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Completely updated for the 21st century, "The Music Business" provides essential career advice and offers information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry--from songwriting and performing to contracts, producing, criticism, commercials, concerts, engineering, and more.

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For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed and attacked for his musical innovations and attempts at reconciling historically divergent and often conflicting worldviews and principles. This is a biography of the man and his music.

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The discography covers Billy May as arranger and composer from 1944-1998, as sideman and arranger for others, his work on radio, television, movies, and international appearances, his road band, recordings, both domestic and foreign, and his transcriptions.

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Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder explores Charles Ivess diverse musical output and unusual career, discussing about thirty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Offering readers of any background a guide to listening, this book is an ideal introduction to the iconic, American composer.

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Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. these essays reveal as much about Feldman's own work and attitudes as they do about the work and thought of the many composers and artists about whom he wrote.

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This work examines the music of Stuart Saunders Smith. It provides six critical analyses, an interview, and bibliographic information containing a list of compositions, a discography, Smith's publications, and research that is currently available on his music.

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This book serves as an introduction to the work of Godfrey Winham, an influential figure in American music theory circles in the 1960s. Little published in his lifetime, Winham left behind, at his premature death in 1974, a massive collection of notes: correspondence, unfinished articles, sketches for books, etc. These notes were transcribed and de

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The application of science to the production of music has resulted, according to this classic 1940 text, in the development of musical acoustics.

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A musical phrase, or, for that matter, a musical unit of any size or shape, becomes an image whenever we imagine it to be invested with a content whose origins lie outside music.

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Analyzes the relationship between Charles Manson, music, and 1960's counterculture.

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Emphasizing group dynamics, The Musical Woman series charts the accomplishments of women in the field of music in almost every capacity. Two genre surveys and an essay on women music scholars in Russian and Soviet history present readers with significant research.

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"An engaging account of the controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children."--

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From angels to demons, "The Mythology of Supernatural" explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face on the hit television show "Supernatural"--and that have inhabited the shadows of human imagination across countless cultures and centuries.

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"Although Frank Capra (1897--1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It'"

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This collection examines the history of the Canzona Napoletana and its emergence as a leading genre of popular music in the early nineteenth century. Featuring original research by leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and theater, this is the first collection of essays in the English language to address the topic.

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One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school.

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