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A hermeneutical analysis of Wagner's six single dramas from Hollander to Parsifal.

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Introduces an English-speaking audience to the songs of Mordechai Gebertig, a Yiddish poet and composer who died during the Holocaust.

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Written for the both the scholar and amateur enthusiast interested in modern classical music and American social history, Nationalist and Populist Composers creates a contextual frame through which all audiences can better understand such eternal works as Rhapsody in Blue, Appalachian Spring, and West Side Story.

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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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The essays offer an examination of issues of the musical experience, research in perception and brain functions, the design of computer-based neural networks that emulate human musical activities, investigations into the psychological make-up of artists, and a perspective on how computers are used in many different areas of music.

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With its extensive treatment of his life and career, this book will help to bring Luening's important compositions and his contributions to American music to the attention of a much wider audience.

Ralph Hartsock divides Luening's work into four main sections, each covering a specific aspect of Luening's career.

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A guide to the music of Britain's most prominent living composer, this volume contains the most complete listing available of Davies's works (unpublished as well as published) plus a comprehensive discography and a bibliography of nearly 1,000 items.

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Randall Thompson: A Bio-Bibliography is the first comprehensive study of Thompson's oeuvre since his death.

The volume is organized into five parts, beginning with a substantial biography written by David Francis Urrows, Thompson's final student and amanuensis.

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By analyzing Ennio Morricones formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo studies the best of Morricones popular compositions and concert works as he explores Morricones legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.

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By analyzing Ennio Morricones formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo studies the best of Morricones popular compositions and concert works as he explores Morricones legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.

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A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. -- .

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Influencing musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents essays on Strauss' musical works and brings together letters and memoirs from various periods of the composer's life.

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Presents the life and works of the American composer, Robert Russell Bennett, whose prolific career as composer and arranger spanned much of the 20th century. The author provides a lengthy biographical profile, followed by a complete list of works and selected performances.

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An important addition to any music library.

Of special interest are excerpts from the author's interview with Finney in 1992, which provide the reader with a unique insight into the life and work of this individual and innovative composer.

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Documenting and organizing American composer Roy Harris's complex oeuvre is the essential concern of this book, and the catalogue of works and performances provides information on instrumentation, premieres, publication and special aspects of each composition.

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This book explores the life and pedagogy of Sarah Anna Glover, the female music education pioneer of congregational singing (psalmody) and singing in nineteenth-century schools. Jane Southcott analyzes Glovers methods, history, and memory, and works to correct inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have emerged since Glovers death.

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Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, modern composers living in Vienna near the turn of the 20th century, are examined in a broad artistic context illustrating how their works grew from earlier Viennese musical developments.

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Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs.

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This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoffs personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.

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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. This book probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide.

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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. This work expands the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations - historical, cultural, and political - that forged them.

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David Byrne's work functions almost completely through the mass media - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art and writing. The underlying connection is a conceptual approach to both high and popular art. This title offers an account of Byrne's sprawling artistic portfolio.