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Vaughan Williams

by Eric Saylor

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 In Vaughan Williams, author Eric Saylor revisits the life and work of famed British musician Ralph Vaughan Williams, with particular attention to the relationship between his work and his life.
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The Age Of Interconnection - A Global History Of The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century

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 A monumental and accessible global history of the second half of the twentieth century, from the end of World War Two to the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, offering readers the most complete portrait of the age available.
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Bach

by David Schulenberg

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 Updated and refreshed with new biographical information and understanding of Bach's contemporary context, Bach traces the composer's student years, professional career, and family life alongside his most famous compositions.
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Berg

by Bryan R. Simms e Charlotte Erwin

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 Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the Wiener modern but also prominent literary and artistic figures from Vienna''s brilliant fin-de-si?cle. In his short lifetime he composed two ground-breaking operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, as well as chamber works, songs, and symphonic compositions. His final completed work, the deeply moving and elegiac Violin Concerto, is performed by leading soloists across the world.This new life-and-works study from authors Bryan R. Simms and Charlotte Erwin delivers a fresh perspective formed from comprehensive study of primary sources that reveal the forces that shaped Berg''s personality, career, and artistic outlook. One such force was Berg''s wife, Helene Nahowski Berg, and the book provides a unique assessment of her role in the composer''s life and work, as well as her later quest to shape his artistic legacy in the forty-one years of her widowhood. The authors present insightful analysis of all of Berg''s major works, bringing into play Berg''s own analyses of the music, many of which have not been considered in existing scholarship. Berg is an accessible and all-encompassing resource for all readers who wish to learn about the life and music of this composer, one of the great figures in modern music.
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Tallis

by Kerry Mccarthy Phd

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 Thomas Tallis spent more than fifty years composing music in the volatile world of Tudor England. Tallis is a clear, readable biography of a great Renaissance musician, which places the composer's music in its rich historical, cultural, and architectural context.
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Tchaikovsky

by Roland John Wiley

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 A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers, Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today. From the Nutcracker--arguably the most popular ballet currently on the boards--Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty, to Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame, to the Symphony Pathetique and the always rousing, canon-blasting 1812 Overture--this prolific and beloved composer''s works are perennial favorites. Now, John Wiley, a renowned Tchaikovsky scholar, provides a fresh biography aimed in classic Master Musicians style at the student and music lover. Wiley deftly draws on documents from imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet era sources, providing a more balanced look at recent controversies surrounding the marriage, death, and sexuality of the composer. The author dovetails the biographical material with separate chapters that treat the music thoroughly and fully, work-by-work, with more substantial explorations of Tchaikovsky''s most familiar compositions. These analyses present new, even iconoclastic perspectives on the music and the composer''s intent and expression. Several informative appendices, in the Master Musicians format, include an exhaustive list of works and bibliography.
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Carter

by David Schiff

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 Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually demanding, and emotionally complex. Distancing himself from the various "schools" and movements that grew and waned in popularity during the postwar era, Carter cultivated a deeply personal musical style that he developed and refined up until the very end of his life.This book of the composer springs from author David Schiff''s life-long interest in Elliott Carter''s music and his close personal connection with the composer which spanned over forty years. This critical overview of Carter''s life and work explores aspects of the composer''s life about which he was usually reticent--and occasionally misleading--such as his complicated relationships with Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokov, and his own parents. Schiff''s study of Carter''s complete oeuvre--from his politically charged Depression-era ballets to the deeply personal and reflective late works--is based on extensive study of the composer''s personal sketches and letters. Featuring an in-depth look at the legacy project of Carter''s final decade, seven settings of American modernist poetry by E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, this newest addition to the Master Musicians Series paints with a fine brush the story of America''s foremost composer of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Strauss

by Laurenz Lütteken

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 Laurenz LÃ¼tteken's Strauss presents a new approach to the life and works of Richard Strauss, cutting through the mystery and gossip surrounding the elusive German composer to reveal his complicated role as representative of modernity.
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Bizet

by Hugh Macdonald

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 Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth of melody. Yet it is only one act in Bizet''s story. In Bizet, renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald goes beyond the composer''s most famous opera to take an in-depth look at his entire life and oeuvre. In so doing, Macdonald identifies a number of previously unknown pieces by Bizet, assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer''s work. Incorporating these little-known pieces with a thorough reading of primary sources, Macdonald considers the latest in Bizet scholarship to create a complete biography of the composer. Revealing the true extent of Bizet''s work as arranger and transcriber, Macdonald sheds light on the composer''s complex relationships with his contemporaries, and traces the strange misrepresentation of Bizet''s work by French publishers and opera houses in the 1880s, when Carmen rose to worldwide popularity ten years after the composer''s early death. The first biography of Bizet in the Master Musicians series in nearly four decades, Bizet will be essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century opera, as well as for Carmen devotees and opera fans.
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Debussy

