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  • Michael Jackson The Maestro The Definitive A-Z Volume I A-J: Michael Jackson The Maestro The Definitive A-Z Volume I A-J by Cadman, Chris
    Chris Cadman

    Michael Jackson The Maestro The Definitive A-Z Volume I A-J: Michael Jackson The Maestro The Definitive A-Z Volume I A-J

    Michael Jackson was no ordinary performer. From the moment he first moved to the rhythm of the Jackson family's old creaky washing machine he was destined to do big things. No one back then however, could have possibly predicted what would happen over the...
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  • Greatest Hits of ... the 1970's by Kelley, Albert L.
    Albert L. Kelley

    Greatest Hits of ... the 1970's

    You'll find this third volume in this series a valuable cross-reference manual to the music of the 1970's This capped off the period we call Classic Rock. The British Invasion had given way to American artists, but left an indelible impact on the face...
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  • Structural Analysis of Beatles Music by Thurmaier, David
    David Thurmaier

    Structural Analysis of Beatles Music

    Here, for the first time in published form, is an encyclopedic analysis of structure in the music of The Beatles. With a keen eye for detail and ears to match, Beatles scholar Aaron Krerowicz breaks down every Beatles song with the two-fold intent of...
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  • 50 Years of Glastonbury: Music and Mud at the Ultimate Festival by Davies, Ray
    Ray Davies

    50 Years of Glastonbury: Music and Mud at the Ultimate Festival

    From its humble beginnings, Glastonbury has grown into one of today's biggest global events, with the world's most famous acts and tickets selling out within minutes. 50 Years of Glastonbury celebrates the music, mud, and mayhem that have made the festival so popular, for...
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  • How to Be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S*** by Hodgkinson, Thomas W.
    Thomas W. Hodgkinson

    How to Be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S***

    Cool can't be taught. Or can it? That's the received wisdom, yet the idea behind this sleek, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of How to Sound Cultured) is that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the...
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  • Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man by Bordowitz, Hank
    Hank Bordowitz

    Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man

    Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man is a look at the superstar's entire career, including his troubled youth as a gang member; the controversy surrounding his first hit, "Captain Jack"; his legal problems; his storied marriage with Christie Brinkley;...
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  • Guitar Player Presents Guitar Heroes of the '70s by Rideout, Ernie
    Ernie Rideout

    Guitar Player Presents Guitar Heroes of the '70s

    Launched in 1967, Guitar Player was the only guitar publication in existence when the '60s and '70s six-string explosion ignited across the globe. As a result, Guitar Player interviewed scores of seminal guitar stars as the magic happened. Now Guitar Player has opened its...
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  • Lunar Notes - Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience by Harkleroad, Bill
    Bill Harkleroad

    Lunar Notes - Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience

    Bill Harkleroad joined Captain Beefheart's Magic Band at a time when they were changing from a straight ahead blues band into something completely different. Through the vision of Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) they created a new form of music which many at the...
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  • Wipe Clean Music Board: Landscape Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Wipe Clean Music Board: Landscape Edition

    (Music Sales America). The Wipe Clean Music Board is a handy new tool for young musicians. Students can practice writing melodies, rhythms, notes and clefs, and rub it out if they go wrong The red side is portrait-oriented with multiple staves; the reverse blue...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies by Bull, Michael
    Michael Bull

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies

    The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken...
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  • The Ultimate Book of Choral Warm-Ups and Energisers: Turbo Charge Your Choir by Reibl, Tina
    Tina Reibl

    The Ultimate Book of Choral Warm-Ups and Energisers: Turbo Charge Your Choir

    This book fills a gap in the market by providing energising warm-up activities for community, church and youth choirs. Whereas many publications exist that offer singing and vocal exercises, there are virtually none available offering physical warm-ups, breathing exercises and exercises for articulation. These...
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  • Gregorian Music: An Outline Of Musical Paleography (1897) by Abbey, Stanbrook
    Stanbrook Abbey

    Gregorian Music: An Outline Of Musical Paleography (1897)

