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Sounds Of Apocalypse - Music In Poland Under German Occupation

by Katarzyna Naliwajek

~~50,35€~~ 40,28€ 20% OFF

 An analysis of sources on music in occupied Poland confirms that access to music, proportionate to racial status, was used to divide the population and facilitate implementation of the Third Reichâ€™s objectives. While Nazi songs and propaganda dehumanized prospective victims, clandestine music restored dignity and fostered resistance.
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Musical Humor And Antonín Dvoáks Comic Operas

by Julia Adams

~~65,85€~~ 52,68€ 20% OFF

 Antonín Dvoák was a clever and highly communicative humorist and musical dramatist. His masterful compositional strategies underscore, heighten, and construct sonic humor in his six (!!) comic operas. He crafts musical slapstick, satire, parody, and merriment using sudden breaks in rhythmic patterns, explosive harmonic shifts, excessive repetition, and startling pauses, as well as incongruous tempi, dynamics, range, and instrumentation. Dvoák also gives the orchestra its own "voice," breaking the metaphorical "fourth wall" to reveal humor outside of the characters' awareness. Narrative description and comprehensive music examples guide the reader through all six of Dvoák's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills.
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On The Music Front. Socialist-Realist Discourse On Music In Poland, 1948 To 1955

by Sawomir Wieczorek

~~57,11€~~ 45,69€ 20% OFF

 This is a monograph on one of the key aspects of Polandâ€™s musical culture during the Stalinist period. Among the many texts analysed in this book are addresses given by leading party officials, minutes of musical conferences, talks before concerts, papers on aesthetics and music history.
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The Musical Culture Of The Jesuits In Silesia And The Kodzko County (15811776)

by Tomasz Je

~~81,95€~~ 65,56€ 20% OFF

 This book studies the Jesuit culture in Silesia and Kodzko (Glatz) County by focusing on its musical works and traditions. The strategies adopted by the Jesuits achieved notable results in the artistic traditions they cultivated, first of all a creative redefinition of musical culture itself, at various levels of its organization. While allowing music to exert influence on human activity, the Jesuits had to accept that its impact would depend on the peculiarities of local possibilities and conditions. This is why they analysed the qualities of music and its culture-forming potential in such detail and precisely defined its norms and modes of functioning. The impact of music can be observed in the transformations that the cultivation of musical culture brought about in the model of the Order itself, as well as in individuals, communities, and the time and space that defined them.
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The Kolbergs Of Eastern Europe

~~55,72€~~ 44,58€ 20% OFF

 This book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolbergâ€™s folkloristâ€™s work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day and reflects on how Kolbergâ€™s work is being continued by scholars today and how the musical repertoire that he recorded is functioning.
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Sound Representations Of Memory

by Joanna Posuszna

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 The author outlines how memory is treated by contemporary artists, philosophers, musicians, sociologists, musicologists, as well as victims of the Holocaust She paints a rich landscape of how her subject features in the work of composers and their collaborators, many of whom were motivated by memories of the Occupation. With such a subject, the discussion inevitably comes round to the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and ethics. The author quotes Adorno: Is poetry possible after Auschwitz?. The work is an answer to that question, and an affirmative one. It must be possible: to restore hope, and to invoke and sustain Memory, at least symbolically by artistic means. Art, even when it disturbs, brings catharsis and preserves memory. The author impresses with her erudition, wealth of materials cited, musical competence and critical insights. Krzysztof Szwajgier, The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland.
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New Romanticism In The Works Of Polish Composers After 1975

by Pawel Strzelecki

~~60,95€~~ 48,76€ 20% OFF

 The monograph concerns one of the most important trends in contemporary classical Polish music. The new romanticism represented the reaction to the crisis of the avant-garde in the 70s. It appeared in works by the 1933 generation (Penderecki, Górecki, Kilar), the Stalowa Wola generation (Knapik, Laso, Krzanowski), and others. This music matched tradition with contemporary techniques and strong emotionalism. Its romantic dimension and seriousness were in sheer contrast to the double-coding of Postmodernism. It stemmed from the political situation in Poland during the Iron Curtain times. The book also focuses on the topics American (Schonberg, Rochberg) and European contexts. The author also analyzes 104 compositions and 30 interviews (incl. with Penderecki) to present an even fuller picture.
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Sounds Of Apocalypse - Music In Poland Under German Occupation

by Katarzyna Naliwajek

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 An analysis of sources on music in occupied Poland confirms that access to music, proportionate to racial status, was used to divide the population and facilitate implementation of the Third Reichâ€™s objectives. While Nazi songs and propaganda dehumanized prospective victims, clandestine music restored dignity and fostered resistance.
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Musical Humor And Antonin Dvorakâ€™S Comic Operas

by Julia Adams

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 AntonÃn DvorÃ¡kâ€™s masterful compositional strategies construct sonic humor in his six comic operas. He crafts musical slapstick, satire, parody, and merriment using clever orchestration and voicing techniques and incongruity. Narrative description and comprehensive music examples reveal an under-appreciated side of the composer's creative skills.
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Festa And Music At The Court Of Marie Casimire Sobieska In Rome (1699â€“1714)

