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Opera has fascinated and attracted audiences for more than four centuries. It has lasted for a simple reason: it's a great source of enjoyment.

Written by John Snelson, Commissioning Editor at The Royal Opera House, this book is a demonstration of how to listen to opera at its best, and understand how it works.

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Greenberg gives novice listeners and longtime classical music buffs alike the knowledge that will transform their listening experiences. Readers will become fluent in the language of music and versed in its enthralling history.

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Howard Hanson details the career and works of a composer called by several critics the most important figure in American music in the second quarter of the 20th century.

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"From a gentle and soothing voice that is personal and intimate to hums that are mystical, impersonal and maddening, this book provides an anthropology of the concept of humming through the discipline of sound studies"--

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"Critically examines the Hunters and Collectors album Human Frailty, setting it in its cultural and historical context"--

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Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.

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Presents the tale of an artist who made it from the suburbs to the top of the pop music charts, graced the cover of every music magazine and lived the rock 'n' roll dream. Freud did the whole sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll thing, and is proof that there is life after rock.

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This is the personal insight into the life of the notorious mogul and Pop Idol judge, Simon Cowell. From his early days and his increasing fascination to the world of music to the backstage gossip on the latest series of Pop Idol, it's all here.

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From the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work. This work deals with the matter of his music. It is useful for jazz fans, musicians and music students. It aims to clear away old misconceptions about certain of Mingus' records, providing an overview of Mingus's work.

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A smart, witty, voraciously opinionated guide to rock 'n' roll.

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Highlights the diversity of the audience that is touched by and attracted to music that embraces and acknowledges death, at the same time subverting the cliches. This book explores how popular music deals with death, and how it documents the changing reality of what death means as one grows older.

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to be the first ever Western pop group to play in communist China - a masterstroke of PR which, in one swift stroke, would make them one of the biggest groups in the world.

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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A discography of the works and recordings of Igor Stravinsky to date and a chronicle of the composer's recording career. Following an introduction tracing his recording history, it lists 191 studio performances, recorded issues and unpublished recordings.

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For the author, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. In this book, she unearths the history of group singing, and explores discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits.

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This volume is designed as an introduction to the science of music for advanced students of music and psychology, music teachers, professional musicians, and general readers interested in the scientific approach to the understanding and appreciation of beauty in music.

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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.