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Juan Bautista Plaza and musical nationalism in Venezuela by Labonville, Marie Elizabeth, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Early twentieth-century art music culture in Caracas; the significance of Plaza and his colleagues ; A portrait of Plaza : the man, the musician ; the composer -- Plaza's life and works. Beginnings; first compositions; vocational indecision; first writings on music (1898-1920) ; Rome; plans for musical renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923) ; Paid to compose : the chapel mastership (1923-1948) ; The educator, part 1 (1923-1928) ; The early secular and nationalist compositions (1924-1929) ; The nascent journalist (1925-1928) ; The founding of the Orfeón Lamas, and Plaza's creative response (1927-1963) ; Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (1930-1957) ; The mature journalist; writings on nationalism in music (1929-1948) ; The principal nationalist compositions with instruments (1930-1956) ; The educator, part 2 (1930-1941) ; The musicological pioneer (1936-1964) ; Plaza as the subject of reportage ; The later non-nationalist compositions (1930s-1963) ; The educator, part 3 (1942-1962) ; Retirement : final thoughts on education and culture (1962-1964) ; Plaza in retrospect.…”
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The queer composition of America's sound gay modernists, American music, and national identity / by Hubbs, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).…”
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Hans von Bülow's letters to Johannes Brahms a research edition / by Bülow, Hans von, 1830-1894

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The Leonard Bernstein letters /

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Hans von Bülow's letters to Johannes Brahms a research edition / by Bülow, Hans von, 1830-1894

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The Leonard Bernstein letters /

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The queer composition of America's sound gay modernists, American music, and national identity / by Hubbs, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. Composing oneself (reprise).…”
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The American Symphony Orchestra : A Social History of Musical Taste / by Mueller, John Henry, 1895-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American symphony orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life -- Musical taste and how it is formed.…”
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The American Symphony Orchestra : A Social History of Musical Taste / by Mueller, John Henry, 1895-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American symphony orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life -- Musical taste and how it is formed.…”
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Janáček studies

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Janáček studies

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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

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Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000 journalists, writers and composers on their ways to the coveted awards / by Fischer, Heinz Dietrich, 1937-

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Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000 journalists, writers and composers on their ways to the coveted awards / by Fischer, Heinz Dietrich, 1937-

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Franz Liszt : a story of Central European subjectivity / by Quinn, Erika

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Franz Liszt : a story of Central European subjectivity / by Quinn, Erika

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Nadia and Lili Boulanger by Potter, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…The sisters and their composing careers -- Towards the Prix de Rome -- The music of Nadia Boulanger -- The music of Lili Boulanger after 1913 -- Nadia Boulanger as teacher -- Reputations.…”
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Nadia and Lili Boulanger by Potter, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…The sisters and their composing careers -- Towards the Prix de Rome -- The music of Nadia Boulanger -- The music of Lili Boulanger after 1913 -- Nadia Boulanger as teacher -- Reputations.…”
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The possessor and the possessed Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius / by Kivy, Peter

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