by Eric Frederick Jensen

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 Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its appeal. In this authoritative biography, author Eric Frederick Jensen brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy's compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence.
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Macdowell

by E. Douglas Bomberger

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 A timeless tale of human strength and weakness set in one of the most vibrant periods of American musical history, MacDowell traces the composer's rise from humble beginnings in lower Manhattan to the pinnacle of musical fame, and the precipitous fall from grace that followed.
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Handel

by Donald Burrows

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 Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex, but could result in accessible and memorable ''hit tunes'', such as the aria that subsequently became famous as ''Handel''s Largo''.His life and career were as remarkable as his music. Born in Germany to a family that reputedly tried to discourage his initial interest in music, he broke away to seek his fortune in Italian opera, and proceeded to gain first-hand experience of the latest Italian styles in Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples. A series of career moves brought him via Hanover to London, where he eventually settled and dominated the city''s musical life for half a century. There he quickly made his mark in English church music as well as Italian opera, and eventually created two new musical genres--English theatre oratorio and the organ concerto.Handel is important also because, as a musician, he also became a significant public figure. In Rome he attracted the patronage of princes and cardinals; soon after his arrival in London he appeared at the court of Queen Anne, and he subsequently enjoyed substantial support from the "Hanoverian" royal family. He survived turbulent periods in the musical and political life of London, reached a wider public through publications of his music, died a rich man and was buried in Westminster Abbey. This biography provides a comprehensive and balanced account of both the man and his music, drawing on the unusually rich legacy of documentary and musical sources from Handel''s lifetime. This new edition of a book that has been recognized as a ''classic'' biography of Handel, reliable on the factual details of the composer''s life and comprehensive in the coverage of his music, incorporates a great deal of new material. The last half century has seen a great renewal of research on the circumstances of Handel''s life, and a major expansion in performances and recordings of his music. The book brings together the results of this scholarly activity, and is informed by wide experience of modern performances of Handel''s music, including the revival of his operas and experimentation with ''authentic'' performance practices.
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Narrating The Rise Of Big Business In The Usa - How Economists Explain Standard Oil And Wal-Mart

by Anne (University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Usa) Mayhew

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 In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart, combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat darker pictures painted by writers of fiction.
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Brother, Can You Spare A Billion? - The United States, The Imf, And The International Lender Of Last Resort

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 Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how and why the U.S. has regularly acted, often alongside the IMF, as an international lender of last resort by selectively bailing out foreign economies in crisis. Daniel McDowell highlights the unique role that the U.S. has played in stabilizing the world economy from the 1960s through 2008.
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Implacable Foes - War In The Pacific, 1944-1945

by Marc (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, Villanova University) Gallicchio

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 Award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio offer a full account and a provocative re-examination of the last year of World War II in the Pacific.
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Fostering The Emotional Well-Being Of Our Youth - A School-Based Approach

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Anaconda - The Secret Life Of The World'S Largest Snake

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 This book reveals the natural history of the green anaconda, one of the most elusive of snakes.
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Inside Computer Music

by Michael (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, University Of Huddersfield) Clarke e Peter (Emeritus Professor Of Music, Emeritus Professor Of Music, Durham University) Manning

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 A ground-breaking investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years.
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Georges Auric - A Life In Music And Politics

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 The first English-language biography of this major French film composer, George Auric: A Life in Music and Politics examines not only the impact of Auric's leftist politics on his work, but also the myriad roles he held outside of film composition - including but not limited to music critic, opera director, and arts administrator.
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Strauss

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 Laurenz LÃ¼tteken's Strauss presents a new approach to the life and works of Richard Strauss, cutting through the mystery and gossip surrounding the elusive German composer to reveal his complicated role as representative of modernity.
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Consuming Dance - Choreography And Advertising

by Colleen T. (Professor Of Dance, Professor Of Dance, California State University, Long Beach) Dunagen

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 Whether advertising clothes or technology, dance is staple of advertising today. Consuming Dance offers a clear history and analysis of dance in advertising and demonstrates the ways in which the form articulates with, informs, and reflects U.S. culture.
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Consuming Dance - Choreography And Advertising

by Colleen T. (Professor Of Dance, Professor Of Dance, California State University, Long Beach) Dunagen

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 Whether advertising clothes or technology, dance is staple of advertising today. Consuming Dance offers a clear history and analysis of dance in advertising and demonstrates the ways in which the form articulates with, informs, and reflects U.S. culture.
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Carter

by David Schiff

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A Portable Cosmos - Revealing The Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder Of The Ancient World

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 The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought.
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