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  • Ritual, Rapture and Remorse Ritual, Rapture and Remorse
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    Ritual, Rapture and Remorse

    This book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the 'de la Torre Bueno Prize' by The Society of Dance History Scholars. In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the music and dance of the pizzica has been used in the...
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  • Verdis Welten Verdis Welten
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    Verdis Welten

    Anhand der Tonartencharakteristik in knapp 2000 musikalisch eigenständigen Ausschnitten wird der semantische Gehalt von Verdis 28 Opern, von 20 Kanzonen und 7 geistlichen Werken erforscht und mit vielen Notenbeispielen belegt. Eine klare Struktur (12...
    $171.00

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  • Music, Emotion and Identity in Ulster Marching Bands Music, Emotion and Identity in Ulster Marching Bands
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    Music, Emotion and Identity in Ulster Marching Bands

    Ulster's marching bands form perhaps the most vibrant participatory folk music tradition in contemporary Europe, and are one of the most significant and visible elements of working-class loyalist culture in the divided society of Northern Ireland. Their...
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  • Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie (Éd.1750) Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie (Éd.1750)
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    Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie (Éd.1750)

    WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...
    $32.00

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    Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity

    ‘Cultural mapping’ has become a central keyword in the UNESCO strategy to protect natural and world cultural heritage, including music traditions. As a tool to increase the awareness of cultural diversity it transforms the concept of...
    $79.00

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    Ludomusicology

    The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In...
    $219.00

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  • The Theory and Creation of Music The Theory and Creation of Music
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    The Theory and Creation of Music

    What makes music sound happy? What makes it sound sad? Tense? Relaxed? Beautiful? Powerful? Scary? Nostalgic? We will seek to answer the fundamental question: What makes music sound the way it sounds? The more deeply we can answer this question, on both...
    $114.00

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  • Jagdlied Jagdlied
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    Jagdlied

    LISTED AS THE NUMBER ONE BOOK OF 2018—AMY'S BOOKSHELF REVIEWS“The term 'page turner' was coined for this book”—Literary Titan."…a roller-coaster that keeps you on the edge of your seat...
    $157.00

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  • Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
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    Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

    Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O'Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak's Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview...
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  • Land, Faith, and Voice Land, Faith, and Voice
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    Land, Faith, and Voice

    This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or arose in the process of ethnography and its analysis. The book explores various aspects of Christian music in British Columbia,...
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  • Komponieren lernen - Songwriting Komponieren lernen - Songwriting
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    Komponieren lernen - Songwriting

    Das Buch führt den Leser Schritt für Schritt zum komplett fertigen Song - vom Aussuchen des Rhythmus, über die Zusammenstellung der Harmonien, bis hin zum Komponieren der Melodie. Dabei wird auf komplizierte Musiktheorie völlig verzichtet. Damit der...
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    Fryderyk Chopin

    Fryderyk Chopin und sein in der polnischen Heimat verwurzeltes geniales Musikwerk gelten als eine herrliche Blüte der polnischen Kultur (J. J. Eigeldinger) und gehören dank ihrer Universalität zum einzigartigen geistigen Erbe der gesamten Menschheit...
    $227.00

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  • Cape Town Harmonies Cape Town Harmonies
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    Cape Town Harmonies

    "Cape Town’s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the ‘research tools’ one needs...
    $93.00

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  • Hands of Doom Hands of Doom
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    Hands of Doom

    ""The world today is such a wicked place,"" Black Sabbath declared in 1969, when they recorded their debut album, set against a backdrop of war, assassinations, social unrest, and disillusionment. Cries for justice from the Civil Rights Movement, and for...
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  • Classic Magnolia Rock Classic Magnolia Rock
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    Classic Magnolia Rock

    Classic Magnolia Rock is a history of original Mississippi Rock and Roll music from 1953 to 1970 and its impact on the national music scene. It is told through the eyes of the author and the artists who were a part of this history. The stories come...
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  • Die Echten Lieder Von Den Nibelungen (1851) Die Echten Lieder Von Den Nibelungen (1851)
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    Die Echten Lieder Von Den Nibelungen (1851)

    Das Buch ""Die Echten Lieder Von Den Nibelungen"" wurde im Jahr 1851 von Karl August Hahn ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Liedern und Gedichten, die sich auf die Nibelungensage beziehen. Die Nibelungensage ist eine germanische...
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  • The Act Of Becoming The Act Of Becoming
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    The Act Of Becoming

    I'm looking for meaning in my life.Does this sound familiar?It should. We all look.Maybe it takes a few decades to get to the point of looking.Maybe it comes and goes. Or goes and comes.There are all kinds of lessons around me, to teach me where to look...
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  • Music Autoethnographies Music Autoethnographies
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    Music Autoethnographies

    Music Autoethnographies explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies of music. Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories of music and autoethnography practitioners, this edited collection showcases how...
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  • Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages
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    Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages

