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  • Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court by Stevens, John
    John Stevens

    Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court

    First published in 1962, John Stevens' book examines the complex interplay between lyrical and musical compositions in the courts of Henry VII and VIII. One of the persistent problems for the reader of an English lyric is this: was the poem meant to be...
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  • Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini by November, Nancy
    Nancy November

    Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

    Domestic musical arrangements of opera provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. These arrangements flourished in especially rich variety in early nineteenth-century Vienna. This study reveals ways in which the Viennese culture of musical arrangements opened up opportunities, especially for...
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  • Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place by Walton, Chris
    Chris Walton

    Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place

    An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career. When the people of Dresden rose up against their king in May 1849, Richard Wagner went from Royal...
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  • The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City by Rondón, César Miguel
    C駸ar Miguel Rond

    The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only...
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  • A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats by Adofo, Christian
    Christian Adofo

    A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats

    Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing...
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  • A History of Welsh Music by Herbert, Trevor
    Trevor Herbert

    A History of Welsh Music

    Author: Trevor HerbertISBN-10: 100900526XISBN-13: 9781009005265Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2024Pages: 478Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d
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  • Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England by Austern, Linda Phyllis
    Linda Phyllis Austern

    Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England

    English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading...
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  • Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Eyre, Banning
    Banning Eyre

    Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe

    Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory...
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  • Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic by Shoemaker, Bill
    Bill Shoemaker

    Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic

    This book examines the work of select musicians from the United Kingdom during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical contexts. Bill Shoemaker profiles a diverse cast of subjects and enhances our understanding of experimental music...
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  • Fränkisches Liederbuch: Eine Sammlung Auserlesener, Bes. In Franken Beliebter Volks- Und Gesellschaftslieder by Anonymous
    Anonymous

    Fr舅kisches Liederbuch: Eine Sammlung Auserlesener, Bes. In Franken Beliebter Volks- Und Gesellschaftslieder

    This book is a collection of popular folk and society songs from the Franconia region of Germany. It features a range of songs that are well-loved by the people of the region, and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in traditional German music...
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  • The Joy of Russian Piano Music by Agay, Denes
    Denes Agay

    The Joy of Russian Piano Music

    (Yorktown). A graded collection of melodic masterpieces from the Romantic and modern repertory. Selected and edited by Denes Agay.Author: Denes AgayISBN-10: 0825680328ISBN-13: 9780825680328Publisher: Yorktown PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 11.93h x 9.09w x 0.27d
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  • Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu by Magaldi, Cristina
    Cristina Magaldi

    Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu

    This book focuses on the relationship of European music to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It shows European Music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the...
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  • Music on the Move by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle
    Danielle Fosler-Lussier

    Music on the Move

    Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can...
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  • Songs Of The North American Indian by Lieurance, Thurlow
    Thurlow Lieurance

    Songs Of The North American Indian

    This book consists of a collection of songs from North American Indigenous peoples, as transcribed and arranged for piano and voice by Thurlow Lieurance. The music reflects a wide variety of styles and cultures, from the Navajo to the Winnebago. Each song is accompanied...
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  • Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century by Pourjavady, Amir Hosein
    Amir Hosein Pourjavady

    Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

    'Music Making in Iran' looks at the change and evolution of music in Iran from both social and theoretical perspectives. Amir Hosein Pourjavady scrutinises the emergence and development of modal entities, rules for modulation, the formation of court repertoires, the progress of rhythmic structures,...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies by Frã1/4hauf, Tina
    Tina Fr?auf

    The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

    The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Jewish music published to date. It is the first endeavor to address the diverse range of sounds, texts, archives, traditions, histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical discourses...
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  • Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania by Pistrick, Eckehard
    Eckehard Pistrick

    Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania

    Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of...
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  • Hilltop Hoods' The Calling by Rodger, Dianne
    Dianne Rodger

    Hilltop Hoods' the Calling

    The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for...
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  • 50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing by Authors, Various
    Various Authors

    50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing

    "50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing" is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the rich tradition of Armenian folk music. The book features a collection of 50 easy-to-play melodies that are perfect for both singers and musicians. Whether you are an...
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  • Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards: Preserved by Tradition, and Authentic Manuscripts, From Remote Antiquity; Never Before Published; to by Jones, Edward 1752-1824
    Edward 1752-1824 Jones

    Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards: Preserved by Tradition, and Authentic Manuscripts, From Remote Antiquity; Never Before Published; to

    This unique book offers a fascinating insight into the musical and poetic traditions of the Welsh bards. It includes a collection of relics that have been preserved through tradition and authentic manuscripts, along with variations for various instruments. It is a must-read for anyone...
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  • Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848-1922 Formation of Czechoslovakia: Interaction of National and Global Forces by Peterson, James
    James W. Peterson

    Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848-1922 Formation of Czechoslovakia: Interaction of National and Global Forces

    This book characterizes the 1918-22 formation of Czechoslovakia as an effect of political and musical expressions. The authors argue that while national factors were the most powerful in the period between the 1848 Revolution and the 1880s, global movements such as modernism and western...
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  • Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence by Wilbourne, Emily
    Emily Wilbourne

    Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence

    Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argues for the relevance of such individuals to the history of Western music and for the importance of sound-particularly musical and vocal sounds-to systems of...
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  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes Circa 1550-1860 by Piperno, Franco
    Franco Piperno

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between...
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  • Music and Society in Early Modern England by Marsh, Christopher
    Christopher Marsh

