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‘I, Me, Mine?’
An Initial Consideration of (Popular Music Record) Collecting Aesthetics, Identities and Practices
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
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(Per)Forming Art
Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
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Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.
Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.
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This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
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This book offers insights into how the myth of Medea reflects cultural concepts rooted in our cognition. It analyzes the application of figurative mechanisms in verbal, visual, and music modes, exploring one of the most thrilling themes in literature and performing arts.
This book offers insights into how the myth of Medea reflects cultural concepts rooted in our cognition. It analyzes the application of figurative mechanisms in verbal, visual, and music modes, exploring one of the most thrilling themes in literature and performing arts.
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of major traditional Indian rhythms using a novel visual approach. Its graphic, tabular format offers insights into the structural beauty of rhythms from ancient to contemporary music, including folk, classical, and popular film songs.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of major traditional Indian rhythms using a novel visual approach. Its graphic, tabular format offers insights into the structural beauty of rhythms from ancient to contemporary music, including folk, classical, and popular film songs.
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A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music
The Big Misconception
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst. They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst.
They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
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A Symphony of Flavors
Food and Music in Concert
Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.
Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.
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A Taxonomical Framework for Evaluating Piano Performances
Tempo Styles beyond Fast and Slow
Musicians find it difficult to put what they hear into words. This book offers a framework for evaluating six aspects of tempo. Analyzing 30 recordings of Chopin and Liszt, it shows how to precisely describe and evaluate a performer’s style of tempo and tempo variation.
Musicians find it difficult to put what they hear into words. This book offers a framework for evaluating six aspects of tempo. Analyzing 30 recordings of Chopin and Liszt, it shows how to precisely describe and evaluate a performer’s style of tempo and tempo variation.
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Adolphe Adam is known for ‘O Holy Night’, but his legacy is much more. His ballet Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism, while his opera Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is still played worldwide. This study considers the composer’s life, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets.
Adolphe Adam is known for ‘O Holy Night’, but his legacy is much more. His ballet Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism, while his opera Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is still played worldwide. This study considers the composer’s life, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets.
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While famous for ‘O Holy Night’, composer Adolphe-Charles Adam’s greatest achievement was ballet. His Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism. This book examines his 14 works for the dance, charting the efflorescence of the Romantic ballet in Paris from 1830-1860.
While famous for ‘O Holy Night’, composer Adolphe-Charles Adam’s greatest achievement was ballet. His Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism. This book examines his 14 works for the dance, charting the efflorescence of the Romantic ballet in Paris from 1830-1860.
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Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry, this collection provides a lively forum on aesthetics and experience in music performance. Papers engage in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance.
Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry, this collection provides a lively forum on aesthetics and experience in music performance. Papers engage in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance.
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These musical essays on Albanian themes explore historical identity and traditional performance. In the 18th century, baroque composers began representing the hero Scanderbeg on the operatic stage, using music’s dramatic power to elicit an emotional response.
These musical essays on Albanian themes explore historical identity and traditional performance. In the 18th century, baroque composers began representing the hero Scanderbeg on the operatic stage, using music’s dramatic power to elicit an emotional response.
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American Wind Music
Its Origin and the Instrumental Tutors
The transitions that occurred in everyday life after the new “America” was created after the Revolutionary War are reflected in the type of wind music local groups were performing. Kolman traces the development of these new compositions found in available Instrumental Tutors.
The transitions that occurred in everyday life after the new “America” was created after the Revolutionary War are reflected in the type of wind music local groups were performing. Kolman traces the development of these new compositions found in available Instrumental Tutors.
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An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z
“Singin’ in French”
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
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An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers, from A to Z, 2nd Edition
Singin' in French
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary offers portraits of the greatest singers of the French language. Discover how classic and contemporary artists have constructed the musical landscape, influenced the French language, and nourished our collective imagination.
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary offers portraits of the greatest singers of the French language. Discover how classic and contemporary artists have constructed the musical landscape, influenced the French language, and nourished our collective imagination.
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An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix
Solos for the Hautboy before 1710 based on a Symphonia/Sonata by Johann Christoph Pez that Demonstrates a Performance Practice of Adaptation
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
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An Exploration of Hatred in Pop Music
Viva Hate
‘Love’ may be the major theme of pop songs, but ‘hate’ runs it close. This book explores hatred across the history of popular music—in lyrics, album art, and the industry itself—asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family along the way.
‘Love’ may be the major theme of pop songs, but ‘hate’ runs it close. This book explores hatred across the history of popular music—in lyrics, album art, and the industry itself—asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family along the way.
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An Introduction to Georgian Art Music
Sense-Making through Music
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
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This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.
This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.
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