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Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of the esteemed American composer, bringing together scholarly work and short contributed essays of prominent performers. Andrea Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life to his musical activities at Juilliard and death in 1987.

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Investigates 'time' as a defining factor which influences how events real and imagined are represented in films, employing the metaphor of cinema as time machine.

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Contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings work, ranging from his earliest movies to the most recent, through a variety of lenses.

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Violet Balestreri Archer is a leading force in contemporary music of North America. Her own music has been performed throughout the world and at international festivals and music congresses.

This bio-bibliography is the first book-length study of Archer.

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This bibliography enhances the repertoire of the violinist by providing convenient access to a new solo recital, concerto, and chamber music literature: the music of women composers.

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Examines the elusive nature, behaviour, and cultural significance of viruses and viral phenomena and explores the potential of the arts to re-interpret, perceive, and reveal their complex making and intense connectivity with the world at large.

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An exploration of Cope's experimentation in artificial musical creativity; includes a CD containing performances of music discussed in the text.

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Drawing upon the past two decades of burgeoning literature in philosophy of music, this study offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of what is entailed in performance interpretation. The ethical discourse applies to instrumental performance studies, the history and theory of music, general music pedagogy, and philosophy of music courses.

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"Explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary productions"--

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This volume assesses the impact of current critical theory on the discipline and practice of art history. It addresses how issues of politics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and historiography have contributed to the emergent terms and practices of the new art histories.

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Aboriginal rock art: a vast gallery, the work of 1500 generations. ;The island continent of Australia contains the largest continuous record of human artistic expression in history. Here is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive introduction to this ancient art and its archaeology from Mike Morwood, an experienced and respected authority.

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This book looks at the development and influence of buildings and why they are designed in a particular way.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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An exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. It explores a wide range of film production - from gangster thrillers like "Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from cult classics like "Performance and Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill".

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Presents an analysis of the changing landscape of English class and culture. This book explores a range of film production - from thrillers like "Lock", "Stock Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from classics like "Performance" and "Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill" and "Bridget Jones".

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