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The Essential Canon of Classical Music

By: David Dubal

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The Essential Canon of Classical Music

By: David Dubal

Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism.

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794

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Macmillan

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086547608X

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9780865476080

Unbearable Affect

A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

By: David Garfield

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Unbearable Affect

A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

By: David Garfield

In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, the author establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect. He provides concrete clinical advice, vivid examples, and crisp jargon-free descriptions of theoretical concepts and clinical techniques. Most of all, he demonstrates that it is possible for psychotic patients to take control of their conditions, rebuild family relationships, and establish themselves in the viable productive lives that they have long despaired of achieving.

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263

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Routledge

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0429923449

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9780429923449

The Royal College of Music and its Contexts

An Artistic and Social History

By: David C. H. Wright

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The Royal College of Music and its Contexts

An Artistic and Social History

By: David C. H. Wright

A rounded portrait of the Royal College of Music, investigating its educational and cultural impact on music and musical life.

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391

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Cambridge University Press

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1107163382

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9781107163386

The Piano on Film

By: David Huckvale

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The Piano on Film

By: David Huckvale

Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural history of the piano through the instrument's cinematic functions. Composer biopics, such as A Song to Remember, romantic melodramas like the Liberace vehicle Sincerely Yours, and horror films such as The Hands of Orlac, along with animated cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry demonstrate just how pervasive the cinematic image of the piano once was during a period when the piano itself began its noticeable decline in everyday life. By examining these depictions of the piano onscreen, readers will begin to understand not only the decline of the piano but also the decline of the idealistic culture to which it gave birth in the nineteenth century.

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221

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McFarland

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1476686343

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9781476686349

Landscapes in Music

Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music

By: David B. Knight

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Landscapes in Music

Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music

By: David B. Knight

Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and space; waterscapes; imagined and mythic spaces; the search for meaning in extreme landscapes; and realms of death, survival, and remembrance. The author also underscores the importance of the physical spaces in which music is performed. Orchestral works are rarely perceived in geographical terms, but Knight, himself an accomplished geographer and musician, offers a deeply satisfying approach to interpreting and appreciating a wide range of music. Comparing classic masterworks from Europe and Russia alongside more recent compositions from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and China, this innovative study offers a fresh understanding of the links between music and the worlds around us.

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257

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461638593

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9781461638599

Book's by David Bernard-Stevens

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

Unbearable Affect

Unbearable Affect

The Royal College of Music and its Contexts

The Royal College of Music and its Contexts

The Piano on Film

The Piano on Film

Landscapes in Music

Landscapes in Music

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