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The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class MusicA history of conjunto music and musicians.Author: Manuel PeñaPublisher: University of Texas PressPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 234Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.08h x 5.92w x 0.65dISBN: 9780292780804
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Impossible MusicIn an emotionally compelling tale crackling with originality, when a teen musician goes deaf, his quest to create an entirely new form of music brings him to a deeper understanding of his relationship to the hearing world, of himself, and of the girl he...
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Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Emperor): With Orchestral Reduction for Second PianoThis volume contains two of Beethoven's most loved and widely performed piano concertos, printed in the traditional format for two pianos: Piano I is the solo part; Piano II, a piano reduction of the orchestral score.Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, composed...
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Treatise on HarmonyThe Trait de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received but one printing during Rameau's life, in...
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Adios, Motherfucker: A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and RollThe riotous and unbridled confessions of a debauched rock and roller and his adventures in excess while touring Middle America on the '80's hair-metal nostalgia circuit The Unband emerged from the suburbs of late '80's New England and drank, drugged, crashed, and burned their...
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Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the ClashThe only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock 'n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's...
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György LigetiThe Hungarian György Ligeti (1923-2006) was at the head of the avant garde from the early 1960s, and remained at the forefront of musical change and innovation. The use of his music in Stanley Kubrick's films 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining has...
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Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young ManOne of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and...
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The Story of the Face: The Magazine That Changed CultureLaunched by NME editor and Smash Hits creator Nick Logan in 1980, The Face became an icon of "style culture," the benchmark for the latest trends in art, design, fashion, photography, film, and music being defined by a thriving youth culture. The Story of...
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Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in...
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The Accompaniment in Unaccompanied Bach: Interpreting the Sonatas and Partitas for ViolinKnown around the world for his advocacy of early historical performance and as a skilled violin performer and pedagogue, Stanley Ritchie has developed a technical guide to the interpretation and performance of J. S. Bach's enigmatic sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Unlike typical...
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Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called PixiesIt's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the sleepy East of America-we just don't know it yet. Before the Internet, MTV, and iPods provided far-off music fans...
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Sousa's Great Marches in Piano TranscriptionIn this playing edition of Sousa's great marches, Lester S. Levy has included 23 favorites that have continued to enjoy universal appeal to this day. Here are the great standards that are everyone's favorites The Stars and Stripes Forever (both piano transcription and song...
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Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music EducationIn Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education, Lauren Kapalka Richerme proposes a poststructuralist-inspired philosophy of music education. Complicating current conceptions of self, other, and place, Richerme emphasizes the embodied, emotional, and social aspects of humanity. She also examines intersections between local and global music...
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life UncensoredFrom the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon--one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead...
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Mastering the Flute with William BennettFor the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known...
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Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post BopFocusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when...
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Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture, Revised EditionFew forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted a chorus of critics, who have denounced it as a corrupter of youth--even blamed it for tragedies like the murders at Columbine. Deena...
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Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New EditionFamous Pianists and Their Technique has been a standard in the field since its first publication in 1974. This widely used and acclaimed history of piano technical thought includes insights into the techniques of masters such as C.P.E. Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Clementi,...
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Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks GillespieDizzy Gillespie secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. More important is that he was one of its great innovators. As a primary creator of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions,...
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