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Sound in Motion
Cinema, Videogames, Technology and Audiences
This collection sheds light on the intimate relationship between music and audiovisual culture in contemporary society. It includes indispensable studies on music and cinema, as well as original research on music in videogames and television.
This collection sheds light on the intimate relationship between music and audiovisual culture in contemporary society. It includes indispensable studies on music and cinema, as well as original research on music in videogames and television.
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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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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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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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Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète
A Parable of Politics, Faith and Transcendence
Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète was once one of the world's most famous operas. Based on a tragic Reformation episode, it explores religion, power, and politics with powerful, gripping music. This study examines the opera’s origins, creation, and its astonishing global reception.
Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète was once one of the world’s most famous operas. Based on a tragic Reformation episode, it explores religion, power, and politics with powerful, gripping music. This study examines the opera’s origins, creation, and its astonishing global reception.
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This compendium of interdisciplinary research presents new “readings” on topics from opera by Handel and Mozart to 1960s popular sound. Chapters discuss operatic lighting, Wagner’s leitmotif technique, music and social media, and the art and politics of the collective Laibach.
This compendium of interdisciplinary research presents new “readings” on topics from opera by Handel and Mozart to 1960s popular sound. Chapters discuss operatic lighting, Wagner’s leitmotif technique, music and social media, and the art and politics of the collective Laibach.
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The seven scholarly essays gathered here explore local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore.
The seven scholarly essays gathered here explore local scenes and identities within heavy metal music from multiple angles, covering a variety of different countries and metal sub-genres from Finland to Indonesia, and from black metal to metalcore.
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These essays provide a snapshot of the collaborative and distributed processes employed by today’s contemporary music practitioners. The volume reveals the varied nature of creative approaches in composition, performance, and improvisation.
These essays provide a snapshot of the collaborative and distributed processes employed by today’s contemporary music practitioners. The volume reveals the varied nature of creative approaches in composition, performance, and improvisation.
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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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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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Performance Analysis
A Bridge between Theory and Interpretation
This collection of essays explores the connections between music theory, interpretation, and performance. It delves into performance studies—focusing on gesture, bodily movement, and emotion—and addresses artistic practices in the 21st century.
This collection of essays explores the connections between music theory, interpretation, and performance. It delves into performance studies—focusing on gesture, bodily movement, and emotion—and addresses artistic practices in the 21st century.
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Music Performance Anxiety
A Comprehensive Update of the Literature
Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.
Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.
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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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The Canterbury Catch Club 1826
Music in the Frame
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
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Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy Live at “The Junction”
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
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Bruce Springsteen’s America
A Dream Deferred
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
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This volume focuses on how music and arts in the global Africana world are used for political and social change. It covers diverse topics from the African thematics of jazz to protest movements in Senegal and Nigeria and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
This volume focuses on how music and arts in the global Africana world are used for political and social change. It covers diverse topics from the African thematics of jazz to protest movements in Senegal and Nigeria and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Small Places, Operatic Issues
Opera and Its Peripheral Worlds
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
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An insight into composer Daniel Auber through a close examination of one of his most popular operas, La Part du Diable. This volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by an introduction to Auber's life and an analysis of the opera.
An insight into composer Daniel Auber through a close examination of one of his most popular operas, La Part du Diable. This volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by an introduction to Auber’s life and an analysis of the opera.
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Explore Daniel Auber's forgotten opera, *Les Chaperons blancs*, a work of political conspiracy written between two of his greatest hits. This essential volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by a rich analysis of its music, history, and dramaturgy.
Explore Daniel Auber’s forgotten opera, *Les Chaperons blancs*, a work of political conspiracy written between two of his greatest hits. This essential volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by a rich analysis of its music, history, and dramaturgy.
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