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Flower Of The Vine: Romantic Ballads And Sospiri Di Roma is a book of poetry written by William Sharp and published in 1892. The book contains a collection of romantic ballads and poems inspired by the author's travels to Rome. The poems are written in a...

Famous Musical Composers: Being Biographies Of Eminent Musicians is a book written by Lydia T. Morris and published in 1891. The book provides biographies of some of the most renowned musical composers of the time. It is a comprehensive collection of the...

Familiar Talks On Music is a book written by Mary Kimball Kutchin and published in 1916. The book is a collection of essays and discussions on various aspects of music, aimed at a general audience. Kutchin covers a wide range of topics, from the history...

This book explores five of Hopper's films to show how this deep engagement with music to build character and setting continued throughout his career, as Hopper used folk, punk, hip-hop, and jazz to shape the worlds of his films in ways that influenced...

Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are...

This volume brings together the work of social scientists and music scholars examining the role of migrant and migrant descended communities in the production and consumption of popular music in Europe and North America. The contributions to the...

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) through an exploration of the presence of music and sound in his films.The first comprehensive...

The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the 'mature' sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure...

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera's performance, and to...

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on music's worldbuilding roles within the film-watching experience and elsewhere in videogames, trailers,...

The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful...

Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why...

In 1939, a new record from a shadowy storefront on Detroit's east side starts showing up in juke boxes all over town. It quickly becomes a smash hit, sending men scrambling to cash in, by creating Detroit's first home-grown record company! Here's the...

Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer...

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural...

Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly...

La Lire Ma�����onne: Ou Recueil De Chansons Des Francs-Ma�����ons (1766) est un livre �����crit par Charles Emmanuel De Vignoles. Il s'agit d'un recueil de chansons des francs-ma�����ons, publi����� pour la premi�����re fois en 1766. Le livre contient...

Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the...

Rock and roll music evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, as a combination of African American blues, country, pop, and gospel music produced a new musical genre. Even as it captured the ears of the nation, rock and roll was...

The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music? With more than 1,500 songs in over 50 languages and a wide range of musical styles since it began in 1956, Eurovision features...

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964-1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical- literary works of what has become...

Opera, cum edita, tum inedita V2: accurante Regia Historiae Academia (1780) est volumen librorum auctore Joanne Genesio Sepulveda, qui continet opera eius cum editis tum ineditis. Volumen est curatum a Regia Historiae Academia, quae accuratissime libros...

""Opera Oratoria V1: Panegyrici Orationes Alloquia Programmata Inscriptiones Alia"" est liber auctore Schoepflin, Johann Daniel, editus anno 1769. In hoc libro continetur collectio orationum oratoriarum, panegyricorum, alloquiorum, programmatum,...

""Opera Omnia Quotquot Exstant"" est liber Horatii, poetae Romani, qui omnes eius poesis carmina continet. Hic liber est emendatissime nunc denuo editus ab Christiano Juncker, qui notis intellectu facillimis instructus est. In hoc libro, legentes...

""Opera Omnia In Compendium Redacta"" est liber auctore Ettmuller, Michael, editus anno MDCCII. Hoc opus est compendium omnium operum auctoris, quae in singulis voluminibus collecta sunt. In hoc libro, lectores inveniunt omnes doctrinas medicinales,...

Johann Sebastian Bach V3: His Work And Influence On The Music Of Germany, 1685-1750 is a book written by Philipp Spitta in 1899. This is the third volume of a comprehensive biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, a German composer and musician of the Baroque...

Jacobite Songs And Ballads, Selected: With Notes, Genealogical Table Of The Stuarts, Introduction, Glossary, Etc. (1888) is a book compiled by Gilbert Samuel Macquoid. The book is a collection of songs and ballads that were popular among the Jacobites,...

""De Diva Virgine Cellensi"" est opus Thomae Weiss, scriptum anno MDCXXXVII. Hoc libro narratur de vita et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis, quae colitur in Cellis, loco sacro in Germania. In hoc libro, auctor describit historiam loci, et deinde se...

War Songs of Britain is a collection of poems and songs that were popular during the wars that Britain fought in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Compiled by Harold Edgeworth Butler and first published in 1903, this book contains stirring and patriotic...

David Irvine's book, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: And the Conditions of Ideal Manhood, was first published in 1897. The book is a critical analysis of Richard Wagner's famous Ring Cycle, which consists of four operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walk�����re,...

Vocal Physiology: A Practical Treatise is a book written by Charles Alexander Guilmette and originally published in 1877. The book is a comprehensive guide to the physical and physiological aspects of the human voice, with a focus on the practical...

""Veldt, The Lion Hunter: A Comic Opera Whirl"" is a book written by James M. Reilly and published in 1910. The story follows the adventures of Veldt, a skilled lion hunter, as he travels through Africa in search of big game. Along the way, he encounters...

Two Hundred Opera Plots V2 is a book written by Gladys Davidson, first published in 1911. The book is a collection of 200 different opera plots, each summarized in a concise and engaging manner. The plots cover a wide range of genres and styles, from...

Twenty Piano Compositions: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a book that contains a collection of twenty piano pieces composed by the legendary musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The book was first published in 1906 and has since become a popular choice for...

The Spindle-Side of Scottish Song is a book written by Jessie Patrick Findlay in 1902. The book is a collection of Scottish folk songs that were traditionally sung by women while doing daily tasks such as spinning yarn or weaving cloth. Findlay was an...

The Sabbath-School Hymnal is a comprehensive collection of songs, services, and responsive readings compiled by Isaac S. Moses in 1904. This hymnal is designed for use in the Sabbath school, synagogue, and home, and includes a wide range of religious...

""The Organ And Its Position In Musical Art"" is a comprehensive book written by Henry Heathcote Statham in 1910. It is intended for both professional musicians and amateurs who are interested in learning about the organ and its role in music. The book...

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...

The Fourth Book of Vocal Music is a music textbook written by Eleanor Smith and published in 1905. It is intended for use in high schools, academies, normal schools, and other institutions of similar grade. The book contains a variety of vocal exercises...

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...

The Baptist Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1885) is a book compiled by William Rawson Stevenson. As the title suggests, the book is a collection of hymns and spiritual songs that were popular among the Baptist community during the...

Tales From The Opera is a book written by George Frederick Pardon and was first published in 1865. The book is a collection of stories that are based on famous operas from around the world. The author has taken the plots of the operas and retold them in...

Songs Of The Present is a collection of poems written by Archer Gurney and published in 1856. The book contains a total of 50 poems, each of which reflects on the author's observations of the world around him during the mid-19th century. The poems cover...

Songs of the Heights and Deeps is a collection of poetry written by Roden Berkeley W. Noel and originally published in 1885. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which contains poems inspired by the beauty and majesty of nature,...

Songs Of Land And Sea is a collection of poems written by Frederick Enoch and first published in 1877. The book is divided into two sections, with the first section containing poems about the land and the second section containing poems about the sea...

Songs of Harvard is a collection of songs and music that were popular among the students of Harvard University in the early 20th century. Compiled by Lloyd Adams Noble, a graduate of the university, this book includes the lyrics and sheet music for over...