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Listen to this
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Alex Ross |
Après le succès de The Rest is Noise, le critique américain Alex Ross revient avec Listen to This, un cocktail revigorant d'essais sur la musique pop, rock, jazz et classique. |
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The quilting points of musical modernsim
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J. P. E. Harper-Scott |
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Sovi… |
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Black Sabbath and philosophy
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William Irwin |
"A philosophical look at heavy metal's dark masters of reality, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is one of the world's most influential and enduring rock bands. Dubbed "the Beatles of heavy metal" by Roll… |
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The music instinct
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Philip Ball |
The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleepin… |
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How Music Works
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David Byrne |
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evo… |
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The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach
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André Pirro |
Offered here for the first time in English, The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach (L'Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach), by the celebrated scholar and organist André Pirro, was originally published … |
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Metaphysical Graffiti
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Randall E. Auxier |
1 online resource |
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Rock me Amadeus
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Seb Hunter |
It should have been a straightforward plan. When Seb Hunter turned his back on his cherished record collection in search of more nourishing sounds, rock'n'roll cold turkey was going to be the least o… |
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Eduard Hanslick
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Dietmar Strauß |
The present seventh volume of the new historical-critical complete edition of Eduard Hanslick's works contains texts of the years 1864 to 1865, which are for the most part contributions from the Vien… |
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Parallels and Paradoxes
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Edward W. Said |
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Baren… |
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Pyramids at the Louvre
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Glenn Watkins |
ix, 571 p. : 25 cm |
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The Music of the Spheres
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Jamie James |
This book provides the parallel histories of music and science, from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately, ordered me… |
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In search of opera
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Carolyn Abbate |
"In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization … |
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Musical time
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Barbara R. Barry |
xv, 391 : 24 cm |
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