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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Themes and episodes	Igor Stravinsky	Comments by composer Stravinsky on a variety of topics, mostly musical.	OL1180571W
A Compendium of Essays	E.A. Bucchianeri	As the title displays, this publication features several essays spanning the gamut of musical styles and eras, from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Impressionist periods to the modern musicals o…	OL15749200W
Can't stop, won't stop	Jeff Chang,D.J. Kool Herc	Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization…	OL15835141W
Playing from the heart	Peter H. Reynolds	"When a young boy begins to play on his family's piano, reveling in the fun of plunking the keys, his father signs him up for lessons so that he can learn to play properly. With his father's encourag…	OL19662818W
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7	Kieron Gillen	Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again. In the past: awful stuf…	OL19760943W
Innovation in Music	Jay Hodgson,Russ Hepworth-Sawyer,Rob Toulson,Justin Paterson	Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics, presented under the main themes of artistry, …	OL20927572W
La musique en activité	Guido Bimberg	Panorama des instruments de musique depuis l'Antiquité. Un texte, parfois difficile, rendu attrayant par des illustrations claires et humoristiques.	OL21198700W
Découvre la musique avec Musa	Claire Breton	Sous une couverture pailletée et accompagnée d'une des muses du Winx club, une introduction à la musique présentée dans un format poche à la mise en pages yéyé et chargées d'effets graphiques. -- Peu…	OL24259819W
Le secret d'Euphonie	Katherine Quenot	Poursuite de l'odyssée du Petit Prince à qui on a imaginé ici de nouvelles aventures en greffant à sa quête originale un autre combat: celui de contrer la funeste entreprise du serpent qui menace d'é…	OL24436861W
L'homme et ses chefs-d'oeuvre	Larousse	L'ouvrage fait partie d'une collection à caractère encyclopédique, en neuf volumes; le nombre de pages de chaque livre varie entre 112 et 192. Chaque volume porte sur un thème assez vaste. Les inform…	OL25071462W
Trois petites notes de musique	Iris Rainer Dart	Enfants, Dalhia et Sunny, passionnées par la musique, composaient ensemble des chansons. Mais Sunny est devenu schizophrène et vit internée. Vingt-cinq ans après, Dalhia rêve toujours de succès. Un g…	OL26172446W
Capoeira	Cécile Bennegent	Un ouvrage qui constitue une initiation à la connaissance de la capoeira qui est à la fois une danse, une lutte, un jeu, un sport (de combat), un rite fait de gestes, de chants et de musiques.	OL26173631W
Parallels and Paradoxes	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…	OL27387W
Too many cats	Lori Haskins Houran	A woman's cello playing draws all of the neighborhood cats into her yard, where they wreak havoc before starting to make their own kind of music.	OL28767048W
Le blues des petites villes	Fanny Chiarello	Littérature jeunesse: roman, amour, musique, homosexualité "Ce matin-là, dans la cour du collège, Sidonie s’apprête à faire quelque chose de dangereux, d’irréparable peut-être. De ces …	OL31204484W
Opportunities in music careers	Robert Gerardi	Opportunities in Music Careers explores every facet of occupations within the music industry—from publishing and teaching to composing and performing. In this new edition of an acclaimed career guide…	OL3348932W
Music in Everyday Life	Tia DeNora	The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an infl…	OL3505052W
What to Listen for in Music	Aaron Copland	In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a d…	OL4468656W
Hey, Didi Darling	S. A. Kennedy	A rock band of junior high girls decides to masquerade as boys to achieve greater success.	OL5597299W
Musicians and libraries in the United Kingdom	Maureen W. Long	viii, 152 pages : 30 cm	OL7154819W