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Dinner with Lenny
Jonathan Cott

ISBN10: 0199858446 ISBN13: 9780199858446
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a... More

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Making Samba
Marc A Hertzman

ISBN10: 0822354306 ISBN13: 9780822354307
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture. In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named... More

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ISBN: 9781905959983 - Dark Side of the Moon Revealed

Dark Side of the Moon Revealed
Brian Southall

ISBN10: 1905959982 ISBN13: 9781905959983
Publisher: Ovolo Books Limited Clarksdale
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Not only the biggest-selling album of its time but one that had an effect on everything that came after. Timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the album's release, this book looks at the making of one of the biggest albums of all time... More

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ISBN: 9780226030920 - The Rhythm of Thought

The Rhythm of Thought
Jessica Wiskus

ISBN10: 022603092X ISBN13: 9780226030920
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Holding the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, the paintings of Paul Cezanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological light, the author offers interpretations of some of these artists'... More

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ISBN: 9780826416643 - Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
Simon Warner

ISBN10: 0826416640 ISBN13: 9780826416643
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
DY01010001 Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant... More

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Bug Music
David Rothenberg

ISBN10: 1250005213 ISBN13: 9781250005212
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 May 2013
In the spring of 2013 the cicadas will return on their seventeen year cycle - the longest gestation period of any animal. Their deafening sound upon their arrival is familiar to most Americans. Cicadas are famous throughout the world for the "song". More

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ISBN: 9781908699435 - The Wagner Experience

The Wagner Experience
Paul Dawson-Bowling

ISBN10: 1908699434 ISBN13: 9781908699435
Publisher: Old Street Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 May 2013

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Sweet Air
Edward P Comentale

ISBN10: 0252078926 ISBN13: 9780252078927
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 May 2013
Rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country, folk... More

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Wagner's Melodies
David Trippett

ISBN10: 1107014301 ISBN13: 9781107014305
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age. Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental ... More

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ISBN: 9781937330217 - The Vision of Music in St. Hildegard's Scivias

The Vision of Music in St. Hildegard's Scivias
Claire Fontijn

ISBN10: 1937330214 ISBN13: 9781937330217
Publisher: Music Word Media Group
Format: Multimedia Item
Publication date: 02 May 2013
A new scholarly edition of St. Hildegard of Bingen's Vision of Music - a performance prototype of her masterwork Ordo Virtutum. Includes a full vocal score and an audio CD. This book reassembles song texts and music from the final vision in St. More

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