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  • Songs Sonnets for England in War Time by War, The Great
    The Great War

    Songs Sonnets for England in War Time

    This anthology of poetry offers a unique perspective on World War I, featuring poems by soldiers, civilians, and renowned writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bridges, and Thomas Hardy. The works, which vary in tone from patriotic to elegiac, evoke the complex emotions and...
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  • A Celtic Tinwhistle Christmas by Tanguay, James
    James Tanguay

    A Celtic Tinwhistle Christmas

    Here's a book you'll be pulling off the shelf for many Christmases to come. A Tinwhistle Christmas is a treasury of 24 Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English holiday carols all suitably adorned with Celtic calligraphy.Author: James TanguayISBN-10: 0786670576ISBN-13: 9780786670574Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2003Pages:...
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  • Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie by Shenton, Andrew
    Andrew Shenton

    Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie

    As one of only a few pieces not primarily inspired by Messiaen's Catholic faith, but by human love as described in the romance of Tristan and Isolde and elsewhere, the Turangalîla-symphonie is contextualized in Messiaen's oeuvre and as a genre piece. Using previously untranslated...
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  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Kostelanetz, Richard
    Richard Kostelanetz

    A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

    Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition. Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else,...
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  • Sound by Kruth, Patricia
    Patricia Kruth

    Sound

    This highly informative and fascinating book brings together perspectives on sound by leading experts from a wide variety of disciplines. These include anthropology, physiology, zoology, physics, music, phonetics and film. Through crossing disciplinary boundaries, the volume hopes to inspire a richer and more creative...
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  • KCGB The Boy From the Porch by Hulscher, Joseph
    Joseph Hulscher

    KCGB The Boy From the Porch

    My Dying Mom and Kurt Cobain tell the story of when the world-famous musician came to visit our Mother in the months preceding her death, three years after he took his own life. She knew very little about his legend leading up to her...
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  • Songscapes by Viction
    Viction

    Songscapes

    Amid the sea of listening options available in our digital world, it often takes more than a good beat or catchy lyrics for artists to stand out among their peers, which is why musicians often combine sound with compelling visuals to express their individuality...
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  • Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music? by Garrido, Sandra
    Sandra Garrido

    Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music?

    In this book, perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today. Why do we love listening to music that makes us cry? This mystery has puzzled philosophers...
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  • Music, Music Therapy and Trauma: International Perspectives by Austin, Diane Snow
    Marieke P. Molenaar-Klumper

    Music, Music Therapy and Trauma: International Perspectives

    Music communicates where words fail, and music therapy has been proven to connect with those who were thought to be unreachable, making it an ideal medium for working with those who have suffered psychological trauma. Music, Music Therapy and Trauma addresses the need for...
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  • Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts by Brown, Calvin S.
    Calvin S. Brown

    Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts

    Calvin S. Brown wrote Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts with the hope that it might open up a field of thought which has not yet been systematically explored as there had been no survey of the entire field. This book...
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  • Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices by Hooper, Ellen
    Ellen Hooper

    Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices

    This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing.　 Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea of authorship...
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  • Ancient Collects and Other Prayers: Selected for Devotional Use From Various Rituals, With an Appendix, On the Collects in the Prayer-Book by Bright, William
    William Bright

    Ancient Collects and Other Prayers: Selected for Devotional Use From Various Rituals, With an Appendix, On the Collects in the Prayer-Book

    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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  • All I Wanted to Do Was Play the Guitar, and Then This Happened.... by Mandica, Joe
    Joe Mandica

    All I Wanted to Do Was Play the Guitar, and Then This Happened....

    I had my first formal guitar lesson in 1972, in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia, when I was eight years old. Since then, I've spoken to Ringo Starr (who gave me a poke in the chest while talking to me), shared photographs backstage with...
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  • Leonard Bernstein by Myers, Paul
    Paul Myers

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein (1918-90), creator of the Broadway masterpiece, West Side Story, was the best loved and most successful conductor of his generation. He inspired fellow American musicians, being the first native American to direct a major American orchestra, and the first to conquer Europe....
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  • Quick Tips & Guide To Christian Music: Expose, Promote, & Increase Your Music Ministry by Coleman, Kellen M.
    Kellen M. Coleman

    Quick Tips & Guide To Christian Music: Expose, Promote, & Increase Your Music Ministry

    Quick Tips & Guide to Christian Music is a book to help Christian musicians Expose, Promote, and Increase their music Ministry. The books gives over one hundred contacts including TV, radio, and magazines artists can contact, as well as conferences, festivals, and well known...
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  • No Encore!: Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs by Fortune, Drew
    Drew Fortune

    No Encore!: Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs

    Featuring never-before-told stories, No Encore takes you on tour with over sixty iconic musicians as they relive their weirdest, wildest, most embarrassing gigs. "A relataively jovial, upbeat book that I raced through. The embarrassment is palatable, but perseverance is the most touching part of...
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  • Bible Study Bookz (Lion of Judah) by Fortson, Dante
    Dante Fortson

