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  • Das Rheingold: Libretto by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Das Rheingold: Libretto

    Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793556104ISBN-13: 9780793556106Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d
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  • Siegfried: Libretto by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Siegfried: Libretto

    Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793547156ISBN-13: 9780793547159Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1989Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d
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  • Philip Glass: Trilogy Sonata for Piano by Glass, Philip
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass: Trilogy Sonata for Piano

    (Music Sales America). The first performance of the Trilogy Sonata was given by the arranger and pianist Paul Barnes on 19 April 2001. The Sonata consists of transcriptions from the trilogy of 'portrait' operas by Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980),...
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  • Ross Lee Finney: A Bio-Bibliography by Hayes Hitchens, Susan H.
    Susan H. Hayes Hitchens

    Ross Lee Finney: A Bio-Bibliography

    With over 100 compositions in his catalog, Ross Lee Finney is a highly regarded composer whose career spans more than 50 years. This work offers contemporary music scholars, students, and enthusiasts an in-depth survey of the life, works, and writings of this important composer,...
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  • Franz Schubert: A Biography by McKay, Elizabeth Norman
    Elizabeth Norman McKay

    Franz Schubert: A Biography

    In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above...
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  • Mozart: A Musical Biography by Küster, Konrad
    Konrad K?ter

    Mozart: A Musical Biography

    Although there are many accounts of Mozart's life, and countless descriptions and analyses of his music, this is the first attempt to portray Mozart's creative life as a composer. K?ter selects forty works or groups of works covering virtually every important stage in Mozart's...
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  • A Sonata Theory Handbook by Hepokoski, James
    James Hepokoski

    A Sonata Theory Handbook

    Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond. Sonata Theory, an analytic approach developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy in their award-winning Elements of Sonata...
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  • Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics by Skinner, Frederick W.
    Frederick W. Skinner

    Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics

    How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of...
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  • Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics by Skinner, Frederick W.
    Frederick W. Skinner

    Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics

    How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of...
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  • Handel's Messiah: A Celebration by Luckett, Richard
    Richard Luckett

    Handel's Messiah: A Celebration

    An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookAuthor: Richard LuckettISBN-10: 0156001381ISBN-13: 9780156001380Publisher: Mariner...
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  • Bach: The Goldberg Variations by Williams, Peter
    Peter Williams

    Bach: The Goldberg Variations

    Bach's spectacular Goldberg Variations represent a high point in the repertory of keyboard music, particularly for the harpsichord. This book takes a detailed look at how these variations originated, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavier bung volumes and late keyboard works, what their...
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  • Haydn: The 'Paris' Symphonies by Harrison, Bernard
    Bernard Harrison

    Haydn: The 'Paris' Symphonies

    Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 82-7 are seminal works in Haydn's output and mark a new level of compositional attainment, launching the important cycle of mature Haydn symphonies written for an international audience. This book considers both stylistic aspects of the symphonies and their broader cultural...
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  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto by Stowell, Robin
    Robin Stowell

    Beethoven: Violin Concerto

    This is the first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It explores the work's background and the influences that combined in its creation, and describes its indifferent initial reception. It considers the numerous textual problems that confront the performer, including discussion of Beethoven's adaptation...
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  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex by Walsh, Stephen
    Stephen Walsh

    Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

    Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original musical theater works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide, the first ever written on the work, describes the plot, the music and the staging in close detail and provides...
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  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 by Cook, Nicholas
    Nicholas Cook

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Western tradition. More than any other musical work it has become an international symbol of unity and affirmation. Yet early critics rejected it as cryptic and eccentric, the product of a...
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  • The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 by Kerman, Joseph
    Joseph Kerman

    The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries,...
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  • The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain by Le Guin, Elisabeth
    Elisabeth Le Guin

    The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

    The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the...
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  • On Russian Music by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    On Russian Music

    Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between....
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  • Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 by Walsh, Stephen
    Stephen Walsh

    Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971

    Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume Stravinsky is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe...
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  • Music Divided: Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culturevolume 7 by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle
    Danielle Fosler-Lussier

    Music Divided: Bart's Legacy in Cold War Culture Volume 7

    Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical,...
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  • Roger Sessions: A Biography by Olmstead, Andrea
    Andrea Olmstead

    Roger Sessions: A Biography

    Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the...
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  • Haydn Studies: Proceedings of the International Haydn Conference, Washington, D.C., 1975 by Larsen, Jens P.
    Jens P. Larsen

    Haydn Studies: Proceedings of the International Haydn Conference, Washington, D.C., 1975

    In October, 1975, the International Haydn Conference was held in Washington, D.C., during the last eight days of the Haydn Festival at Kennedy Center. Scholars and musicians from all over the world were brought together for the conference, participating in panel discussions, round tables,...
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  • Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States: Extending the Legacy of Kate Van Winkle Keller by Lohman, Laura
    Laura Lohman

    Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States: Extending the Legacy of Kate Van Winkle Keller

    This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to spur further research on...
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  • Classical Technique for the Modern Guitarist by Perlak, Kim
    Kim Perlak

    Classical Technique for the Modern Guitarist

    (Berklee Guide). Learn the essential techniques for playing classical guitar. These exercises and demonstrations will help you to develop ease of motion, efficiency, coordination, tone, control over dynamics and color, melodic connection and harmonic balance while preventing injury. Techniques for each hand are discussed...
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  • Mozart: 57 Selections from Symphonies, Concertos, Operas and Piano Works Easy to Intermediate Piano Solos by Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: 57 Selections from Symphonies, Concertos, Operas and Piano Works Easy to Intermediate Piano Solos

