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The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the relationship between opera and audiovisual technology from its origins to today by offering the results of a balanced...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-02-01
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Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-27
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Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-19
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Nana Mouskouri, the Greek singer and one of the world's most popular entertainers, tells her life story for the first time.For more than 40 yearsNana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-15
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What did Time magazine consider the twentieth-century's greatest album? Which anthem by Prince was an attempt to emulate Bob Seger? And what links Count Basie and Batman?If you thought you knew your music, then think again. 1001Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, is...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2011-12-05
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1001
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Explosive autobiography of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKaganDuff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N' Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the biggest band on earth. As well as pulling together the classic line-up...
Editeur :
Orion
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2011-11-01
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UPDATED FOR 2017 WITH A NEW CHAPTERThe definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason.Pink Floyd is one of the most creative, successful and enduring bands of all time. As the only member to have been part of the band...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-01
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In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde das damalige System der Ausbildung von Musikern stark in Frage gestellt. Auch Richard Wagner beteiligte sich daran. Er erhoffte sich 1865 durch den Bau einer deutschen Musikschule in München eine deutliche Verbesserung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-03
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-27
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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
Parution :
2011-05-10
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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...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-05-04
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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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-02
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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
Parution :
2011-03-11
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Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familiarity with opera was still a part of American "cultural literacy." During the Ragtime era, hundreds of humorous...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-18
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'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK 'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as engaged and...
Editeur :
Orion
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2010-11-11
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Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.'Electrifying' New York Times'A masterpiece' The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday TelegraphWith the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-10-26
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An explosive biography of one of America's most notorious bands - Mötley Crüe.Mötley Crüe were formed in Los Angeles in 1981, and have since gone on to become one of America's biggest-selling and notorious heavy metal acts, with nine studio albums and over 80 million...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-09-16
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