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The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker.

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The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker.

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A comprehensive listing of the songs from motion picture musicals, and the singers who performed them on commercially available albums. This reference work provides a wealth of information, identifies little-known facts and names composers, lyricists, singers and conductors.

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Yet another highlight of the book is an up-to-date account of exciting recent research on Mozart's skull and the bronze death mask.

The first book in English devoted entirely to Mozart's physical and mental health, Mozart in Person contains a comprehensive bibliography of books and articles from musical and medical literatures.

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It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its bu

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A historical and thematic overview of 20th-century road music, with a focus on blues, country-western, and rock 'n' roll.

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"An overview of recent developments and the current state of music composition, and a guide for students and composers who are working within these changing practices"--

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"An overview of recent developments and the current state of music composition, and a guide for students and composers who are working within these changing practices"--

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Speaking from firsthand experience, founding figures of Latin music in the United States present unique insights into the Afro-Cuban experience within the Latin musical community.

Adding to the musicians' stories, Gerard provides a history of relations between Cubans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans in the Latin music community.

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This book introduces every important aspect of the Elizabethan music world. Music became a form of strategy within court politics, and secular music evolved through the musical and poetic influences of the Italian Renaissance.

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This annotated chronology contains material concerning the background, philosophy, theory, notation, style, manuscript sources, theoretical sources, classes of music, composers and instruments for the period from 1425 to 1520, the first part of the Renaissance.

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This annotated chronology of western music is the third in a series of outlines on the history of music in western civilization.

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Foreign words, parts of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic church, musical terms, titles of theoretical works and musical manuscripts, and names of composers, theorists, and places of interest are defined in the section entitled Definition and Pronunciation.

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The troubadours of France, Meistersingers of Germany,the Cantus Firmus of Italy, and the instruments that played the music are all included in this thorough guide to music of the middle ages.

Topics include: the British Isles, Dance Music, Eastern Europe, France, Germanic Lands, Harps, Italy, the Low Countries, Spain, and more.

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Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works. In this collection of lively, penetrating essays, Petrobelli analyzes specific operas, mainly by Verdi, in terms of historical context, musi

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This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War.

Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I

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Music is not created without being influenced by the political events and societal changes of its time, and the Music of the Postwar Era is no exception.

*includes combined musical charts for the years 1945-1959 *approximately 20 black and white images of the singers and musicians who represent the era's music