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Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution. portsPRIZES:Shortlisted for Guardian First Bo...
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What is involved in the composition, performance, and reception of classical music? What are we doing when we listen to this music seriously? Why when playing a Beethoven sonata do performers begin wi...
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Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of ...
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Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain as seen by foreign musicians. It begins with the rise of the celebrity composer in the n...
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23 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index...
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This is an ethnographic study of women's popular music-making. It is based on over 100 in-depth interviews as well as participant observation by the author, a sociologist, who has herself played in va...
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12 illustrations...
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This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the sevent...
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