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  • Music-In-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology by Denora, Tia
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    Tia Denora

    Music-In-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology

    This volume brings together DeNora's work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and...
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  • The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation Of The Claims Made For The Metric System And Especially Of The Claim That Its Adoption Is Necessary I by Halsey, Frederick
    Frederick Halsey

    The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation Of The Claims Made For The Metric System And Especially Of The Claim That Its Adoption Is Necessary I

    ""The Metric Fallacy"" is a book written by Frederick Halsey in 1919 that investigates the claims made for the metric system and questions the necessity of its adoption in the interest of export trade. Halsey argues against the idea that the metric system is...
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  • The Travellers Or, Music's Fascination: An Operatic Drama by Cherry, A.
    A. Cherry

    The Travellers Or, Music's Fascination: An Operatic Drama

    The Travellers Or, Music�������s Fascination: An Operatic Drama is a book written by A. Cherry. It is a dramatic story that revolves around the power of music and its ability to fascinate people. The story follows a group of travellers who are on a...
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  • Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction by Newell, Philip
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    Philip Newell

    Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction

    Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide, offering the tools and understanding needed to cut out the guesswork from loudspeaker choice and set-up. Philip Newell and Keith Holland, with the assistance of Sergio Castro and Julius Newell, combine their...
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  • Music in Medicine by Licht, Sidney
    Sidney Licht

    Music in Medicine

    Explore the profound connection between sound and healing in Sidney Licht's "Music in Medicine." This historically significant work delves into the physiological effects of music and its therapeutic applications within medicine. A pioneering exploration of music therapy, the book examines the use of music...
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  • The Psalms: A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text; Volume 1 by Boylan, Patrick
    Patrick Boylan

    The Psalms: A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text; Volume 1

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Psalms: A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text; Volume 2 by Boylan, Patrick
    Patrick Boylan

    The Psalms: A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text; Volume 2

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Iowa Band by Adams, Ephraim
    Ephraim Adams

    The Iowa Band

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind by Housley, Kathleen L.
    Kathleen L. Housley

    Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind

    KEYS TO THE KINGDOM: Reflections on Music and the Mind Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind charts the course of an unusual odyssey. For nearly a decade, Kathleen Housley played piano with Katrina Withey, a gifted musician partially paralyzed from...
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  • Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice: Vesper & Compline Psalms & Canticles for One & Two Voices by Kurtzman, Jeffrey
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    Jeffrey Kurtzman

    Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice: Vesper & Compline Psalms & Canticles for One & Two Voices

    This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance. It includes a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction, focuses on composers significant in their own time, and...
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  • Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-Headed Melodies by Lamay, Thomasin
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    Thomasin Lamay

    Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-Headed Melodies

    Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as rulers. Musical Voices of Early Modern Women adds to the mix of early modern studies a volume that...
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  • Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation by Bizzarini, Marco
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    Marco Bizzarini

    Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation

    Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music, and also highly esteemed in England, Flanders and Poland. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's study of the life and work of...
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  • Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and Its Music by Haar, James
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    James Haar

    Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and Its Music

    Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999. A...
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  • The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour by Scott, Derek B.
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    Derek B. Scott

    The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour

    First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from...
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  • Music, Electronic Media and Culture by Emmerson, Simon
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    Simon Emmerson

    Music, Electronic Media and Culture

    Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate categories of composer, performer, distributor and listener are being challenged, while...
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  • The Lays Of A Bohemian: Being Some Of The Metrical Conceits Of Scott R. Sherwood by Sherwood, Scott R.
    Scott R. Sherwood

    The Lays Of A Bohemian: Being Some Of The Metrical Conceits Of Scott R. Sherwood

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging by Van Es, Nicky
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    Nicky Van Es

    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging

    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of...
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  • Rhythm of My Heart: The Authorized Biography of Marc Jordan by Breithaupt, Don
    Don Breithaupt

    Rhythm of My Heart: The Authorized Biography of Marc Jordan

    Author: Don BreithauptISBN-10: 1069830607ISBN-13: 9781069830609Publisher: Don BreithauptLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2025Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
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  • Germaine Tailleferre by Potter, Caroline
    Caroline Potter

