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  • Current Thought in Musicology

    Nine lectures from the 1971 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin, on music history, theory and composition, education, and performance.Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology, the nine papers collected in this volume constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.In "Tractatus Esthetico-Semioticus ... Read more

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  • Hazard Communication Made Easy

    A Checklist Approach to OSHA Compliance

    Using the simple and effective checklist method, this book offers a convenient and efficient way to comply with complicated federal regulations and to help your employees understand the dangers of the hazardous materials in your workplace.Written by the authors of Safety Made Easy, Hazard Communication Made Easy provides you with a practical guide to creating and implementing a complete Hazard ... Read more

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  • Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Vol. 1

    Series series Star Wars Insider
    18 fully illustrated short stories.Darth Vader confronts a mysterious face from Anakin Skywalker’s past… Lando Calrissian faces the terrifying power of an Imperial walker… The Empire’s stormtroopers ruthlessly pursue survivors from Alderaan… A squadron of B-wing fighters engage in a desperate mission during the Battle of Endor…This special edition includes stories from the Legends era and tales ... Read more

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    Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2

    Series Audiobook 2 - Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, features fifteen stars of tabletop roleplaying games and fantasy fiction, such as Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, Ken Liu, Kate Elliott, Mike Shea, Tobias S. Buckell, Shanna Germain, Gabe Hicks, the Dungeon Dudes (Monty Martin & Kelly McLaughlin), Jeff Grubb, and more.Middle-Earth, Faerûn, Westeros, Eberron, The World of the Wheel, Exandria … ... Read more

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  • Under That Calamity

    A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman during a State of Mental Derangement

    by John Perceval ...
    After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing the inhumane treatments inflicted on those who likewise suffered—in Perceval's words—"under that calamity."Featuring ... Read more

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    "A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical MusicWhat if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal ... Read more

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  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

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  • Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks- the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

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    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Read more

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  • The Pathetick Musician

    Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the ... Read more

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  • Music in the Galant Style

    Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into ... Read more

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  • Music as an Art

    In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive ... Read more

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