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  • Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Lau, Frederick
    Frederick Lau

    Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Cultureincludes CD [With CD (Audio)]

    Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around...
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  • The Symphony: A Listener's Guide by Steinberg, Michael
    Michael Steinberg

    The Symphony: A Listener's Guide

    Enriched by biographical detail, historical background, musical examples, and many finely nuanced observations, this volume is a treasury of insight and information. Readers will find illuminating discussion of the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Sibelius, and Mahler, as well as of the most...
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  • Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery: In-depth by Shenton, Laura
    Laura Shenton

    Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery: In-depth

    For Jethro Tull, 1975 would prove to be a fascinating year. With Aqualung and Thick As A Brick behind them, and with A Passion Play and War Child having been met with a mixed critical reception, their next album, Minstrel In The Gallery is...
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  • Scala: A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music to Take You Through the Day by Scala Radio
    Scala Radio

    Scala: A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music to Take You Through the Day

    A listener's guide to classical music to take you through the day, from getting up and getting dressed, to running, reading, walking the dog, cooking and eating, taking a bath, going to sleep and everything in between From the world's most romantic music and...
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  • Why Music Matters by Hesmondhalgh, David
    David Hesmondhalgh

    Why Music Matters

    Listen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q9q2n/Thinking_Allowed_Why_Music_Matters_Bhangra_and_Belonging/ In what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so?...
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  • West Side Story: Piano Play-Along Volume 130 by Sondheim, Stephen
    Stephen Sondheim

    West Side Story: Piano Play-Along Volume 130

    (Piano Play-Along). Your favorite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series With these book/audio collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing cream-of-the-crop songs, the books feature new engravings, with a...
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  • Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush by Price, Carol Selby
    Carol Selby Price

    Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush

    Author: Carol Selby PriceISBN-10: 1587151022ISBN-13: 9781587151026Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.40d
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  • Start-Up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1966-1976 by Jackson, Paul
    Paul Jackson

    Start-Up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1966-1976

    START-UP AT THE NEW MET: THE METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCASTS 1966-1976Author: Paul JacksonISBN-10: 1574671472ISBN-13: 9781574671476Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 658Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.01lbsSize: 10.48h x 7.60w x 1.36dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 245
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  • Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine by Wong, Lisa
    Lisa Wong

    Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine

    The incredible story of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra that reveals the remarkable interplay between music and medicine.You may have read about the Longwood Symphony orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite radio station. But the LSO is not just any...
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  • The Beach Boys All The Songs by Swan, Rick
    Rick Swan

    The Beach Boys All The Songs

    The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debut Surfin' Safari through to 2012's That's Why God Made the Radio -- the first record Brian Wilson...
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  • Winter Shades of Sound: A Listening & Coloring Book for Pianists by Boster, Jennifer
    Jennifer Boster

    Winter Shades of Sound: A Listening & Coloring Book for Pianists

    The Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Books series is a music appreciation curriculum for piano students of all levels. Combining music history, listening and coloring, this curriculum is a fun and relaxing way for pianists of all ages to learn about music history...
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  • Sing It, Dance It, Play It, Learn It!: Songs for the Elementary Classroom, Piano Accompaniments for Vol. 1 by Landolfi, Lea
    Lea Landolfi

    Sing It, Dance It, Play It, Learn It!: Songs for the Elementary Classroom, Piano Accompaniments for Vol. 1

    Sing It, Dance It, Play It, Learn It Piano Accompaniments for Vol. 1 contains playable piano accompaniments designed to be used with the Teacher's Manual and lessons to explore basic music skills. Lyrics promote positive concepts while presenting skills lessons. The songs are written...
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  • The Spirit of This Place: How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit by Summers, Patrick
    Patrick Summers

    The Spirit of This Place: How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

    Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the...
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  • Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form by Yust, Jason
    Jason Yust

    Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form

    Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason...
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  • Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives by Stevens, Blake
    Blake Stevens

    Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives

    Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives offers innovative and practical techniques for teaching electronic music in a wide range of classroom settings. Across a dozen essays, an array of contributors-including practitioners in musicology, art history, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance, and composition-reflect on...
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  • Manuscript Book Medium Staves: Great Music Writing Notebook Medium Staff, Blank Sheet Music Notebook! by Helj, Mirela
    Mirela Helj

    Manuscript Book Medium Staves: Great Music Writing Notebook Medium Staff, Blank Sheet Music Notebook!