    ""Gregorian Music: An Outline of Musical Paleography"" is a book written by Abbey and Stanbrook in 1897. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Gregorian music, which is a type of sacred music that originated in the Roman Catholic Church. The authors delve into...
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  • If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History as It Ought to Be Taught by Barber, David W.
    David W. Barber

    If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History as It Ought to Be Taught

    Not content with having hilariously skewered the lives of great composers in Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, in If It Ain't Baroque . . . musical humorist David W. Barber takes aim at their works as well. From symphonies to solo songs, from motets...
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  • Guerrilla Music Marketing, Encore Edition: 201 More Self-Promotion Ideas, Tips & Tactics for Do-It-Yourself Artists by Baker, Bob
    Bob Baker

    Guerrilla Music Marketing, Encore Edition: 201 More Self-Promotion Ideas, Tips & Tactics for Do-It-Yourself Artists

    Author: Bob BakerISBN-10: 0971483833ISBN-13: 9780971483835Publisher: Bob BakerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2006Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
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  • THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY AMERICAN VOCAL GROUPS - 100 Years of Harmony: 1850 to 1950 by Friedman, Douglas E.
    Douglas E. Friedman

    THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY AMERICAN VOCAL GROUPS - 100 Years of Harmony: 1850 to 1950

    The Encyclopedia of Early American Vocal Groups: 100 Years of Harmony - 1850 to 1950 shows how we went from the minstrel shows of pre-Civil War days, to the classic groups of the turn of the century, to rock and roll. With information on...
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  • Sound Advice from Gerald Weber: Everything You Wanted to Ask about Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers by Weber, Gerald
    Gerald Weber

    Sound Advice from Gerald Weber: Everything You Wanted to Ask about Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers

    A Desktop Reference of Hip Vintage Guitar Amps (9780964106000); Tube Guitar Amplifier Essentials (9780964106024)Author: Gerald WeberISBN-10: 0964106043ISBN-13: 9780964106048Publisher: Kendrick BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2012Pages: 544Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.07w x 1.30d
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  • Death Metal by Sharpe-Young, Garry
    Garry Sharpe-Young

    Death Metal

    Reviled and revered in equal measure since its inception over a decade ago the phenomenon known as Death Metal has pushed Hard Rock music to the very edge of acceptability, and way beyond. Death metal and its bastard offspring Grindcore, has become the pariah...
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  • The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Transcendental Meditation - Jai Guru Deva OM by Mason, Paul
    Paul Mason

    The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Transcendental Meditation - Jai Guru Deva OM

    'The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India' is the detailed story of The Beatles' quest for bliss, self-knowledge and enlightenment through extensive experimentation with drugs, and dabbling in mysticism; their journey through psychedelia to transcendence. The Beatles' involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the practice...
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  • Paul McCartney: The Noughties Vol.4: The Songs He Was Singing by Blaney, John
    John Blaney

    Paul McCartney: The Noughties Vol.4: The Songs He Was Singing

    Author: John BlaneyISBN-10: 0954452852ISBN-13: 9780954452858Publisher: Paper JukeboxLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2012Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.60d
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  • Practical Theory, Vol 1 by Feldstein, Sandy
    Sandy Feldstein

    Practical Theory, Vol 1

    A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook...
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  • Instrument Repair for the Music Teacher by Stanley, Burton
    Burton Stanley

    Instrument Repair for the Music Teacher

    A practical and comprehensive text on instrument repairs that commonly challenge the music teacher.Author: Burton StanleyISBN-10: 0882840754ISBN-13: 9780882840758Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1978Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.35w x 0.40d
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  • Structure & Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms by Stein, Leon
    Leon Stein

    Structure & Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms

    Structure and Style, first published in 1962 and expanded in 1979, fills the need for new ways of analysis that put 20th-century music in perspective. It spans forms in use before 1600 through forms and techniques in use today. Anthology of Musical Forms provides...
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  • The Essential Canon of Classical Music by Dubal, David
    David Dubal

    The Essential Canon of Classical Music

    The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are gifted listeners. But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices...
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  • The Basic Guide to How to Read Music by Cooper, Helen
    Helen Cooper

