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Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words. Translation of: Beethoven im eigenen Wort libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
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An “authorized biography” of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, written with the cooperation and support of the Tavern Includes interviews with many Canadian rock legends who have played at the Horseshoe, including The Tragically Hip, Jim Cuddy (Blue Rodeo), and many more Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary celebrations at the Horseshoe Author has written for Paste , Canadian Musician , and Chartattack.com Author is media-savvy and a strong interview[/i]
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Предлагамая читателю книга представляет собой сборник статей, объединенных вопросами тембра, оркестровки и оркестроведения. Адресована музыковедам, дирижерам и аранжировщикам.
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In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses changed through the twentieth century, sometimes still resonating in stagings, performance art, and popular culture today. Focusing on devices (which she dubs “Wagnerian technologies”) intended to amalgamate opera’s various media while veiling their mechanics, Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner’s idealist theories of total illusionism. At the same time, <I>Curtain, Gong, Steam</I>’s multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production. With its broad chronological and geographical scope, this book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of historical operatic practice as well as of individual works, both well known and obscure.
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How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In <i>The Persistence of Sentiment</i>, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music performers who have dedicated fan bases and considerable commercial success despite the critical disdain they have endured. Morris examines the specific musical features of some exemplary pop songs and draws attention to the social contexts that contributed to their popularity as well as their dismissal. These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970s allowed the greater promulgation of musical styles and idioms that spoke to and for exactly those stigmatized audiences. In more recent years, beginning with the «Seventies Revival» of the early 1990s, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades.<br /><br /><br /><br />
