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Mysticism and madness the religious thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav / by Mark, Zvi

Table of Contents: “…Imagination, prophecy and faith : the role of the imagination in religious life, and the character of Bratslavian faith -- On the character of mystical experiences -- Unification : hints, sparks and melody : on the Bratslavian service of God -- Silence and melody facing the void : on the place of the mystic melody in the confrontation with heresy in the writings of R. …”
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Music, language, and the brain by Patel, Aniruddh D.

Table of Contents: “…Sound elements: pitch and timbre -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Syntax -- Meaning -- Evolution.…”
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The music effect music physiology and clinical applications / by Schneck, Daniel J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Physiologic entrainment -- Rhythm in music and physiology -- Melody : the pitch of human emotion -- Timbre, harmony and dynamics : adding richness and depth to rhythm and melody -- Form : creating aesthetic wholeness -- Nature expressed through nurture -- Coda : where are they now?…”
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Cerambycidae of the world : biology and pest management /

Table of Contents: “…Life history and population dynamics of cerambycids / Robert A. Haack, Melody A. Keena, and Dominic Eyre -- 3. Feeding biology of cerambycids / Robert A. …”
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New perspectives on music and gesture

Table of Contents: “…Psychobiology of musical gesture : innate rhythm, harmony and melody in movements of narration / Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, and Benjamin Schögler -- Gestures in music-making : action, information, and perception / W. …”
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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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Crack capitalism by Holloway, John

Table of Contents: “…Doing against labour : the melodies of interstitial revolution -- pt. 8. A time of birth?…”
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Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex race, madness, activism / by Perucci, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Black performances and the stagecraft of statecraft -- Performing, informing, and shrieking innocence: surveillance, informance, and the performance of performance -- Discordant tones and the melody of freedom at Peekskill -- Anticommunism and the American lynching imagination -- Shedding blood and beating back fascists -- Staging anticommunism, staging racist violence -- Coda: the complex and the rupture.…”
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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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Music and philosophy by Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973

Table of Contents: “…Augustine (1943) -- Response to the inquiry into "musical images" (1945) -- Music and the marvelous (1948) -- Meditation on music (1952) -- The irruption of melody (1953) -- Humanism and music (1954).…”
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An Alabama songbook ballads, folksongs, and spirituals /

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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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Core curriculum for infusion nursing /

Table of Contents: “…Gorski, Ann Corrigan, Melody Bullock, Alicia Dickenson, Ann Earhart -- Fluid and electrolyte balance / Lynn Phillips -- Pharmacology / Michelle S. …”
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The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan by Mason, Robert, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. From old Home Melodies to jazz music: 1928-1933; 2. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont: 1933-1939; 3. …”
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Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children's Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families Using the 'Theatre of Attachment' Model. by Moore, Joan E.

Table of Contents: “…Parent's role as witnessThe play space as boundary; A transitional space; Safe touch; Sensory play; Multi-sensory activity; Messy materials -- Case example: Carys; Paint -- Case example: Lizzie; Tim; Clay -- Case example: Luke and Alice; Sand; Physical play; Baby doll play -- Case example: Shana and Melody; Louis; Summary; 3 Role; Introduction; Applications of role; Preparing for role; Provider of structure; Role of "facilitator"; Role-modelling engagement -- Case example: Alice; Louis; Child's role as "expert" -- Case example: Shana and Melody; Child's role as "healer"…”
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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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Tonal Music : Twelve Analytic Studies / by Kresky, Jeffrey, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Analysis of a typical tonal progression -- Analysis of a theme from a Haydn symphony -- Analysis of a complete melody by Corelli -- Analysis of Chopin : Prelude in E minor, opus 28, no. 4 -- Analysis of Bach : Two-part invention in D minor -- Analysis of a Schubert song -- Analysis of Chopin : Mazurka in F, opus 68, no. 3 (Posth.) -- Analysis of Beethoven : Piano sonata in C minor, opus 13 ("Pathetique"), second movement -- Analysis of Mozart : Piano sonata in G, K. 283, first movement -- Analysis of Brahms : Intermezzo, opus 76, no. 7 for piano -- A study of the end of Act I of Wagner's Die Walküre -- Analysis of Debussy : Prelude VIII for piano (Book I).…”
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