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Author: Caroline PotterISBN-10: 1009438999ISBN-13: 9781009438995Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2026Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d
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  • Homo Tonalis: How (and Why) Music Makes a Healthy Child by Peres, Ricardo
    Ricardo Peres

    Homo Tonalis: How (and Why) Music Makes a Healthy Child

    Music, despite being the first art and the first law of physics mastered by man, has not received due attention since ancient Greece, particularly with respect to the development and education of children as proposed by Plato in classical Athens. Keep in mind that...
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  • Tony Schwartz: Snapshots in Sound by Schwartz, Tony
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    Tony Schwartz

    Tony Schwartz: Snapshots in Sound

    Children's games, taxi drivers, music from an open window--Schwartz's recordings are an auditory love letter to a bygone New York CityA born and bred New Yorker, Tony Schwartz (1923-2008) was enamored with his city. Though a popular campaign designer for Madison Avenue clients such...
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  • Clara and Robert Schumann in Context by Davies, Joe
    Joe Davies

    Clara and Robert Schumann in Context

    Illuminating the shared world of Clara and Robert Schumann, this volume takes a renewed look at the Schumanns and reconsiders them both as individual artists and as a couple who each charted their trajectories with the other in mind. It focuses on key aspects...
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  • Astral Mysticism & Otherworldly Music: Celestial Hymns From Qumran to the Odes of Solomon That May Be "Extraterrestrial" by Ancient Writers, Various
    Various Ancient Writers

    Astral Mysticism & Otherworldly Music: Celestial Hymns From Qumran to the Odes of Solomon That May Be "Extraterrestrial"

    What if the sacred songs of ancient communities were inspired by heavenly harmonies-possibly relayed through cosmic intermediaries?This evocative anthology, rendered in modern English, includes Qumran's Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, the Odes of Solomon, the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot), and Nag Hammadi's Thunder: Perfect Mind....
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  • HowExpert Guide to Vinyl Record Collecting: A 45-Day Step-by-Step V.I.N.Y.L.R.E.C.O.R.D.S. System to Build, Preserve, and Enjoy a Timeless Vinyl Colle by Howexpert
    Howexpert

    HowExpert Guide to Vinyl Record Collecting: A 45-Day Step-by-Step V.I.N.Y.L.R.E.C.O.R.D.S. System to Build, Preserve, and Enjoy a Timeless Vinyl Colle

    If you want to hear music in its richest form, build a meaningful collection, and preserve the art of analog sound in a digital world, then this step-by-step vinyl record collecting system is your blueprint to collect with sound, style, and success.HowExpert Guide to...
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  • The Beatles Show's Second E-Book (Expanded Print Version) by Piotrowski, Casey
    Casey Piotrowski

    The Beatles Show's Second E-Book (Expanded Print Version)

    Well, this is the second book of stuff from my radio program...The Beatles Show. It's just like the first one...except it's entirely different.Author: Casey PiotrowskiISBN-13: 9798372130050Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.51d
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  • Messiaen: Transcending Time Messiaen's Approach to Time in Music by Stolp, Mareli
    Mareli Stolp

    Messiaen: Transcending Time Messiaen's Approach to Time in Music

    Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), one of the most prolific composers of the 20th Century, was a devout Catholic whose compositions were very often inspired by the ideals of his faith. A theme that recurrs often in his works is music's relationship to time, and the...
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  • Nocturnes: Popular Music and the Night by Stahl, Geoff
    Geoff Stahl

    Nocturnes: Popular Music and the Night

    The night and popular music have long served to energise one another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless songs and spaces dedicated...
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  • Theatre Music and Sound at the Rsc: Macbeth to Matilda by Taylor, Millie
    Millie Taylor

    Theatre Music and Sound at the Rsc: Macbeth to Matilda

    This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different...
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  • The Development of Popular Music Function in Film: From the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll to the Death of Disco by Hogg, Anthony
    Anthony Hogg

    The Development of Popular Music Function in Film: From the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll to the Death of Disco

    This book offers a unique examination of the development of popular music function in film. It assesses the contribution of popular music to the interpretation of the most significant films, covering the period from rock 'n' roll's initial introduction at the opening of Blackboard...
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  • Eurovision and Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under by Hay, Chris
    Chris Hay

