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This book offers readers a fascinating new look into the spiritual side of operetta and musical theatre, two closely related genres often dismissed as trivial, shallow, and essentially secular.
Bradley challenges these judgements and seeks to show that there have been...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-15
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It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay.Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2025-04-03
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TO HELL WITH POVERTY! documents Jon King's story from a South London slum and impoverished working-class background to international success as core musician, lyricist, writer, and producer in legendary post-punk/funk band Gang of Four. The reader is taken on an...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2025-04-03
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Fleetwood Mac All the Songs dives deep into the unique and often fraught recording history of the mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band. Packed with captivating photographs and fascinating behind-the-scenes details, it’s a must-have for...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-04-01
Collection :
All The Songs
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Die Ouvertüre gehört zur Oper wie der Spitzenton in der höchsten Sopran- oder Tenor-Lage. Sollte man meinen. Dabei beginnt längst nicht jede Oper mit einer Ouvertüre.
Dieses Buch beschreibt Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen der instrumentalen Einleitung im Musiktheater...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-29
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Revived with new intensity at the end of the twentieth century, questions of meaning and interpretation in music continue to generate widespread interest and give rise to new research directions and methods. This collection of essays brings together leading...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-28
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake of these discussions and experiments, New Directions in Musical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-28
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The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interrogate an enduringly popular and influential cultural phenomenon. Broadening the purview of extant scholarship while also reflecting its methodological multiplicity,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-28
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2025-03-27
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Welcome to The Little Book of Oasis Insults, now kindly p*ss off. Or stay - if you've got the backbone to handle some of the most savage, side-splitting, and downright brutal takedowns ever unleashed by Noel and Liam Gallagher.This is your one-stop shop for the...
Editeur :
Spruce
Parution :
2025-03-27
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Die Monographie hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, das Phänomen des Leaderships als Erfolgsfaktor am Beispiel erfolgreicher Künstler der professionellen Popularmusik zu untersuchen. Sie ist sowohl ein Handbuch für Interessierte, als auch eine wissenschaftliche Studie und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-27
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Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch versteht sich als eine musikethnologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Studie über das Zheng – die chinesische Wölbbrett-Zither – innerhalb eines gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozesses.Das Zheng ist heute ein sehr beliebtes und weithin...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-24
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Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich WolfgangKorngold (1897-1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-21
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We all know about art forgeries, but why write fake classical music? In Forgery in Musical Composition, Frederick Reece investigates the methods and motives of mysterious musicians who sign famous historical names like Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert to their own original...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-18
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Visions of the Village offers a nuanced account of the cultural history, political salience, and social resonances of Czech village operas, especially those by composers Bed%rich Smetana, Antonín Dvo%rák, and Leoš Janácek. By examining music-critical writings,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-18
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A fast-paced, tender-hearted rock 'n' roll memoir for the ages, Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker is part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure, recounting Campbell's life and times as lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Mike...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2025-03-18
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Jerome Kern’s Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and “straight” (spoken) theater. Kern’s scores are foundational to the American musical, and subsequent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-18
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El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's underclass. When it premiered in Spain in 1915, it proved controversial: some...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-14
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A lively and imaginative exploration of the career and music of the Rocket Man
Elton John is not only "still standing," he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning survivor of the great era of pop and rock music that he helped to shape...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-11
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Composer, pianist, teacher, and social-justice activist Margaret Bonds fought against racism, sexism, and economic injustice throughout her career, amassing a portfolio of social-justice compositions unrivalled in eloquence and originality which challenged longstanding...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-11
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