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  • Piano Album: For Solo Piano and 2 Pianos by Monk, Meredith
    Meredith Monk

    Piano Album: For Solo Piano and 2 Pianos

    (BH Piano). This collection for solo piano and 2 pianos features seven of Meredith Monk's original piano works. Contents: Railroad (Travel Song) * Paris * Window in 7's * St. Petersburg Waltz * Ellis Island * Folkdance * Phantom Waltz. Includes performance notes by...
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  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) by Jackson, Timothy L.
    Timothy L. Jackson

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Path騁ique)

    Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers since its first performance just over a century ago. Professor Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Path tique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death. The book covers the...
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  • The Orchestra and Orchestral Music by Henderson, W. J.
    W. J. Henderson

    The Orchestra and Orchestral Music

    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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  • Sibelius Studies by Jackson, Timothy L.
    Timothy L. Jackson

    Sibelius Studies

    Sibelius Studies presents a new portrait of this popular and prolific composer. Sibelius's symphonies often have been mentioned in the same breath with Beethoven's; indeed, in the twentieth century, they have enjoyed a commensurate popularity. The book contextualizes Sibelius' symphonies and tone poems in...
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  • Music in and on the Air by Schwartz, Lloyd
    Lloyd Schwartz

    Music in and on the Air

    Music In and On the Air is a wonderful collection of radio pieces from Pulitzer Prize winning critic Lloyd Schwartz. The book explores contemporary classics, musical theatre and film, and includes almost all the reviews Schwartz has presented since becoming the classical music critic...
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  • Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring by Hill, Peter
    Peter Hill

    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

    The Rite of Spring is Stravinsky's most revolutionary work. This comprehensive guide tells in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals that led to the scandalous premiere in 1913, and of Stravinsky's later betrayal of the ballet's first...
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  • Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability by Wurth, Kiene Brillenburg
    Kiene Brillenburg Wurth

    Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability

    Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how,...
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  • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue by Schiff, David
    David Schiff

    Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

    The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works. In this richly informative guide David Schiff considers the piece as musical work, historical event and cultural document....
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  • Ives: Concord Sonata by Block, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Block

    Ives: Concord Sonata

    Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating...
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  • Otello: Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello: Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Heuffer.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634072374ISBN-13: 9780634072376Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.90w x 0.90d
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  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra by Cooper, David
    David Cooper

    Bart: Concerto for Orchestra

    Bart k's Concerto for Orchestra has proven to be one of the most popularly successful concert works of the twentieth century. It is seen by its champions as an example of Bart k's seamless blend of Eastern European folk music and Western art music,...
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  • The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song: 50 Songs by 29 Composers: High Voice by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song: 50 Songs by 29 Composers: High Voice

    (Vocal Collection). This comprehensive collection is the best one-volume source available on the topic, with a mix of familiar recital standards and intriguing material awaiting discovery. Includes composers from c. 1900 into the 21st century. Some songs make their first published appearance in American...
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  • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto by Lawson, Colin
    Colin Lawson

    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

    Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is of supreme importance as his last instrumental work. Yet there are a number of special problems surrounding the piece, since the autograph is lost and the unique instrument for which it was written has not survived. This book presents a...
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  • The Baroque Era - Easy to Intermediate Piano: 91 Selections from Keyboard Literature, Concertos, Oratorios and Operas by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Baroque Era - Easy to Intermediate Piano: 91 Selections from Keyboard Literature, Concertos, Oratorios and Operas

    (World's Greatest Classical Music). The Baroque period (1600-1750) is represented by 67 piano pieces and 24 transcriptions for easy to intermediate piano. There are 25 composers in the collection, including J.S. Bach, Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell, Telemann and Vivaldi. Contents: D'ANGLEBERT: Menuet * C.P.E....
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  • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto by Lawson, Colin
    Colin Lawson

    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

    Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is of supreme importance as his last instrumental work. Yet there are a number of special problems surrounding the piece, since the autograph is lost and the unique instrument for which it was written has not survived. This book presents a...
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  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 by Hepokoski, James
    James Hepokoski

    Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

    Sibelius's Fifth is one of the great late-Romantic symphonies. In this searching account, based on a wealth of new information, James Hepokoski takes a fresh look at the work and its composer. His findings have implications beyond Sibelius himself into the entire repertory of...
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  • Elgar: Enigma Variations by Rushton, Julian
    Julian Rushton

