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Improvisation
Between Technique and Spontaneity
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
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Dealing with the interconnections between music and the written word, this book brings into focus an updated range of analytical and interpretative approaches which transcend the domain of formalist paradigms and the purist assumption of music’s non-referentiality.
Dealing with the interconnections between music and the written word, this book brings into focus an updated range of analytical and interpretative approaches which transcend the domain of formalist paradigms and the purist assumption of music’s non-referentiality.
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Iranian Music Education
120 Years of History, Pedagogy and Performance
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
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Irish Music Abroad
Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city's public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
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This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
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Jazz Italiano
A History of Italian Syncopated Music 1904-1946
In the early 20th century, jazz seduced Italy. An imported passion, it survived war and flourished despite Fascist disapproval. This illustrated book records the story of Italian jazz, from early imitation to when the country’s own geniuses made it uniquely Italian.
In the early 20th century, jazz seduced Italy. An imported passion, it survived war and flourished despite Fascist disapproval. This illustrated book records the story of Italian jazz, from early imitation to when the country’s own geniuses made it uniquely Italian.
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Jean Sibelius’s Legacy
Research on his 150th Anniversary
This conference proceedings draws upon the most current achievements of Sibelius research. It covers all of the genres in Sibelius’ production: orchestral works, incidental music, piano and chamber music, and songs, including both well-known works and rarities.
This conference proceedings draws upon the most current achievements of Sibelius research. It covers all of the genres in Sibelius’ production: orchestral works, incidental music, piano and chamber music, and songs, including both well-known works and rarities.
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This book examines the CBC's impact on art music in Canada (1936-1986) through the work of one man: John Peter Lee Roberts. For thirty years, he brought the music of Canada to the world and the world of music to Canadians, commissioning and promoting new Canadian composers.
This book examines the CBC’s impact on art music in Canada (1936-1986) through the work of one man: John Peter Lee Roberts. For thirty years, he brought the music of Canada to the world and the world of music to Canadians, commissioning and promoting new Canadian composers.
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L’Africaine
The Facsimile
The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is legendary. A glorious posthumous tribute, it was a favourite of tenors like Caruso and Domingo. This fascinating facsimile of the manuscript uniquely gives us Meyerbeer’s original intentions.
The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is legendary. A glorious posthumous tribute, it was a favourite of tenors like Caruso and Domingo. This fascinating facsimile of the manuscript uniquely gives us Meyerbeer’s original intentions.
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Auber’s operas, with librettist Eugene Scribe, cover a tumultuous 50-year period of French history. Their work is a remarkable reflection on the era's great themes: political tumult, bourgeois rectitude, the artistic life, rebel outlaws, and enterprising womanhood.
Auber’s operas, with librettist Eugene Scribe, cover a tumultuous 50-year period of French history. Their work is a remarkable reflection on the era’s great themes: political tumult, bourgeois rectitude, the artistic life, rebel outlaws, and enterprising womanhood.
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Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I
The Years of Fame 1836-1863
A superb singer and composer, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a 19th-century muse to Brahms and Meyerbeer. Loved by Turgenev for forty years, she was a musical genius. This first comprehensive biography in English reveals the life of this forgotten powerhouse.
A superb singer and composer, Pauline Viardot Garcia was a 19th-century muse to Brahms and Meyerbeer. Loved by Turgenev for forty years, she was a musical genius. This first comprehensive biography in English reveals the life of this forgotten powerhouse.
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Local and Global Understandings of Creativities
Multipart Music Making and the Construction of Ideas, Contexts and Contents
Focusing on creators rather than the object, this volume explores the "polyphony of voices" in music making. Based on fieldwork, it examines how musicians balance personal goals with group cohesion in diverse secular and religious traditions.
Focusing on creators rather than the object, this volume explores the “polyphony of voices” in music making. Based on fieldwork, it examines how musicians balance personal goals with group cohesion in diverse secular and religious traditions.
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This study examines Louis-Ferdinand Hérold, whose famous works like the opera Zampa and the ballet La Fille mal gardée shaped the Romantic opéra-comique and ballet in 1820s Paris. Hérold sought greater Romantic depth without forfeiting a Gallic lightness of manner.
This study examines Louis-Ferdinand Hérold, whose famous works like the opera Zampa and the ballet La Fille mal gardée shaped the Romantic opéra-comique and ballet in 1820s Paris. Hérold sought greater Romantic depth without forfeiting a Gallic lightness of manner.
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Ludwig Minkus
Don Quichotte; Ballet en cinq actes, avec prologue et épilogue, et onze tableaux, par Marius Peitpa après Miguel de Cervantes Piano Score
Marius Petipa’s exuberant ballet Don Quixote, with its celebrated score by Ludwig Minkus, is based on the adventures of Kitri and Basilio from Cervantes’s novel. This edition reproduces the piano score of the classic St. Petersburg version.
Marius Petipa’s exuberant ballet Don Quixote, with its celebrated score by Ludwig Minkus, is based on the adventures of Kitri and Basilio from Cervantes’s novel. This edition reproduces the piano score of the classic St. Petersburg version.
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Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes
La Source; Fantastic Ballet in Three Acts and Four Scenes, by Charles Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes. Delibes’s vigorous score, his first for ballet, contrasted effectively with the melancholic, graceful melodies of Minkus.
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes. Delibes’s vigorous score, his first for ballet, contrasted effectively with the melancholic, graceful melodies of Minkus.
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Ludwig Minkus La Bayadère
Grand Ballet in Four Acts and Seven Scenes by Sergei Khudekov and Marius Petipa Piano Score
Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.
Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.
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Ludwig Minkus, Don Quixote
Ballet in Three Acts, Six Scenes and a Prologue by Marius Petipa; revised by Alexander Gorsky and Rostislav Zakharov (the Moscow Version)
Minkus & Petipa’s Don Quixote is one of the most enduring creations of 19th-century Russian ballet. Based on Cervantes’s novel, it tells the love story of Kitri and Basilio with musical buoyancy and melodic verve that have made it a global favorite.
Minkus & Petipa’s Don Quixote is one of the most enduring creations of 19th-century Russian ballet. Based on Cervantes’s novel, it tells the love story of Kitri and Basilio with musical buoyancy and melodic verve that have made it a global favorite.
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Ludwig Minkus; Fiammetta/Néméa
Ballet-Pantomime in Two Acts, by Arthur Saint-Léon; Airs de ballet, Le Poisson doré
Aloysius Ludwig Minkus, famous for his ballets Don Quixote and La Bayadère, launched his career through a collaboration with the great choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon. Together they produced works in St Petersburg and Paris, including Néméa and The Golden Fish.
Aloysius Ludwig Minkus, famous for his ballets Don Quixote and La Bayadère, launched his career through a collaboration with the great choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon. Together they produced works in St Petersburg and Paris, including Néméa and The Golden Fish.
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This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
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