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This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows how the American style was incorporated into mai...

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A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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For use in schools and libraries only. Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

There are things to count all around you. If you look. And think. And see. Tana Hoban does -- and so will the youngest reader who accompanies her through this book. Exciting photographs -- reinforce by the number as word, as numeral, and as model set -- show you how to count what you see, and make what you see count.

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Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Medi...

Georg Friedrich Händel, der in seinen Vokalwerken manche Neuerung eingeführt hatte, war in seiner Instrumentalmusik eher konservativ. Gleichwohl schuf er auch auf diesem Gebiet Werke von höchster Qualität - so z. B. für die Violine. Seine sieben Violinsonaten sind nicht als ein zusammenhängendes Ganzes entstanden, sondern wurden von Händel zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten komponiert. Als reine Generalbass-Sonaten konzipiert, sind sie voller Vitalit...