    Eurovision and Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under

    This book investigates Australia's relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia's Eurovision history, the contributions explore the contest's role in...
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  • Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context: Beyond the Borders by Mazierska, Ewa
    Ewa Mazierska

    Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context: Beyond the Borders

    This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the movement of physical music, musicians and...
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  • The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says Hi by Cinque, Toija
    Toija Cinque

    The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says Hi

    Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption, resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. SeanRedmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal interviews, memorabilia, diaries, letters,...
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  • Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster by Hart, Heidi
    Heidi Hart

    Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster

    Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to "Anthropocene opera," the most arresting eco-narratives draw less on background music than on...
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  • Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music by Ireland, David
    David Ireland

    Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music

    Author: David IrelandISBN-10: 3030005054ISBN-13: 9783030005054Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2018Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d
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  • Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist by Allsop, Peter
    Peter Allsop

    Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist

    Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Peter Allsop reveals his importance as part of a tradition that stands in direct antithesis to that of the Corellian sonata today regarded as the 'norm'. This development...
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  • Nick Drake: Dreaming England by Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan
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    Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

    Nick Drake: Dreaming England

    Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake...
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  • Music in Every Classroom: A Resource Guide for Integrating Music Across the Curriculum, Grades K8 by Sporborg, James D.
    James D. Sporborg

    Music in Every Classroom: A Resource Guide for Integrating Music Across the Curriculum, Grades K8

    When used appropriately music can be a powerful tool to support and enrich learning. Developed for music specialists and nonspecialists, this annotated bibliography helps you find print and nonprint materials that support the integration of music across the K-8 curriculum. Arranged by subject area...
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  • Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal by Goodwillie, Christian
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    Christian Goodwillie

    Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal

    From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless--expressed in...
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  • Janáček's Eternal Love by Cummins, George M., III
    George M. III Cummins

    Janáček's Eternal Love

    In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leos Janáček produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another. In Janáček's Eternal...
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  • Tone Psychology: Volume I: The Sensation of Successive Single Tones by Stumpf, Carl
    Carl Stumpf

    Tone Psychology: Volume I: The Sensation of Successive Single Tones

    Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist and a visionary and important academic. During his lifetime, he ranked among the most prominent scientists of his time. Stumpf's intention, as evident in his book, Tone Psychology, was to investigate the phenomenon of tone...
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  • George Frideric Handel - Judas Maccabaeus - Hwv63 - A Full Score by Handel, George Frideric
    George Frideric Handel

    George Frideric Handel - Judas Maccabaeus - Hwv63 - A Full Score

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: George Frideric HandelISBN-10: 144744132XISBN-13: 9781447441328Publisher:...
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  • The Treasury Of Negro Spirituals by H a Chambers
    H a Chambers

    The Treasury Of Negro Spirituals

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H a ChambersISBN-10: 1446517802ISBN-13: 9781446517802Publisher:...
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  • More Songs Of Angus And Others by Jacob, Violet
    Violet Jacob

    More Songs Of Angus And Others

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Violet JacobISBN-10: 1446510905ISBN-13:...
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  • The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates by Harley, John
    John Harley

    The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

    In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and...
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  • A Musical Pilgrim's Progress by Rorke, J. D. M.
    J. D. M. Rorke

    A Musical Pilgrim's Progress

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • A Selection of Hymns and Poems, for the Use of Believers: Collected From Sundry Authors by McNemar, Richard
    Richard McNemar

    A Selection of Hymns and Poems, for the Use of Believers: Collected From Sundry Authors

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music by Asquith, Mark
    Mark Asquith

    Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

    This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and musicological), which will be...
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  • Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life by Bloustien, Geraldine
    Geraldine Bloustien

    Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life

    This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their...
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  • A Jolly Jingle-Book by Chandler, Laura
    Laura Chandler

    A Jolly Jingle-Book

    This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the...
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  • Critica Musica: Essays in Honour of Paul Brainard by Knowles, J.
    J. Knowles

    Critica Musica: Essays in Honour of Paul Brainard

    This is Volume 18 of eighteen in a book series on Musicology. Originally published in 1996, this is a collection of essays in honor or Paul Brainard. Critica Musica-thinking critically about music-is at the heart of Paul Brainard's long career, and of his legacy...
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