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1	Teach Your Kids about Music: An Activity Handbook for Parents and Teachers Using more books like this by Ruby Chroninger This book is a music reference and idea catalog all in one! It is written for parents and teachers of young children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.36! \| first editions
2	The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll more books like this by Perry Meisel What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this study of music, literature and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing the boundaries they share: boundaries between freedom and irony, between country and city, between the iconic figures of cowboy (for example,John Wayne) ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Listening in: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative more books like this by Eric Prieto What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially to have little to do with the representational function of the traditional narrative genres. Yet throughout the modernist era, music has been invoked as a model for narrative in its specifically ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $9.85! \| first editions \| SVS
4	This Man & Music more books like this by Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A Clockwork Orange." But Burgess always emphasized music as the ruling passion in his creative life. Largely self-taught in music, Burgess composed his first symphony before he was twenty, many years before his first novel, and he was the composer of over 65 musical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce more books like this by Mr. Alfred Appel How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of the modern arts between 1920 and 1950? In this text, cultural historian Alfred Appel provides the answer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Companion to Schuberts "Schwanengesang": History, Poets, Analysis, Performance more books like this by Professor Martin Chusid (Editor) Schwanengesang, collected as a song "cycle" and published shortly after Schubert's death, is one of the composer's most beloved works. In this book Martin Chusid and other distinguished Schubert scholars and performers -- Edward T. Cone, Walther Durr, Walburga Litschauer, and Steven Lubin -- provide a rich appreciation of the musical and literary ... see all copies from $12.23! new only from $12.23! \| first editions
7	The tenth muse; a historical study of the opera libretto more books like this by Patrick J. Smith see all copies from $8.00! first editions
8	What to Listen for in the World more books like this by Bruce Adolphe What is the nature of music and what is its meaning in our lives? How is it created? How can it be more fully understood and appreciated? These questions are explored here by a composer who has written music for Itzhak Perlman, the Beaux Arts Trio and the National Symphony Orchestra. see all copies from $10.95! new only from $13.89! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Time Out: 1000 Songs to Change Your Life more books like this by Time Out Group Ltd (Creator) Like 1,000 Films. and 1,000 Books., 1,000 Songs to Change Your Life, the third book in the series, is a celebration of music's transformative power: how it shocks and soothes, frightens and comforts, amuses and appals, but above all how it moves us, perhaps when we least expect it. Over the course of more than 30 essays and features, a hand-picked ... see all copies from $10.49! new only from $10.49! \| SVS
10	Charles Dickens and Music more books like this by James T. Lightwood Text extracted from opening pages of book: PREFACE FOR many years 1 have been interested in the various musical references in Dickens' works, and have had the impression that a careful examination of his writings would reveal an aspect of his character hitherto unknown, and, 1 may add, unsuspected. The centenary of his birth hastened a work long ... see all copies from $10.61! new only from $10.61! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera more books like this by Professor Lydia Goehr Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to ... see all copies from $17.39! new only from $17.39! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing more books like this by Michael Magee, Charles Bernstein (Editor), Hank Lazer (Editor) Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that posits African-American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition. It traces Emerson's philosophical legacy through the 19th and 20th centuries to discover how Emersonian thought continues to inform issues of ... see all copies from $4.13! new only from $4.13! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Music and Literature: A Comparison of the Arts more books like this by Calvin S Brown This groundbreaking work in the field of comparative anesthetics can prove especially useful in college courses on humanities. (Music) see all copies from $5.00! new only from $34.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens more books like this by Anca Rosu Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role of language as a means of representation. Rosu demonstrates that Steven's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about ... see all copies from $11.44! new only from $13.50! \| first editions
15 view cover	A Living Minstrelsy: The Poetry and Music of Sidney Lanier more books like this by Jane S Gabin see all copies from $3.50! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson more books like this by Mary Chan see all copies from $30.05! new only from $150.98! \| SVS
17 view cover	Music and Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts more books like this by Sidney Lanier An informative and suggestive study.Contents: From Bacon to BeethovenThe Orchestra of TodayThe Physics of MusicTwo Descriptive Orchestral Works: The Ocean Symphony; Raid of the VikingsThe Maryland Musical FestivalThe Centennial CantataThe Legend of St. LeonorNature-MetaphorsA Forgotten English PoetThe Death of ByrhtnothChaucer and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary more books like this by Christopher R Wilson, Michela Calore Musical references, allusions to music, and music stage directions abound in Shakespeare, ranging from simple trumpet flourishes to sophisticated, philosophical allegory. Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary identifies all musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon. An A-Z of over 300 entries includes a definition of each musical term in its ... see all copies from $43.64! new only from $59.68! \| SVS
19 view cover	Music and Text: Critical Inquiries more books like this by Steven Paul Scher (Editor) Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted musicologists and literary critics explore diverse topics of shared concern such as literary theory as a model for musical criticism, genre theories in ... see all copies from $29.27! new only from $50.24! \| SVS
20	Pro and contra Wagner more books like this by Thomas Mann see all copies from $61.99! first editions
21	Transformations in the Renaissance English Lyric more books like this by Jerome Mazzaro see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory more books like this by Houston A Baker, Jr. Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $15.78!
23	Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 more books like this by Elaine Brody see all copies from $2.40! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Romantic Opera and Literary Form more books like this by Peter Conrad Romantic Opera and Literary Form is a provocative and provoking book on appear. It's idiosyncratic essay about the transformation of literature through music forces the reader to re-examine some of his own convictions about opera and drama. see all copies from $2.45! first editions
25 view cover	Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas more books like this by Sir Frederick Bridge Nearly all of Shakespeare's plays provide for music both instrumental and vocal. This scholarly work attempts to reconstruct that music so as to make us more aware of the use of music as a dramatic device by Shakespeare and other dramatists of that era. This 1923 publication was the first study to concentrate on identifying the correct versions of ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $35.40! \| SVS

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