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This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better.

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As the 1970s ended, Waits felt trapped by his persona and career. But at his low point: Francis Ford Coppola asked Tom to write the score for "One From the Heart". He cleaned up, and met Kathleen Brennan. This work tells the story of a man creating that elusive American second act, and also about finding the prefect collaborator in his wife.

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Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths.

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A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming

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This book takes the fundamentals of music theory and presents them in a practical, hands-on approach, with easy-to-follow explanations, plenty of exercises and accompanying audio on the Teach Yourself Library to help you progress.

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In Activism through Music during the Apartheid Era and Beyond, Ambigay Yudkoff details a compelling narrative of collaboration through music, travel, performances and socialization as a vehicle for racial integration and intercultural exchange.

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"Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery"--

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Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery.

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"After Sound examines contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. Coining the term "critical music," it examines a diverse collection of art projects which intervene into specific political and philosophical conflicts by exploring music's unique historical forms"--

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"A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics"--

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"A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics"--

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This book provides extensive commentary and an English translation of 17th-century German music theorist Andreas Werckmeisters final treatise, the Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse. Topics discussed include theological reflections on music, numerology in musical intervals, music notation and solmization, and tunings.

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Explores how Nahua musical performance and histories in Mexico and the United States are generated, challenged, and maintained by examining danza performance as a cultural artifact.

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Bla Bartk's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century.

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This primer surveys the history of music and the composers who made that history; the history of instrument families and how the instruments function; an introduction to the science of sound and sound production; the various types of ensembles; and the fundamentals of music theory, form in music, musical notation, and music vocabulary.

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This primer surveys the history of music and the composers who made that history; the history of instrument families and how the instruments function; an introduction to the science of sound and sound production; the various types of ensembles; and the fundamentals of music theory, form in music, musical notation, and music vocabulary.