    Fairhaven Press is proud to publish another historically significant title in the String Music Archaeology series. The String Music Archaeology series consists of both original scholarship and reproductions of important out-of-press titles. This book is...
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  • Musical Life in Guyana Musical Life in Guyana
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    Musical Life in Guyana

    A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all mediaMusical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political...
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  • Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
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    Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California

    How Louisiana transplants and new players have generated a thriving music and dance scene far from the SouthQueen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans...
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  • Yoruba God of Drumming Yoruba God of Drumming
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    Yoruba God of Drumming

    As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously...
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  • Steelpan Ambassadors Steelpan Ambassadors
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    Steelpan Ambassadors

    "Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the...
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  • From Jubilee to Hip Hop From Jubilee to Hip Hop
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    From Jubilee to Hip Hop

    Includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breath and variety of African American musical culture. Each selection relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation.
    $487.00

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  • Musikalisches Grundwissen Musikalisches Grundwissen
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    Musikalisches Grundwissen

    Dies ist eine kleine Musiklehre für Leute, die über ihre Lust am Musizieren hinaus auch theoretische Klarheit haben wollen über die musikalischen Erscheinungen, mit denen sie zu tun haben; die also zum Beispiel wissen wollen,- wodurch der melodische,...
    $21.00

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  • Geistliche Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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    Geistliche Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

    Bei dem Blick auf die geistliche Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy sind dem Autor zwei Aspekte wichtig. Er möchte zeigen, dass dessen Schaffen auf dem Gebiet der Geistlichen Musik etwa den gleichen Umfang hat wie jenes für seine Instrumentalmusik. ...
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  • Das musikalische Hörspiel "Sabinchen" von Paul Hindemith Das musikalische Hörspiel "Sabinchen" von Paul Hindemith
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    Das musikalische Hörspiel "Sabinchen" von Paul Hindemith

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Musik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Musikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar. Hindemiths Schaffen in den 1920er Jahren., Sprache: Deutsch,...
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  • Self-glorification in Zimdancehall and Sungura Music Self-glorification in Zimdancehall and Sungura Music
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    Self-glorification in Zimdancehall and Sungura Music

    Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 1, Midlands State University, course: MA African Languages, language: English, abstract: This study pursues the struggle for space voice and recognition in Zimdancehall and...
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  • Zur Kritik der Vernunftreligion Zur Kritik der Vernunftreligion
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    Zur Kritik der Vernunftreligion

    Die Religion wurde von der kritischen Aufklärung als ein gesellschaftlicher Schonraum angesehen, ein Ort des Rückzugs von den gesellschaftlichen Konflikten, in dem mit der Suggestion allgemeiner Harmonie von ihrer Austragung und ihrer Reflexion abgelenkt...
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  • The Theory of Guitar Made Easy The Theory of Guitar Made Easy
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    The Theory of Guitar Made Easy

    The Theory of Guitar Made Easy serves as both a supplement to your other guitar lessons as well as providing unique insight into the theory behind what is required for you to truly understand your guitar playing as a whole. Through the simplified,...
    $36.00

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    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual...
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  • Scales to Scalpels Scales to Scalpels
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    Scales to Scalpels

    The incredible story of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra that reveals the remarkable interplay between music and medicine.You may have read about the Longwood Symphony orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite radio station. But the LSO...
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  • Cross the Water Blues Cross the Water Blues
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    Cross the Water Blues

    Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europeedited by Neil A. Wynnwith contributions from Christopher G. Bakriges, Sean Creighton, Jeffrey Green, Leighton Grist, Bob Groom, Rainer E. Lotz, Paul Oliver, Catherine Parsonage, Iris Schmeisser,...
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  • The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland
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    The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland

    The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the...
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  • Panama Songs (1906) Panama Songs (1906)
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    Panama Songs (1906)

    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...
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  • How to Read Music in 30 Days How to Read Music in 30 Days
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    How to Read Music in 30 Days

    Do you want to learn how to read music notation with easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons? Did you ever try to learn music theory but got frustrated with complicated jargon and mysterious terms? If so, this book is perfect for you!This best-selling book...
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  • Journey of the Gullphin Journey of the Gullphin
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    Journey of the Gullphin

    "Beautiful 19-year-old German girl wants to meet an attractive gentleman". So said the ad, placed by an elder acquaintance, in a tropical South Florida newspaper in 1975. Two unlikely, free-spirited people allowed fate to lead them on a journey to...
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  • Road to Rembetika Road to Rembetika
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    Road to Rembetika

    The rembetika, songs that were sung in the poor quarters of Smyrna, Istanbul and the ports of Greece in the late nineteenth century, and became the popular bouzouki music of the 1930s to 1950s, have many parallels with American blues. Like the blues, the...
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