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Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters--and the celebrated women who played them--still define opera at its finest and most searingly...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-01
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Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-01
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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-05-31
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Thousands of people want to break into the exciting, glamorous and hard-working music industry, but don't know how to go about it. How to Make it in the Music Business is a genuine insider's guide for anybody who wants to become a rock star, journalist, publicist, band...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-05-31
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The music industry is undergoing immense change. This book argues that the transformations occurring across the various music industries - recording, live performance, publishing - can be characterised as much by continuity as by change, raising complex questions about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-05-29
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From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother...
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Headline
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2012-05-24
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A colourful collection of pieces on the enigmatic genius of Scott Walker from THE WIRE.Scott Walker has travelled from teen idol to the outer limits of music. From 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More' reaching No.1, through to recordings of meat being punched on his...
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Orion
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2012-05-17
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Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-05-16
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Who doesn't want to learn how to play the ukulele? The uke is hot. And learning to play this instrument at a basic level is quick and easy for even the most inexperienced musicians - especially with Ukulele in a Day For Dummies! With this great introductory package,...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2012-05-15
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In A Day For Dummies
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The man known simply as 'Enge' by his millions of fans worldwide has sold over 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks in the chart with 'Release Me'.From living on the dole and receiving last rites with...
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Virgin Digital
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2012-05-10
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Nicht nur für das Theater geschriebene Musik verfügt über eine theatrale Schicht. Diese nicht als etwas der Musik Hinzugefügtes, sondern als etwas genuin Musikalisches zu begreifen, ist das Hauptanliegen dieses Buches. Der zweite Schlüsselbegriff neben dem Theatralen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-04
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Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-05-03
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An essential guide to more than 1,000 years of classical musicLose yourself in the fascinating story of classical music in The Complete Classical Music Guide. Full of beautiful colour photographs, over 300 inspiring composer biographies, analyses of major classical...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2012-05-01
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"The fact is, you will teach."
from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp, Dean Emeritus, The Julliard School.
Whether serving on the faculty at a university, maintaining a class of private students, or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-30
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Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter is subject to a number of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-26
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Telling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books'Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-written rock memoir' The TimesThe Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-04-26
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Die Arbeit soll die Wissenslücken über das Leben und Werk Anton Zimmermanns, des Musikers der Theresianischen Zeit in Preßburg (heute Bratislava), schließen und ihm die gebührende Eingliederung in die Musikgeschichte sichern. Sie besteht aus einem Studien- und einem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
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Now in paperback and with a new foreword, a kaleidoscopic look at the many faces of Bob Dylan, legendary folk singer-songwriter and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock's shifting...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2012-04-24
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Drawing generously from four centuries of Italian, German and French art song, Exploring Art Song Lyrics embraces the finest of the literature and presents the repertoire with unprecedented clarity and detail. Each of the over 750 selections comprises the original poem,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-13
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