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Music and Technologies is a collection of articles by musicians, computer scientists, and educators from all over the world. It explores contemporary ideas in the field, from automatic cognition and simulation to the re-creation of music, with sound and scoring at its core.
Music and Technologies is a collection of articles by musicians, computer scientists, and educators from all over the world. It explores contemporary ideas in the field, from automatic cognition and simulation to the re-creation of music, with sound and scoring at its core.
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The Distin Legacy
The Rise of the Brass Band in 19th-Century Britain
While the relevance of the Distin Family to the brass band movement is known, extensive new research reveals their true impact. This book examines the Distin projects as the main reason why today's brass bands are established in their current form.
While the relevance of the Distin Family to the brass band movement is known, extensive new research reveals their true impact. This book examines the Distin projects as the main reason why today’s brass bands are established in their current form.
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Romualdo Marenco
Excelsior and Sport
In Manzotti's spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
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Franz von Suppé
Overtures and Preludes
Franz von Suppé established the Viennese operetta, a genre full of charm and gaiety. His sense of melody, rhythmic verve, and brilliant orchestral technique found preeminent expression in his overtures, which became celebrated all over the world.
Franz von Suppé established the Viennese operetta, a genre full of charm and gaiety. His sense of melody, rhythmic verve, and brilliant orchestral technique found preeminent expression in his overtures, which became celebrated all over the world.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) – Vocal/Piano Score
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
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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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For the first time, a complete overview of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book describes the instruments—their history, construction, and playing techniques—and explores the traditions of the makers and players.
For the first time, a complete overview of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book describes the instruments—their history, construction, and playing techniques—and explores the traditions of the makers and players.
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Music and Magic
Charlie Parker, Trickster Lives!
The magic of jazz is Tricksterism. Greats like Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie were Tricksters, taking pop songs and refashioning them into gold. These magician-Tricksters transform all they touch. This book explains how they do it.
The magic of jazz is Tricksterism. Greats like Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie were Tricksters, taking pop songs and refashioning them into gold. These magician-Tricksters transform all they touch. This book explains how they do it.
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A collection of perspectives on the interplay between words and music, from opera librettos and Broadway to rap lyrics and video game soundtracks. Topics include translation challenges, censorship, and cultural analyses of contemporary song lyrics.
A collection of perspectives on the interplay between words and music, from opera librettos and Broadway to rap lyrics and video game soundtracks. Topics include translation challenges, censorship, and cultural analyses of contemporary song lyrics.
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Experiencing Rhythm
Contemporary Malagasy Music and Identity
What is the common rhythmical base that unites the diverse musical styles of Madagascar? Musician and researcher Jenny Fuhr explores this claim through intense involvement in music-making, challenging prevalent Western perspectives on music.
What is the common rhythmical base that unites the diverse musical styles of Madagascar? Musician and researcher Jenny Fuhr explores this claim through intense involvement in music-making, challenging prevalent Western perspectives on music.
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Music, Longing and Belonging
Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm
This interdisciplinary book explores how musical communities transcend national borders and challenge the boundaries between self and other. It focuses on forms of musical belonging not bound by national identity, framing music as a medium of desire and dissent.
This interdisciplinary book explores how musical communities transcend national borders and challenge the boundaries between self and other. It focuses on forms of musical belonging not bound by national identity, framing music as a medium of desire and dissent.
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Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.
Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.
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A critique of contemporary artistic interpretation whose lessons apply to our entire culture. This essential study is from Ion Piso, drawing on over 50 years of experience as an artist-interpreter on the world's opera stages.
A critique of contemporary artistic interpretation whose lessons apply to our entire culture. This essential study is from Ion Piso, drawing on over 50 years of experience as an artist-interpreter on the world’s opera stages.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
A Discography of Vintage Recordings 1889 - 1955
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer's works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer's once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
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This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
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Soundweaving
Writings on Improvisation
This book on music improvisation forges new links between diverse theories and practices. Writings by musicians and theorists illuminate the field from an array of critical perspectives, with an introduction by inspiring improviser Evan Parker.
This book on music improvisation forges new links between diverse theories and practices. Writings by musicians and theorists illuminate the field from an array of critical perspectives, with an introduction by inspiring improviser Evan Parker.
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Auber and Scribe's Les Diamants de la couronne is a refined fantasy where a Portuguese queen counterfeits the crown jewels to save her nation. The music is brilliant, with variations of the greatest virtuosity. This edition reproduces the Royal Edition vocal score.
Auber and Scribe’s Les Diamants de la couronne is a refined fantasy where a Portuguese queen counterfeits the crown jewels to save her nation. The music is brilliant, with variations of the greatest virtuosity. This edition reproduces the Royal Edition vocal score.
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Auber, a key 19th-century French composer, and librettist Scribe created the successful opéra-comique Le Concert à la cour. In this one-act work, a young singer's debut is sabotaged. It showcases the elegance and finesse of the composer's art.
Auber, a key 19th-century French composer, and librettist Scribe created the successful opéra-comique Le Concert à la cour. In this one-act work, a young singer’s debut is sabotaged. It showcases the elegance and finesse of the composer’s art.
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This volume provides an understanding of research methodologies in music education, including historical, quantitative, narrative, and arts-based methods. Written by experts, it assists researchers and students in choosing the most appropriate method for their work.
This volume provides an understanding of research methodologies in music education, including historical, quantitative, narrative, and arts-based methods. Written by experts, it assists researchers and students in choosing the most appropriate method for their work.
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The Jewish Experience in Classical Music
Shostakovich and Asia
Shostakovich, a 20th-century Russian composer under Soviet rule, and Daniel Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American, are two highly dissimilar composers connected by the common thread of Jewish music. This book explores their use of it to express Jewish suffering and faith.
Shostakovich, a 20th-century Russian composer under Soviet rule, and Daniel Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American, are two highly dissimilar composers connected by the common thread of Jewish music. This book explores their use of it to express Jewish suffering and faith.
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