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  • The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque by Annette Richards 9780521027533

    The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque by Annette Richards 9780521027533

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    A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich potential to shed new light on the fantastical elements of instrumental music in general and...
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  • Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette by Julian Rushton 9780521377676

    Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette by Julian Rushton 9780521377676

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    Berlioz's 'dramatic symphony' Romeo et Juliette is regarded by many as his finest work; it is certainly among the most original. It is played less often than his earlier symphonies, because it requires solo voices and chorus; yet at its heart is some of...
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  • Polytekniks (Easy Violin Duets) by Polly Waterfield 9780571512997

    Polytekniks (Easy Violin Duets) by Polly Waterfield 9780571512997

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    Welcome to Polytekniks - a lively and original approach to aspects of violin technique. These versatile and entertaining easy duets present a variety of musical and technical challenges for the young player, from string-crossing, finger extensions to...
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  • The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James

    The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James

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    For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes forming...
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  • Lee Evans Arranges George Gershwin by George Gershwin 9780793507016

    Lee Evans Arranges George Gershwin by George Gershwin 9780793507016

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793507016Author George GershwinPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 500g
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  • Difference and Division in Music Education by Alexis Anja Kallio

    Difference and Division in Music Education by Alexis Anja Kallio

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    Difference and Division in Music Education enriches existing diversity and social justice discourses by considering the responsibility of music education to respond to rising social discord and tensions. Although 'hate' is by no means a new concern for...
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  • Anti-Rock: The Opposition To Rock 'n' Roll by Linda Martin 9780306805028

    Anti-Rock: The Opposition To Rock 'n' Roll by Linda Martin 9780306805028

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    Rock is a music of rebellion against authority, and has consequently frightened and outraged people throughout its forty-year history. Anti-Rock is the first book to detail the objections of rock's detractors. Critics from parents to religious groups,...
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  • Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition by Michael Russ 9780521386074

    Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition by Michael Russ 9780521386074

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    The piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition is perhaps the most widely known of Musorgsky's compositions, especially as orchestrated by Ravel. This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life,...
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  • Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era by Paul Oliver

    Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era by Paul Oliver

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    Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural...
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  • A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations: Ambiguity as Opportunity by Tristan McKay

    A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations: Ambiguity as Opportunity by Tristan McKay

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    Along with twentieth-century developments in playing techniques, technologies, and concepts of musical sound, the notations employed by composers have also changed. Composers of what Umberto Eco calls 'open works' often employ intentionally ambiguous...
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  • Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos by Donald Brackett 9780275993382

    Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos by Donald Brackett 9780275993382

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    Fleetwood Mac's distinctive sound, first really captured in the 1977 record Rumours, launched the group into the commercial stratosphere, and over the past three decades they have never looked back. All along the way their dysfunctional relationships...
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  • The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven by Erica Buurman

    The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven by Erica Buurman

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    The repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom was highly influential in the broader histories of both social dance and music in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the...
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  • Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman

    Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman

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    Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and...
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  • Cello Carol Time by W. Max 9780571510566

    Cello Carol Time by W. Max 9780571510566

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571510566Author W. MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 118g
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  • Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music by Colin Escott

    Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music by Colin Escott

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    It's the real stories, not the publicists' confections, that concern Colin Escott. We hear Perry Como's story in his own words: it wasn't all smooth. We learn about the astonishing twists and turns in Roy Orbison's life, and the stories behind the songs...
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  • Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs Liz Giuffre 9781138193581

    Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs Liz Giuffre 9781138193581

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    The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music. Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs fills that gap, breaking new critical ground...
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  • Arthur Sullivan: A Musical Reappraisal by Benedict Taylor 9780367231910

    Arthur Sullivan: A Musical Reappraisal by Benedict Taylor 9780367231910

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    Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) was Victorian Britain's most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan's reputation is chiefly based have...
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  • Music and Sound in Silent Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist Ruth Barton 9781138245358

    Music and Sound in Silent Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist Ruth Barton 9781138245358

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    Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification Esti Sheinberg 9781032172798

    The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification Esti Sheinberg 9781032172798

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    The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.Examinations...
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  • Reflection by Benjamin Britten 9780571517527

    Reflection by Benjamin Britten 9780571517527

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571517527Author Benjamin BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 66g
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  • Encyclopedia of Percussion John H. Beck 9781138013070

    Encyclopedia of Percussion John H. Beck 9781138013070

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    The Encyclopedia of Percussion is an extensive guide to percussion instruments, organized for research as well as general knowledge. Focusing on idiophones and membranophones, it covers in detail both Western and non-Western percussive instruments. These...
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  • Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards by Gerhard Von Breuning 9780521484893

    Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards by Gerhard Von Breuning 9780521484893

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    These are the personal memories of an elderly man who, as a child, was closely acquainted with Beethoven. Gerhard von Breuning, the son of one of Beethoven's oldest friends, was a favourite of the ageing composer, who delighted in the boy's frequent...
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  • Delius as I Knew Him by Eric Fenby 9780521245340

    Delius as I Knew Him by Eric Fenby 9780521245340

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780521245340Author Eric FenbyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University PressWeight(grams) 364g
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  • Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice by Tobias Pontara

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice by Tobias Pontara

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    Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films.The first comprehensive...
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  • Music Sociology: Value, Technology, and Identity by Raphael Nowak

    Music Sociology: Value, Technology, and Identity by Raphael Nowak

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    Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing sociological scholarship. It then goes on to offer a new framework for...
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  • Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music by David Kopp 9780521028493

    Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music by David Kopp 9780521028493

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    David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in...
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  • Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel by Gerry Smyth 9780230573284

    Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel by Gerry Smyth 9780230573284

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    Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the...
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  • A Cole Porter Companion by Don Michael Randel

    A Cole Porter Companion by Don Michael Randel

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    Balancing sophisticated melodies and irresistible rhythms with lyrics by turns cynical and passionate, Cole Porter sent American song soaring on gossamer wings. Timeless works like "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "At Long Last Love"...
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  • Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago by David Whiteis

    Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago by David Whiteis

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    Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it continues to provide a soundtrack to, and a dynamic commentary on, the African American experience: the legacy...
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  • Ceol Chaluim: The Pipe Music of Calum Campbell of Benbecula by Neil Campbell

    Ceol Chaluim: The Pipe Music of Calum Campbell of Benbecula by Neil Campbell

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861525744Author Neil CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint AcairPublisher Acair
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  • Music in the Seventeenth Century by Lorenzo Bianconi 9780521269155

    Music in the Seventeenth Century by Lorenzo Bianconi 9780521269155

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    The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi considers the radical developments of the century as long-lived musical traditions died out and others were created in response to new social...
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  • Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History by Julie Hubbert 9780520241022

    Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History by Julie Hubbert 9780520241022

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    "Celluloid Symphonies" is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music - Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith,...
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  • No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny by Helen O'Shea 9781843518655

    No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny by Helen O'Shea 9781843518655

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    No Better Boy tells the story of a master of traditional Irish music: the legendary East Clare fiddler Paddy Canny, whose haunting music was remarkable for its virtuosity and sophistication. In the 1950's, when he was in his thirties, and at the pinnacle...
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  • Folk Song Sight Singing Book 6 by Edgar Crowe

    Folk Song Sight Singing Book 6 by Edgar Crowe

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    A series of little books of short carefully graded folk tunes beginning with the simplest passages and progressing to more difficult leaps, rhythms, chromatics, and modulations. The later books introduce two-part sight singing.About the AuthorThe...
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  • Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation Simeon Alev (Practicing psychotherapist, Massachusetts, USA.) 9781032081731

    Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation Simeon Alev (Practicing psychotherapist, Massachusetts, USA.) 9781032081731

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    Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves...
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  • That Old-Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63 by Richard Aquila 9780252069192

    That Old-Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63 by Richard Aquila 9780252069192

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    Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. Sam Cooke and the Shirelles. The Crows and the Chords. American Bandstand and Motown. From its first rumblings in the outland alphabet soup of R&B and C&W, rock & roll music promised to change the world--and did it...
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  • Music in London and the Myth of Decline: From Haydn to the Philharmonic by Ian Taylor 9780521896092

    Music in London and the Myth of Decline: From Haydn to the Philharmonic by Ian Taylor 9780521896092

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    Drawing on a range of contemporary performance documentation, including concert programmes, newspaper reviews and periodical reports, this book addresses what it refers to as the Philharmonic 'myth': the notion that London experienced a period of...
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  • Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought by Ruth Smith 9780521402651

    Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought by Ruth Smith 9780521402651

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    In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics...
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  • Mary's Lullaby by John Rutter

    Mary's Lullaby by John Rutter

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    for SSAA and piano A simple and touching carol which upper voice choirs will find very appealing. Words and music by John Rutter The original SATB version is also available (X272).About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge...
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  • Through the Door: A Horn-Player's Journey: A Horn Player's Journey by Arthur D Krehbiel 9780578739724

    Through the Door: A Horn-Player's Journey: A Horn Player's Journey by Arthur D Krehbiel 9780578739724

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578739724Author Arthur D KrehbielFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Arthur D. KrehbielPublisher Arthur D. KrehbielWeight(grams) 152g
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