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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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A new edition of the National Book Award-winning study of the three most popular composers of the Vienna School. Rosen, a professor of music at the University of Chicago, concentrates on the musical relations between the three composers, each of whom took prevailing influences and conventions and reworked them into highly individualized and ...
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
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Charles Rosen, himself a pianist as well as a music critic, explores the piano and its music in seven essays about topics ranging from Bach and Beethoven, to the problems with competitions, to a catalogue of the ills that can plague a piano and interfere with a performance.
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Sonata Forms
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Romantic generation
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Winner of the Yorkshire Post Music Award, The Romantic Generation was rapturously reviewed on hardback publication and now, for the first time, is published in an affordable trade paperback. 'One can say with confidence that The Romantic Generation is the music book not only of 1995 but also of many years to come. The author's ability to ...
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Charles Rosen
In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance, possesses a rare balance of form and emotion, making it, according to Rosen, "the most ...
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The Classical Style
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A new edition of the National Book Award-winning study of the three most popular composers of the Vienna School. Rosen, a professor of music at the University of Chicago, concentrates on the musical relations between the three composers, each of whom took prevailing influences and conventions and reworked them into highly individualized and ...
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Romanticism and Realism
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Charles Rosen, H Zerner
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Barney Polan's Game: A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals
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Dr. Charles Rosen
One of America's foremost basketball novelists takes on the legendary point-shaving scandals of early 1950's college basketball. The book is based in fact but tells the story from a human perspective, weighing the issues of character and morality as only a novel can.
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Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen
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Charles Rosen
"What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. In writing about the Romantic poets Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, and Friedrich Holderlin, Rosen examines ...
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The Cockroach Basketball League
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Dr. Charles Rosen
This affectionate look at life in the basketball minor leagues is enlivened by real-life details from a coach who's been there. "Mr. Rosen skillfully induces the reader to join 'the Brotherhood of the Sacred Hoop'"--"The New York Times".
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Players and Pretenders: The Basketball Team That Couldn't Shoot Straight
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Dr. Charles Rosen
"Players and Pretenders" tells the story of the flip side of basketball's "March Madness," where the game is played by average players for love, not for money. At the end of the 1970s at Bard College, where there was no pretense of institutional support, Charley Rosen gathered his hoops hopefuls and put together a basketball season whose impact ...
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Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
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Charles Rosen
An extraordinary gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a peerless commentator on the history and performance of music. This book brings together many of the essays that have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent voices in the field of music in our time. These essays cover a broad range of musical forms, historical ...
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Piano Notes: the Hidden World of the Pianist
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Charles Rosen
In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical challenges of playing to tales of great musicians ...
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A Mile Above the Rim
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The Frontiers of Meaning
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Charles Rosen
What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and scholars may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we say we don't "like" it. How is taking pleasure from music related to ...
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Immigration the World Over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices: Statutes, Policies, and Practices
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James P Lynch, Charles James Rosen, Professor Rita J Simon
Examines immigration statutes and policies and the societal reactions to immigrants in seven industrialized nations.
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Have Jump Shot Will Travel
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Dr. Charles Rosen
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Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth-Century Art
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Scandals of '51 : how the gamblers almost killed college basketball
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Amphibians, Reptiles, and Their Habitats at Sabino Canyon
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David Wentworth Lazaroff, Philip C Rosen, Charles H Lowe, Jr.
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God, Man, and Basketball Jones: The Thinking Fan's Guide to Professional Basketball
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Dr. Charles Rosen
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The Cockroach Basketball Association
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Charles Rosen, Phil Jackson (Introduction by)
This fact-based novel that does to basketball what Ball Four did to baseball is a raucous coach's-eye view of life in the Commercial Basketball Federation, a league filled with wannabes, has-beens and never-will-be's. Introduction by Phil Jackson.
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The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941
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Charles E. Rosenberg, George Rosen
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Beethovens Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
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Charles Rosen
Beethoven's piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious pieces for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people. In this comprehensive ...
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Inside Softdesk Civil
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Gary Rosen (Preface by), Charles Pietra
This is an in-depth guide for civil engineers, designers, and technicians using Softdesk Civil application software as a primary design and drafting tool. Written for new users but equally invaluable for more experienced professionals, the book covers fundamental concepts as well as applications oriented exercises. Includes a bonus disk.
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