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  • Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-Bibliography by Craggs, Stewart R.
    Stewart R. Craggs

    Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-Bibliography

    Malcolm Arnold's music encompassed a variety of forms from opera and ballet through orchestral and chamber music to film scores. His most famous film score, for which he won an Oscar award in 1957, is The Bridge on the River Kwai. In 1953 he...
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  • Elinor Remick Warren: A Bio-Bibliography by Bortin, Virginia
    Virginia Bortin

    Elinor Remick Warren: A Bio-Bibliography

    Elinor Remick Warren's distinguished career as a composer, concert pianist, and accompanist for renowned singers spanned seventy-five years of American musical history. She began writing music in 1904 at age four. Her first published composition, a song, was accepted by G. Schirmer in 1916....
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  • The Musical Journeys of Louis Spohr by Unknown
    Unknown

    The Musical Journeys of Louis Spohr

    One of the great figures in the evolution of European music and the greatest German violinist of his time, Louis Spohr has been largely forgotten by the music world. This volume concentrates upon the journeys Spohr took as a young virtuoso, composer, and conductor...
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  • Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne by Webber, Joan
    Joan Webber

    Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne

    Author: Joan Webber,UnknownISBN-10: 0313252238ISBN-13: 9780313252235Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/1986Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
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  • The Words and Music of John Lennon by Urish, Ben
    Ben Urish

    The Words and Music of John Lennon

    Despite John Lennon's immense popularity, little attention has been paid to his work apart from the Beatles. Yet his solo artistry not only illuminates what he gave to the Beatles, but also constitutes a significant contribution to popular music in general. Lennon was able...
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  • Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual by Pentcheva, Bissera
    Bissera Pentcheva

    Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

    Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology...
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  • Mozart: Maestro of Tonality by Lohafer, Michael Lee
    Michael Lee Lohafer

    Mozart: Maestro of Tonality

    Mozart: Maestro of Tonality is meant for a music lover, whether novice or aficionado. It is a study of his masterful tonality - "the core of music"-by discussing compositionally dynamic movements of harmony, agile key modulations, and artful character vocalizations. It illustrates Mozart's deft...
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  • A Great Welsh Rock Band: Manic Street Preachers Stars: Secret Of Manic Street Preachers by Krapfl, Roxana
    Roxana Krapfl

    A Great Welsh Rock Band: Manic Street Preachers Stars: Secret Of Manic Street Preachers

    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood in 1986. The band consists of cousins James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore, plus Nicky Wire. They are often colloquially known as "the Manics". They form a key part of the 1990s Welsh...
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  • The Art and Craft of Songwriting: A Guide to Writing Meaningful Lyrics by Blake, Simon
    Simon Blake

    The Art and Craft of Songwriting: A Guide to Writing Meaningful Lyrics

    The Art and Craft of Songwriting: A Guide to Writing Meaningful Lyrics by Simon BlakeUnlock the secrets to creating songs that resonate and endure with "The Art and Craft of Songwriting: A Guide to Writing Meaningful Lyrics" by Simon Blake. Whether you're an aspiring...
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  • A Popular History of the Art of Music; From the Earliest Times Until the Present by S. B. Mathews, W.
    W. S. B. Mathews

    A Popular History of the Art of Music; From the Earliest Times Until the Present

    A Popular History of the Art of Music; From the Earliest Times Until the Present, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation...
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  • Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World by Faini, Marco
    Marco Faini

    Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

    This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating...
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  • Sonic Fictions of America: Literature and Popular Music in the U.S. 1950-2010 by Schinko, Carsten
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    Carsten Schinko

    Sonic Fictions of America: Literature and Popular Music in the U.S. 1950-2010

    Habitually, the "inter" in intermediality is conceived of as the interrelation between neatly distinguishable semiotic systems and projected as intercompositional agenda. While there are benefits of such a research design it fails to fully fathom both pop music and its potential ties to the...
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  • Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990 by Cross, Ian
    Ian Cross

    Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

    This issue comprises the twenty-five papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.Author: Ian CrossISBN-10: 3718654202ISBN-13: 9783718654208Publisher: Taylor & FrancisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1994Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.76d
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  • Dissemination of Music: Studies in the History of Music Publishing by Lenneberg, Hans
    Hans Lenneberg

    Dissemination of Music: Studies in the History of Music Publishing

    The contributors are leading scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The essays examine the history of music publishing from its inception to the early twentieth century. The Dissemination of Music provides new insight into the social history of music, illustrating...
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  • Easy Riders, Rolling Stones: On the Road in America, from Delta Blues to 70s Rock by Scanlan, John
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    John Scanlan

    Easy Riders, Rolling Stones: On the Road in America, from Delta Blues to 70s Rock

    Easy Riders, Rolling Stones delves into the history of twentieth century American popular music to explore the emergence of 60s "road music." This music--which includes styles like blues and R&B----­­took shape at pivotal moments in history and was made by artists and performers who...
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  • Shamans, Queens, and Figurines: The Development of Gender Archaeology by Nelson, Sarah Milledge
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    Sarah Milledge Nelson

