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New! Sounds of Freedom

John Malkin

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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music NEW!

Christoph Cox,Daniel Warner
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Exploring the Musical Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function NEW!

John Sloboda
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In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work NEW!

Anthony DeCurtis
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Aaron Copland: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923-1972

Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz, Steve Silverman
Usually ships in 24 hours One of America's best-known composers and writers of twentieth century music, Aaron Copland was an American individual. This volume brings together the... [read more]

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Cosmic Music: Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality

Usually ships in 24 hours The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore is music) is a very, ancient one. In... [read more]

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Essays Before a Sonata: The Majority and Other Writings

Charles Ives
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History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A"

Bruce Haynes
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Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

Derek Bailey
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Marsalis on Music

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Music and Memory: An Introduction

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Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

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Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 16)

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Philosophy, Music and Emotion

Geoffrey Madell
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Igor Stravinsky
Usually ships in 24 hours Stravinsky delivered these six "lessons" at Harvard from 1939-1940. Stravinsky discusses composition, the function of the critic, modern Russian music (as of... [read more]

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Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making

Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble
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Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions

Mark Eden Horowitz,Stephen Sondheim
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Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music (Two Volumes Bound As One)

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Style and Idea: Selected Writings

Arnold Schoenberg
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Teaching Music Globally: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture and Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture: Package: Includes 2 books, 1 CD (Global Music Series)

Patricia Shehan Campbell,Bonnie C. Wade
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Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing NEW!

Andrew DellªAntonio,Andrew Dell''Antonio
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Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship (Eastman Studies in Music) (Eastman Studies in Music) NEW!

Margaret G. Cobb
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Essays on Music NEW!

Hans Keller,Christopher Wintle
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Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter NEW!

Justin London
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John Simon on Music : Criticism 1979-2005 (John Simon On--) (John Simon On--) NEW!

John Simon
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Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) NEW!

Joseph N. Straus
Usually ships in 24 hours In the early 1950s, Stravinsky’s compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which... [read more]

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The Political Art of Bob Dylan NEW!

David Boucher, Gary K. Browning
Usually ships in 24 hours The authors deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, including the early protest ballads, the artistic high-point of his mid-sixties... [read more]

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