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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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This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
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Symphony and Song
The Intersection of Words and Music
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
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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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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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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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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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Cinematic Schooling
Popular Learning at the Movies
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
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Voices of Identities
Vocal Music and De/con/struction of Communities in the Former Habsburg Areas
The contributions here represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology in 2014, and open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day.
The contributions here represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology in 2014, and open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day.
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Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies
Your Wisdom, Our Youth
The first academic collection of postgraduate research on the punk scene. These cutting-edge, interdisciplinary studies explore themes of gender, race, and sexuality, covering topics from French straight-edge to the links between punk and 90s rave culture.
The first academic collection of postgraduate research on the punk scene. These cutting-edge, interdisciplinary studies explore themes of gender, race, and sexuality, covering topics from French straight-edge to the links between punk and 90s rave culture.
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Koço investigates the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area and the “distinctive” song associated with Korçë city, Albania. He also introduces the Korçare urban song and urban lyric song, introduced during the Ottoman domination of the Balkans.
Koço investigates the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area and the “distinctive” song associated with Korçë city, Albania. He also introduces the Korçare urban song and urban lyric song, introduced during the Ottoman domination of the Balkans.
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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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Wirt und Gast oder aus Scherz Ernst
Lustspiel mit Gesang in zwei Aufzügen
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast, based on a tale from The Arabian Nights, tells the story of a man who would be sovereign for a day. While the work initially had no success, Weber recognized its significance, praising its "voluptuous melody."
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast, based on a tale from The Arabian Nights, tells the story of a man who would be sovereign for a day. While the work initially had no success, Weber recognized its significance, praising its “voluptuous melody.”
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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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William Orpen, an Outsider in France
Painting and Writing World War One
As an official war artist in WWI, William Orpen created a unique textual and visual record of life on the Western Front. This study examines the singular and provocative work of the non-combatant artist who determined to fight the “War to End all Wars” with his pens and brushes.
As an official war artist in WWI, William Orpen created a unique textual and visual record of life on the Western Front. This study examines the singular and provocative work of the non-combatant artist who determined to fight the “War to End all Wars” with his pens and brushes.
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The concern of this anthology is the relationship between traditional music and archives as seen from historical and epistemological perspectives. The articles within focus on archives, individual and collective memory, and heritage as today’s recreation of the past.
The concern of this anthology is the relationship between traditional music and archives as seen from historical and epistemological perspectives. The articles within focus on archives, individual and collective memory, and heritage as today’s recreation of the past.
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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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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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