by Aneta Markuszewska

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 Queen Marie Casimire Sobieska settled in Rome in 1699 where in Palazzo Zuccari she staged operas and occasional musical works, highly acclaimed by the Romans. This manifested her social status, political plans, and sublime aesthetic tastes. She commissioned such admired artists as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti.
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Carillons And Carillon Music In Old Gdansk

by Danuta Popinigis

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 The book discusses the history and music of Gdansk carillons. It contains valuable information on bells, carillon mechanisms, bell founders, carillonists, and bell setters, inviting the reader to study the Protestant repertoire, the unique notation of preserved manuscripts, and the remarkable soundscape of Gdansk.
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Nationalism, Chauvinism And Racism As Reflected In European Musical Thought And In Compositions From The Interwar Period

by Andrzej Tuchowski

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 This book concerns the ways in which nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period. The impact of these ideologies on the reflection on music has been discussed on the example of four countries of various social-political systems and ethnic backgroud: Germany, Italy, Poland and Great Britain.
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Medical Palmistry In Practice

by Syed Fazl-E-Haider

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Numerical Tools For Isogeometric Analysis

by Alves De Sousa Ricardo J, Caseiro Joao F e Valente Robertt A F

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An Image Retrieval With Color And Texture Features Of Image Sub-Blocks

by Kavitha Chaduvula

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Structural Health Monitoring In Pipeline Repair

by Abd Murad Mahadi

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by Klipan Helena

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Marcin Mielczewski And Music Under The Patronage Of The Polish Vasas - Translated By John Comber

by Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmiska

~~121,70€~~ 97,36€ 20% OFF

 This first monograph of the life and Å"uvre of Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) sets it in the context of musical life at the courts of the Polish Vasas, particularly King Ladislaus IV and Bishop Charles Ferdinand. Much attention is devoted to the evidence of the reception of Mielczewskiâ€™s music in seventeenth-century Europe.
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The Musical Rhetoric Of The Polish Baroque - The Musical Rhetoric Of The Polish Baroque

by Tomasz Jasiski

~~94,08€~~ 75,26€ 20% OFF

 Musical rhetoric is an important phenomenon in Polish baroque music. The achievements of old Polish masters were determined by the main trends of the baroque era. Polish music provides examples of almost all rhetorical figures known at that time, largely reflecting the European repertoire of interpretative devices.
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The Musical Culture Of Silesia Before 1742 - New Contexts New Perspectives

~~74,33€~~ 59,46€ 20% OFF

 The volume includes detailed studies concerning various aspects of the musical culture of Silesia from the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. The authors, who represent academic centres in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Holland, France and Great Britain, present new sources, as well as reinterpreting previously known facts and phenomena. What makes the approach here so original is that it takes into account the wider context of musical culture in Silesia, not limited to examining it exclusively in relation to the Polish, Czech or German cultures. Here we can see Silesia as one of the regions of Central Europe, and not merely as a western province of Poland, northern province of the Czech Kingdom, or eastern province of Prussia.
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Musical Romania And The Neighbouring Cultures - Traditions Influences Identities- Proceedings Of The International Musicological Conference- July 47 2013, Iai (Romania)

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 This book represents the proceedings of the International Musicological Conference Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities. The diverse topics include ancient Romanian, Balkan or East-European music, music iconography, Byzantine and folkloristic traditions as well as modern and contemporary music.
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Between Romanticism And Modernism - Ignacy Jan Paderewskis Compositional ¼Uvre

by Bogusaw Raba

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 This book is the first monograph on Ignacy Jan Paderewski as composer. It reveals the evolution of his style and aesthetics in context of European music culture of the second half of 19th and first decades of 20th-century.
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Editions Of Chopins Works In The Nineteenth Century - Aspects Of Reception History

by Wojciech Bokowski

~~73,01€~~ 58,41€ 20% OFF

 This book presents the editions of Chopins works as cultural texts and gives account of the main events in their reception history. Based on a new typology and an overview of copyright and economics, 140 editions evidence a dominance of a few popular works and genres (nocturnes, mazurkas, waltzes) and two distinctive tendencies in editing: academic (historical-monumental) and popular (salon & entertainment music). Four case studies research real-life typology, reprints, edition filiation, and the use of compositional sources. The author addresses edition aesthetics, from musical work ontology through national aspects of reception and recontextualisation strategies to the role of women in Chopin editing and axiological aspects of editions. The appendix includes forewords to major Chopin editions.
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Musical Modernism In The Twentieth Century - Translated By Wojciech Bokowski

by Maciej Gob

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 This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography. So far historiographical methodology has always depended on other fields within humanities (especially on history) to a degree where it moved the focus of its thought away from the musical works structure and away from the musical work itself. Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century looks at musical structures in its cultural context, using different methodological models for the interpretation of the subsequent phases of the twentieth-century musical modernism.
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