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  • Britten Experienced Britten Experienced
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    Britten Experienced

    Britten Experienced is a response to two recent studies of the composer, and offers alternative critical readings of some of his major works. The author frames his proposals with episodes of musicological autobiography that attempt to illustrate how...
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  • Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon
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    Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon

    The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial...
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  • Art of Tonal Analysis Art of Tonal Analysis
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    Art of Tonal Analysis

    Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been...
    $84.00

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  • Adapting the Wizard of Oz Adapting the Wizard of Oz
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    Adapting the Wizard of Oz

    One of the most beloved film musicals of all time, The Wizard of Oz represents an enduring family favorite and cultural classic. Yet there is much more to the story than meets the eye, and the MGM movie is just one of many ways in which it has been...
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  • Sound of a Superpower Sound of a Superpower
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    Sound of a Superpower

    Classical composers seeking to create an American sound enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1930s and 1940s. Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Howard Hanson and others brought national and international attention to American composers for the first time in...
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  • The Violin Maker The Violin Maker
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    The Violin Maker

    "[A] magical, profound, and elegant look at the continued need for high quality in our throw away society." --Douglas Brinkley, HistorianThis intensely human story, which moves from an ageless workshop in Brooklyn to the rehearsal rooms of Carnegie Hall...
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  • Addicted To Noise: The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg
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    Addicted To Noise: The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg

    Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits to essays on how Jack Kerouac influenced Bob Dylan and...
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  • Fugue Analysis Fugue Analysis
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    Fugue Analysis

    The book also provides a plethora of examples and analytical samples, drawn from the celebrated fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. It walks students through different elements of fugal counterpoint and their mechanisms, offering a list of exercises and...
    $108.00

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  • Erreurs Sur La Musique Dans L'encyclopédie Erreurs Sur La Musique Dans L'encyclopédie
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    Erreurs Sur La Musique Dans L'encyclopédie

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...
    $38.00

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  • Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes
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    Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes

    Ian Maxwell s sophisticated story of Australia s hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney s Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of the white musicians to...
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  • Calling Me Home Calling Me Home
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    Calling Me Home

    Selected as one of the best books of the year by:Uprooted Music RevueEngine 145Uncut"Has a great narrative velocity. Even though we know how this story is going to end--tragically, of course--Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons...
    $39.00

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  • Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory
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    Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

    Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory,...
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  • A History of Baroque Music A History of Baroque Music
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    A History of Baroque Music

    A History of Baroque Music is an exhaustive study of the music of the Baroque period, with particular focus on the 17th century. Individual chapters consider the work of significant composers, including Monteverdi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell,...
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  • The Beatles' Shadow The Beatles' Shadow
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    The Beatles' Shadow

    The poignant memoir of forgotten Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and a remarkable chronicle of the early days of the world's most influential pop group.
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  • Early English Composers and the Credo Early English Composers and the Credo
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    Early English Composers and the Credo

    This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd.
    $105.00

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  • The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
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    The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

    Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention...
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  • Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916) Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916)
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    Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916)

    Hamish MacCunn's career unfolded amidst the restructuring of British musical culture and the rewriting of the Western European political landscape. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works, MacCunn further highlighted his...
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  • Music and the Language of Love Music and the Language of Love
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    Music and the Language of Love

    Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of...
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  • Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony
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    Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony

    Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the booming bass from a...
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  • Approaches to Meaning in Music Approaches to Meaning in Music
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    Approaches to Meaning in Music

    Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of...
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  • Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz
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    Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz

    Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings...
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  • Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia
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    Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia

    Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers...
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  • Pianoforte Music Pianoforte Music
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    Pianoforte Music

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...
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  • The Appreciation of Music The Appreciation of Music
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    The Appreciation of Music

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • De Cantus In Aeschyleis Tragoediis Distributione (1891) De Cantus In Aeschyleis Tragoediis Distributione (1891)
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    De Cantus In Aeschyleis Tragoediis Distributione (1891)

    De Cantus In Aeschyleis Tragoediis Distributione (1891) est opus Fernandi Maury, qui tractat de distributione cantuum in tragoediis Aeschyleis. Auctor agit de ratione et usu cantuum in fabulis Aeschyleis, quae exponuntur et examinantur in hoc opere...
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  • De Antigenida Thebano Musico (1856) De Antigenida Thebano Musico (1856)
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    De Antigenida Thebano Musico (1856)

