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Gracchus: A Tragic Opera in Three ActsGracchus is a grand opera that tells of an unforgettable human drama set to soaring music. The whole unfolds according to the principles of the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), incorporating perennial human themes while embracing music, poetry, dance, scenography, and philosophical reflection in...
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From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music TheoryFrom Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. The system Glarean proposed in his...
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From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic RhetoricsExplores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.Author: Alexis McGeePublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438496498This title is not returnable
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Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.Author: Bruce JacksonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 388Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438496160This title is not returnable
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Entertain Us: The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the NinetiesThe Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that...
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Egostrip Book 1Egostrip Book 1 is a beautifully designed collection of Dan Lish's stunning character illustrations from the world of hip hop and beyond. The Egostrip project began on Dan's daily commute to work, where he chose to draw his favorite musicians in little black books....
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Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.Author: Fumi TomitaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438496382This title is not returnable
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Do It Anyway: Don't Give Up Before It Gets GoodIn her revelatory debut book, Tasha Cobbs Leonard--Grammy Award winner and Billboard's Gospel Artist of the Decade--shares the transformative power of showing up with resilient faith and perseverance. Pastor, entrepreneur, and gospel music icon Tasha Cobbs Leonard tells of journeying through moments of unforeseen...
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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of BlacknessIn Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to...
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Conversations"The joy of the book is to hear artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds...rhapsodizing about their relationship to Reich's music and how it influenced their own creative processes." --New York Times Book Review Steve Reich is a living legend in the world...
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Complete Daily Exercises for the Flute: Essential Practice Material for All Intermediate to Advanced Flautists(Music Sales America). The complete daily exercise used by flautists world-wide in their daily practice, now in one volume, features warm-ups, scale and arpeggio exercises over the full compass, a section concentrating on the third octave and a definitive collection of popular daily studies....
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Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismCountry music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling...
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Carole King - Tapestry: Easy Piano(Easy Piano Personality). Easy piano arrangements of all 12 tracks from one of the bestselling albums of all time: Beautiful * Home Again * I Feel the Earth Move * It's Too Late * (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman * Smackwater...
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Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads"It's good to see Si Siman and the Ozark Jubilee get their due in Broadcasting the Ozarks." --Willie NelsonBroadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged in Springfield, Missouri, in the 1930s and thrived for half a century. Central to this...
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Bravo, Anjali!Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, especially something she loves. For Anjali, playing the tabla is something that comes naturally--she loves feeling...
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United StatesA new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book,...
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Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles Into Being--And Sang Back to Them Ever AfterFrom the beginning, the Beatles acknowledged in interviews their debt to Black music, apparent in their covers of and written original songs inspired by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, and other giants of R&B. Blackbird goes deeper, appreciating unacknowledged forerunners, as...
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Bert Transcribed: The Bert Jansch Songbook Volume 2(Guitar Recorded Versions). Bert Transcribed - The Bert Jansch Songbook, Volume 2 presents 30 more songs by the legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter, Bert Jansch. Each song has been meticulously transcribed and annotated by an international team of leading Jansch experts to detail every aspect...
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Band Camp! 1: All Together Now!Join four musical instruments in their first year at Band Camp! Pranks and food fights aren't all that is in store for this group of unlikely friends in this new, laugh-out-loud, graphic chapter book series. Cordelia the accordion, Trey the triangle, Kaylee the ukulele,...
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Back On The Streets: The Gary Moore StoryOver a decade after his untimely death, Gary Moore remains something of an enigma. A private, sometimes troubled man, he nevertheless chose a profession that exposed him to public scrutiny. Moore remained secretive about most aspects of his private life. This biography focuses on...
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