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Cover of 20 Easy Christmas Carols For Beginners French Horn: Book 1
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - French Horn Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for French Horn. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note...
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by Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

This book explores Juan de Anchieta’s life and his music and, for the first time, presents a critical study of the life and works of a major Spanish composer from the time of Ferdinand and Isabel. A key figure in musical developments in Spain in the decades around 1500, Anchieta served in the Castilian...
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Slavonic and Romantic Music

Essays and Studies

by Doctor Gerald Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first...
Cover of Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
by Norton Dudeque
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Arnold Schoenberg's theory of music has been much discussed but his approach to music theory needs a new historical and theoretical assessment in order to provide a clearer understanding of his contributions to music theory and analysis. Norton Dudeque's achievement in this book involves the synthesis...
Cover of Hermeneutics and Music Criticism
by Roger W. H. Savage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings...
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Deep Refrains

Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

by Michael Gallope
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance?   In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings...
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From Serra to Sancho

Music and Pageantry in the California Missions

by Craig H. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009

Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions--and even of cultures--in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to California beginning in 1769. From Serra to Sancho...
Cover of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject
by Michael L. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity...
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Gender in the Music Industry

Rock, Discourse and Girl Power

by Marion Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Why, despite the number of high profile female rock musicians, does rock continue to be understood as masculine? Why is rock generally assumed to be created and performed by men? Marion Leonard explores different representations of masculinity offered by, and performed through, rock music, and examines...
Cover of Music After Deleuze
by Dr Edward Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics. The concepts of difference, identity and repetition offer novel approaches to Western art music from Beethoven to Boulez and Bernhard Lang as well as jazz improvisation, popular and...
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The Sound of Music for Female Singers

Sing 8 Favorites with Sound-Alike Demo & Backing Tracks Online

by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

(Music Minus One). All that's missing are your vocals! The music in this book includes the lyrics, vocal lines, and piano accompaniments for favorites from The Sound of Music . The online audio tracks contain demos for listening, and separate professionally-recorded full-band backing tracks so you...
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Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function

by Jack Boss
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019

Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term 'atonal' is meaningful in describing Schoenberg's music from 1908 to 1921. This book shows how Schoenberg's atonal music can be understood in terms of successions...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005

Music Cultures in the United States is a basic textbook for an Introduction to American Music course. Taking a new, fresh approach to the study of American music, it is divided into three parts. In the first part, historical, social, and cultural issues are discussed, including how music history is...
Cover of Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music
by Ray Hitchins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies,...
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