    (World's Greatest Classical Music). This excellent collection in our acclaimed classical series features easy to intermediate arrangements of 57 selections from symphonies, concertos, operas and piano works. Contents: The Abduction from the Seraglio: Turkish Finale * Air, K. 109b * Allegro, K. 3 *...
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  • Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal by McClary, Susan
    Susan McClary

    Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal

    In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music...
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  • Grand Opera: The Story of the Met by Affron, Charles
    Charles Affron

    Grand Opera: The Story of the Met

    The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global...
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  • Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Burton-Hill, Clemency
    Clemency Burton-Hill

    Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day

    "Year of Wonder is an absolute treat--the most enlightening way to be guided through the year." -- Eddie RedmayneA unique celebration of classical music that showcases one inspirational piece each day of the year, written by an award-winning violinist and BBC Radio personalityClassical music...
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  • Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination by Solomon, Maynard
    Maynard Solomon

    Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination

    In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in...
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  • Béla Bartók by Chalmers, Kenneth
    Kenneth Chalmers

    B駘a Bart

    This biography covers the full range of B駘a Bart's (1881-1945) work from his early explorations of the folklore of Hungary to his Third Piano Concerto composed on his deathbed in the United States. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs of people and events, the book...
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  • Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Thurman, Kira
    Kira Thurman

    Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

    In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this...
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  • Practical Vocal Method (Vaccai) - High Voice: Soprano/Tenor - Book/CD by Vaccai, N.
    N. Vaccai

    Practical Vocal Method (Vaccai) - High Voice: Soprano/Tenor - Book/CD

    Author: N. VaccaiISBN-10: 1480304700ISBN-13: 9781480304703Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d
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  • Absolutely on Music: Conversations by Murakami, Haruki
    Haruki Murakami

    Absolutely on Music: Conversations

    A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the...
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  • Nocturnes: Piano Solo by Chopin, Frederic
    Frederic Chopin

    Nocturnes: Piano Solo

    (PWM). The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczynski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions. The principal aim of the Editorial Committee...
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  • Yann Tiersen - Piano Works: 1994-2003 by Tiersen, Yann
    Yann Tiersen

    Yann Tiersen - Piano Works: 1994-2003

    (Piano). 23 piano works from the French musician and composer Yann Tiersen (b. 1970). Includes 6 songs from Amelie (Comptine D'ete No. 2, La Dispute, Sur Le Fil, La Valse D'Amelie, Comptine D'un Autre Ete: L'Apres-Midi, Le Moulin). Contents: Comptine D'Ete No. 1 *...
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  • Easy Classics for Viola: With Piano Accompaniment by Spitzer, Jannette
    Jannette Spitzer

    Easy Classics for Viola: With Piano Accompaniment

    With Piano Accompaniment. Easy Classics for Viola is part of the Easy Classics Series, written to provide beginning to intermediate students with an enjoyable introduction to classical music. This book features 16 solos and duets in viola-friendly keys, with accompaniment. All of the pieces...
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  • Interpreting Music by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Interpreting Music

    Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully--"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning--even...
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  • Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell by Klefstad, Terry Wait
    Terry Wait Klefstad

    Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell

    A pianist, arranger, and composer, William Pursell is a mainstay of the Nashville music scene. He has played jazz in Nashville's Printer's Alley with Chet Atkins and Harold Bradley, recorded with Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, performed with the Nashville Symphony, and composed and...
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  • A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music by Schab, Alon
    Alon Schab

    A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music

    A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music provides instruction on three important tasks that early music performers often undertake in order to make their work more noticeable and appealing to their audiences. First, the book provides instruction on using early sources-manuscripts,...
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  • Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores by Schulenberg, David
    David Schulenberg

    Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores

    A companion volume to David Schulenberg's textbook, Music of the Baroque, Third Edition, this anthology features frequently studied works by such celebrated Baroque composers as Bach, Handel, and Monteverdi together with compositions by lesser-known composers like Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Each score is...
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  • The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms by Stinson, Russell
    Russell Stinson

    The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms

    In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's organ...
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  • Liszt by Watson, Derek
    Derek Watson

    Liszt

    Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...
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  • Mozart by Rushton, Julian
    Julian Rushton

    Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills, in his adulthood he wrote some of the finest music in...
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  • Mozart by Rushton, Julian
    Julian Rushton

    Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills--he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the...
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  • Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music by Sachs, Joel
    Joel Sachs

    Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music

    Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But...
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  • The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Steinberg, Michael
    Michael Steinberg

    The Concerto: A Listener's Guide

    Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by a master stylist" (San Francisco Chronicle). Seiji...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era by Geiringer, Karl
    Karl Geiringer

    Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era

    This basic, one-volume study of Johann Sebastian Bach combines a sensitive biographical sketch with a detailed analysis of each of his major types of composition, including vocal music, organ music, keyboard music, and instrumental music. In each section, Geiringer thoroughly examines many Bach compositions...
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  • Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 by Rehding, Alexander
    Alexander Rehding

    Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in on the significance of...
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  • The Private Life Of Johann Sebastian Bach by Spaeth, Sigmund
    Sigmund Spaeth

    The Private Life Of Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Private Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by Sigmund Spaeth is a biography that delves into the personal life of one of the most renowned composers in history. The book provides a detailed account of Bach's upbringing, family life, and professional career, as well...
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  • Concert and Contest Collection for BB Tenor Saxophone: Piano Accompaniment by Voxman, H.
    H. Voxman

    Concert and Contest Collection for BB Tenor Saxophone: Piano Accompaniment

    (Rubank Solo Collection). This top-rated collection of solo literature from the celebrated Rubank catalog is known by teachers and students everywhere. Each edition offers a superb variety of solos customized for that instrument. Most state solo/ensemble contest lists include several solos from this collection....
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