    Shamans, Queens, and Figurines: The Development of Gender Archaeology

    Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done over three decades into a single volume. The book covers her theoretical contributions, her extensive...
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  • The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk by Melillo, John
    John Melillo

    The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

    By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice....
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  • Mazurka Op.32 - For Solo Piano (1875) by Fauré, Gabriel
    Gabriel Fauré

    Mazurka Op.32 - For Solo Piano (1875)

    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: Gabriel FauréISBN-10: 1447474651ISBN-13: 9781447474654Publisher: Classic...
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  • Romain Rolland's Essays on Music by Rolland, Romain
    Romain Rolland

    Romain Rolland's Essays on Music

    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: Romain RollandISBN-10: 1443730939ISBN-13: 9781443730938Publisher: Holley...
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  • In Search of Beauty in Music - A Scientific Approach to Musical Esthetics by Seashore, Carl E.
    Carl E. Seashore

    In Search of Beauty in Music - A Scientific Approach to Musical Esthetics

    In Search of Beauty in Music A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO MUSICAL ESTHETICS by CARL E. SEASHORE. PREFACE: MORE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED in the laying of foundations for science in music in the present century than in all preceding centuries. The chief reason for this...
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  • The Forms of Music by Tovey, Donald Francis
    Donald Francis Tovey

    The Forms of Music

    Sir Donald Francis Tovey was born in 1875, Donald Francis Tovey was a British musicologist and composer. He took classical honors with his B.A. at Oxford in 1898, and became a pianist of the first rank, though he never sought a virtuoso career. This...
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  • The Ancient Lyre: A Collection of Old, New, and Original Church Music, Under the Approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Bost by Zeuner, Charles
    Charles Zeuner

    The Ancient Lyre: A Collection of Old, New, and Original Church Music, Under the Approbation of the Professional Musical Society in Bost

    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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  • The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange by Smith, Hazel
    Hazel Smith

    The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange

    This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the...
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  • The Routledge Handbook to Music Under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality by Fanning, David
    David Fanning

    The Routledge Handbook to Music Under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality

    Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under...
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  • Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff by Chase, Stephen
    Stephen Chase

    Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff

    Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body...
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  • Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning by Laver, Mark
    Mark Laver

    Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning

    Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning examines the issues of jazz, consumption, and capitalism through advertising. On television, on the Internet, in radio, and in print, advertising is a critically important medium for the mass dissemination of music and musical meaning. This book is...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett by Gloag, Kenneth
    Kenneth Gloag

    The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett

    Sir Michael Tippett is widely considered to be one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century, whose music continues to be performed to critical acclaim throughout the world. Written by a team of international scholars, this Companion provides a wide ranging and...
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  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogies for the Orchestra: Untold Stories of Seating Oppression and the Uprise of Social Justice by Yi, Tammy S.
    Tammy S. Yi

    Culturally Responsive Pedagogies for the Orchestra: Untold Stories of Seating Oppression and the Uprise of Social Justice

    This innovative volume explores the potential of alternative seating practices (ASP) to revolutionize orchestral music teaching in US schools and beyond by improving musicians' social and musical experiences, including peer mentorship. Challenging traditional hierarchical seating structures and drawing on longitudinal research and autoethnographic data,...
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  • That Close by Suggs, Suggs
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    Suggs Suggs

    That Close

    The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life...
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  • Music on My Beat: An Intimate Volume of Shop Talk by Taubman, Hyman Howard
    Hyman Howard Taubman

    Music on My Beat: An Intimate Volume of Shop Talk

    Author: Hyman Howard Taubman,UnknownISBN-10: 0837194334ISBN-13: 9780837194332Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/1977Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
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  • Joseph Stone: The Collected Works by Kroeger, Karl
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    Karl Kroeger

    Joseph Stone: The Collected Works

    First Published in 1996. This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music--psalmody, as it was called--in collected critical editions. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American composers in accurate editions for both performance...
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  • Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff by Chase, Stephen
    Stephen Chase

    Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff

    Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body...
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  • Pop Idols and Pirates: Mechanisms of Consumption and the Global Circulation of Popular Music by Fairchild, Charles
    Charles Fairchild

    Pop Idols and Pirates: Mechanisms of Consumption and the Global Circulation of Popular Music

    The music industry has been waging some very significant battles in recent years, reacting to numerous inter-related crises provoked by globalization, digitalization and the ever more extensive commercialization of public culture. These struggles are viewed by many as central to the survival of the...
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  • The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture by Hawkins, Stan
    Stan Hawkins

    The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture

    Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty and Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a wide range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks to find out why so many have cast themselves in roles that often take...
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  • Popular Music Censorship in Africa by Cloonan, Martin
    Martin Cloonan

