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Dummies focuses on the skills that players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you picking with the best of them—or at least much better than before! Mandolin Exercises ForDummies is packed with instruction—from...
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For Dummies
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2014-03-24
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The two volumes ofThe Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-21
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In seiner ersten Übersetzung der Artes-liberales-Enzyklopädie des Martianus Capella hat Notker der Deutsche aus dem Kloster St. Gallen um das Jahr 1000 festgehalten, dass die freien Künste dem Menschen den Himmel öffnen. Zu ihnen gehörte auch die Musik, die ihren...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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Probleme der Librettoübersetzung setzt den Fokus auf eine in der Forschung lange Zeit vernachlässigte Gattung, das Libretto. Auch die Librettoübersetzung nimmt wenig Raum ein in den Wissenschaften. Die Analyse dreier Übersetzungen ins Deutsche zu Mozarts Oper Le nozze...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-05
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Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725 is a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe begins his investigation intoBach's theology with the composer's St. John...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-03
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Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding toMusic presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning. Designed for use by pre- and in-service music teachers, it provides the essential...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-25
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Fast unbemerkt hat sich Christian Rock zu einem Phänomen entwickelt, an dem weder Musikwissenschaft noch Kirche vorbeikommen. Sein erklärtes Programm ist die Begegnung mit der Welt des Glaubens. Trotzdem wird er beargwöhnt, ja abgelehnt. So versucht der Autor ganz...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-10
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Charting the wayward tale of the UK's most notorious group and written with full co-operation of the band this is the ultimate rock and roll story and is destined to become a classic of the genre. From rehab in a Thai monastery to riots at the Astoria, the tabloid...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2014-02-03
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When Hank Williams died on New Year's Day 1953 at the age of twenty-nine, his passing appeared to bring an abrupt end to a saga of rags-to-riches success and anguished self-destruction. As it turned out, however, an equally gripping story was only just beginning, as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-31
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This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20th century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Pro Mundo -Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the Viennese composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) and extensive commentaries tracing the history of each essay and its connection to musical culture of the early...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles. The book begins by introducing all of the tools involved in creating interactive compositions...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-23
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Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone a remarkable...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-22
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The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music and its representations in the long twentieth century (1890-2011) to offer a new cultural history attesting to pan-Africanism's ongoing and open theoretical potential. Tsitsi Jaji argues...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The Politics of Appropriation uncovers a largely forgotten chapter in music history by considering the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany. While the influence of Greece on the literature, art, architecture, and philosophy of this period...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-03
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In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-30
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Robert Johnson was, according to Eric Clapton, "the most important blues singer that ever lived." An itinerant street musician, with a weakness for whisky and women, his is a life of pure legend - the man who sold his soul for the devil, and thereby invented modern...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2013-12-24
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The 27 Club Series
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