Subject Collections

Subject Collections

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Published: 1985

Total Pages: 1088

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A guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada.


Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Author: Steven Sater

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 145876706X

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Spring Awakening is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society's efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.


Formalized Music

Formalized Music

Author: Iannis Xenakis

Publisher: Pendragon Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9781576470794

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Pendragon Press is proud to offer this new, revised, and expanded edition of Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three totally new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis offers a very critical self-examination of his theoretical propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years. This edition of Formalized Music is an essential tool for understanding the man and the thought processes of one of this century's most important and revolutionary musical figures.


Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Author: Robert E. Cunningham Jr.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2000-10-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 031309540X

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Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.


Understanding Rock

Understanding Rock

Author: John Rudolph Covach

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0195100050

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Each of the essays in this serious study and analysis of rock music is written by one of musicology's best young scholars. The essays cover bands like The Grateful Dead, Yes, K.D. Lang, Jimi Hendrix and The Beach Boys.