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Music in eighteenth-century Austria
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ISBN: 0521453496 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge New York ; Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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The Harvard biographical dictionary of music
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ISBN: 0674372999 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Analytical strategies and musical interpretation : essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music
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ISBN: 0521462495 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press


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Performing rites : evaluating popular music
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ISBN: 0192880608 9780192880604 9780198163329 0198163320 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject and discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture and colour our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of poplar aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's for real - these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgements but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means

Unsung voices
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ISBN: 0691026084 0691091404 1400843839 1322974314 9780691026084 9780691091402 9781400843831 Year: 1996 Volume: *3 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that "sings" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that "de-center" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.

A generative theory of tonal music.
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ISBN: 026262107X 0262120941 0262278162 0585375887 9780262278164 9780585375885 9780262621076 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge MIT

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A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener. From the viewpoint of traditional music theory, it offers many innovations in notation as well as in the substance of rhythmic and reductional theory.

Music of the Warao of Venezuela : song people of the rain forest
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ISBN: 0813023157 9780813023151 0813013909 Year: 1996 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,


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The Strad
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ISSN: 00392049 Year: 1996 Publisher: Harrow Orpheus Publications

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