    The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

    (Music Sales America). This basic guide takes the reader through rhythm, scales and intervals, keys, and tonality, right through to score reading.Author: Helen CooperISBN-10: 082562309XISBN-13: 9780825623097Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.02h x 7.04w x 0.25d
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  • The Musical Instrument Desk Reference: A Guide to How Band and Orchestral Instruments Work by Pagliaro, Michael J.
    Michael J. Pagliaro

    The Musical Instrument Desk Reference: A Guide to How Band and Orchestral Instruments Work

    In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions...
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  • Italian Opera Houses and Festivals by Lynn, Karyl Charna
    Karyl Charna Lynn

    Italian Opera Houses and Festivals

    This work recreates the social, political, architectural, and performance histories of each Italian opera house by including eyewitness accounts from Italian newspapers, journals, and books of the time. It covers more than 50 Italian opera houses and festivals, organized by their city of origin...
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  • Joy of Improv Book 2 - Completing the Foundation (Bk/Online Audio) by Frank, Dave
    Dave Frank

    Joy of Improv Book 2 - Completing the Foundation (Bk/Online Audio)

    (Piano). Lessons 27 through 52 further explore more advanced chord voicings, chord arranging techniques and more challenging blues and melodic lines. The accompanying audio (accessed online) is used in conjunction with the text and music as a listening and play-along tool.Author: Dave Frank, John...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Groove: Book & CD [With CD] by Rock, Bobby
    Bobby Rock

    The Encyclopedia of Groove: Book & Online Audio [With CD]

    Groovin'---a fancy way of saying keeping time, is the drummer's primary function. No matter how, where or what you play, groovin' should be of the utmost importance to you. Bobby Rock trims away the fat" and shows you practical examples of components, fills, riffs...
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  • Boom Boom! Popular Movie and TV Songs for Boomwhackers Musical Tubes: For Boomwhackers(r) Musical Tubes, Book & CD [With CD] by Giese, Gayle
    Gayle Giese

    Boom Boom! Popular Movie and TV Songs for Boomwhackers Musical Tubes: For Boomwhackers(r) Musical Tubes, Book & CD [With CD]

    Finally, just what general music teachers and students have been waiting for: ten great movie and TV songs to play on fun, colorful Boomwhacker(R) Musical Tubes Includes a cool play-along CD with full performance and accompaniment tracks, melody and accompaniment parts, and teaching suggestions...
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  • An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music: Paperback Edition, Paperback Book by Winther, Rodney
    Rodney Winther

    An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music: Paperback Edition, Paperback Book

    Wind chamber music has become an important part of the contemporary wind band program during the past half century, and now a most complete reference text has been written to provide any and all necessary information concerning repertoire. Winther lists over 500 works by...
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  • The Architecture of Music: Volume 1.0: Combined Guitar and Piano Chord, Scale, and Mode Encyclopedia by Aranda, Greg
    Greg Aranda

    The Architecture of Music: Volume 1.0: Combined Guitar and Piano Chord, Scale, and Mode Encyclopedia

    The Architecture of Music Volume 1.0 is the most complete combined chord, scale, and mode encyclopedia for the guitar and piano ever created, an effort almost two decades in the making. The chord encyclopedia includes more than 300 chords, and depicts every possible way...
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  • Who's Afraid of Opera? by Walsh, Michael
    Michael Walsh

    Who's Afraid of Opera?

    For anyone who has been intimidated, overwhelmed, or just plain confused by what they think opera is, Who's Afraid of Opera? offers a guide to what author Michael Walsh describes as "the greatest art form yet invented by humankind." Curtain up! It's time to...
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  • New Book of Rock Lists by Marsh, Dave
    Dave Marsh

    New Book of Rock Lists

    Quotations from Chairman Elvis -- Wisdom from the Hip-Hop Nation -- 10 Ways to Tell If a Rapper's Careers on the Way Out -- 21 Rockers, Rappers and Poppers Who'd Lose to Beavis & Butthead in a Meeting of the Minds -- 10 Worst...
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  • The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time: Ranking Analysis & Photos by Rizzo, Gene
    Gene Rizzo

    The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time: Ranking Analysis & Photos

