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Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music by McClary, Susan

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Ravel the decadent memory, sublimation, and desire / by Puri, Michael J.

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Repeating ourselves American minimal music as cultural practice / by Fink, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.…”
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Modal subjectivities self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal / by McClary, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.…”
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Rush, rock music and the middle class dreaming in Middletown / by McDonald, Chris, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…"Anywhere but here" : Rush and suburban desires for escape -- "Swimming against the stream" : individualism and middle-class subjectivity in Rush -- "The work of gifted hands" : professionalism and virtuosity in Rush's style -- "Experience to extremes" : discipline, detachment, and excess in Rush -- "Reflected in another pair of eyes" : representations of Rush fandom -- "Scoffing at the wise?" …”
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Visible deeds of music art and music from Wagner to Cage / by Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ut pictura musica : interdisciplinarity, art, and music -- "Deeds of music made visible" : Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the birth of the modern -- Instruments of desire : musical morphology in Picasso's cubism -- Quasi una musica : Kupka and Klee, music, and the idea of abstraction -- "Out of tune" : Hauer's legacy and the aesthetics of minimalism in art and music -- A chorus of voices : seeing music in Cage and Fluxus, the birth of the postmodern.…”
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The tragic and the ecstatic the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde / by Chafe, Eric Thomas, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The path to Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I : Minne -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II : Honor -- The desire music -- The Prelude : a musico-poetic view -- Tragedy and dramatic structure -- The two death motives -- Musico-poetic design in Act 1 -- Act 2, Scene 1 : night and Minne -- The Love Scene in Act 2 : transition and periodicity -- Tristan's answer to King Mark : moral and philosophical questions -- Act 3 : musico-poetic design -- Love as fearful torment -- The road to salvation.…”
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Acting for singers creating believable singing characters / by Ostwald, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Neither right nor wrong : making believable character choices -- Your character's universe : analyzing the dramatic structure of music-theater pieces -- Your character's world : fashioning a theme statement -- Your character's heart's desire : fashioning super-objectives -- Motivating your character's actions : fashioning objectives and acting beats -- Your character's inner voice : fashioning subtext and an internal dialogue -- Preparing for performances. …”
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Modernism and popular music by Schleifer, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…: Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. …”
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Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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