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Biographic: Beethoven Great Lives in Graphic Form

Weeks Marcus

ISBN: HB: 9781781454152, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2020
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Poulenc A Biography

Nichols Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780300226508, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although...

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Irving Berlin New York Genius

Kaplan James

ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...

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Listening to China Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839

Irvine Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226667126, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers an...

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London Voices, 1820-1840 Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories

Parker Roger, Rutherford Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226670188, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 5 line drawings

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion pla...

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Making It Up Together The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

Tilley Leslie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667607, ISBN: HB: 9780226661131, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 16 halftones, 165 musical exam

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multipl...

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Music in the Present Tense Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time

Senici Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226663548, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 line drawings, 2 tables

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the pas...

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