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In Britain today, opera is routinely called elitist. But things were not always so. Examining shifting cultural attitudes over the century from 1920 to 2020, Someone Else's Music reveals a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which defies the opera-elitism...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-02
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We've all heard some version of the line: "I enjoy classical music but don't know anything about it." Why but? Why and when did listeners begin to accept the idea that knowledge was needed to enjoy this particular repertory? Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-27
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What is a cantata? How and why did Bach compose his cantatas?What did cantatas mean to Bach and what do they mean today? In Bach's Church Cantatas Ruth Tatlow addresses these questions through discussion of five of Bach's most beloved works enriched by newly researched...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-25
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Opéra de salon emerged in the early 1850s out of a much longer tradition of théâtre de société: the cultivation of performing plays in aristocratic town houses and châteaux which continued into the Second Empire of the 1850s and 1860s, and beyond. It consisted of a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-24
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Afrikaans art song literature is a fascinating but neglected genre, largely inaccessible to non-native speakers outside South Africa. For the first time, this translation and pronunciation guide makesAfrikaans art songs available to an English-speaking audience....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-24
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The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-24
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In Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of jazz improvisation.In contrast to mainstream approaches based on rote...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-23
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The Savvy Musician 2.0 guides musicians to build careers, lead organizations, found ventures, strengthen viability, and make a difference. Industry challenges are highlighted, but not dwelled upon. Instead, these pages burst with flexible, actionable success strategies...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-20
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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, this first critical biography of Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952) offers fascinating new insights into the life and work of an important opera composer, seventeen years younger than Puccini, who became internationally famous...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-13
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With billions of streams, millions of fans and record-breaking achievements, Sabrina Carpenter has captivated hearts across the globe.With a journey that began on Broadway, flourished on Disney Channel's Girl Meets World and has landed in the music industry, Sabrina has...
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OH
Parution :
2025-06-05
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Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars have explored ad hoc applications of the theory in later repertories,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-04
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Opera has long been known for its ability to be used as a tool for colonial expression. But it is increasingly used to narrate histories of colonial trauma, oppression, and struggle. What does it mean for a colonial form to represent the experiences of those it used to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-27
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African music’s most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economic, and social contexts from which it evolves. This music and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-26
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Experience the K-Pop phenomenon of BTS in this best-selling fanbook - FULLY UPDATED!BTS are much more than just a group of seven talented individuals, they are a band acclaimed for their record-smashing, barrier-breaking, trend-setting dance-pop and hip-hop tunes and...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-05-20
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The Ultimate Fan Book
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***A ROLLING STONE BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2025*** The untold story of OC punk—the loud, rebellious force behind the ‘90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands. When it comes to punk communities across the...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2025-05-20
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Polish Pronunciation Guide for Singers, written by Laura Kafka-Price and Maksymilian Krzak, offers approachable and consistent explanations ofPolish language pronunciation. The book presents the sounds of Polish, along with essential information on relevant aspects of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-16
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Bachs „Kunst der Fuge“ steht gemeinsam mit der h-Moll-Messe am Ende seines langen und reichen Schaffens. Seit jeher gibt diese Sammlung von Fugen und Kanons Rätsel auf, und zwar vor allem hinsichtlich der letzten, abbrechenden Fuge, von der unklar ist, warum sie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-14
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Symphonic music of the early twentieth century reflects the complex, cosmopolitan world it inhabited. In a time of waning empire, rising nationalism, and heightened sexual politics, composers in Germany, Britain, and America drew upon the compositional resources of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-09
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Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing ground for, among others,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-09
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In Brian May's Red Special you will discover everything about Brian May's unique, home-made guitar. Brian reveals all, from the guitar's origins to playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, from Live Aid to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the set...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-05-08
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