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Recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--La Monte Young remains an enigma within the music world, one of the most important and yet most elusive composers of the late twentieth century. Early in his career...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-10-25
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Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-09-29
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The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-22
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The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-22
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There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-09-14
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Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-07-29
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Als Enkel eines einflußreichen Rabbiners in Lemberg geboren, Opernkomponist in Leipzig, Filmkomponist in Berlin und schließlich Exilant in Ascona – alle Lebensstationen von Max Ettinger (1874-1951) tragen den Stempel historischer Ereignisse. Vielversprechend hatte seine...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-27
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Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic represents the single most powerful influence on international musical developments during the long fin de siècle period. The development of Debussy's musical language and style was affected by the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-04-15
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"Van Morrison," says Greil Marcus, "remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music." When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the...
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PublicAffairs
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2011-04-05
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Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die Aufzeichnungen von Tropen zum Ordinarium missae in sechs Handschriften aus der mittelalterlichen Abtei St. Gallen: insgesamt 101 tropierte Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus und Agnus dei, die von rund 50 Schreibern aufgezeichnet wurden. Die...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Dieser Band enthält die Berichte des internationalen Kongresses Musik aus Klöstern des Alpenraums (Universität Freiburg i. Ue., 23.-24. November 2007), der eine erste Gelegenheit der Auseinandersetzung und des Zusammentreffens von Spezialisten und Forschern bot, die die...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-16
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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-07
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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-07
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A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-19
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The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church’s efforts, during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, to cultivate a more appropriate liturgical...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-10
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Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-17
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IF YOU REMEMBER THE NINETIES...YOU WERE THERE!The Rock 'N' Roll Fifties. The Swinging Sixties. The trashy Seventies. The money-grabbing Eighties. There is a neat bunch of clichés for every era, but THE NINETIES...What the f**k was that all about?John Robb takes us on a...
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Ebury Digital
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2010-10-31
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