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Marcel Beyer hat mit seinem vielfach ausgezeichneten Schaffen auf einzigartige Weise Grenzbereiche zwischen Literatur, Musik und Kulturtheorie erkundet. Sein Œuvre, das außer Romanen, Gedicht- und Essaybänden auch fünf Libretti umfasst, zeichnet sich durch eine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-06-22
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Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis,...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2021-06-22
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For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept familiar in the eighteenth century? If so, how is it reflected in writings of eighteenth-century music theorists? And how does it relate to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-08
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Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also the author of the bestselling Berkmann's Cricket Miscellany, concentrating on the ridiculous true stories and the weird characters of that most...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2021-06-03
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In the 1950s, Meredith Willson's The Music Man became the third longest running musical after My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music: a considerable achievement in a decade that saw the premieres of other popular works by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe, not...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-03
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Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-20
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In this book, Andy Gill assesses the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rock 'n' roll with...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2021-04-15
Collection :
The Stories Behind the Songs
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Das Buch behandelt literarische Texte, die zur Vertonung für musikalischen Vortrag bestimmt waren. Der erste Hauptteil handelt vom deutschen Singspiel des 18. Jahrhunderts, vor allem in seiner österreichisch-süddeutschen, speziell Wiener, Ausprägung.Das Singspiel wählte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-12
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Ethnomusicologists face complex and challenging professional landscapes for which graduate studies in the field do not fully prepare them. The essays in Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology, edited by León F. García Corona and Kathleen...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-06
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Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reaction to cascades of coloratura with climaxing high notes is strong. Coloratura-agile, rapid-fire singing-was originally...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-06
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Fascinating, never-before-published interviews with Broadway's leading men offer behind-the-scenes looks at the careers of some of the most beloved perfomers today.
In A Wonderful Guy, a follow up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-03
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Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America. His European works depict America as a Capitalist dystopia. But in 1935, it became clear that Europe was no longer safe for Weill, and he set sail for New World, and his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-27
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Before Antonín Dvo%rák's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-12
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Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. It is driven by the underlying question...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-15
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There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the spotlight on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future.
Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Anna Maria Olivari der Forschungslücke der Vertonung von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus. Sie untersucht ein Korpus von 13 unterschiedlichen Kompositionen aus dem Bereich der Neuen Musik (Opern, Monodramen, instrumentale Werke), die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-01-22
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„Wo die Sprache aufhört, fängt die Musik an.“ Was der Dichterkomponist E. T. A. Hoffmann aussprach, verfolgen die in diesem Band versammelten Essays zunächst an literarischen Beispielen: Schiller, Tieck, Hölderlin, Balzac, Jahnn und anderen. Die Perspektive ist...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-01-15
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As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-14
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Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet determined, Stephen Morris...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2020-12-03
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