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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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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...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-16
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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-07
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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-07
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A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-19
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The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church’s efforts, during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, to cultivate a more appropriate liturgical...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-10
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Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-17
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A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre.
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Oxford University Press
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2010-09-28
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The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300.The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words....
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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Whether you're playing blues, rock, classical, or folk-all the chords you'll need are here Even Eric Clapton started with a few basic chords. And Guitar Chords For Dummies offers guitarists of every ambition, skill level, and musical genre a key to the simplest and...
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For Dummies
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2010-04-09
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Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music of Haydn and Mozart produced during the years 1787 to 1791, the period...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-10-08
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A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers, Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today. From the Nutcracker--arguably the most popular ballet currently on the boards--Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty, to Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame, to the Symphony...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-07-30
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The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-07-27
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