    Bible Study Bookz (Lion of Judah)

    Bible Study Bookz (lined notebooks) are perfect for the Bible study enthusiast that loves to take notes and keep them. Each notebook includes the following tables to enhance your study time.] Biblical Lengths+ Biblical Weights+ Biblical Liquid Measures+ Biblical Dry Measures+ Biblical Money+ Biblical...
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  • The Savoy Operas - Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896 by Gilbert, W. S.
    W. S. Gilbert

    The Savoy Operas - Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896

    This antiquarian volume contains a complete collection of Savoy Operas produced between 1875 and 1896. 'Savoy Opera' was a form of opera developed during in Victorian England by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. This fantastic book is highly recommended for lovers of opera,...
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  • Types, Psalms and Prophecies: Being a Series of Old Testament Studies by Baron, David
    David Baron

    Types, Psalms and Prophecies: Being a Series of Old Testament Studies

    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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  • Mozart the Fall of the Gods - Part 1 by Bianchini, Luca
    Luca Bianchini

    Mozart the Fall of the Gods - Part 1

    "Nuova edizione inglese (NEW ENGLISH EDITION). Il libro raccoglie i risultati dei nostri studi sulla musica del Settecento e su Mozart, autore venerato da oltre due secoli come un dio. Ci siamo interrogati sulle ragioni di quel culto, e abbiamo sfrondato le molte biografie...
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  • Mapping (Post)Colonial Paris by Ear by Waltham-Smith, Naomi
    Naomi Waltham-Smith

    Mapping (Post)Colonial Paris by Ear

    Author: Naomi Waltham-SmithISBN-10: 1009054651ISBN-13: 9781009054652Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2023Pages: 75Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
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  • The Artist's Joy: A Guide to Getting Unstuck, Embracing Imperfection, and Loving Your Creative Life by Estevez, Merideth Hite
    Merideth Hite Estevez

    The Artist's Joy: A Guide to Getting Unstuck, Embracing Imperfection, and Loving Your Creative Life

    The ultimate guide for creatives of all disciplines and levels to discover a sustainable, joyful artistic practice. Whether you are a dabbler, a career creative, or a long-time self-proclaimed ""tortured artist,"" Dr. Merideth Hite Estevez is here to help. As a professional oboist, teacher,...
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  • The Complete Elementary Music Rudiments by Sarnecki, Mark
    Mark Sarnecki

    The Complete Elementary Music Rudiments

    The Complete Elementary Music Rudiments has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This book contains Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced rudiments all in one volume. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable...
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  • Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation by Rankin, Susan
    Susan Rankin

    Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe

    Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West....
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  • Messiaen Studies by Sholl, Robert
    Robert Sholl

    Messiaen Studies

    The French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. This collection of scholarly essays offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on Messiaen's musical oeuvre from 1941 to 1992. The volume includes: a fascinating snapshot of Messiaen's life...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams by Frogley, Alain
    Alain Frogley

    The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

    An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been misunderstood as much as he had been revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and...
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  • Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist by Meyerson, Harold
    Harold Meyerson

    Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist

    ". . . required reading for anyone interested in the great American songs."-New York Times Book ReviewMany of us can sing along with Dorothy when she imagines a place "Over the Rainbow." And we all remember the Depression-era classic "Brother, Can You Spare a...
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  • Sonification Design: From Data to Intelligible Soundfields by Worrall, David
    David Worrall

    Sonification Design: From Data to Intelligible Soundfields

    The contemporary design practice known as data sonification allows us to experience information in data by listening. In doing so, we understand the source of the data in ways that support, and in some cases surpass, our ability to do so visually. In order...
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  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Kostelanetz, Richard
    Richard Kostelanetz

    A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

    Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition. Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else,...
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  • Making Music with The Wellingtons A 1960s Rock'n'Roll Garage Band by Schultz, Duane E.
    Duane E. Schultz

    Making Music with The Wellingtons A 1960s Rock'n'Roll Garage Band

    The 1960s were an amazing sliver of time that occurred after the sock hops burned out and before disco, house music, and rap came onto the scene. Making Music With The Wellingtons revisits that era and its burgeoning rock-and-roll scene, when a garage cover...
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  • Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers by Peters, Mathijs
    Mathijs Peters

    Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers

    This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical content to defend the provocative claim...
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  • Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893â2013 by Williamson, John
    John Williamson

    Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013

    This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this period...
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  • Songs of Newfoundland by Delanghe, George
    George Delanghe

    Songs of Newfoundland

    The east coast of Canada has a strong music tradition. Many will recognize the influence of Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English in the tunes. Index: 1 All for Me Grog 2 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda 3 Anti-Confederation Song 4 Aunt Martha's Sheep...
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  • Patriotic Solos for Classical Guitar: 10 Patriotic Songs of the U.S.A. (in Standard Notation and Tablature) by Sam, Uncle
    Uncle Sam

    Patriotic Solos for Classical Guitar: 10 Patriotic Songs of the U.S.A. (in Standard Notation and Tablature)

