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Romantic American Choral Music book cover Romantic American Choral Music book cover
Romantic American Choral Music Romantic American Choral Music (an Anthology)
David P. DeVenney - Hinshaw Music, Inc.

Selected by the ACDA Publications Committee and recommended as a required text at many American choral institutions, this stunning anthology reveals the often-overlooked American composers of choral music

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Women's Bands in America Women's Bands in America (Performing Music and Gender)
ed. Jill M. Sullivan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through

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Christmas Music Companion Fact Book Christmas Music Companion Fact Book
Dale Nobbman - Hal Leonard Corporation

This fascinating book deserves a place of honor in every Christmas music collection! For 50 beloved traditional tunes, readers will learn the story of how the song came to be, the author and the historical... view details
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Dirty South Dirty South (Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop)
Ben Westhoff - Chicago Review Press

This book investigates the southern rap phenomenon and visits the gritty neighborhoods where T.I. and Lil Wayne grew up, kicks it with Big Boi in Atlanta, and speaks with artists like DJ Smurf and Ms.

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Music and Shape Music and Shape
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson & Helen M. Prior - Oxford University Press

Eleven articles examine the relationship between space and music from the points of view of psychology, analysis, music therapy, dance, classical music, jazz music, and pop music. With a preface, notes, and

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Thug Life Thug Life (Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop)
Michael P. Jeffries - University of Chicago Press

Hip-hop is a global phenomenon and a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly controlled and consumed by whites, while the most prominent performers are black. How does this affect our

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The Gift of Music The Gift of Music (Essays on Church Music and Hymnology)
David W. Music/ed. Samuel J. Eatherton, Nathan Myrick & Marcell Silva Steuernagel - MorningStar Music Publishers

For over forty years, David W. Music studied, taught, researched, and published numerous books, articles, and musical compositions for use in the church. In this book, fellow experts in the field pay homage

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American Favorite Ballads American Favorite Ballads
Pete Seeger - Music Sales Corporation

Pete Seeger is an outstanding folksinger and an American treasure. Millions in every corner of the globe have listened to and sung along with Seeger-discovering the riches of America's folk song heritage.... view details
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A History of Western Choral Music, Vol. 1 A History of Western Choral Music, Vol. 1
Chester L. Alwes - Oxford University Press

This anthology explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition.  Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two

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Everything We Do Is Music Everything We Do Is Music
Barry Russell - C.F. Peters Corporation

Everything we do is music contains more than 50 fun, hands-on and thought-provoking activities, each taking a work by John Cage as a starting point and exploring the links between music, dance,

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The History of Opera for Beginners The History of Opera for Beginners
Ron David - For Beginners, LLC

This resource starts with the radical assumption that opera is simply music, rather than the inaccessible, high-brown art form that many assume it to be. Not fluent in German or Italian? No worries - the

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Women Drummers Women Drummers (A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country)
Angela Smith - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

This book offers a comprehensive look from the inside at the world of professional drumming and at the women who had the courage and chops to break the barriers of this all-too-male field. Combining

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$62.00
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In the Heart of the Beat In the Heart of the Beat (The Poetry of Rap)
Alexs Pate - Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack. Impressions and interpretations of its meaning and power are perpetually being

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A Beginner's Guide to Reading Gregorian Chant Notation A Beginner's Guide to Reading Gregorian Chant Notation
Noel Jones - Frog Music Press

For people who have no experience reading chant or people who do but want to improve their ability in reading the notes, clef, staff markings and understanding what they mean.  The large size used here is... view details
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$14.95
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Hogey's Journey Hogey's Journey
Eph Ehly - Heritage Music Press

The life of legendary choral conductor and clinician Dr. Eph Ehly is a life lived in passionate dedication to living to learn, learning to teach, and teaching to learn how to live. With this memoir, he opens a... view details
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C.P.E.: A Listener's Guide to the Other Bach book cover C.P.E.: A Listener's Guide to the Other Bach book cover
C.P.E.: A Listener's Guide to the Other Bach C.P.E.: A Listener's Guide to the Other Bach
David Hurwitz - Amadeus Press, Inc.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) has to be the most rewarding, expressive, and entertaining of all the composers whose work fell into obscurity in the years following his death. He was overshadowed

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$25.00
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The Rough Guide to Jazz The Rough Guide to Jazz (3rd Edition)
Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley - Alfred Music Publishing

The third edition of The Rough Guide to Jazz has over 2,100 critical biographies, ranging from greats like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rising stars like Stacey Kent and Jamie Cullum. As well as... view details
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Song and System Song and System (The Making of American Pop Music)
Harvey Rachlin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

This investigation of how music entered American homes and became a cultural institution that would expand to become a multibillion-dollar industry weaves a history of the evolution of pop music in tandem

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A History of Western Choral Music, Vol. 2 A History of Western Choral Music, Vol. 2
Chester L. Alwes - Oxford University Press

Comprehensive history of western choral music from Romanticism through the avant-garde of the late twentieth century. Unique in its detailed analysis and breadth of Western choral music and key composers.

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The Musician's Soul The Musician's Soul
James Jordan - GIA Publications

The Musician's Soul starts all musicians on a journey to the higher plane of artistic self-expression and soulful spirituality. Words of wisdom are based on Jordan's own journey as a conductor, yet

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Band of Sisters Band of Sisters (U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II)
Jill M. Sullivan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "Marines' Hymn" instead of the traditional

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Young People's Concerts Young People's Concerts
Leonard Bernstein - Amadeus Press, Inc.

An entire generation of music students owes a debt of gratitude to the teaching genius of Leonard Bernstein, as documented in this extraordinary compilation of fifteen of the best lectures from his... view details
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Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums (Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820-1940)
Bruce P. Gleason - Longleaf Services, Inc.

Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds

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