    Music and Society in Early Modern England

    Music and Society in Early Modern England is the first comprehensive survey of English popular music during the early modern period to be published in over one hundred and fifty years. Christopher Marsh offers a fascinating and broad-ranging account of musicians, the power of...
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  • Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology by Zon, Bennett
    Bennett Zon

    Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

    'In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of the...
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  • Music and Citizenship by Stokes, Martin
    Martin Stokes

    Music and Citizenship

    Critical citizenship practices and the language of today's populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today's insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of 'flexible' or 'differentiated' citizenships - plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually...
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  • Music on the Move by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle
    Danielle Fosler-Lussier

    Music on the Move

    Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can...
    $70.00
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  • World Music Class 2015: The Aspire Higher Project by Givnology, Charmony
    Charmony Givnology

    World Music Class 2015: The Aspire Higher Project

    Vincent and the Givnology Charmony Division team have combined over half a century of expert experience in performing, composing, arranging and teaching. From this comes practical tips and techniques for a diverse array of musical and cultural uses. World Music Class is a very...
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  • Sound and Sense in British Romanticism by Grande, James
    James Grande

    Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

    A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to...
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  • Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany by Kevorkian, Tanya
    Tanya Kevorkian

    Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany

    Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores...
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  • Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA by Mitchell, Tony
    Tony Mitchell

    Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA

    International scholars explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.The thirteen essays that comprise Global Noise explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Anglophone and Francophone Canada, Japan and Australia within their social, cultural and ethnic contexts. Countering the prevailing colonialist...
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  • Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Jensen, Claudia R.
    Claudia R. Jensen

    Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia

    Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers detailed...
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  • Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition by Bakhle, Janaki
    Janaki Bakhle

    Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition

    A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite,...
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  • War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale by Baily, John
    John Baily

    War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale

    In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki's coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication...
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  • Music and Victorian Liberalism: Composing the Liberal Subject by Collins, Sarah
    Sarah Collins

    Music and Victorian Liberalism: Composing the Liberal Subject

    The discourse of Victorian liberalism has long been explored by scholars of literature, with reference to politics, ethics and aesthetics. Yet little attention has been paid to music's role in the context of these debates, leaving a rich collection of historical and archival detail...
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  • Tango Canción: 21 Argentine Tangos for High Voice and Piano by Solare, Juan María
    Juan Mar僘 Solare

    Tango Canci: 21 Argentine Tangos for High Voice and Piano

    This collection of Argentinean tangos for voice and piano offers a cross-section of tango across the ages, from the beginnings, through the Gardel era, the golden age and Tango nuevo (of Piazzolla and others), right up to contemporary compositions; creating a perfect tango concert...
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  • Women Musicians of Zimbabwe Diary by Makwenda, Joyce Jenje
    Joyce Jenje Makwenda

    Women Musicians of Zimbabwe Diary

    THE WOMEN MUSICIANS OF ZIMBABWE DIARY chronicles the journey of women musicians from 1930's.Author: Joyce Jenje MakwendaISBN-10: 0797454853ISBN-13: 9780797454859Publisher: Storytime PromotionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2017Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.46d
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  • The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by Jones, David Wyn
    David Wyn Jones

    The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

    The music of the Strauss family - Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard - enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones...
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  • Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France by Ellis, Katharine
    Katharine Ellis

    Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

    In an era of heightened patriotic fervor following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Parisians packed concert halls to hear performances of Handel's oratorios and Bach's organ works. At the same time, both royalists and republicans called for the re-evaluation of the once detested...
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  • Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Rehding, Alexander
    Alexander Rehding

    Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany

    A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment...
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  • The Lion's Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music by Cummings, Anthony M.
    Anthony M. Cummings

    The Lion's Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music

    For centuries, the Renaissance papacy has been celebrated for its generous patronage of the arts. Pope Leo X, son of the legendary Lorenzo "the Magnificent" de'Medici, is widely understood to be one of the greatest patrons of music in European history, and one of...
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  • Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook by Aguilar, Ananay
    Ananay Aguilar

    Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook

    Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline...
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  • Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)] by Omojola, Bode
    Bode Omojola

    Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice [With CD (Audio)]

    Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers:...
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  • Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition by Bakhle, Janaki
    Janaki Bakhle

    Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition

    A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite,...
    $47.99
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  • Resounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid by Helbig, Adriana N.
    Adriana N. Helbig

    Resounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid

    ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid engages with global scholarship on development, poverty, and applied research. It addresses the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within postsocialist neoliberal processes and analyzes the economic structures within which Romani musics circulate. Specifically, ReSounding Poverty offers a...
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  • Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) by Fabris, Dinko
    Dinko Fabris

    Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)

    The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminating in his appointment as maestro of the Tesoro di S. Gennaro and the Real Cappella. Provenzale was...
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  • Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century by Lockwood, Lewis
    Lewis Lockwood

    Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century

    Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the...
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  • Pop Anthology - Book 1: 50 Pop Songs for All Piano Methods Early - Late Elementary Level by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Pop Anthology - Book 1: 50 Pop Songs for All Piano Methods Early - Late Elementary Level

    (Educational Piano Library). Being able to play songs you recognize soon after beginning piano lessons can be a key toward motivating students and boosting confidence as the building blocks to playing the instrument are starting to develop. This unique collection presents 50 popular songs...
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  • The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus by Reynolds, Dwight
    Dwight Reynolds

    The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

    The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the...
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  • Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera by Huseynova, Aida
    Aida Huseynova

    Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera

    This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan...
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