bühne, Musikpädagogik als Wissenschaft sowie Musik und Popularität.Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the surrounding Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies by at least 11 composers were written. These include some of the best-known works of the symphonic repertoire, such as Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and Mozart's...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-08
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Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourié. A St. Petersburg native allied with the Futurist movement and profoundly sympathetic to Silver Age decadence,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-08
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The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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Music and tourism, both integral to the culture and livelihood of the circum-Caribbean region, have until recently been approached from disparate disciplinary perspectives. Scholars who specialize in tourism studies typically focus on issues such as economic policy,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant ethnomusicological...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies. Focusing on broad groups of issues relating to the music and the production of Sondheim works, rather...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, and ideas about race, ethnicity, and the nation during the American cinema's conversion to sound. Contrary to most accepted narratives about the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-29
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945) was one of the most important composers and musical thinkers of the 20th century. His contributions as a composer, as a performer and as the father of ethnomusicology changed the course of music history and of our contemporary perception of music...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-25
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Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives. They're so glitzy and catchy that it seems impossible that they could have ever gone any other way. But the ease in which they...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-08
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As audiences are increasingly no longer solely listeners but also active producer-consumers, and as video games and other interactive systems increasingly permeate our daily lives, understanding interactivity and its impact on the audience has never been more important....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-04
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Was heißt es, wenn Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach vom ausführenden Musiker fordert, er müsse selbst gerührt sein, bevor er seine Zuhörer in Rührung versetzen könne? Der Autor schreibt über die Idee der Emotion, über ihre Rolle im Szenario sogenannter Musikanschauung (von ca....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Qualitative research has become increasingly popular in music education over the last decade, yet there is no source that explains the terms, approaches and issues associated with this approach. In The Oxford Handbook ofQualitative Research in American Music Education,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-01
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever'A must-read for any music fan' (Boston Globe)Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but between 1974 and 1978...
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Penguin
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2014-03-27
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Das interdisziplinär konzipierte Rechenkompendium bietet einen Überblick über die quantitativen Aspekte von musikalischen Intervallen, die im Laufe der Geschichte diskutiert worden sind. Für die mathematische Beschreibung des historischen Materials wird unter den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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Die Musik und das religiöse Leben gehören in der westeuropäischen Kultur untrennbar zusammen. In der Musik ereignet sich Bekenntnis und Erfahrung des Religiösen gleichzeitig. Dieser Sammelband zeigt die historische, kulturgeschichtliche und die theologische Dimension...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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