Search Results - "melody"

Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

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Melody, harmony, tonality : a book for connoisseurs and amateurs / by Helm, E. Eugene

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The late Victorian folksong revival the persistence of English melody, 1878-1903 / by Gregory, E. David

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Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood / by Gottlieb, Jack

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The Italian cantata in Vienna : entertainment in the age of absolutism / by Bennett, Lawrence, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The political and cultural milieu ; The composers ; Repertoire and sources ; Style overview ; Aspects of form ; Melody, harmony, and rhythm ; The relationship of text and music.…”
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The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / by Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.…”
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The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire / by Loeffler, James Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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The history of Texas music by Hartman, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the music of Texas and the American Southwest -- Texas music begins : Native American musical traditions of the Southwest -- Música tejana : Mexican American music in the Southwest -- See that my grave is kept clean : the African roots of Texas music -- From polkas to pirogues : the German, Jewish, Czech, Polish, and French influence on Texas -- Deep within my heart lies a melody : Anglo American music in Texas -- Groover's paradise : Texas rock & roll.…”
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Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / by Reichel, A. Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : poets, anthropologists, primitives -- Of mumbling melody, soft singing, and slow speech : constructions of sonic otherness in the poetry of Edward Sapir -- On alternating sounds : musical alterities in Sapir's poetry and critical writings -- Interlude : French-Canadian folk songs in translation -- "For you have given me speech!" …”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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Communication in eighteenth-century music

Table of Contents: “…. -- Part I : Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century / Paul Cobley -- Listening to listeners / Mark Evan Bonds -- Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewohnlichen Sonaten-form : Beethoven's 'piano-solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Part II : Musical grammar -- Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings / Danuta Mirka -- National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Rothstein -- Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass / William E. Caplin -- Part III : Rhetorical form and topical decorum -- A metaphoric model of sonata form : two expositions by Mozart / Michael Spitzer -- Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, first movement : two readings, with a comment on analysis / Kofi Agawu -- Mozart's K331, first movement : once more, with feeling / Wye J. …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. …”
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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954/1955) -- 6.1 Literary Influences and Mythopoeic Project -- 6.2 The Ring Verse -- 6.3 Ludic Lyrics and Poetic Power Play: The Hobbits and Tom Bombadil -- 6.4 Lyrical Lore of Past and Future -- 6.5 Martial Melodies and Death Dirges -- 6.6 Panegyrics for the Past…”
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Singin' Texas /

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Voces y cantos de la tradición : textos inéditos de la Fonoteca y Archivo de Tradiciones Populares /

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The Musical Artistry of Bheki Mseleku / by Lilley, Andrew

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Nineteenth-Century French Song : Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy / by Meister, Barbara, 1932-

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