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Experiencing Mahler - A Listener''S Companion

by Arved Ashby

22,64€ + 10% CARD

 Arved Ashby takes readers into the seeming chaos of Mahlerâ€™s work to investigate the elements which make each work an experiential adventure. The book surveys Mahler's symphonies and song cycles in detail, introducing them as intensely vivid, truthful, and lived and felt experiences.
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Experiencing Debussy - A Listener''S Companion

by Teresa Davidian

42,93€ + 10% CARD

 Blending history and musical analysis, Davidian reveals the genius of Debussyâ€™s major works. As Davidian looks beneath the surface of the music to explain its power, she contextualizes them within Debussyâ€™s life and nineteenth-century Paris.
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Experiencing Herbie Hancock - A Listener''S Companion

by Eric Wendell

45,32€ + 10% CARD

 Eric Wendell looks beyond the successes and failures of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock to explore his musical design within the jazz community and mainstream pop culture. Wendell explores how Hancockâ€™s efforts have established new jazz standards while fostering a cross-genre continuity among modern jazz practitioners.
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Experiencing Jewish Music In America - A Listener''S Companion

by Tina Fruhauf

45,32€ + 10% CARD

 Experiencing Jewish Music in America offers an accessible exploration of the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the U.S. This survey on the art of listening to this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites listeners from all walks of life to enjoy the many types of Jewish music available in their communities.
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Experiencing Progressive Rock - A Listener''S Companion

by Robert G. H. Burns

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands of the progressive rock movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition into the modern era. Exclusive interviews with some of prog rockâ€™s most important progenitors supplement Burnsâ€™ analysis of the music itself.
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Experiencing Alice Cooper - A Listener''S Companion

by Ian Chapman

42,93€ + 10% CARD

 Ian Chapman surveys Alice Cooperâ€™s career through his twenty-six studio albums (1969â€"2017). Throughout, Chapman argues that while Cooper may have been rockâ€™s most accomplished showman, he is first and foremost a musician, with his share of gold and platinum albums to vouch for his qualifications as a musical artist.
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Experiencing Berlioz - A Listener''S Companion

by Melinda P. O'Neal

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Experiencing Berlioz offers an accessible pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works.
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Experiencing Chopin - A Listener''S Companion

by Christine Lee Gengaro

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Gengaro surveys Chopin's position as a composer of Romantic piano music at a time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life. It sheds a spotlight on Chopin and his music that illuminates the Romantic period in which he lived, the social and artistic climate, and the importance of this most individual artist.
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Experiencing Big Band Jazz - A Listener''S Companion

by Jeff Sultanof

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Jeff Sultanof takes a fresh look at big band jazz, examining why the big band era started when it did, how pop music and big bands evolved in response to one another, and the key roles played by well-known band leaders and the bands they led.
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Experiencing Black Sabbath - A Listener''S Companion

by Nolan Stolz

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Stolz explores Black Sabbathâ€™s nineteen studio albums, several live albums, and additional studio tracks, urging readers to reassess the work of this seminal act in American rock music history. The book uncovers how Black Sabbathâ€™s song catalog explored and defined the musical genre they founded, mastered, and disseminated.
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Experiencing Ornette Coleman - A Listener''S Companion

by Michael Stephans

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer Ornette Coleman has earned enduring praise as an American jazz icon. Stephans weaves together analysis of Colemanâ€™s recordings and exploration of the free jazz movement with interviews of those who knew Coleman best to tell an inspiring story of artistic genius and resilience.
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Experiencing Chick Corea - A Listener''S Companion

by Monika Herzig

42,93€ + 10% CARD

 Experiencing Chick Corea introduces this American jazz icon to audiences beyond the domain of fans already familiar with this work. Monika Herzig places Coreaâ€™s creations in their historical and social contexts so any music lover can gain a fuller understanding of the incredible range of his work.
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Experiencing Bessie Smith - A Listener''S Companion

by John Clark

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 An icon of musical talent and independence, Bessie Smithâ€™s contributions to the blues and the music industry earned her the title of â€œEmpress of the Blues.â€Â Learning how to listen to Smith's work in turn develops a greater understanding of how her successors extended and reinterpreted her music to honor her enduring legacy.
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Experiencing The Beatles - A Listener''S Companion

by Brooke Halpin

41,74€ + 10% CARD

 Brooke Halpin takes the reader on a magical adventure through the Beatlesâ€™ entire catalog of remarkable, timeless songs to discover the circumstances that inspired the songs and brought four Liverpudlian musicians eternal fame. The volume includes personal vignettes to take the reader back in time to experience Beatlemania for themselves.
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Experiencing Carl Maria Von Weber - A Listener''S Companion

by Joseph E. Morgan

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Weberâ€™s masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.
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Experiencing Film Music - A Listener''S Companion

by Kenneth Lafave

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 LaFave opens the ears of film-goers to the nuance behind movie music, laying out in layman's language how composers map what we hear to what we see. As part of the Listener's Companion series, this volume provides an enhanced experience of music by exploring how the works were written and first performed as well as how they are enjoyed today.
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Experiencing Beethoven - A Listener''S Companion

by Geoffrey Block

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethovenâ€™s compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.
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Experiencing Billy Joel - A Listener''S Companion

by Thomas Macfarlane

53,66€ + 10% CARD

 This work analyzes each of Joelâ€™s albums, laying out their appeal to musicians and non-musicians alike while exploring the production styles that have characterized Joelâ€™s development in the recording studio. MacFarlane outlines how Billy Joelâ€™s recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy.
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Experiencing Broadway Music - A Listener''S Companion

by Kat Sherrell

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.
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Experiencing Peter Gabriel - A Listener''S Companion

by Durrell Bowman

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Bowman discusses the sounds and stories of the versatile English singer-songwriter and musician Peter Gabrielâ€™s songs. From his albums as a solo artist with the band Genesis to his film and media scores and movie songs, Gabrielâ€™s music ranges from mainstream celebrations of pop styles to experimental arrangements filled with personal emotions.
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Experiencing Schumann - A Listener''S Companion

by Donald Sanders

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Sanders chronicles Schumann's life and work, analyzing the most significant and widely performed compositions from each of the genres in which Schumann composed. This volume gives readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring the environments in which they were written and first performed as well as those in which they are enjoyed today.
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Experiencing The Violin Concerto - A Listener''S Companion

by Franco Sciannameo

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Experiencing the Violin Concerto explores the violin concerto from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" to Bartok and beyond, the social and personal histories of unforgettable virtuosi, the wonderful instruments they played, and the audiences they conquered worldwide. As part of the List...
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Experiencing The Rolling Stones - A Listener''S Companion

by David Malvinni

48,89€ + 10% CARD

 Experiencing the Rolling Stones draws together a broad swath of postwar history as it covers the bandâ€™s origins in Swinging London through to their recording sessions outside of England. Malvinni takes an especially close look at Keith Richardsâ€™ guitar work and its effect on the bandâ€™s music, as well as the multiple changes in the bandâ€™s members.
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Experiencing David Bowie - A Listener''S Companion

by Ian Chapman

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music.
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