The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The United States and Canada [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824049447 / Angielski / Twarda / 1408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of North America and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2102,73 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824049461 / Angielski / Twarda / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of South Asia and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The entire...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2102,73 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean [With CD]
ISBN: 9780824049478 / Angielski / Twarda / 1102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of South and Central America and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2102,73 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa [With Audio CD and Map]
ISBN: 9780824060350 / Angielski / Twarda / 868 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social and cultural life of it peoples. The 34 expert contributors have all conducted fieldwork in Africa and their firsthand experience is reflected in the immediacy of their observations. In 39 articles, this encyclopedia explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage; emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations...
The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social a...
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2365,58 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060381 / Angielski / Twarda / 1116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Australia and the Pacific Islands and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2759,83 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060404 / Angielski / Twarda / 1046 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Southeast Asia's and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2102,73 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060411 / Angielski / Twarda / 1190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of East Asia and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The entire...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2365,58 zł |
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East [With Audio CD]
ISBN: 9780824060428 / Angielski / Twarda / 1212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single region and examines the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people. This volume describes the essential fabric of Middle East and then explores the traditions, performance practices, and themes that bind the music together into a dynamic tapestry of art and daily life. The coverage provides an overview of the region, reviews its music heritage and scholarship, and describes specific musical cultures, genres, and traditions. The entire...
Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, each volume of this set of book on geographical areas of world music focuses on a single regio...
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2365,58 zł |
Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television
ISBN: 9780851159126 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television opera - that is, opera commissioned for television - was one of the earliest attempts by television to bridge the distinction between high culture and popular culture: between 1951 and 2002, in Britain and the United States, over fifty operas were commissioned for television. This book discusses three case studies, the first a live broadcast, the second a video recording, and the third a filmed opera made for television: Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 1951); Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave (BBC, 1971), taking into account Britten's earlier television...
Television opera - that is, opera commissioned for television - was one of the earliest attempts by television to bridge the distinction between high ...
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341,69 zł |
Perception and Cognition of Music
ISBN: 9780863774522 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational, to the musicological. The reviews were selected from papers submitted at the Third International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Liege 1994) to illustrate the wide range of perspectives now being adopted in studying how humans make and respond to music.
This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational,...
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972,51 zł |
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen
ISBN: 9780879103279 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior...
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on te...
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109,42 zł |
In Cold Sweat: Interviews with Really Scary Musicians
ISBN: 9780879109561 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). From the chaotic world of music journalism comes this collection of unabridged, unexpurgated interviews with four of the brightest, most influential and complex pop and rock musicians alive: Gene Simmons of Kiss, Peter Hook of New Order, Jerry Casale of Devo, and Scott Thunes of Frank Zappa fame. They are all bass players and they are all plainspoken, profane, stressed out, caustic, antagonistic and on occasion so belligerent they are prepared to engage in psychological warfare with their interviewer. Each interview is illustrated with striking, often candid photographs, and...
(Limelight). From the chaotic world of music journalism comes this collection of unabridged, unexpurgated interviews with four of the brightest, most ...
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87,53 zł |
jambands: the complete guide to the players, music, & scene
ISBN: 9780879307455 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a look at a wide array of bands in this expanding musical and cultural phenomenon, covering over 170 groups such as Phish, Widespread Panic, and Ten Ton Chicken.
Offers a look at a wide array of bands in this expanding musical and cultural phenomenon, covering over 170 groups such as Phish, Widespread Panic, an...
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109,42 zł |
Essential Dictionary of Music: Pocket Size Book
ISBN: 9780882847283 / Angielski / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A useful collection of definitions, composers, and theory. This pocket-sized reference book of over 330 pages includes a broad range of important information, from basic principles of theory and concise biographies of composers to pronunciations of foreign terms and ranges of instruments and voices. This easy-to-use volume covers every major aspect of music.
A useful collection of definitions, composers, and theory. This pocket-sized reference book of over 330 pages includes a broad range of important info...
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48,12 zł |
Essential Dictionary of Music Notation
ISBN: 9780882847306 / Angielski / Book / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book is essential to any musician looking for a handy reference for the correct notation of music. A most welcome and beneficial source for every musician, whether using a pencil or a computer.
This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book i...
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48,12 zł |
Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Book 1
ISBN: 9780882848945 / Angielski / Book / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory is designed for students of any age, whether listeners or performers, who want to have a better understanding of the language of music. In this all-in-one theory course, you will learn the essentials of music through concise lessons, practice your music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening skills with the available ear-training CDs (sold separately), and test your knowledge with a review that completes each unit. Computer software is also available with randomized drilling of the material and scorekeeping.
Book 1 (Lessons... Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory is designed for students of any age, whether listeners or performers, who want to have a better understanding of t...
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43,74 zł |
Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Book 2
ISBN: 9780882848952 / Angielski / Book / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory is designed for students of any age, whether listeners or performers, who want to have a better understanding of the language of music. In this all-in-one theory course, you will learn the essentials of music through concise lessons, practice your music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening skills with the available ear-training CDs (sold separately), and test your knowledge with a review that completes each unit. Computer software is also available with randomized drilling of the material and scorekeeping. Book 2 (Lessons...
Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory is designed for students of any age, whether listeners or performers, who want to have a better understanding of t...
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43,74 zł |
Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9780892815005 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.
Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theor...
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74,21 zł |
Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression
ISBN: 9780892815609 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of...
An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotional...
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218,93 zł |
101 More Music Games for Children: More Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song
ISBN: 9780897932981 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with kids a wide array of ingenious sound and dance activities from a variety of cultures to get kids singing, dancing, listening, interacting, and involved. 30 B&W illustrations. 16 charts.
This collection offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with kids a wide array of ingenious sound and dance activities from a variety of c...
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87,53 zł |