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As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him

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This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts.

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This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts.

Why are some people tone deaf and others musical savants

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"Delineates the contemporary American science fiction film using a social semiotics approach"--

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"Delineates the contemporary American science fiction film using a social semiotics approach"--

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Explores the physiological and psychological processes that underlie many of the commonly held beliefs about the screenwriting craft, providing the aspiring screenwriter a deeper, more intelligent understanding of how his or her storytelling choices can affect an audience.

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This book is addressed to the listener whose enjoyment of music is filled with questions and whose curiosity makes him eager to grasp the sense of music, despite a lack of theoretical training. Unlike the usual listener's guide, which begins with a discussion of the elementary materials of music, this book starts with the elementary experiences of listening.

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A novel treatment of music theory that reinterprets the modern history of Western music in the terms of semiotics. Based on the assumption that music cannot be described without reference to its meaning, it proposes that works of the Western classical tradition be analyzed in terms of temporality, subjectivity, and topic theory.

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The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz, instructors are in dire need of a resource that addresses music produced by publishers and choral arrangers.

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A rite of passage, a defining event, a catalyst of musical and personal epiphanies-a concert is an experience unlike any other

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This companion to the music of Sibelius represents current advances in research into his work. It shows changes in our understanding of both the man and his work. Among the topics covered are his vocal music ("Luonnotar"), the symphonies, and the range of his contacts and influences.

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A selective history for those who want to be informed without being overwhelmed, who would like to know enough about the silent era to feel at home there, respect its artists, and admire their work.

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This book is about leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simple stage.

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An invaluable resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike.

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An invaluable resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike.

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Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unsurpassed in its presentation of texts, this exhaustive collection devoted little attention to the ballad music, a want that was f

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This investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.

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Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books

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