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Biographic: Beethoven Great Lives in Graphic Form

Weeks Marcus

ISBN: HB: 9781781454152, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2020
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Classic Albums The Vinyl that Made a Generation

Whiticker Alan J.

ISBN: PB: 9781921024382, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.3x20.8 cm, colour illus.

In the late 1960s and 1970s, vinyl ruled! Fans showed their love and investment in a particularly rock and roll band by paying about $10 ($75 in today's money) for a dozen songs etched into 40 minutes of a vinyl 'long play' or LP record. Not only did...

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Musical Vitalities Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music

Watkins Holly

ISBN: HB: 9780226594705, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings

Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...

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Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery

Wallace Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones

We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...

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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte

Wilbourne Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226401577, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 37 line drawings, 4 tables

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages o...

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Man Verdi

Walker Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226871325, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 musical example

In this classic biography of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Walker reveals Verdi the man through his connections with the individuals who knew him best".Walker focuses on some of the more significant people in Verdi's life and carefully scrutinizes h...

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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

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School for Cool The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226125190, ISBN: HB: 9780226125053, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die – so some fear – at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their care...

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Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade Bonnie C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...

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