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  • The Baptist Church Hymnal V2 The Baptist Church Hymnal V2
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    The Baptist Church Hymnal V2

    The Baptist Church Hymnal V2: Hymns, Chants, Anthems, With Music (1900) is a religious book compiled by the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The book contains a vast collection of hymns, chants, and anthems, all accompanied by music. This...
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  • Worship Song, With Accompanying Tunes V1 (1905) Worship Song, With Accompanying Tunes V1 (1905)
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    Worship Song, With Accompanying Tunes V1 (1905)

    The book ""Worship Song, With Accompanying Tunes V1"" was written by W. Garrett Horder and was first published in the year 1905. This book is a collection of Christian hymns and worship songs that are accompanied by musical tunes. The songs and hymns...
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  • Life Of Thomas Attwood (1885) Life Of Thomas Attwood (1885)
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    Life Of Thomas Attwood (1885)

    The Life of Thomas Attwood is a biographical work written by C.M. Wakefield in 1885. The book chronicles the life of Thomas Attwood, a British politician and economist who played a significant role in the financial and political reforms of the early 19th...
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  • Hans Breitmann's Party, With Other Ballads Hans Breitmann's Party, With Other Ballads
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    Hans Breitmann's Party, With Other Ballads

    Hans Breitmann's Party, With Other Ballads is a collection of humorous and satirical poems written by Charles G. Leland in the mid-19th century. The titular poem, Hans Breitmann's Party, is a raucous tale of a group of German immigrants who gather for a...
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  • Sonnets, Stanzas And A Crescendo Composition Sonnets, Stanzas And A Crescendo Composition
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    Sonnets, Stanzas And A Crescendo Composition

    Sonnets, Stanzas And A Crescendo Composition is a book of poetry written by Louisa J. Hall. The collection features a variety of poetic forms, including sonnets and stanzas, as well as a crescendo composition. The poems cover a range of themes, including...
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  • Music in Contemporary British Fiction Music in Contemporary British Fiction
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    Music in Contemporary British Fiction

    Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the...
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  • Nineteenth-Century British Premiers Nineteenth-Century British Premiers
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    Nineteenth-Century British Premiers

    Following A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair, Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors. In a series of 20 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their political careers, assesses their performance as Prime...
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  • The Twisted Muse The Twisted Muse
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    The Twisted Muse

    Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their...
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  • The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music
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    The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

    At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic...
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  • The Voices That Are Gone The Voices That Are Gone
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    The Voices That Are Gone

    In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. He presents a guided tour of topically arranged, select songs, pointing out the most important landmarks, as...
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    Full Coverage
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    Full Coverage

    The first full-length history of rock journalism in AustraliaFor over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press - a vibrant, passionate, sometimes volatile industry of dozens of papers and magazines committed to the coverage of the...
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    cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015
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    cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015

    Irreverent, cultishly adored, and dearly missed, the music writers at cokemachineglow produced some of the greatest, weirdest, funniest, sharpest criticism of the 21st century, and have gone on to write for major publications.In that sweet...
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    Reggae Scrapbook
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    Reggae Scrapbook

    Guiding us on this colorful book-length journey is one of the men who introduced reggae to America and helped rock the world with its syncopated beat, Roger Steffens. Through lectures, books, magazine articles, radio, and television, Steffens has shared...
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  • ON THE RECORDs
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    ON THE RECORDs

    Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector acquires comes with a story of its own, and the...
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  • To Live Is To Die
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    To Live Is To Die

    Today, Metallica are known as consummate musicians, but it wasn't always that way. Their early career is marked by a gradual evolution from garage thrash to sophisticated, progressive heights an evolution driven by their bass player, Cliff Burton, who...
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  • The Worst Songs in the World
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    The Worst Songs in the World

    The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious - so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?The story begins in a London theatre in 1745, where the modern idea of anthems started out as triumphant...
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    The Clash
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    The Clash

    THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS.Established in 1976 at the fore London's punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating some of the most influential albums in rock 'n' roll history. Author...
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    Live at the Safari Club

    Live at the Safari Club: A People's History of HarDCore is the uncensored oral history of a notorious underground punk venue in the nation's capital, told by the bands, fans, zinesters, promoters, graffiti artists, scenesters, senators' kids and...
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  • Debussy and His World
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    Debussy and His World

    Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This book...
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    Olivier Messiaen
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    Olivier Messiaen

    Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer.This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas, and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist, and ornithologist Olivier...
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  • Weird Music That Goes on Forever
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    Weird Music That Goes on Forever

    Once you've collected every 7" from your favourite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there's nothing more to learn, what's a...
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  • On Divas
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    On Divas

    A critic's notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism byAtlanticwriters, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.A collection of essays on musicians,...
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  • She played and sang
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    She played and sang

    Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...
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    The White Stripes Complete Lyrics
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    The White Stripes Complete Lyrics

    The White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The...
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  • The Needle and the Lens
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    The Needle and the Lens

    How the creative use of pop music in film-think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now-has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear "The Sounds of Silence"? Better yet, what song comes to mind when...
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  • All the Years Combine
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    All the Years Combine

    A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia's heart did, what...
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    NoMeansNo
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    NoMeansNo

    They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home.NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a record...
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    Red Rocks
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    Red Rocks

    In 1906, Denver's Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band became the first musical act to perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, then christened the Garden of the Titans. Over a century later, Denver is a must-stop for every nationally touring act, and...
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  • The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR
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    The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR

    Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was considered a sage of rock 'n' roll. His programs introduced forbidden western popular music and culture into...
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    Top Eight
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    Top Eight

    In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music...
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  • Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood
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    Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood

    Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock'n'roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in...
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    Barbra Streisand the Music, the Albums, the Singles
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    Barbra Streisand the Music, the Albums, the Singles

    On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one...
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    Blood on Black Wax
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    Blood on Black Wax

    Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do you thrill to the unforgettable stabs of the Psycho score, or the pounding synth of Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria? Do you find yourself being pulled into...
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    Black & White & Weird All Over
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    Black & White & Weird All Over

    'Weird Al' Yankovic is one of music's most beloved figures. A skilled accordion player and songwriter, the California native is known for his meticulous parodies of popular songs, hilarious originals, and, of course, for upbeat polkas!For much of Al's...
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  • Alien Listening
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    Alien Listening

    An examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the...
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    Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano

    A handwritten serial number inside a neglected Broadwood square piano built in 1807 launches a captivating quest to uncover the remarkable history of these now almost forgotten musical instruments.
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  • Becoming Elektra
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    Becoming Elektra

    Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering Elektra Records label and its farsighted founder, Jac Holzman, who built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most groundbreaking, important, and enduring music of the rock...
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  • Long Promised Road
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    Long Promised Road

    Long Promised Road: Carl Wilson, Soul Of The Beach Boys tells the story of the youngest of the three Wilson brothers, a consummate musician and singer and a natural peacemaker.Robbed of a normal childhood by international stardom, Carl marked out his own...
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