    Elgar: Enigma Variations

    Elgar's Variations for Orchestra, commonly known as the 'Enigma' Variations, marked an epoch both in his career, and in the renaissance of English music at the turn of the century. The first extended study of the work, this Cambridge Music Handbook contains historical information...
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  • Arnold Schoenberg's a Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Volume 17 by Calico, Joy H.
    Joy H. Calico

    Arnold Schoenberg's a Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Volume 17

    Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw--a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer...
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  • Choral Music on Record by Blyth, Alan
    Alan Blyth

    Choral Music on Record

    Following the successful volumes of Song on Record, this book surveys all the recordings of major choral works from the Monteverdi Vespers to Britten's War Requiem. Discussion of the various interpretations on record is preceded, in each chapter, by informed criticism of the work...
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  • The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque by Richards, Annette
    Annette Richards

    The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque

    This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and German culture. The aesthetic of the picturesque, derived from the controlled wilderness of the landscape garden, provided writers on...
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  • The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France, Second Edition by Green, Robert A.
    Robert A. Green

    The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France, Second Edition

    The hurdy-gurdy, or vielle, has been part of European musical life since the eleventh century. In eighteenth-century France, improvements in its sound and appearance led to its use in chamber ensembles. This new and expanded edition of The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France offers the...
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  • German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music by Morrow, Mary Sue
    Mary Sue Morrow

    German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music

    Music aesthetics in late-eighteenth-century Germany has always been problematic because there was no aesthetic theory to evaluate the enormous amount of high-quality instrumental music produced by composers such as Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical aesthetic theory from an analysis of 1,300...
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  • Works for Piano and Cello: Chopin National Edition 23a, Vol. XVI by Chopin, Frederic
    Frederic Chopin

    Works for Piano and Cello: Chopin National Edition 23a, Vol. XVI

    (PWM). Includes: Grand Duo Concertant, Polonaise Op. 3, and Sonate Op. 65 The National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin Published by PWM Exclusively Distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation Co-Editors Jan Ekier and Pawel Kaminski The objective of the National Edition is to...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mozart by Keefe, Simon P.
    Simon P. Keefe

    The Cambridge Companion to Mozart

    Bridging the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of all of his important works; the reception of his music since his death; the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer. It paints a...
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  • The Bach Fake Book by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Bach Fake Book

    (Piano Personality). This incredible new comprehensive resource presents over 150 pieces by J. S. Bach in lead sheet format. It includes instrumental music from concertos, fantasias, fugues, inventions, partitas, passacaglias, pastorales, preludes, sonatas, suites, and toccatas as well as vocal music from arias, cantatas,...
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  • Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Berger, Anna Maria Busse
    Anna Maria Busse Berger

    Medieval Music and the Art of Memory

    Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy...
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  • 28 Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    28 Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    (Vocal Collection). Most voice teachers and singers still prefer the pianistic, wonderfully gratifying editions made by Alessandro Parisotti (1853-1913) of early Italian arias. This newly researched edition, with updated composer attributions, features new, clean music engravings. The collection includes the original contents of 24...
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  • A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst Von Dohnányi's American Years, 1949-1960 Volume 25 by Kusz, Veronika
    Veronika Kusz

    A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst Von Dohn疣yi's American Years, 1949-1960 Volume 25

    On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohn nyi (1877-1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life....
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  • Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews Volume 21 by Nono, Luigi
    Luigi Nono

    Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews Volume 21

    Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his...
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  • Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity by Berger, Karol
    Karol Berger

    Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity

    In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the...
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  • Josh Groban by Groban, Josh
    Josh Groban

    Josh Groban

    (Easy Piano Personality). Easy arrangements of 13 of the best-loved songs from Groban's first three studio albums, including: Alejate * Alla Luce Del Sole * Cinema Paradiso * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * The Prayer * To Where You Are * Un Amore...
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  • Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form by McClary, Susan
    Susan McClary

    Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

    With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account of our own cultural...
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  • The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions by White, Christopher
    Christopher White

    The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions

    Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues...
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  • Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice by Cohen, Allen
    Allen Cohen

    Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice

    In this exciting new study of a largely overlooked but nevertheless extremely important figure in American music, author Allen Cohen explores the relationship between theory and practice in the works of Howard Hanson, a prominent twentieth-century composer, conductor, and educator. In Hanson's book Harmonic...
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  • Beyond the Handsomeness: A Biography of Thomas Schippers by Spada, Nancy
    Nancy Spada

    Beyond the Handsomeness: A Biography of Thomas Schippers

    A lightning rod for powerful emotions, Thomas Schippers began his escalation to fame at nineteen continuing with performances in many renowned venues in the world. Here his career is traced through the accounts of those who knew or performed with him, redressing the astonishing...
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  • The Music of Morton Feldman by Delio, Thomas
    Thomas Delio

    The Music of Morton Feldman

    Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. His unique body of compositions, as well as his numerous writings and interviews, provide a vast amount of source material for scholarly research. Yet, few have seriously examined his work....
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  • Beethoven - An Anthology of Selected Writings by Russell, Terrence M.
    Terrence M. Russell

    Beethoven - An Anthology of Selected Writings

    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century...
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  • The American Wind Symphony Commissioning Project: A Descriptive Catalog of Published Editions 1957-1991 by Renshaw, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Renshaw

    The American Wind Symphony Commissioning Project: A Descriptive Catalog of Published Editions 1957-1991

    The American Wind Symphony Editions comprises the more than 150 works commissioned by Robert Austin Boudreau for the American Waterways Wind Orchestra and published by the C. F. Peters Corporation. They are here presented for the first time in a complete catalog with detailed...
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  • Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography by Siddons, James
    James Siddons

    Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography

    Though often misunderstood in the West, the works of Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) deserve attention beyond their native land. Although he wrote most of his music for Western instruments in international contemporary concert style, to be played by performers trained in the European musical tradition,...
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  • Peter and the Wolf: A Musical Tale for Children by Prokofieff, Sergei
    Sergei Prokofieff

    Peter and the Wolf: A Musical Tale for Children

    (Piano). In this delightful full-color songbook, Prokofieff's classic musical tale is retold in verse with easy, yet faithful arrangements of the main musical themes each of which represents a character in the story. The verse makes it ideal either for reading aloud, or as...
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  • Frank Bridge: A Bio-Bibliography by Little, Karen
    Karen Little

    Frank Bridge: A Bio-Bibliography

    This bio-bibliography traces the stylistic development and defines the musical personality of one of the major British composers of the first half of the 20th century. Bridge's works, enjoying renewed interest since the late 1960s, are the subject of careful research in this volume,...
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  • Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography by Cody, Judith
    Judith Cody

    Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography

    Despite having composed 140 major works of music, all while pursuing an active and productive career in teaching, Vivian Fine (1913-2000) has not, until now, been the subject of a significant biography or bibliography. Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of...
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  • All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing by Burkholder, J. Peter
    J. Peter Burkholder

    All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing

    "An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives's compositional procedures that has yet been attempted."-Larry Starr, author of A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives "A unique...
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  • Sonata in B Minor and Other Works for Piano by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Sonata in B Minor and Other Works for Piano

    Among Franz Liszt's many brilliant compositions for piano, few have been so admired and performed as the Sonata in B Minor, long considered one of the greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. A work of consummate structural ingenuity, it combines and transforms four...
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  • Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music by Armbruster, Kurt E.
    Kurt E. Armbruster

    Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music

    Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians...
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  • Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth by Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl
    Audrey Ekdahl Davidson

    Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth

    Following the second World War, Olivier Messiaen, previously known primarily for his religious music, composed three works inspired by the medieval love story of Tristan and Iseult: Harawi, Turangal Dla-symphonie, and Cinq rechants. Though the song cycle, symphony, and choral work each consider their...
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  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert by Hatten, Robert S.
    Robert S. Hatten

    Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them...
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  • The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War by Horowitz, Joseph
    Joseph Horowitz

    The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War

    The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical...
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  • Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni: In Its Original Notation and Edited in All the Modes by Houle, George
    George Houle

    Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni: In Its Original Notation and Edited in All the Modes

    " . . . one of those rare publications which succeeds equally as a scholarly edition for study and as a practical edition for performance." --Musick" . . . a clear, easily grasped transcription of this work, suitable for performance or study." --Notes" ....
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  • Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon by Bañagale, Ryan
    Ryan Bañagale

    Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon

    In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Bañagale approaches George Gershwin's iconic piece Rhapsody in Blue not as a composition but as an arrangement -- a status it has in many ways held since its inception in 1924, yet one unconsidered until now. Shifting emphasis away...
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