    Unleash your Creativity and develop your Musical capacity!♥Our Music manuscript is a very useful tool to learn writing music, or compose and keep track of your music. ����The Perfect Gift for you and your loved ones!����Our Coloring Book features: Medium Staves 120 Pages Our...
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  • Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food by Dekaney, Elisa Macedo
    Elisa Macedo Dekaney

    Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food

    Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core. Through a holistic understanding of the Brazilian experience - exploring issues...
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  • The Russian Violin School: The Legacy of Yuri Yankelevich by Lankovsky, Masha
    Masha Lankovsky

    The Russian Violin School: The Legacy of Yuri Yankelevich

    The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan....
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  • The Aesthetics of Music by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    The Aesthetics of Music

    What is music, what is its value, and what does it mean? In this stimulating volume, Roger Scruton offers a comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy. The study begins with the metaphysics of sound. Scruton...
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  • The Musician's Guide to Acoustics by Campbell, Murray
    Murray Campbell

    The Musician's Guide to Acoustics

    Author: Murray Campbell, Clive GreatedISBN-10: 0198165056ISBN-13: 9780198165057Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/1994Pages: 624Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.24lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.34w x 1.72d
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  • This Too Is Music by Upitis, Rena
    Rena Upitis

    This Too Is Music

    This Too is Music guides and motivates teachers to foster playful and motivating classroom conditions that enable elementary students to thrive as musicians in every way-as singers, improvisers, critical listeners, storytellers, dancers, performers, and composers. Told through anecdotes and illustrated with musical examples, the...
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  • Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age by Marcus, Gary
    Gary Marcus

    Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

    Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age...
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  • Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention by Grabriel, Yiannis
    Yiannis Grabriel

    Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention

    Music tells stories. Musical stories entertain and stimulate in moments of boredom, they offer solace in times of despair, they create solidarity in times of loneliness, they liberate the imagination and open up visions of a better future. Musical stories also become parts of...
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  • Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies, Ripped-off Riffs, and the Secret History of Rock and Roll by English, Tim
    Tim English

    Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies, Ripped-off Riffs, and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

    Sounds Like Teen Spirit provides hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have "borrowed" their melodies from earlier songs. Readers wil discover the music that influnced the songs of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and many more....
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  • Jazz by Deveaux, Scott
    Scott Deveaux

    Jazz

    This streamlined second edition exposes students to the expressive power of jazz and brings its greatest players to life. With an emphasis on engagement with the music, this new text gives students all the guidance and inspiration they need to fully understand jazz. Now...
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  • Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910) by O'Neill, Francis
    Francis O'Neill

    Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910)

    ""Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby"" is a book written by Francis O'Neill and first published in 1910. The book delves into the rich cultural heritage of Ireland and its traditional music. O'Neill, who was a police officer in Chicago, was a passionate collector...
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  • Viola Online String Sampler Viola Sheet Music by Deverich, Robin Kay
    Robin Kay Deverich

    Viola Online String Sampler Viola Sheet Music

    Viola Online String Sampler Viola Sheet Music is a fun and easy way to actively learn, study and play beautiful viola music from a wide variety of styles and eras. 54 pieces are featured, representing music history periods, styles and cultures, including Medieval, Renaissance,...
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  • Modernity's Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music by Kheshti, Roshanak
    Roshanak Kheshti

    Modernity's Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

    Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were...
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  • The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music by Smook, Gary a.
    Gary a. Smook

    The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music

    His fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world's greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we...
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  • You Are the Music: How Music Reveals What It Means to Be Human by Williamson, Victoria
    Victoria Williamson

    You Are the Music: How Music Reveals What It Means to Be Human

    You are the music / While the music lasts.--T.S. Eliot, The Four QuartetsIn this brilliant new exploration of the place of music in all our lives, music psychologist Victoria Williamson examines the many ways in which music affects us, from our first in utero...
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  • How To Memorize Music: Your Step By Step Guide To Memorizing Music by Howexpert
    Howexpert

    How To Memorize Music: Your Step By Step Guide To Memorizing Music

    In How to Memorize Music, HowExpert provides an easy to follow guide that will help you learn to memorize music. The guide begins the memorization process by advising you to build a solid foundation with the piece of music you want to memorize. When...
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  • The Essential Guitar Fretboard Guide: 3 Easy Steps To Quickly Unlocking The Notes On Your Fretboard by Laughton, Sean
    Sean Laughton

    The Essential Guitar Fretboard Guide: 3 Easy Steps To Quickly Unlocking The Notes On Your Fretboard

