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Experiencing Led Zeppelin
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2014
662 kr
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In 1980, Led Zeppelin formally disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham. Yet over three decade, the music, the mystique, and the legacy of this legendary rock act lives on. Reissues of their music sell in the millions, while rumors of reunion tours continue to electrify fans across the …
Experiencing Debussy
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2018
529 kr
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Claude Debussy holds a place as a one of the most recognizable and influential composers in the classical music. Debussy forged a new and influential sound for the twentieth century with his remarkable harmonies, fluid rhythms, airy textures, and an instinct for mystery and beauty.In Experiencing …
Experiencing Progressive Rock
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2018
602 kr
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In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition over the decades. Originating in the 1960s with acts like …
Experiencing Jazz
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2013
880 kr
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In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying …
Experiencing Alice Cooper
A Listener's Companion
Av Ian Chapman
Inbunden, 2018
529 kr
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Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music’s self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ, …
Experiencing the Rolling Stones
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2016
604 kr
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More than fifty years after their founding, the Rolling Stones still tour and create new music as the world’s quintessential rock band. David Malvinni’s Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s Companion looks at the Stones’ music from the inside out. Along the journey, Malvinni places …
Experiencing Black Sabbath
A Listener's Companion
Av Nolan Stolz
E-bok, 2017
679 kr
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Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970. Their new style of music was loud, brutal, scary, innovative, and it has greatly influenced heavy metal bands since then. Their five decades of music cross generations of fans, and they remain …
Experiencing Jazz
A Listener's Companion
E-bok, 2013
503 kr
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In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying …
Experiencing Mozart
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2013
880 kr
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Titles in the Listener’s Companion Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume clearly explains how to listen to works from particular artists, composers, and genres. Examining both the …
Experiencing Mozart
A Listener's Companion
E-bok, 2013
963 kr
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Titles in the Listener’s Companion Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume clearly explains how to listen to works from particular artists, composers, and genres. Examining both the …
Experiencing Stravinsky
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2013
807 kr
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Hear the name “Igor Stravinsky” and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, “serious” music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George Balanchine? That his work subtly espoused …
Experiencing Stravinsky
A Listener's Companion
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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Hear the name “Igor Stravinsky” and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, “serious” music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George Balanchine? That his work subtly espoused …
Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2013
807 kr
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Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular …
Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular …
Experiencing Berlioz
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2018
604 kr
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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener’s Companion is an in-depth entrée into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe.Melinda O’Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's …
Experiencing the Violin Concerto
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2016
735 kr
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Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist’s virtuosity and the blended sonority of an orchestra’s many instruments. Using this genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the violin concerto as a key genre of …
Experiencing Broadway Music
A Listener's Companion
Av Kat Sherrell
Inbunden, 2016
735 kr
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Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener’s Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early–twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that …
Experiencing Leonard Bernstein
A Listener's Companion
Häftad, 2017
473 kr
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Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, …
Experiencing Rush
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2014
732 kr
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Few bands have proven as long-standing and experimental as the Canadian rock act Rush, which has successfully survived and adapted like few others by continuing to work in an album-oriented “progressive hard rock” style. Rush bridged its original blues-rock style with progressive rock and heavy …
Experiencing Tchaikovsky
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2015
732 kr
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The music of Tchaikovsky remains as much loved in the twenty-first century as it was a hundred years ago. But it has so much more to offer than luscious orchestration and tuneful melodies. In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond …
Experiencing Leonard Bernstein
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2014
732 kr
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Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, …
Experiencing David Bowie
A Listener's Companion
Av Ian Chapman
Inbunden, 2015
732 kr
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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. Still active in a career now …
Experiencing Schumann
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2016
732 kr
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During his lifetime and for at least a century after his death, Robert Schumann and his music were commonly misunderstood. His long struggle with mental illness was well known, and as a result some of the most original and innovative features of his work were often dismissed as bizarre and …
Experiencing Big Band Jazz
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2017
604 kr
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The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the prominence of arrangers, whose …
Experiencing Bessie Smith
A Listener's Companion
Av John Clark
Inbunden, 2017
602 kr
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Bessie Smith occupies a unique place in the history of American music. She was one of the first undisputed artists to come from the American vernacular tradition of the twentieth century, and as a woman, she was a figure of extraordinary power. She organized and led her own touring companies, wrote …
Experiencing Chick Corea
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2017
529 kr
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With twenty-three Grammy wins, Chick Corea is a legendary jazz figure and one of the most prolific and influential contemporary pianists of our time. He has produced hundreds of releases in multiple genres over five decades, and he is one of the hardest-working musicians in the industry, with a …
Experiencing Beethoven
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2016
732 kr
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The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian …
Experiencing Ornette Coleman
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2017
620 kr
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Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, along with pianist Cecil Taylor, was one of the founding forces of the Free Jazz movement which took the music world by storm in the 1950s and 60s. His brilliance as an instrumentalist at first positioned him as a …
Experiencing Peter Gabriel
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2016
732 kr
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In Experiencing Peter Gabriel, author Durrell Bowman delves into the sounds and stories of the innovative, versatile, English pop icon. As not only a singer-songwriter and musician, but also a music technologist, world-music champion, and humanitarian, Gabriel has consistently maintained an …
Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber
A Listener's Companion
Inbunden, 2017
602 kr
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Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. The success of his opera Der Freischütz almost single handedly brought German operatic style onto the world stage, competing with and challenging established operatic traditions in France …