    This collection features a selection of the greatest Patriotic Songs of the United States Of America. 10 easy arrangements in Standard Notation and Tablature, for fingerpicking guitar. Includes: Amazing Grace America (My Country 'Tis of Thee) America The Beautiful Anchors Aweigh Battle Hymn of...
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  • The Lord's Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960 by Ward, Mark
    Mark Ward

    The Lord's Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960

    Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society. Believed by some to have originated as a reaction to the social revolution of the 1960s, evangelicalism as a distinct subculture in fact dates to the advent of radio....
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  • The English Hymnal with Tunes by Various
    Various

    The English Hymnal with Tunes

    This early collection of English hymns is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a large number of hymns for the Christian calendar complete with sheet music melodies and lyrics. This is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest...
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  • Music And Bad Manners by Van Vechten, Carl
    Carl Van Vechten

    Music And Bad Manners

    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: Carl Van VechtenISBN-10: 140673912XISBN-13: 9781406739121Publisher:...
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  • Tin Pan Alley by Shepherd, John
    John Shepherd

    Tin Pan Alley

    In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood. The Alleymen were workers as much as artists. This book, first published in 1982, explores how...
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  • Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750 by Kevorkian, Tanya
    Tanya Kevorkian

    Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750

    Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture in Leipzig before and during J.S. Bach's time in the city. Working with these sources, she has been able to reconstruct the contexts of Baroque and...
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  • All I Wanted to Do Was Play the Guitar, and Then This Happened.... by Mandica, Joe
    Joe Mandica

    All I Wanted to Do Was Play the Guitar, and Then This Happened....

    I had my first formal guitar lesson in 1972, in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia, when I was eight years old. Since then, I've spoken to Ringo Starr (who gave me a poke in the chest while talking to me), shared photographs backstage with...
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  • Carl Nielsen by Lawson, Jack
    Jack Lawson

    Carl Nielsen

    This thorough yet eminently readable biography examines the life and works of Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), from his studies at the Royal Danish Conservatory to his status as one of Scandinavia's most important composers. Focusing on Nielsen's personality as well as his music,...
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  • The Smugglers; Volume I by Higginson, Francis
    Francis Higginson

    The Smugglers; Volume I

    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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  • Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide by Liebermann, Alexander
    Alexander Liebermann

    Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide

    Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide is a source of inspiration for curious and creative people, regardless of their background or expertise in music or birds! It features ten hyper-accurate musical transcriptions of birdsong, each accompanied by a brief description of the species, a custom...
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  • The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town by Creney, Scott
    Scott Creney

    The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town

    The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town is the first critical history of one of the most legendary and influential bands in American popular music. Locating The B-52s in the intellectual climate of their hometown of Athens, GA and following the band...
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  • Crossing Bridges by O'Connor, Mark
    Mark O'Connor

    Crossing Bridges

    Crossing Bridges, Mark O'Connor's aching memoir, traces his journey from his childhood years, when at age 10 he was winning classical guitar competitions against University graduates, and at age 12 was thrust as a soloist onto the Grand Ole Opry stage introduced by the...
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  • Crossing Bridges by O'Connor, Mark
    Mark O'Connor

    Crossing Bridges

    Crossing Bridges, Mark O'Connor's aching memoir, traces his journey from his childhood years, when at age 10 he was winning classical guitar competitions against University graduates, and at age 12 was thrust as a soloist onto the Grand Ole Opry stage introduced by the...
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  • The Yin and the Yang of It All: Rock'n'roll Memories from the Cusp as Told by a Mixed-Up, Mixed-Race Kid by Kim Faye, John
    John Kim Faye

    The Yin and the Yang of It All: Rock'n'roll Memories from the Cusp as Told by a Mixed-Up, Mixed-Race Kid

    In 1966-the Year of the Horse, not to mention Revolver and Pet Sounds - John Kim Faye was born out of wedlock to a 40-year-old Korean mother and a 62-year-old Irish father. Faye grew up in the state of Delaware, where laws forbidding interracial...
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  • The Joy of First Year Piano by Agay, Denes
    Denes Agay

    The Joy of First Year Piano

    (Yorktown). Designed for use as a method book, this volume allows the teacher to vary the approach according to the needs of the student. The book can also be used as a source of carefully graded pieces, for use with any first-year method.Author: Denes...
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  • All Down The Line: A People's History of the Rolling Stones 1972 North American Tour by Houghton, Richard
    Richard Houghton

    All Down The Line: A People's History of the Rolling Stones 1972 North American Tour

    1972 saw the Rolling Stones perform on American soil for the first time since the stabbing of a fan by Hell's Angels at Altamont three years earlier. The Beatles having split up - and with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all dead...
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  • Taylor Swift: Stolen Lullabies by Taylor, Michael Francis
    Michael Francis Taylor

    Taylor Swift: Stolen Lullabies

    "Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain" This is the definitive story of Taylor Swift and her incredible rise to success from being just a smalltown girl with a dream to becoming one of the most...
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