    Want to be able to name any note on your fretboard instantly? Discover the simple yet powerful 3 step process to lightning-fast note recognition, and join the ranks of informed guitar players today.Do you ever wonder how more advanced guitar players can easily tell...
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  • Toward Freedom in Singing by Winter, Dina Soresi
    Dina Soresi Winter

    Toward Freedom in Singing

    Singing is a noble art. Nowadays, we are often reminded that it can hold the mirror up to nature. Many songs reflect the psychological pain and dissonance of our age, and many voices are trapped by materialism. However, singing can also express a special...
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  • Gregorian Music: An Outline Of Musical Paleography (1897) by Abbey, Stanbrook
    Stanbrook Abbey

    Gregorian Music: An Outline Of Musical Paleography (1897)

    ""Gregorian Music: An Outline of Musical Paleography"" is a book written by Abbey and Stanbrook in 1897. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Gregorian music, which is a type of sacred music that originated in the Roman Catholic Church. The authors delve into...
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  • Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Mandel, Howard
    Howard Mandel

    Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz

    Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles,...
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  • Listening to Rap: An Introduction by Berry, Michael
    Michael Berry

    Listening to Rap: An Introduction

    Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical...
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  • The Cambridge History of Music Criticism by Dingle, Christopher
    Christopher Dingle

    The Cambridge History of Music Criticism

    Music criticism has played a fundamental and influential role throughout music history, with numerous composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, and Wagner, as well as many contemporary musicians, also maintaining careers as writers and critics. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism goes beyond these better-known...
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  • Violin Online String Sampler: Violin Sheet Music by Deverich, Robin Kay
    Robin Kay Deverich

    Violin Online String Sampler: Violin Sheet Music

    Violin Online String Sampler: Violin Sheet Music is a fun and easy way to actively learn, study and play beautiful violin music from a wide variety of styles and eras. 54 pieces are featured, representing music history periods, styles and cultures, including Medieval, Renaissance,...
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  • XX: Lyrics and Photographs of the Cowboy Junkies, with Watercolors by Enrique Martínez Celaya by Cowboy Junkies
    Cowboy Junkies

    XX: Lyrics and Photographs of the Cowboy Junkies, with Watercolors by Enrique Mart?ez Celaya

    Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press For the Cowboy Junkies it all begins with a song: an acoustic guitar and a voice. But each song comes to each album with its own history, along its own strange path....
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  • Kim Jong Il On The Art of Opera: Talk to Creative Workers in the Field of Art and Literature September 4-6, 1974 by Il, Kim Jong
    Kim Jong Il

    Kim Jong Il On The Art of Opera: Talk to Creative Workers in the Field of Art and Literature September 4-6, 1974

    Author: Kim Jong IlISBN-10: 0898752035ISBN-13: 9780898752038Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.00w x 0.47d
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  • Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity by Siddall, Gillian
    Gillian Siddall

    Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity

    The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered,...
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  • Music and the Ineffable by Jankélévitch, Vladimir
    Vladimir Jankélévitch

    Music and the Ineffable

    The classic work on the philosophy of music--now available in English to a new generation of readers Vladimir Jankélévitch left behind a remarkable œbody of work steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to...
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  • Music for Life: 100 Classical Works to Carry You Through by Maddocks, Fiona
    Fiona Maddocks

    Music for Life: 100 Classical Works to Carry You Through

    "Fiona Maddocks's descriptions are dangerously moreish...a timely reminder of the importance of music." -- BBC Music How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort, or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works...
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  • The Songs Of Robert Burns With Music by Burns, Robert
    Robert Burns

    The Songs Of Robert Burns With Music

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

    Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of some thirty years and focuses on a richly diverse set of issues: the biological origins of...
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  • Opera's Second Death by Zizek, Slavoj
    Slavoj Zizek

    Opera's Second Death

    Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well...
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  • Jazz: Essential Listening by Deveaux, Scott
    Scott Deveaux

    Jazz: Essential Listening

    Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history, must-hear masterworks, and a superior media package to...
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  • Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music by Kavanaugh, Patrick
    Patrick Kavanaugh

    Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music

    Patrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a...
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  • Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound by Rothenberg, David
    David Rothenberg

    Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound

    A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions, --from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened...
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  • The Idea of Absolute Music by Dahlhaus, Carl
    Carl Dahlhaus

    The Idea of Absolute Music

    With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which Romantic music found its place, a framework that to a remarkable degree has...
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