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Ignaz Franz von Beecke (1733–1803), von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter Pianist und Komponist, diente zeitlebens dem fürstlichen Haus Oettingen-Wallerstein. Geboren in Wimpfen/Neckar, formierte Beecke als Intendant der Hofmusik die Wallersteiner Hofkapelle zu einem der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-11-30
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg | Quellen und Studien
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Der vorliegende Doppeljahrgang ist ein Abbild der reichen und vielfältigen Musikkultur Baden-Württembergs. Die geschichtliche Bandbreite reicht vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Insgesamt 29 Autorinnen und Autoren haben zur mehrhundertjährigen Musikgeschichte...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-11-03
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch
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By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick’s remarkable work, which from the...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2020-10-27
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Please note: this edition is text only and does not contain images.The most in-depth exploration of Springsteen's songs ever written.Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, this is the full story behind every single song that The Boss has ever...
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Mitchell Beazley
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2020-10-06
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'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow.'Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor,...
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Sphere
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2020-10-06
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Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his.'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year''Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year. . . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and...
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Headline
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2020-09-29
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Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-09-18
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The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In Música Típica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-09-17
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Astonishing... precisely crafted, emotionally-sucker-punching prose.' Daily Telegraph'Dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump.' Wall Street JournalHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett...
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Sceptre
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2020-09-17
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The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music. Providing the first in-depth study of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-01
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Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-31
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'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music,' says Jimi Hendrix's citation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. James Marshall Hendrix remains unique as an African American who broke out of the traditional 'Black' genres of blues, r&b and soul to...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-08-20
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A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence. Renowned opera scholar Gabriela Cruz argues that grand opera...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-19
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Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-04
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master MusiciansBach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding ofBach and his music's historical and cultural context has...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-10
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Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-01
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"A literary phenomenon" The Times"Despentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise" Times Literary SupplementTHE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE DESPENTESAlthough it means leaving behind the...
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Maclehose Press
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2020-06-25
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The first edition of Albert R. Rice'sThe Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication in 1992, its conclusions have influenced the approaches of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-05
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