    De Antigenida Thebano Musico est liber auctore Maximiliano Dinse editus anno MDCCCLVI. In hoc libro, auctor vitam et opus Antigenidae, Thebani musici, describit. Antigenides, qui floruit in saeculo quinto ante Christum, fuit musicus et poeta celeberrimus...
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  • De Alogis Theodotianis Atque Artemonitis (1829) De Alogis Theodotianis Atque Artemonitis (1829)
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    De Alogis Theodotianis Atque Artemonitis (1829)

    De Alogis Theodotianis Atque Artemonitis est liber a Friedrico Adolpho Heinichen anno MDCCCXXIX editus. In hoc libro, auctor disputationem habet de haeresi Theodotiani et Artemonis, qui in Ecclesia primitiva saeculo secundo floruerunt. Theodotianismus et...
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  • De Aelio Dionysio Mvsico Qvi Vocatvr (1886) De Aelio Dionysio Mvsico Qvi Vocatvr (1886)
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    De Aelio Dionysio Mvsico Qvi Vocatvr (1886)

    De Aelio Dionysio Musico Qui Vocatur est liber Caroli Scherer, qui anno MDCCCLXXXVI editus est. Hic liber de vita et opera Aelii Dionysii Musici, qui in saeculo III vixit, tractat. Aelius Dionysius Musicae peritus fuit et multa carmina scripsit, quae...
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  • Dasz Elfte Lied Vom Zorne Des Achilleus (1872) Dasz Elfte Lied Vom Zorne Des Achilleus (1872)
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    Dasz Elfte Lied Vom Zorne Des Achilleus (1872)

    Das elfte Lied vom Zorn des Achilleus ist ein Werk des deutschen Philologen Karl Lachmann, das erstmals 1872 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine kritische Ausgabe des elften Gesangs der Ilias von Homer, der den Zorn des griechischen...
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  • Dasz Hildebrandslied (1850) Dasz Hildebrandslied (1850)
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    Dasz Hildebrandslied (1850)

    Das Hildebrandslied ist ein althochdeutsches Epos aus dem 9. Jahrhundert, das in einer einzigen Handschrift �����berliefert ist. Es erz�����hlt die Geschichte von Hildebrand, einem Krieger, der gegen seinen eigenen Sohn Hadubrand in den Kampf ziehen muss...
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  • Dauer Und Klang Dauer Und Klang
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    Dauer Und Klang

    ""Dauer und Klang: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Vocalquantit�����t im Altfranz������sischen"" ist ein Buch von Bernhard Ten Brink, das 1879 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte der Vokalquantit�����t im...
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  • Das Wesen Der Senta In Richard Wagner's Dichtung Das Wesen Der Senta In Richard Wagner's Dichtung
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    Das Wesen Der Senta In Richard Wagner's Dichtung

    Das Buch ""Das Wesen der Senta in Richard Wagners Dichtung: Der Fliegende Holl�����nder"" von Edmund von Hagen aus dem Jahr 1880 besch�����ftigt sich mit der Figur der Senta in Wagners ber�����hmter Oper. Der Autor analysiert die psychologischen und...
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  • Das Wesen Der Melodie In Der Tonkunst (1899) Das Wesen Der Melodie In Der Tonkunst (1899)
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    Das Wesen Der Melodie In Der Tonkunst (1899)

    Das Buch ""Das Wesen der Melodie in der Tonkunst"" wurde im Jahr 1899 von Salomon Jadassohn ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine detaillierte Analyse der Bedeutung und Funktion von Melodien in der Musik. Jadassohn untersucht die verschiedenen...
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  • Das Verstandnis Im Klavierspiel (1886) Das Verstandnis Im Klavierspiel (1886)
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    Das Verstandnis Im Klavierspiel (1886)

    Das Verst�����ndnis im Klavierspiel (1886) von Adolph J. Christiani ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Technik und Kunst des Klavierspielens besch�����ftigt. Es ist in deutscher Sprache verfasst und enth�����lt detaillierte Anweisungen und �����bungen...
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  • Das Tonbewusstsein Das Tonbewusstsein
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    Das Tonbewusstsein

