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Experiencing Berlioz offers an accessible pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works.

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Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.

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In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listeners Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of rock gods sensationalism at this performing acts musical legacy. Putting readers right where the band was performing its iconic numbers, Akkerman is the guide for anyone intent on understanding how Led Zeppelin's music works.

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Experiencing the Rolling Stones draws together a broad swath of postwar history as it covers the bands origins in Swinging London through to their recording sessions outside of England. Malvinni takes an especially close look at Keith Richards guitar work and its effect on the bands music, as well as the multiple changes in the bands members.

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In this book, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernsteins famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after Platos Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage.