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  • Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Kassabian, Anahid
    Anahid Kassabian

    Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity

    How does the constant presence of music in modern life--on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television--affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such...
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  • Psychology of Music by Seashore, Carl E.
    Carl E. Seashore

    Psychology of Music

    Between the physical world of vibration and the world of consciously heard music lies a third area, which is the province of the psychology of music. This introduction, first published in 1938, by the developer of the Seashore test of musical ability, is a...
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  • Nicolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music: Early Writings by Yourke, Electra
    Nicolas Slonimsky

    Nicolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music: Early Writings

    Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached music; conducted the premieres of several 20th century masterpieces; composed works for piano and voice; and oversaw the...
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  • On Music by Gracyk, Theodore
    Theodore Gracyk

    On Music

    Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as...
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  • Harmony in Western Music by Goldman, Richard Franko
    Richard Franko Goldman

    Harmony in Western Music

    Author: Richard Franko GoldmanISBN-10: 0393332551ISBN-13: 9780393332551Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1965Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
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  • New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life by Beckerman, Michael B.
    Michael B. Beckerman

    New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life

    Focusing on Dvorák's eventful stay in the United States from 1892 to 1895, this book explores the world behind the public legend, offering fresh insights into the composer's music. We see the traditional image--that of a simple Czech fellow with a flair for composing...
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  • The Metropolitan Opera: Stories of the Great Operas by Freeman, John
    John Freeman

    The Metropolitan Opera: Stories of the Great Operas

    The opera-goer's indispensable guide. About to see Rossini's William Tell, Verdi's I Lombardi, Gluck's Alceste, Philzner's Palestrina, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream? The stories of these operas and 120 others are told, clearly and concisely, in this companion volume to the highly successful Metropolitan...
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  • Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning by Clarke, Eric
    Eric Clarke

    Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning

    In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores...
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  • Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide by Whitehead, Kevin
    Kevin Whitehead

    Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide

    What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering...
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  • Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work by Stock, Kathleen
    Kathleen Stock

    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work

    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Music is an increasingly popular object of reflection for professional philosophers, as it raises special questions...
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  • Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception by Grimshaw, Mark
    Mark Grimshaw

    Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception

    In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound as a sound wave, the book builds a case for...
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  • The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition by Bradley, Ian
    Ian Bradley

    The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition

    Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely as "easily...
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  • Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing by McFerran, Katrina
    Katrina McFerran

    Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing

    Many young people rely on music to guide them through the good and bad times of their lives. Whether immersing themselves in music to process emotions or creating music as a means of self-expression, it provides a powerful outlet that can help young people...
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  • Introduction to a Philosophy of Music by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    Introduction to a Philosophy of Music

    Philosophy of music has flourished in the last thirty years, with great advances made in the understanding of the nature of music and its aesthetics. Peter Kivy has been at the center of this flourishing, and now offers his personal introduction to philosophy of...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by Lewis, George E.
    George E. Lewis

    The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies...
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  • In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence by Walton, Kendall L.
    Kendall L. Walton

    In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

    In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them,...
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  • Hearing Bach's Passions by Melamed, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Melamed

    Hearing Bach's Passions

    Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which...
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  • Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training Before Balanchine by Zeller, Jessica
    Jessica Zeller

    Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training Before Balanchine

    In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American...
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  • Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings by Hammel, Alice M.
    Alice M. Hammel

    Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings

    Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings is a collaborative effort written by practicing music educators, teacher educators, pedagogy experts, researchers, and inclusion enthusiasts with a combined one hundred plus years in the field of music education. The...
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  • Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference by Ferrara, Lawrence
    Lawrence Ferrara

    Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference

    A musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. Ferrara demonstrates that each method of musical analysis confines musical significance to a single level: formal methods explain musical syntax; phenemonological methods describe the sound-in-time;...
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  • Texas Music by Koster, Rick
    Rick Koster

    Texas Music

    The Definitive History of Texas Music From the 1920s to the Present Texas is the land of Buddy Holly and Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, and Ornette Coleman. It's where Stevie Ray Vaughn wailed his blues, and where Kirk Franklin praised the Lord. Texas Music...
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  • The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience by Manning, Sean
    Sean Manning

    The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience

    In The Show I'll Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers' lives at the...
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  • What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Stephenson, Ken
    Ken Stephenson

    What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis

    In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the...
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  • The Stratification of Musical Rhythm by Yeston, Maury
    Maury Yeston

    The Stratification of Musical Rhythm

    There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through its graphic notation, or in terms of metrical feet, as if it were poetry. Maury Yeston treats rhythm instead in the context of...
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  • Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy by Hermand, Jost
    Jost Hermand

    Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy

    The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy--echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"--resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This...
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  • Why Music Moves Us by Bicknell, J.
    J. Bicknell

    Why Music Moves Us

    Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who...
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  • Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology by Meyer, Leonard B.
    Leonard B. Meyer

    Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology

    Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and...
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  • Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Music by Pen, Ronald
    Ronald Pen

    Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Music

    Presents a comprehensive review of the material covered in Introduction to Music courses in colleges and universities. In keeping with the courses' content, this review book covers the elements of music and provides a historical survey of music.Author: Ronald Pen, Pen RonaldISBN-10: 0070380686ISBN-13: 9780070380684Publisher:...
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  • From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It by Zatorre, Robert J.
    Robert Zatorre

    From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It

    Why do we love music? What enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it? In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre provides answers to these questions from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to...
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  • Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion by Ashby, Arved
    Arved Ashby

    Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion

    Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span...
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  • Everyday Musical Life Among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan by Stock, Jonathan P. J.
    Jonathan P. J. Stock

    Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan

    Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by...
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  • Grand Opera Librettos: Rigoletto, Italian and English Text and Music of the Principal Airs by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand Opera Librettos: Rigoletto, Italian and English Text and Music of the Principal Airs

    This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 1497935008ISBN-13: 9781497935006Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d
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  • English, Scottish and Irish Violin Makers - A Selection of Classic Articles on the History of the Violin (Violin Series) by Fleming, James M.
    James M. Fleming

    English, Scottish and Irish Violin Makers - A Selection of Classic Articles on the History of the Violin (Violin Series)

    First published in 1890, this volume contains a detailed account of the history of the violin, exploring its fascinating history and evolution with reference to notable designers and makers from England, Ireland, and Scotland. This interesting volume was originally written for those who love...
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  • Experiencing Billy Joel: A Listener's Companion by MacFarlane, Thomas
    Thomas MacFarlane

    Experiencing Billy Joel: A Listener's Companion

    Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and writer Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical journey, from Joel's...
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  • Eros at the Piano: The Life-Energy of Classical Music by Westney, William
    William Westney

    Eros at the Piano: The Life-Energy of Classical Music

    Following the widespread popularity of The Perfect Wrong Note, William Westney takes a fresh and creative look at the human dimension of classical music-making and why it matters more than ever. Westney takes us on a remarkable journey, weaving together the philosophical concepts of...
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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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  • Great Operas: A Guide to 25 of the World's Finest Musical Experiences by Steen, Michael
    Michael Steen

    Great Operas: A Guide to 25 of the World's Finest Musical Experiences

    Michael Steen provides a compendium of self-standing short guides to twenty-five of the world's greatest and most popular operas.Michael Steen studied at the Royal College of Music, was organ scholar at Oxford, and is currently Royal College of Music Society chairman.Author: Michael SteenISBN-10: 1848316119ISBN-13:...
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  • Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music by Rosen, Charles
    Charles Rosen

    Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music

    What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may...
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  • Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music by Kaschub, Michele
    Michele Kaschub

    Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music

    Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music is designed to help teachers and students create original music through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote the development of the...
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  • Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music by Kaschub, Michele
    Michele Kaschub

    Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music

    Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music is designed to help teachers and students create original music through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote the development of the...
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  • Endongo: Its Role, Meaning and Significance in Culture by Makubuya, James K.
    James K. Makubuya

    Endongo: Its Role, Meaning and Significance in Culture

    The theme of this book is the "Significance of Folk Musical Instruments." I was prompted to write this book because, from an early age, I was fascinated not only by the visible appearances of folk instruments, but also by the entertainment roles I saw...
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  • Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion by Stephans, Michael
    Michael Stephans

    Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion

    In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience...
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  • Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener's Companion by Block, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Block

    Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener's Companion

    The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block...
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  • Esoteric Music by Heline, Corinne
    Corinne Heline

    Esoteric Music

    Esoteric Music is a book written by Corinne Heline that explores the spiritual and mystical aspects of music. The author delves into the hidden meanings and symbolism behind different types of music, including classical, folk, and religious music. Heline also discusses the role of...
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  • Florian Mayr, Der Kraft-Mayr: A Humorous Tale Of Musical Life (1914) by Wolzogen, Ernst Von
    Ernst Von Wolzogen

    Florian Mayr, Der Kraft-Mayr: A Humorous Tale Of Musical Life (1914)

    ""Florian Mayr, Der Kraft-Mayr: A Humorous Tale Of Musical Life"" is a book written by Ernst Von Wolzogen and published in 1914. The story follows the life of a fictional character named Florian Mayr, who is a musician and composer. The book is a...
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  • Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - In Altered Tuning: 4ths by Pappas, Tony
    Tony Pappas

    Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - In Altered Tuning: 4ths

    Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...
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  • Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - In Altered Tuning: 4ths by Pappas, Tony
    Tony Pappas

    Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - In Altered Tuning: 4ths

    Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...
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  • Experiencing the Violin Concerto: A Listener's Companion by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Experiencing the Violin Concerto: A Listener's Companion

    Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and the blended sonority of an orchestra's many instruments. Using this genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the violin concerto as a key genre of...
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  • Experiencing Jazz by Stephans, Michael
    Michael Stephans

    Experiencing Jazz

    In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience...
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  • Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - Volume 1 by Pappas, Tony
    Tony Pappas

    Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar - Volume 1

    Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...
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