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Shockley provides a unique comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them.

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With The Contemporary Piano, Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them.

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"From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music-"

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Offers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits.

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Now completely updated: The essential guide to everything jazz and blues in more than 25 American cities

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A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time.

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Discusses the influence of Indian music and culture in the West. This book tells how words such as karma, yoga, raga, nirvana, all once unknown, have entered the language. It aims to demystify musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology and the Eastern musical framework.

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The volume concludes with a bibliography of literature on the subject and music editions and with indexes of names, titles, and subjects.

The specialized focus of this account supplements the more general histories of early American music.

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"Discusses improvised rock and DIY labels stretching from Dunedin, the tiny centre of New Zealand pop and rock, to Europe and the US through The Dead C's Clyma est mort album"--

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Through its Decca 5000 series of the 1930s and 1940s, the American Decca recording company became the most influential record label in the burgeoning hillbilly music category, the forerunner of today's country and western music.

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This book traces the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans.

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A presentation of Charlie Parker's ten sessions, recorded with Dial, which includes the repertory, original issues and reissues, titles and notated transcriptions, and analyses of performances.

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Just in time for Bob Dylan's 60th birthday in May 2001-a multifaceted look at the man, his music, and his influence

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The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history.

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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular.

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Haskett examines the spread of steel band in US schools and universities. This phenomenon is examined within the context of the music education field.

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Record collectors, archivists, and music historians will welcome the second volume of The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings, bringing the history and comprehensive catalog of the Victor Talking Machine Company through the year 1907, when the Matrix Numbering system, inaugurated in April, 1903 had reached number 4999.

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Boy choristers have sung the daily liturgy in English cathedrals and collegiate churches for fourteen hundred years. This title tells their history, in cathedrals and monasteries, in royal and collegiate chapels, from the middle ages, through the upheavals of the Reformation, and to their CD-celebrated triumphs and also the introduction of girls.

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This work argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity. It identifies the intellectual, social and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early part of the 20th century.

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The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts is a plain-language guide to the two most commonly used contracts in the music industry: presenters engagement (gig) contracts and artist-management contracts. It dissects these contracts to inform and protect a musicians rights and help them get the most out of their performance careers.

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The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts is a plain-language guide to the two most commonly used contracts in the music industry: presenters engagement (gig) contracts and artist-management contracts. It dissects these contracts to inform and protect a musicians rights and help them get the most out of their performance careers.

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Bloch emerges, from this multifaceted study, as a composer whose music must be examined within both its Jewish heritage and in a larger, universal context.

Musicians, scholars, and Bloch enthusiasts will welcome this volume examining Ernest Bloch's life, career and major works which are enhanced throughout by musical examples.