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Musical vernaculars are an eclectic and everchanging object of study. This book defends urbanized folk music, challenging the traditional view that only rural songs are authentic, and examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music.
Musical vernaculars are an eclectic and everchanging object of study. This book defends urbanized folk music, challenging the traditional view that only rural songs are authentic, and examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music.
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Dylan at Play offers new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan’s work. With a goal of play, not definition, this collection features fresh voices offering reverent scrutiny and mischief, inspiring readers to invent their own experiences of the artist.
Dylan at Play offers new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan’s work. With a goal of play, not definition, this collection features fresh voices offering reverent scrutiny and mischief, inspiring readers to invent their own experiences of the artist.
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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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The Virtuoso as Subject
The Reception of Instrumental Virtuosity, c. 1815–c. 1850
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
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Opera as Anthropology
Anthropologists in Lyrical Settings
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
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Reinventing Sound
Music and Audiovisual Culture
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
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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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Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
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Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology
Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present
Explore the breadth of Canadian music scholarship, from First Nations traditions to Celtic and French folksong. Celebrating a rich history, this is a vital resource for academics and music enthusiasts alike.
Explore the breadth of Canadian music scholarship, from First Nations traditions to Celtic and French folksong. Celebrating a rich history, this is a vital resource for academics and music enthusiasts alike.
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Music, Meaning and Transformation
Meaningful Music Making for Life
This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student's personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.
This book examines meaningful music making, reframing music education to focus on the student’s personal, social, and cultural experience. It provides a guide for teachers to facilitate lifelong music making for health, wellbeing, and a sense of belonging.
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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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Exploring Personality and Performance in The Beatles
Becoming the Fab Four
Go beyond the music to discover the secret of The Beatles' global success. This book explores how personality, image, and unity created a phenomenon you could love without listening, as seen through the unique lens of the world’s best tribute acts.
Go beyond the music to discover the secret of The Beatles’ global success. This book explores how personality, image, and unity created a phenomenon you could love without listening, as seen through the unique lens of the world’s best tribute acts.
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Musical Islands
Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
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Musical Aesthetics
An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
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Britten’s music is complex and contradictory. This collection of essays by performers, musicologists, and theorists challenges assumptions about musical constructs, text/music relationships, and the personal influences on his compositional technique.
Britten’s music is complex and contradictory. This collection of essays by performers, musicologists, and theorists challenges assumptions about musical constructs, text/music relationships, and the personal influences on his compositional technique.
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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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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Reputation without Cause? A Composer and his Critics
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation's vicissitudes.
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation’s vicissitudes.
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Operetta
A Sourcebook, Volume II
Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre's principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.
Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre’s principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.
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Music and Sonic Art
Theories and Practices
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
A Guide to Research
The result of years of research, this guide is an essential bibliographical aid for Giacomo Meyerbeer. It presents his papers, music, and correspondence alongside resources on his life, contemporaries, and historical context, from scores to modern recordings.
The result of years of research, this guide is an essential bibliographical aid for Giacomo Meyerbeer. It presents his papers, music, and correspondence alongside resources on his life, contemporaries, and historical context, from scores to modern recordings.
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