    THE 50 GREATEST JAZZ PIANO PLAYERS OF ALL TIMEAuthor: Gene RizzoISBN-10: 0634074164ISBN-13: 9780634074165Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.80d
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  • Understanding the Language of Music: A Drummer's Guide to Theory and Harmony by Spagnardi, Ron
    Ron Spagnardi

    Understanding the Language of Music: A Drummer's Guide to Theory and Harmony

    (Book). Ever noticed that many of the world's most influential drummers have a deep understanding of music and also know how to play another instrument? Modern Drummer founder and publisher Ron Spagnardi has, and with this new book/CD pack, he sets out to teach...
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  • How Not to Play Drums: Not for Drummers Only by Persip, Charli
    Charli Persip

    How Not to Play Drums: Not for Drummers Only

    (Book). From Tadd Dameron through Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Cannonball Adderly and Benny Golson, to his own 17-piece "Supersound" big band, Charli Persip has been one of the most in-demand drummers in all of jazz, as well as in the pop genre. A textbook...
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  • Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers by Goldsher, Alan
    Alan Goldsher

    Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

    HARD BOP ACADEMY THE SIDEMEN OF ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERSAuthor: Alan GoldsherISBN-10: 0634037935ISBN-13: 9780634037931Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2002 pg. 130
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  • The Tommy Keene Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of Tommy Keene by Cabin, Geoff
    Geoff Cabin

    The Tommy Keene Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of Tommy Keene

    The Tommy Keene Handbook is a comprehensive reference guide to the music of underground pop-rock legend Tommy Keene, including: Musical History: an overview of Tommy Keene's entire musical career from his days as a member of the Rage, Razz, and the Pieces through his...
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  • The Songs Of Robert Burns With Music by Burns, Robert
    Robert Burns

    The Songs Of Robert Burns With Music

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Paddison, Max
    Max Paddison

    Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

    The main aim of this book is to provide a conceptual context within which to situate Adorno's writings on music. It has quickly established itself as a classic text. Paddison surveys the early writings from the 1920s and examines Adorno's idiosyncratic reception of Marx...
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  • On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening by Moody, Rick
    Rick Moody

    On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening

    Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of...
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  • The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia by Hischak, Thomas S.
    Thomas S. Hischak

    The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia

    Many books have been written about Tin Pan Alley--the colloquial name assigned to popular music before the advent of rock 'n' roll--yet little is available about the individual songs defining this enormously significant style of American music. This encyclopedia of over 1,200 songs written...
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  • Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After by Riley, Tim
    Tim Riley

    Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After

    A unique combination of musical analysis and cultural history, Tell Me Why stands alone among Beatles books with its single-minded focus on the most important aspect of the band: its music. Riley offers a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles by closely considering each...
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  • The Big Band Almanac by Walker, Leo
    Leo Walker

    The Big Band Almanac

    With more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bands--from the almost-forgotten to Basie, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, and Dorsey--will prompt memories and establish important facts about a glorious era of jazz and popular...
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  • Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices by Elliott, Martha
    Martha Elliott

    Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices

    The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, Singing In Style provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Each chapter...
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  • Sound Synthesis and Sampling [With CD] by Russ, Martin
    Martin Russ

    Sound Synthesis and Sampling [With CD]

    Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing...
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  • The Oxford Companion to Music by Latham, Alison
    Alison Latham

    The Oxford Companion to Music

    First published in 1938, The Oxford Companion to Music has been the first choice for authoritative information on all aspects of music. Now, 17 years since the last edition, the Companion is here to serve a new generation of students, teachers, performers, concert goers,...
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  • The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to C.1715 by Caldwell, John
    John Caldwell

    The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to C.1715

    This first volume of a magisterial two-volume survey of English music charts its development from its beginnings to about 1715. It looks at the music of early monastic institutions and the development of polyphony, including the extraordinarily advanced mid-thirteenth-century canon, "Sumeris icumen in." It...
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  • 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music by Smith, Chris
    Chris Smith

    101 Albums That Changed Popular Music

    Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by The White Stripes. Organized chronologically to capture the...
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  • Text and ACT: Essays on Music and Performance by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Text and ACT: Essays on Music and Performance

    Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in...
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