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Chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life.

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A counterpoint of sorts to Simon Reynolds' acclaimed book Retromania, Nothing Has Been Done Before is a sweeping study of popular music and its innovation, novelty, and originality--not the retro, but the new.

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A counterpoint of sorts to Simon Reynolds' acclaimed book Retromania, Nothing Has Been Done Before is a sweeping study of popular music and its innovation, novelty, and originality--not the retro, but the new.

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"An exploration of Bella Ciao, the LP that kick-started the political folk revival in Italy in the 1960s"--

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The legends of popular music tell their stories--in their own words--from the Big Band era's Artie Shaw to today's stars Paul Simon and Phil Collins. 200 photos. Advertising in Rolling Stone.

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A comprehensive A-Z listing of Frank Sinatra's songs, albums, films, and humanitarian activities.

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Following the second World War, Olivier Messiaen, previously known primarily for his religious music, composed three works inspired by the medieval love story of Tristan and Iseult: Harawi, Turangal^Dla-symphonie, and Cinq rechants.

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Explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.

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Following the introduction are four chapters cataloguing original works for the right hand alone, original works for the left hand alone, music arranged or transcribed for one hand alone, and concerted works for one hand in concert with other pianists, instruments, or voices.

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It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors. We'll have to see about that ...

For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts and styles with a bewildering lack of integrity.

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This book is a single source for questions pertaining to piano performance, wellness, and practice during peoples musical careers and lives in case of an injury. Atanasova provides solutions for those who aspire to build a career in music performance even when their career development is hindered by an injury.

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"A chronicle of changing popular music styles and tastes as exemplified by "one-hit wonders" - focusing on the mainstream, on common musical currency, and on the often maligned"--

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"A chronicle of changing popular music styles and tastes as exemplified by "one-hit wonders" - focusing on the mainstream, on common musical currency, and on the often maligned"--

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Here for the first time are in-depth profiles of 139 major opera companies from around the globe, representing 35 countries, from Argentina to Yugoslavia, and including little-known information on opera in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, and Turkey.

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Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced. Beginning with this observation, Gloria Flaherty tries to show how, from its very inception and through most

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This reference lists operas released as motion pictures. It covers theatrical feature films on 35mm film, educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format and optical video laser disc. Citations to reviews are included from over 22 sources.

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Ottenberg synthesizes material from a variety of sources--annals, memoirs, and scholarly sources--and, with them, weaves a coherent narrative of what was performed where, by whom, and what developments took place. the book casts new light on opera in America--its variety, popularity, and appeal to changing audiences throughout the century.

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This companion volume to Opera Mediagraphy: Video Recordings and Motion Pictures (Greenwood, 1993) indexes opera singers on video and film in concert, recital, and non-operatic feature film and includes VHS videotape, optical video laser disc, CD-ROM, and DVD recordings.

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Covers in detail more than 2,900 English-texted works and includes masques, ballad operas, operattas, musical theater, as well as the standard operatic fare.

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Griffel has prepared a valuable guide to German opera that can be used profitably by both scholars and amateur devotees of opera.

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A list, with critical notes, of the best recordings of orchestral music.