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In Classical Music in a Changing Culture, Donald Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible successes that confront America's future as a nation of music listeners. Vroon delves into a variety of topics: orchestra finances, contemporary musi...

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Offers advice on appreciating the forty most important and popular works of classical music from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2" to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".

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An indispensable supplement to even the most recent published reference works in the field of the vocal arts, Classical Singers of the Opera and Recital Stages should remain a standard work for years to come.

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Providing a general overview of comic music, this reference outlines the history of important comic musical genres, considers interconnections among seemingly disparate humorous repertory, and includes an extensive bibliography and discography.

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This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover the multiple identities and complex positionalities of former combatants who wish to memorialize a military catastrophe that coincided with the foundation of nation states.

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This reference provides a new perspective on the work of music's great composers from Bach to Stravinsky, by compiling the comments and criticism offered by other composers, such as Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and many others.

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Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The essays explore Bachs sacred vocal music from the perspectives of historical theology, music analysis, the study of parody procedures, and reception history.

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One of the most talented female Australian music artists, Rene Geyer has done the drugs, the sex, and is still doing rock and roll. She tells all in this autobiography, from her early days as a singer in pubs and wine bars to her recording career in America.

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A collection of Crouch's greatest works

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A reference to a range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly. It also includes discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; and, typical features of performance and presentation.

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Popular music has been a major force in the world since the 19th century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This encyclopedic volume covers popular music of the world and features some 500 entries by 130 contributors.

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Popular music has been a major force in the world since the 19th century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This encyclopaedic volume covers popular music of the world and features some 500 entries by 130 contributors.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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For fifty years, Bob Dylans music has been a source of wonder to his fans and endless fodder for analysis by music critics. In Counting Down Bob Dylan, rock journalist Jim Beviglia dares to rank these songs in descending order from Dylans 100th best to his #1 song.

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Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs explores the full range of Presley recordings, from his earliest number to his end-of-career (and even posthumous) hits, combing through gold record hits and unpolished gems to distill the best Presley had to offer his generation, his successors, and listeners today.

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No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like The Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began. In Counting Down the Rolling Stones: Their Finest 100 So...

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Over its history, country music has evolved from parochial scenes in the US South with little-known local talents, to a multimillion dollar business boasting superstar musicians. This volume examines country music as it developed in the US, from the first country-music radio broadcasts of the 1920s, to the contemporary Nashville sound.

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"Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven;"