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Die beiden Künstlerinnen setzen mit ihrer Zusammenarbeit seit Jahren neue Akzente in der österreichischen Opern-, Musiktheater- und Theaterszene. Jelinek (Literaturnobelpreis 2004) als kritische Literatin und Neuwirth als ebensolche Komponistin bilden zusammen ein...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-27
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Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-05-20
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Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner's play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Berg's Wozzeck traces the composer's slow but determined progress. Using...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-05-10
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Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty. The...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-05-09
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The Soul Stylists is about six decades of Modernism and a highly influential world of clothes and music, but one deliberately hidden away for years from the mainstream media. This book explores the enduring relationship that exists between American black music and...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-05-06
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The first cultural history of the Philippines during the twentieth century, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation focuses on the relationships between music, performance, and ideologies of nation. Spanning the hundred years from the Filipino-American War to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-05-05
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Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you don’t have to be a musical genius or a computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you everything you need to know to compose great tunes...
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For Dummies
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2011-05-04
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From Palace to Palais, the musicians who played in the big bands tell their own stories, bringing to life an unforgettable era.Pre-war reminiscences give an insight into a never-to-be-forgotten era, when London's nightclubs were the haunts of the aristocracy and of...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-04-22
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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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For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-04-02
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Lifting the lid on the chart-topping, girl-kissing, trend-setting princess of popIn 2006, Katy Perry was on the brink of packing it all in and giving up - Hollywood had almost got the better of her. Two hit albums later and she practically owns the place. The gorgeous...
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Orion
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2011-03-31
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Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-30
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Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-24
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The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-11
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Die Studie erschließt aus umfangreichem Quellenmaterial des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts bibelwissenschaftliche und künstlerische Interpretationen des Juditbuches im historischen und kulturellen Umfeld Wiens. Sie klärt unter anderem den Zusammenhang der besonderen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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