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This collection of essays forms the second Festschrift to honour the dean of Gustav Mahler research, Henry-Louis de La Grange, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. It includes vibrant, new historical, theoretical, and aesthetic research on the complex mind which...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-03-04
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This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-04
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Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed analysis and discussion of the works created by these composers are...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-03
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In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues.In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-23
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This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janácek. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings is a collaborative effort written by practicing music educators, teacher educators, pedagogy experts, researchers, and inclusion enthusiasts with a combined one hundred plus...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-17
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Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-16
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Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-12
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Written by a professional musician who is also a certified occupational therapist, Teaching Healthy Musicianship first and foremost help music educators avoid common injuries that they themselves encounter, and in the process it also equips them with the tools they need...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-12
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Die Autorin untersucht systematisch die Rolle der Auleten im griechischen Kulturkreis von der archaischen Zeit bis in die Spätantike. Neben der geographischen Herkunft werden die musischen Aufgaben, das familiäre Umfeld, die Selbstdarstellung, die Vorrechte und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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Ce volume présente les contributions des cinquièmes Rencontres Internationales organisées à Lausanne par la Fondation harmoniques en septembre 2010. Il offre un regard panoramique et des études à plusieurs voix sur la variété des écoles de facture de piano et des styles...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. InThe African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-02
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Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-29
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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen wichtigen Schritt zur systematischen musikwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Werk und Arbeitsweise der Komponistin Mela Meierhans dar, deren Schaffen bisher weder erfasst noch erforscht wurde. Dreiundzwanzig Vokalwerke aus der Zeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-29
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Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual? With the continual evolution of digital technology, this distinction grows increasingly hazy. But perhaps the distinction has become...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-14
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In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-08
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Across the US, school budgets are tightening and music programs, often the first asked to compromise in the name of a balanced budget, face a seemingly grim future. Monetary restrictions combined with an increasing focus on test scores have led to heavy cuts in school...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-08
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In Getting Started in Ballet, A Parent's Guide to Dance Education, authors Anna Paskevska and Maureen Janson comprehensively present the realities that parents can anticipate during their child's training and/or career in ballet. It can be daunting and confusing when...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-07
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General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-06
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