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The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Ladies' Jazz Band from Piney Woods Country Life School
ISBN: 9780810831605 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.' This revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and objective history of the band to date.
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to...
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433,34 zł |
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Reed Instruments: The Montagu Collection: An Annotated Catalogue
ISBN: 9780810839380 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Montagu Collection, of worldwide coverage and all types of instruments, began to take shape in the early 1960s when what had been a small and very random collection was then rapidly expanded to illustrate lectures and to provide material for research on all aspects of organology.
The Montagu Collection, of worldwide coverage and all types of instruments, began to take shape in the early 1960s when what had been a small and very...
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671,25 zł |
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Origins and Development of Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780810856578 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones, archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most basic straw reeds to the modern MIDI systems, and pairs of stones struck together to synthesizers, are all described here by instrument collector and expert Jeremy Montagu. Montagu speculates on how these instruments originated in the earliest days of humanity and relates how...
Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the prese...
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762,76 zł |
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Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion
ISBN: 9780813316383 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango's travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo. The author is an Argentinean political theorist and a dance professor at the University of California at Riverside. She uses her tango tongue to tell interwoven tales of sexuality, gender, race, class, and national identity. Along the way she unravels relations between machismo and colonialism, postmodernism and...
What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of ...
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259,80 zł |
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Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940s
ISBN: 9780822328179 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The forgotten history of the "all-girl" big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker's Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions--isolated from loved ones--sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance. Although all-female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now hundreds of such groups, both African American and white, barnstormed ballrooms, theaters, dance halls, military installations, and makeshift USO stages on the home front and abroad.
Filled with firsthand... The forgotten history of the "all-girl" big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker's Swing Shift. American d...
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129,87 zł |
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Playing the Piano for Pleasure.
ISBN: 9780837132242 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a book that will be enjoyed by all pianists not only for the stimulating advice it provides, but also for the style with which it is written.
Here is a book that will be enjoyed by all pianists not only for the stimulating advice it provides, but also for the style with which it is writte... |
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524,84 zł |
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Folk Song Style and Culture
ISBN: 9780878556403 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distributions of human culture and that specific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. The predictable and universal... Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of perf... |
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228,62 zł |
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Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780911572087 / Angielski / Twarda / 1010 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is truly the bible on automatic music machines.
This book is truly the bible on automatic music machines.
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544,69 zł |
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Musical Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains
ISBN: 9780916838805 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings to life the distinctive bluegrass music made for hundreds of years with dulcimers, violins, jew harps, mouth bows, and such from the Appalachian mountain areas.
Brings to life the distinctive bluegrass music made for hundreds of years with dulcimers, violins, jew harps, mouth bows, and such from the Appalachia...
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76,53 zł |
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How to Make a Noise
ISBN: 9780955495502 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How To Make A Noise-perhaps the most widely read book about synthesizer programming-is a comprehensive, practical guide to sound design and synthesizer programming techniques using subtractive (analog) synthesis, frequency modulation synthesis, additive synthesis, wave-sequencing, and sample-based synthesis. The book looks at programming using examples from six software synthesizers.
How To Make A Noise-perhaps the most widely read book about synthesizer programming-is a comprehensive, practical guide to sound design and synthesize...
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115,62 zł |
![Ear Training Vol. I: Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords [With 2 CD's] D'Amante, Elvo S. 9780962094125 Encore Music Publishing Company](/9780962094125_ear_training_vol_i_scale_forms_through_six_basic_tetrachords_with_2_cds.jpg "Ear Training Vol. I: Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords [With 2 CD's]") |
Ear Training Vol. I: Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords [With 2 CD's]
ISBN: 9780962094125 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three volume 11-CD Ear Training Course, of which Volume I is the introductory volume, is meant for the serious-minded musician. Its primary mission is to help students hear, identify, play and sing scales, modes, intervals, and chords. In addition, it provides the foundation for excellence in music performance, insights into improvisation, and a better understanding of melodic and harmonic invention.
Volume I and its 2-CD set explains how six simple four-note forms (tetrachords) are combined and assembled into modern scales and performing modes through the study of ear training. Upon... This three volume 11-CD Ear Training Course, of which Volume I is the introductory volume, is meant for the serious-minded musician. Its primary missi...
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127,88 zł |
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Musical Memories
ISBN: 9781406739107 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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117,09 zł |
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Ornamentation In J.S. Bach's Organ Works
ISBN: 9781406742626 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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165,89 zł |
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Choirs and Choral Music
ISBN: 9781410213655 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative history of choral music begins with the ancient Hebrews and Greeks. Special attention is given to the contributions of development of the amateur choral group in Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn, and to England, Germany and the United States. The book covers the beginnings and development of chorus singing, and the development and history of choral forms. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College. "[This is] a book for the amateur which will tell him something about the beginnings and the course...
This authoritative history of choral music begins with the ancient Hebrews and Greeks. Special attention is given to the contributions of development ...
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92,68 zł |
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Ukulele: Pila Li'i Li'i
ISBN: 9781425910723 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,01 zł |
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Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
ISBN: 9781566394840 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures.
Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical an...
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150,66 zł |
![The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution [With CD] Margaret J. Kartomi Rahayu Supanggah Judith Becker 9781580460880 University of Rochester Press](/9781580460880_the_gamelan_digul_and_the_prison_camp_musician_who_built_it_an_australian_link_with_the_indonesian_revolution_with_cd.jpg "The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution [With CD]") |
The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution [With CD]
ISBN: 9781580460880 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a particular Javanese group of -matching- musical instruments called the gamelan Digul, and their creator, the Indonesian musician and political activist Pontjopangrawit (1893-ca. 1965). He was a superb Javanese court musician, who had entertained at the of king Paku Buwana X as a child. In this magnificent artistic environment he learned how to build gamelans, and also became a sought-after teacher. Involved in radical political activities, Pontjopangrawit was arrested in 1926 for his participation in the movement to free Indonesia from Dutch rule, and spent the next six...
This is the story of a particular Javanese group of -matching- musical instruments called the gamelan Digul, and their creator, the Indonesian musicia...
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550,57 zł |
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The Pipe Organ and Player Piano - Construction, Repair, and Tuning
ISBN: 9781929148165 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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365,93 zł |
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An enactive approach to digital musical instrument design-Theory, Models, Techniques
ISBN: 9783836419260 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital musical instruments bring about new problems and prospects for musical performance. In An enactive approach to digital musical instrument design, Newton Armstrong argues that these problems and prospects are theoretical and philosophical as much as they are technical. Drawing on the enactive cognitive science of Francisco Varela and others, as well as the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Armstrong outlines a model of interaction based around circular chains of embodied interdependency between performer and instrument, and examines the ways in which...
Digital musical instruments bring about new problems and prospects for musical performance. In An enactive approach to digital musical instrument desi...
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310,98 zł |
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Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
ISBN: 9780807133330 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church... Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands ... |
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130,50 zł |
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