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Hear, Listen, Play! is a book for all music teachers who are unfamiliar with, yet curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular musics. For decades, or even hundreds of years, a divide has slowly been developing between the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-18
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In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic he...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-17
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Young pianists pursuing a professional career face a barrage of questions, choices, and challenges. In this book, experienced teacher and performer Stewart Gordon offers a new and practical way to approach them by helping readers to plan strategically and build a secure...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-17
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'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES'Mick Wall has written in a rough and unsentimental style that suits his subject' THE TIMESLou Reed died in 2013. This is the critically...
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Orion
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Sounding Authentic considers the intersecting influences of nationalism, modernism, and technological innovation on representations of ethnic and national identities in twentieth-century art music. Author Joshua S. Walden discusses these forces through the prism of what...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-05
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1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-04
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This study represents a thorough investigation of a polyphonic vocal village tradition in Bistritsa, Bulgaria. Outsiders describe the narrow intervals of these songs as being «maximally rough», while the singers themselves experience their performance as smooth,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the curtain's rise. And when the show began, it was--a rather disappointing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-03
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Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-02
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This book sets forth the first really novel theory of rhythm since Hugo Riemann: the components theory. Its approach will be of interest to musicologists and music theoreticians alike as well as to music performers, since it will enable them to describe and understand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Die in diesem Band publizierten Beiträge stammen ausnahmslos von jungen Sprechwissenschaftlerinnen und Sprechwissenschaftlern, die als Absolventen des Seminars für Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik der Universität Halle-Wittenberg Beiträge für die Bereiche Phonetik,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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The volume includes detailed studies concerning various aspects of the musical culture of Silesia from the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries.The authors, who represent academic centres in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Holland, France and Great Britain,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This collection of essays explores a wide range of topics current in the field of music theory, including analytical methodologies for pretonal, tonal, and post-tonal music, assessment of notation as a vehicle for interpreting compositional strategies in different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Diese Festschrift ist als Hommage an Georg Heike von zweien seiner Schüler entstanden. Im Zentrum von Heikes Schaffen standen Wissenschaft und Kunst, Sprache und Musik: Georg Heike hat Schallforschung immer fachübergreifend gesehen und betrieben. Während er das Institut...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Die Musikgeschichten von Hawkins, Burney und Forkel nehmen in der breitenwirksamen Vermittlung musikästhetischer Kategorien in der Aufklärungszeit einen zentralen Platz ein, da ihre Bücher explizit auf eine weite Leserschaft abzielen. Ziel des Buches ist es, Strömungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The GuardianThis extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2013-11-14
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Music Across the Senses provides music educators with practical ideas for facilitating student music listening skill development. Written both for in-service and pre-service music educators, the book shows how to facilitate PK-12 students' listening skills using...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-11
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In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-07
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