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Considers such topics as Brahms' relationship with Clara and Robert Schumann, his musical interactions with the 'New German School' of Wagner and Liszt, his influence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other young composers, his approach to performing his own music, and his productive interactions with visual artists.

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Biographical sketches of 138 American musicians that were originally published in the journal, Brainard's Musical World, between 1877 and 1889.

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Aaron Horne provides the most comprehensive guide to brass music written by black composers. and an index which groups the music by numbers, medium, and ensemble.

This is the fourth volume in Aaron Horne's monumental effort to provide the most comprehensive guide to music composed by black composers.

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'Defamiliarizes' the reader with eleven different films. This book argues that critics often use cut-and-dried methods and choose films that easily fit those methods. It also argues that neoformalism, on the other hand, encourages the critic to deal with each film differently and to modify his or her analytical assumptions continually.

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Examines Eno's work as a musician, theoretician, and collaborator.

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Examines Eno's work as a musician, theoretician, and collaborator.

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The author draws together a comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings. Woven through the chronological listing of Monk's work is the story of his rise as one of the key pianists and composers of jazz, and his decline in health and popularity to his death in 1982.

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The widespread construction of castles in Britain began as soon as Duke William of Normandy set foot on the shores of England in 1066. This illustrated book presents a cultural and historical tour of Britain's medieval castles. It will interest students researching architecture, the Middle Ages, or military history, as well as general readers.

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In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved c

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In The British Invasion, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop cultures default flow of influence, goods, and ideasorchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into The Sixties.

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In The British Invasion, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop cultures default flow of influence, goods, and ideasorchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into The Sixties.

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"Considers the often overlooked significance of early 1970s British pop-rock as a period during which the boundaries between pop and rock uniquely overlapped"--

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With one exception, none of those interviewed has ever before had an extended opportunity to discuss, for the record, the nature of their work.

The volume treats the reader to a comprehensive view of American commercial theater and how it operates.

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Is there a recording of the songs from Smile Each song is listed in the order it was recorded on the album or CD, and the performer of the song is given. The recording is identified by composer, lyricist, and musical director, as well as the date of original production and date of this particular recording.

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Focusing on special moments that resonated powerfully, the singer explores the early part of his life from childhood to adolescence.

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Essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist's career.