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  • Pink Floyd and the Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    Pink Floyd and the Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years

    Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves no stone unturned in taking apart Pink Floyd's generation-spanning masterpiece, The...
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  • Sir Arthur Bliss: Standing Out from the Crowd by Spicer, Paul
    Paul Spicer

    Sir Arthur Bliss

    Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) was one of the most important British musicians of his age. Born into a family where music played a highly significant role, his talent emerged early. He served with distinction in the Great War, in which he was both injured and...
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  • Right Place at the Write Time by White, D. Bergen
    D. Bergen White

    Right Place at the Write Time

    A colorful and candid behind-the-scenes look at my 60 years in the recording industry. Obviously a large portion of my life has been dedicated to singing and arranging and I will still arrange if the right person asks (and I'm in the mood) but...
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  • War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory by Shupe, Abigail
    Abigail Shupe

    War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory

    This book studies George Crumb's The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges...
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  • The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard by Eliot, Marc
    Marc Eliot

    The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard

    The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the...
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  • William Grant Still by Smith, Catherine Parsons
    Catherine Parsons Smith

    William Grant Still

    Once called the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still created a unique version of musical modernism that influenced commercial music, symphonic music, and opera. The acclaimed and enormously popular Afro-American Symphony, like many of his works, drew on Black American musical heritage,...
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  • Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children by Marshack, Rose
    Rose Marshack

    Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

    As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in...
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  • Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by Banfield, William C.
    William C. Banfield

    Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers

    Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon...
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  • Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon by Fishell, Steve
    Steve Fishell

    Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon

    A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 The acknowledged maestro of the pedal steel guitar, Buddy Emmons lent his unparalleled virtuosity to over five decades of hit recordings and set standards that remain the benchmark for musicians today. Steve Fishell's merger of...
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  • Magazine: A Biography of a Band by Chase, Helen
    Helen Chase

    Magazine: A Biography of a Band

    A detailed and contextual look at the postpunk music and arts scene in Manchester in the late 1970s, this biography explores the movement through one of its most riveting contributors--Magazine, the band fronted by ex-Buzzcock's member Howard Devoto. Featuring interviews and photographs that provide...
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  • Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Sachs, Harvey
    Harvey Sachs

    Schoenberg: Why He Matters

    In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this...
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  • Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Stripe, Adelle
    Adelle Stripe

    Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace' Miranda Sawyer, Observer'You begin to wonder why more biographies aren't tackled with such invention' Record Collector'This book is a...
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  • Scherzi; Fantasy in F Minor: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 1556 Piano Solo by Chopin, Frederic
    Frederic Chopin

    Scherzi; Fantasy in F Minor: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 1556 Piano Solo

    (Piano Collection). Contents: Fantaisie, Op. 49 * Scherzo in B Flat Minor, Op. 31 * Scherzo in B Minor * Scherzo in C# Minor, Op. 39 * Scherzo in E, Op. 54.Author: Frederic ChopinISBN-10: 1458405907ISBN-13: 9781458405906Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize:...
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  • Sixtus Kargel: Ten Renaissance Lute Pieces For Low G Ukulele by Walker, Michael
    Michael Walker

    Sixtus Kargel: Ten Renaissance Lute Pieces For Low G Ukulele

    Sixtus Kargel, 1540 - 1593, was a German lutenist and composer. His first recorded publication, a lost print of 1569, appeared at Mainz, Germany. The ten pieces selected for this transcription come from his 1574 publication and include four Fantasias, three Pasamezos, and three...
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  • Blue Guitar Highway by Metsa, Paul
    Paul Metsa

    Blue Guitar Highway

    This is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music...
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  • From Squeaky Clean to Dirty Water - My Life with the Sixties Garage Rock Trailblazers the Standells by Tamblyn, Larry
    Larry Tamblyn

    From Squeaky Clean to Dirty Water - My Life with the Sixties Garage Rock Trailblazers the Standells

    A wild ride with keyboardist, lead singer/writer and founding member of the Standells, Larry Tamblyn. A "fly on the wall" view of the inner workings of this very successful, and influential Rock Group. Larry takes you back to the beginning, giving you an intimate...
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  • Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty by Stratton, Jon
    Jon Stratton

    Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty

    Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors' album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was pivotal in the group's career and marked the group's move into pub rock. It is unashamedly...
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  • Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty by Stratton, Jon
    Jon Stratton

    Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty

    Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors' album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was pivotal in the group's career and marked the group's move into pub rock. It is unashamedly...
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  • Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Duerden, Nick
    Nick Duerden

    Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

    For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing...
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  • Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band Volume 2 by Fields, Carmen
    Carmen Fields

    Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band Volume 2

    There was a time when countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows to hear a territory band play. Territory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904-97)...
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  • Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer by Bodley, Lorraine Byrne
    Lorraine Byrne Bodley

    Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer

    An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical geniusAuthor: Lorraine Byrne BodleyISBN-10: 0300204086ISBN-13: 9780300204087Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2023Pages: 736Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 2.00d
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  • Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes by Hershberger, Monica A.
    Monica A. Hershberger

    Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes

    The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create...
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  • The Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    The Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi

    Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), an extraordinary, innovative, and often controversial moving force in modern music, has been the subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical discussions, and groundbreaking performances.Originally in French, Scelsi's writings have been included in anthologies of prose, poetry, and memories...
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  • Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life by Leigh, Spencer
    Spencer Leigh

    Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life

    FRANK SINATRA: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE is a compelling biography of Frank Sinatra's life and career - warts and all, spanning the years from 1915 to Sinatra's death in 1998. This fast-paced comprehensive chronicle details the superstar's music, films, romances, personality traits and questionable exploits!...
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  • The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive by Kostalevsky, Marina
    Marina Kostalevsky

    The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive

    This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's daily concerns,...
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  • The Life and Music of Harry Styles by Croft, Malcolm
    Malcolm Croft

    The Life and Music of Harry Styles

    The Life and Music of Harry Styles is written in an enthusiastic tone and fan-focused style, richly illustrated with photographs of the heartthrob and charts the evolution of Styles's career - from his discovery on the X Factor to his rise to a global...
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  • Emil von Sauer: Liszt's Forgotten Protégé by Crocus, Anita
    Anita Crocus

    Emil von Sauer: Liszt's Forgotten Protégé

    Emil von Sauer carried the torch of the Romantic piano repertoire well into the twentieth century. He won the French Legion of Honor, The Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, and Austrian peerage, among many other honors. He edited all of Brahms's piano compositions, much...
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  • Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music by Levine-Packer, Renee
    Renee Levine-Packer

    Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music

    A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music,...
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  • BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective by Weir, William L.
    William L. Weir

    BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective

    In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the...
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  • Kylie Minogue's Kylie by Renzo, Adrian
    Adrian Renzo

    Kylie Minogue's Kylie

    Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its...
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  • Living Colour's Time's Up by Mack, Kimberly
    Kimberly Mack

    Living Colour's Time's Up

    The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time's Up is a musical and lyrical triumph, incorporating distinct forms and styles of music...
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  • Édith Piaf's Récital 1961 by Looseley, David L.
    David L. Looseley

    ﾉdith Piaf's R馗ital 1961

    From the beginning of her career in 1935 to her death in 1963 and right up to the present, ﾉdith Piaf has been recognized as unique and iconic. She is France's most celebrated and mythified singing star across the world. R馗ital 1961 explores her...
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  • Partitas for Mandora: Volume 2 for Low G Ukulele by Walker, Michael
    Michael Walker

    Partitas for Mandora: Volume 2 for Low G Ukulele

    Here are 64 Baroque pieces for the Madora composed or collected by anonymous composers arranged for the Low G ukulele. There are at least 55 sources of mandora music in tablature, all in mostly anonymous manuscript format, and nearly all of Germanic origin. These...
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  • Pieces for Mandora Volume Three Arranged For Low G Ukulele by Walker, Michael
    Michael Walker

    Pieces for Mandora Volume Three Arranged For Low G Ukulele

    Here are 53 Baroque pieces composed for the Mandora but arranged for the Low G Ukulele in tablature and modern notation. There are at least 55 sources of mandora music in tablature, all in mostly anonymous manuscript format, and nearly all of Germanic origin....
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  • Francisco Tarréga: Pieces from the Romantic Era For Low G Ukulele by Walker, Michael
    Michael Walker

    Francisco Tarr馮a: Pieces from the Romantic Era For Low G Ukulele

    Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Here are 19 compositions from the Romantic Era by Francisco Tarr馮a arranged for the Low G ukulele. These pieces are somewhat more complex and are for intermediate to advanced...
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  • David Cassidy: Crazy Over You in Saratoga: Ain't no rock'n'roll story: It's a special tribute to a music legend's love of horses and by Habib, Marlene
    Marlene Habib

    David Cassidy: Crazy Over You in Saratoga: Ain't no rock'n'roll story: It's a special tribute to a music legend's love of horses and

    Millions around the world feel as if they've just gone nine rounds - physically and emotionally battered while waiting to hear if he'd pull through. Word leaks out that David Cassidy is in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hospital - the same David Cassidy who...
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  • Piano Music Composition Notebook by Harrlez, Iris Lorry
    Iris Lorry Harrlez