    Das Buch ""Das Tonbewusstsein: Die Lehre Vom Musikalischen Horen"" von Salomon Jadassohn wurde im Jahr 1899 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um ein Werk, das sich mit der Lehre des musikalischen H������rens besch�����ftigt. Der Autor beschreibt darin...
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  • Das Mathematisch-Reine Tonsystem (1891) Das Mathematisch-Reine Tonsystem (1891)
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    Das Mathematisch-Reine Tonsystem (1891)

    Das Buch ""Das Mathematisch-Reine Tonsystem"" von Carl Eitz aus dem Jahr 1891 besch�����ftigt sich mit der mathematischen Grundlage der Musik. Eitz beschreibt darin ein System zur Einteilung der Tonh������hen, das auf mathematischen Prinzipien basiert...
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  • Das Lied Vom Hurnen Seyfrid Das Lied Vom Hurnen Seyfrid
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    Das Lied Vom Hurnen Seyfrid

    Das Buch ""Das Lied Vom Hurnen Seyfrid: Nach Der Druckredaction Des 16 Jahrhunderts (1889)"" von Wolfgang Golther ist eine kritische Ausgabe des mittelalterlichen Epos ""Das Lied Vom Hurnen Seyfrid"". Die Druckredaktion aus dem 16. Jahrhundert wird...
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  • Das Lied Der Nibelungen (1833) Das Lied Der Nibelungen (1833)
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    Das Lied Der Nibelungen (1833)

    Das Buch ""Das Lied der Nibelungen"" von Joseph von Hinsberg wurde im Jahr 1833 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine epische Erz�����hlung, die auf einer alten deutschen Sage basiert und in Versform geschrieben ist. Die Geschichte handelt von den...
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  • Das Liebesmahl Der Apostel Das Liebesmahl Der Apostel
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    Das Liebesmahl Der Apostel

    Das Buch ""Das Liebesmahl Der Apostel: The Feast Of Pentecost, La Cene Des Apotres (1892)"" von Richard Wagner ist eine musikalische Komposition, die erstmals im Jahr 1892 uraufgef�����hrt wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Kantate, die den christlichen...
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  • Das Italienische Volk Im Spiegel Seiner Volkslieder (1879) Das Italienische Volk Im Spiegel Seiner Volkslieder (1879)
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    Das Italienische Volk Im Spiegel Seiner Volkslieder (1879)

    Das Buch ""Das Italienische Volk Im Spiegel Seiner Volkslieder"" wurde 1879 von Otto Badke ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von italienischen Volksliedern, die einen Einblick in das Leben und die Kultur des italienischen Volkes geben...
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  • Das Harmonium Das Harmonium
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    Das Harmonium

    Das Buch ""Das Harmonium: In Seiner Construction Und Behandlung"" wurde im Jahr 1868 von Pfarrer Badischen verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Anleitung zur Konstruktion und Pflege eines Harmoniums. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die...
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  • Das Harmonium Im Akustischen Unterricht (1895) Das Harmonium Im Akustischen Unterricht (1895)
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    Das Harmonium Im Akustischen Unterricht (1895)

    Das Buch ""Das Harmonium im akustischen Unterricht"" wurde 1895 von Ernst Boehm ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein Lehrbuch, das sich speziell an Musikp�����dagogen richtet, die das Harmonium im Unterricht einsetzen m������chten. Das Buch enth�����lt eine...
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  • Das Habsburglied (1832) Das Habsburglied (1832)
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    Das Habsburglied (1832)

    Das Habsburglied (1832) ist ein historisches Buch von Ludwig August Frankl. Es beschreibt die Geschichte der Habsburger Dynastie, die von 1273 bis 1918 �����ber das Heilige R������mische Reich, �����sterreich-Ungarn und andere L�����nder herrschte. Das...
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  • Das Gudrun Lied Das Gudrun Lied
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    Das Gudrun Lied

    Das Gudrun Lied: F�����r das Deutsche Haus ist ein Buch von Emil Engelmann, das im Jahr 1886 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Liedern und Gedichten, die auf der mittelalterlichen Sage von Gudrun basieren. Die Sage...
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