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  • Carl Maria Von Weber by Warrack, John
    John Warrack

    Carl Maria Von Weber

    The first edition of John Warrack's study of Weber was published in 1968 and quickly became recognized as the standard 'life and works' - indeed the best book on Weber in any language. The second edition was produced in 1976 to mark the 150th...
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  • Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.
    Joy H. Calico

    Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

    From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as...
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  • Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage

    A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945.Author: Richard Langham SmithISBN-10: 1108723039ISBN-13: 9781108723039Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2022Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.80d
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  • Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song by Glauert, Amanda
    Amanda Glauert

    Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song

    Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when...
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  • Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Harrington, James
    James Harrington

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the conservatory with better training than ever, but...
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  • Bravo!: The History of Opera in British Columbia by Cunningham, Rosemary
    Rosemary Cunningham

    Bravo!: The History of Opera in British Columbia

    Those who think arts and culture in British Columbia is a recent development might be surprised to learn that opera has been flourishing in the province for well over a hundred years. The first full performance in Victoria took place in 1877 and in...
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  • Between Opera and Cinema by Joe, Jeongwon
    Jeongwon Joe

    Between Opera and Cinema

    Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.Author: Jeongwon JoeISBN-10: 0815334508ISBN-13: 9780815334507Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2002Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.28w x 0.88d
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  • Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity by Berger, Karol
    Karol Berger

    Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity

    In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the...
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  • Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.
    Joy H. Calico

    Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

    From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as...
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  • Carmen: Libretto by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen: Libretto

    (Opera). French/English. Standard Version with sung recitatives.Author: Georges BizetISBN-10: 0793526205ISBN-13: 9780793526208Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.52h x 6.76w x 0.15d
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  • Blackness in Opera by Andre, Naomi
    Naomi Andre

    Blackness in Opera

    Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and...
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  • Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies

    'A beautiful and important book' - Marina MahlerGustav Mahler wrote some of the most challenging and cherished music of all time: eleven extraordinary symphonies that continue to fascinate, intrigue and infuriate music lovers around the world.In his dazzling new book, David Vernon celebrates these...
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  • Carl Maria Von Weber and the Search for a German Opera by Meyer, Stephen C.
    Stephen C. Meyer

    Carl Maria Von Weber and the Search for a German Opera

    Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der Freisch?z and Euryanthe, and contemporary discourse on both the "Germany of the imagination" and the new nation itself. In so doing, he presents excerpts from a wide range of philosophical, political, and musical...
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  • Backstage with Pavarotti and Other Egos: Disasters on the High Cs by Duffus, John
    John Duffus

    Backstage with Pavarotti and Other Egos: Disasters on the High Cs

    Luciano Pavarotti was one of the best-loved international personalities of the 20th century. A singer who broke free of opera houses to perform before massive audiences in huge arenas around the world, becoming in the process the richest opera singer in history.John Duffus presented...
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  • Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-De-Siècle Paris by Gibbons, William
    William Gibbons

    Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-De-Si鐵le Paris

    The pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critics, and composers. Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century...
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  • Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America by Estreicher, Samuel
    Samuel Estreicher

    Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America

    Are Americans making under $50,000 a year compelled to navigate the legal system on their own, or do they simply give up because they cannot afford lawyers? We know anecdotally that Americans of median or lower income generally do without legal representation or resort...
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  • Carmen by Guirard, Ernest
    Ernest Guirard

    Carmen

    Title: Carmen Composer: Georges Bizet Original Publisher: Schirmer The complete French/English vocal score to Bizet's Carmen as originally published by Schirmer in 1895. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions,...
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  • Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song by Glauert, Amanda
    Amanda Glauert

    Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song

    Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when...
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  • Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Naroditskaya, Inna
    Inna Naroditskaya

    Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage

    In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological...
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  • Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd by Cooke, Mervyn
    Mervyn Cooke

    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

    Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M....
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  • Avidly Reads Opera by Kinney, Alison
    Alison Kinney

    Avidly Reads Opera

    "Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It's hope." All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we're listening for the first time or...
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  • Bizet's Carmen Uncovered by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Bizet's Carmen Uncovered

    Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces that brought Carmen to the...
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  • Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method by Marchesi, Mathilde
    Mathilde Marchesi

    Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method

    Mathilde Marchesi (1821-1913) was probably the most renowned singing teacher of the late nineteenth century. Herself the pupil of the great Manuel Garcia the Second and the associate of the unsurpassable divas of the middle nineteenth century, she also linked the traditional bel canto...
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  • Carmen in Full Score by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen in Full Score

    When he first heard Carmen, Tchaikovsky enthusiastically predicted it would become the world's most popular opera. Wagner, too, was an admirer of this dramatic masterpiece, and Brahms claimed to have seen it 29 times. At its premiere in Paris in 1873, however, Carmen did...
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  • Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Andre, Naomi
    Naomi Andre

    Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement

    From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi Andr draws on the experiences of performers and...
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  • Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Harrington, James
    James Harrington

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the conservatory with better training than ever, but...
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  • Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes by Ardoin, John
    John Ardoin

    Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes

    Today the celebrated master classes of Maria Callas remain an important part of her legacy. John Ardoin's brilliant transcription, returned to print in this volume, captures the insights of a supremely self-aware artist of impeccable musicianship. In detailed commentaries on seventy-five arias, she talks...
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  • Avidly Reads Opera by Kinney, Alison
    Alison Kinney

    Avidly Reads Opera

    "Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It's hope." All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we're listening for the first time or...
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  • Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos by Anderson, Greg
    Greg Anderson

    Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos

    Monstrous challenges await. A concert fantasy based on Georges Bizet's beloved opera "Carmen," this show-stopper for two pianos treats its source material with reverence, creativity, and unadulterated joy. Made famous by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. "Carmen Fantasy for Two Pianos, based on...
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  • Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer: Why You Want It, Why You've Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It by Goren, Neal
    Neal Goren

    Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer: Why You Want It, Why You've Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It

    It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in demand over another is not exclusively a special instrument or exceptional vocal technique--rather, the ability to interpret the music...
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  • Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources by Banks, Paul
    Paul Banks

    Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources

    A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and creative evolution of this once-overlooked work. This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991....
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  • Behind the Curtain: An Intimate Autobiographical Probe into the Esoteric World of Opera by Weibel, William M.
    William M. Weibel

    Behind the Curtain: An Intimate Autobiographical Probe into the Esoteric World of Opera

    A native of Queens, N.Y., Maestro Weibel was never in doubt about the avenue his future career would take. His talent and love for musical expression began at an early age. He attended both the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in Manhattan...
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  • Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice by Marafioti, P. M.
    P. M. Marafioti

    Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice

    He was the greatest tenor of his day and probably of all time. Trained naturally in singing Neapolitan ballads, Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) achieved a vocal quality often described as "celestial" or "golden." His breath control was such that he could deliver the longest phrase...
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  • Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle" by Smith, Marian
    Marian Smith

    Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle"

    Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Op駻a (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship...
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  • Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown by Bloom, Peter
    Peter Bloom

    Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown

    Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Mémoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars, these essays probe some of Berlioz's major works, including...
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  • Birgit Nilsson: 100: An Homage by Reisch, Rutbert
    Rutbert Reisch

    Birgit Nilsson: 100: An Homage

    Though arguably the last of the "true" Wagnerians, Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) was by no means limited to Wagner in her repertoire. Her roles as Isolde, Br nnhilde, Salome, Elektra, Dyer's Wife and Turandot were often collectively referred to as the "Nilsson repertoire."...
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  • Carmen (Book and CD's): The Complete Opera on Two CDs Featuring Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, and Mirella Freni [With 2 CD's] by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen (Book and CD's): The Complete Opera on Two CDs Featuring Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, and Mirella Freni [With 2 CD's]

    The Black Dog Opera Library is the best, easiest and most informative and budget-friendly way to enjoy four of the greatest operas of all time. Finally available again, and packaged with gorgeous new covers, each book in the library includes the complete opera on...
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  • Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy by Weaver, David E.
    David E. Weaver

    Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

    While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star...
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  • Carmen by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen

    Title: Carmen Composer: Georges Bizet Original Publisher: Choudens The complete score to Bizet's Carmen, as arranged for solo piano by Bizet, originally published by Choudens in 1875. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of...
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  • Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage by Langham Smith, Richard
    Richard Langham Smith

    Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage

    From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen - whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol - provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving...
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  • Arias for Soprano: Voice and Piano by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Arias for Soprano: Voice and Piano

    (Opera). 19 arias from 8 operas. Including all the major soprano arias from Manon Lescaut, La boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del West, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot . Contents: Che tua madre dovra * Non la sospiri * Donde lieta *...
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  • Aspects of Wagner by Magee, Bryan
    Bryan Magee

    Aspects of Wagner

    Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any...
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  • Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival by Spotts, Frederic
    Frederic Spotts

    Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival

    Germany's cultural glory and for a time Germany's political shame: the operatic festival established by Richard Wagner in 1876 is one of the most intriguing phenomena in modern European intellectual history. The oldest and best known of all musical festivals, Bayreuth soon after Wagner's...
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  • 100 Great Operas and Their Stories: Act-By-ACT Synopses by Simon, Henry W.
    Henry W. Simon

    100 Great Operas and Their Stories: Act-By-ACT Synopses

    An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written. From La Traviata to A da, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world's...
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  • A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera by Schweitzer, Vivien
    Vivien Schweitzer

    A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera

    A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic...
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  • American Aria: Encore by Milnes, Sherrill
    Sherrill Milnes

    American Aria: Encore

    What's it like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some 20 years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House? And then to travel the world, singing in historic theaters from La Scala in Milan...
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  • African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre by Matzke, Christine
    Christine Matzke

    African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre

    Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts. Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in...
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  • A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal by Kinderman, William
    William Kinderman

    A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal

    New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work. Richard Wagner's Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. This "stage consecration festival play," as the composer described it, represents the culmination of his efforts to bring medieval myth and modern...
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  • Account Of The Terrific And Fatal Riot At The New York Astor Place Opera House, On The Night Of May 10, 1849 by Ranney, H. M.
    H. M. Ranney

    Account Of The Terrific And Fatal Riot At The New York Astor Place Opera House, On The Night Of May 10, 1849

    ""Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New York Astor Place Opera House, on the Night of May 10, 1849"" is a historical book written by H.M. Ranney. The book describes the events of a violent riot that took place in New...
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  • Amadeus: The Complete Guide to Her Recordings on Compact Disc by Ardoin, John
    John Ardoin

    The Callas Legacy: The Complete Guide to Her Recordings on Compact Disc

    THE CALLAS LEGACY LEGACY THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO HER RECORDINGS ON CD 4EDAuthor: John ArdoinISBN-10: 093134090XISBN-13: 9780931340901Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.21w x 0.58d
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