    Piano Music Composition Notebook

    Are you in the mood for composing music? Then you need our Piano Music Composition Notebook It is the perfect music notebook for beginners, young musicians, composers, or songwriters. You can use it in the studio, at home, or anywhere for songwriting, practice lessons,...
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  • Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy: Jimmy Somerville - The Communards by Forrest, Larry
    Larry Forrest

    Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy: Jimmy Somerville - The Communards

    Bronski Beat were a British synthpop trio who were big during the mid-'80s, including their hit Smalltown Boy, from their 1st L.P. The Age of Consent [1984], being their only US Billboard Hot 100 single. All members of the group were openly homosexual, their...
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  • Piano Concerto in B minor, CFF 135: Study score by Franck, Cesar
    Cesar Franck

    Piano Concerto in B minor, CFF 135: Study score

    Franck's Piano Concerto in B minor is an early work written when he was only 13 years old to showcase his piano talents. A fragment of one of his two piano youthful concertos (likely this one) was performed in Paris at 62nd concert of...
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  • L'Italiana in Algeri Sinfonia: Study score by Rossini, Gioachino
    Gioachino Rossini

    L'Italiana in Algeri Sinfonia: Study score

    First heard with the premiere of the opera on May 22, 1813 in Venice at the Teatro San Benedetto, Rossini's overture grew in popularity as rapidly as the opera - a staple of the repertoire since the beginning. As with the other overtures, this...
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  • Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66 / B.131: Study score by Dvorak, Antonin
    Antonin Dvorak

    Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66 / B.131: Study score

    The Scherzo capriccioso was composed in the same period (1883-84) as the Symphony No.7, Op.70 and the Piano Trio in F minor, Op.65, in which Dvorak delved into dramatic and darker colors than those which characterize other works. The present work followed on the...
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  • La belle Hélène Overture: Study score by Offenbach, Jacques
    Jacques Offenbach

    La belle H駘鈩e Overture: Study score

    As with its famous companion, this overture is often not credited to the person who actually composed it, the conductor Edmund Haensch (d.1929). It was likely produced for a Berlin production of the 1864 Offenbach operetta and incorporates a many of the better-known melodies....
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  • Oberon Overture, J.306: Study score by Weber, Carl Maria Von
    Carl Maria Von Weber

    Oberon Overture, J.306: Study score

    Weber's final and only opera in English was a rousing success at its London premiere, with performances following throughout Europe and in America. The composer was dissatisfied with the structure of the the work after its first hearing and planed to revise the opera...
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  • Mock Morris, RMTB 1: Study Score by Grainger, Percy Aldridge
    Percy Aldridge Grainger

    Mock Morris, RMTB 1: Study Score

    While renowned for his imaginative folk-music settings, Grainger also composed a larger number of original works in a folk-music style. Mock Morris, in the style of an Engiish morris dance, was one of the first of these to be published. As with many of...
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  • The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op.109 / B.197: Study score by Dvorak, Antonin
    Antonin Dvorak

    The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op.109 / B.197: Study score

    The composer worked on this symphonic poem from January to April of 1896. The title refers to a Czech folk ballad in which a king falls in love with Domicka while riding and requests his step-mother to bring the young woman back to his...
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  • Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68: Study score by Bartok, Bela
    Bela Bartok

    Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68: Study score

    Bartok originally set this series of folk tunes for piano in 1915. Two years later, he scored them for small orchestra. This is a newly engraved and corrected edition of the deservedly popular orchestral showpiece, available for the first time at a reasonable price...
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  • Brahms's a German Requiem: Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts by Lott, R. Allen
    R. Allen Lott

    Brahms's a German Requiem: Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts

    Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that, contrary to recent consensus, it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life. Despite its entirely biblical text, Brahms's long-beloved A German Requiem is now widely considered a...
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  • The Twelve-Tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola by Alegant, Brian
    Brian Alegant

    The Twelve-Tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

    Reveals the great twentieth-century Italian composer's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting. Luigi Dallapiccola was one of twentieth century's most accomplished and admired composers. His music incorporated many of the twelve-tone techniques developed by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton von Webern,...
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  • Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music by Frazier, James E.
    James E. Frazier

    Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music

    A new, deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem. Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer...
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov's Harmonic Theory: Practical Manual of Harmony, Its Sources, History, and Traditions by Jackson, Larisa P.
    Larisa P. Jackson

    Rimsky-Korsakov's Harmonic Theory: Practical Manual of Harmony, Its Sources, History, and Traditions

    Rimsky-Korsakov's Harmonic Theory is the first comprehensive study of his concept of harmony that also traces the history of tonal relationships. Larisa P. Jackson describes and examines Rimsky-Korsakov's distinctive harmonic theory using his Practical Manual of Harmony as a basis, and places it in...
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