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Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta. Within this socially stratified culture, those individuals at the top were considered to...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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Notes for Flutists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about three dozen of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Its contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-20
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Erst nach der Publikation seiner musikalischen Erzählung Ritter Gluck (1809) eröffnete sich für E. T. A. Hoffmann die Perspektive, nicht als Komponist, sondern als Schriftsteller Berühmtheit zu erlangen. Der literarische Ruhm des Schriftstellers läßt jedoch leicht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-17
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Der Musik an den Welfenhöfen kam im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert eine überregionale Bedeutung zu, wie die in diesem Band vereinten Beiträge unterstreichen. Insbesondere in Wolfenbüttel und Hannover wirkten bedeutende Musiker, darunter Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art examines, under one umbrella, different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations and collaborations of audio and visual in different art forms.The book represents state-of-the-art case studies with key...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-15
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Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. The term environmental sound art is generally applied to the work of sound artists who incorporate...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-10
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The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-09
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Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-03
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In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and television show soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a growing global...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-01
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Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a plethora of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-31
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The bestselling guide now updated with video demonstrations and audio tracks onlineThe guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in the world, which is why it's so appealing to musicians. Guitar For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you everything a beginning or...
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For Dummies
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2016-05-27
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A "radiantly accomplished" (Wall Street Journal) music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier...
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Basic Books
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2016-05-17
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Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway - privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession,...
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Headline
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2016-05-10
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'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIREThe first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-05-05
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This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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