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ISBN: 9780195342987 - Honoring God and the City Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807 Honoring God and the City Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807
JONATHAN, GLIXON

ISBN10: 9780195350609  ISBN13: 9780195350609
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, the book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid... More

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ISBN: 9780195135374 - Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650
L, KENDRICK ROBERT

ISBN10: 9780195350562  ISBN13: 9780195350562
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In this follow-up to his 1996 monograph Celestial Sirens, Robert Kendrick examines the cultural contexts of music in early-modern Milan. He book describes the churches and palaces that served as performance spaces in Milan, analyses the... More

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ISBN: 9780521582841 - Polish Music since Szymanowski Polish Music since Szymanowski
Thomas, Adrian

ISBN10: 9780511074028  ISBN13: 9780511074028
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book looks at Polish music since 1937 and its interaction with political and cultural turmoil. In Part I musical developments are placed in the context of the socio-political upheavals of inter-war Poland, Nazi occupation, and the rise and... More

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ISBN: 9780199734603 - Performing Pain Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe Performing Pain Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe
Cizmic, Maria

ISBN10: 9780199909445  ISBN13: 9780199909445
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Performing Pain considers how musical works by late 20th-century avant-garde composers engage with Cold War memory and suffering in 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary range of sources, Maria Cizmic explores how people... More

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ISBN: 9780415394468 - Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre
Perron, Lalita du

ISBN10: 9780203968062  ISBN13: 9780203968062
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. More

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ISBN: 9780195336665 - Enlightenment Orpheus The Power of Music in Other Worlds Enlightenment Orpheus The Power of Music in Other Worlds
VANESSA, AGNEW

ISBN10: 9780198044352  ISBN13: 9780198044352
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy... More

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ISBN: 9780195341935 - Such Freedom, If Only Musical Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw Such Freedom, If Only Musical Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw
J, SCHMELZ PETER

ISBN10: 9780199711949  ISBN13: 9780199711949
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195342987 - Honoring God and the City Honoring God and the City
Glixon, Jonathan

ISBN10: 9780199711383  ISBN13: 9780199711383
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780199782420 - Vanishing Sensibilities Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann Vanishing Sensibilities Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann
Muxfeldt, Kristina

ISBN10: 9780199782642  ISBN13: 9780199782642
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Vanishing Sensibilities examines music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and their contemporaries in drama and poetry, showing how music was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, consent in marriage... More

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ISBN: 9780195365856 - Interpreting the Musical Past Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France Interpreting the Musical Past Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France
KATHARINE, ELLIS

ISBN10: 9780195346503  ISBN13: 9780195346503
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing in-depth studies of repertories... More