    Popular Music Censorship in Africa

    In Africa, tension between freedom of expression and censorship in many contexts remains as contentious, if not more so, than during the period of colonial rule which permeated the twentieth century. Over the last one hundred years popular musicians have not been free to...
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  • Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone by Cone, Edward T.
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    Edward T. Cone

    Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone

    Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in...
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  • Béla Bartók: A Research and Information Guide by Antokoletz, Elliott
    Elliott Antokoletz

    Béla Bartók: A Research and Information Guide

    This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of Bartók's compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information has been proliferating in the field of Bartók research. The third edition of this research guide...
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  • North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide by Beisswenger, Drew
    Drew Beisswenger

    North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide

    North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide is the first large-scale annotated bibliography and research guide on the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada. These countries, both of which have large immigrant populations as well as Native populations, have maintained...
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  • Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide by Luttmann, Stephen
    Stephen Luttmann

    Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide

    Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and...
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  • Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience by Munene, Ishmael I.
    Ishmael I. Munene

    Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience

    In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy. As African governments have adopted neoliberal education policies that place premium on entrepreneurialism, profit making, privatization, and markets as...
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  • Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature by Bushnell, Cameron
    Cameron Bushnell

    Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature

    This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music's conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the colonial period, persist in postcolonial...
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  • Sporting Sounds: Relationships Between Sport and Music by Bateman, Anthony
    Anthony Bateman

    Sporting Sounds: Relationships Between Sport and Music

    Music and sport are both highly significant cultural forms, yet the substantial and longstanding connections between the two have largely been overlooked. Sporting Sounds addresses this oversight in an intriguing and innovative collection of essays.With contributions from leading international psychologists, sociologists, historians, musicologists and...
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  • American Musicologists, C. 1890-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook to the Formative Period by Steinzor, Curt Efram
    Curt Efram Steinzor

    American Musicologists, C. 1890-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook to the Formative Period

    This volume is the first reference study devoted to early American musicologists. It brings together a vast variety of logically arranged information, including biographical resumes of each subject, complete chronological listings of their writings, and published and unpublished sources for study of each scholar's...
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  • Maddalena Casulana by Deutsch, Catherine
    Catherine Deutsch

    Maddalena Casulana

    Author: Catherine DeutschISBN-10: 1009569163ISBN-13: 9781009569163Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2025Pages: 314Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d
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  • Local Unrest: The Extraordinary True Story of the Birth and Rise of Hawaiian Punk, Indie, and Underground Rock by Lopes, Shawn K.
    Shawn K. Lopes

    Local Unrest: The Extraordinary True Story of the Birth and Rise of Hawaiian Punk, Indie, and Underground Rock

    When Honolulu police were summoned to a Waikiki penthouse early one February morning in 1980, they discovered signs of a brutal attack on the lifeless, unclothed body of a local nightclub owner. As news rippled through the city, a crucial chain of events kicked...
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  • Miles Between Who I Was and Who I Am by Clevenger, C. C.
    C. C. Clevenger

    Miles Between Who I Was and Who I Am

    Miles Between Who I Was and Who I Am is a poetry collection forged over fifteen years of movement, music, loss, doubt, and survival. Written across highways, backstage rooms, late-night diners, quiet bedrooms, and long stretches of internal reckoning, these poems document a life...
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  • What's in That Song?: 200 Music Trivia Questions Where the Answer Are in the Lyrics! by Nicholas, John
    John Nicholas

    What's in That Song?: 200 Music Trivia Questions Where the Answer Are in the Lyrics!

    What's in That Song?, 200 Music Trivia Questions Where the Answers Are in the Lyrics is, of course, a music trivia book. But instead of the typical "who sings this song" or "name the artist," the answers to these trivia questions can be found...
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  • Rick Springfield: Hardwired to Rock: Hitmaker, Heartbreaker by J. Potter, Patrick
    Patrick J. Potter

    Rick Springfield: Hardwired to Rock: Hitmaker, Heartbreaker

    Hardwired to Rock: Hitmaker, Heartbreaker is the untamed story of Rick Springfield chart-topping rockstar, actor, survivor, and self-reinventing icon. From teenage garage bands in Australia to Grammy-winning fame with "Jessie's Girl," Springfield's life has been anything but ordinary.This book pulls no punches. It traces...
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  • The Road To Musical Equal Temperament by Wei, Frank
    Frank Wei

    The Road To Musical Equal Temperament

    Music is the greatest gift given by the God to human, only music can explain what is quiet and screnity. Equal temperament consummates the gift. On the road to have this greatest gift, human made unremitting explorations in pursuing the best harmony of music...
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  • Voices: Defining Moments in Music and Theater by Cerletti, Christine
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    Christine Cerletti

    Voices: Defining Moments in Music and Theater

    Leading performers from Cecilia Bartoli to Anne Sofie von Otter share their memories of transformative encounters with music and theaterIn this volume, 70 performing artists share memories of those encounters with classical music and theater that forever altered their lives. These memories often served...
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