The modernist bestiary : translating animals and the arts through Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Dufy and Graham Sutherland / edited by Sarah Kay and Timothy Mathews.

Table of Contents: “…Graham Sutherland -- The bestiary or the procession of Orpheus : an introduction -- The voice of light : nature and revelation in The bestiary or the Procession of Orpheus -- Ombre terreuse : shades of meaning in Vergil, Ovid and Apollinaire -- Apollinaire's Octosyllabic quatrain, translation and zoopoetics -- Animals on parade : collecting sounds for l'histoire naturelle of modern music -- Beasts of flesh and steel : the post-industrial bestiaries of Apollinaire, Dufy and Sutherland -- How is Orpheus honoured? …”
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Word and Music Studies : Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field. by Lodato, Suzanne M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Surveying the Field; Deleuze, Music, and Modernist Mimesis; Listening to Parsifal Premodern Romance, Modern Music Drama, Postmodern Film; 'Opera about Opera' Self-Referentiality in Opera with Particular Reference to Dominick Argento's The Aspern Papers; Schubert's Strategies in Setting Free Verse; False Assumptions Richard Strauss's Lieder and Text/Music Analysis; Music and the Spoken Word; Speaking Melody, Melodic Speech; Language and/or Music as Man's 'Comfort'? …”
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Olivier Messiaen : music of faith / Digital Classics (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…Messiaen Realizes He is a Musician (1:29) -- Messiaen's Religious Influences (3:31) -- Messiaen's Lonely Childhood (4:14) -- Messiaen's Mother's Influence (3:40) -- Debussy's Influence on Messiaen (5:47) -- Messiaen Schools in Paris (3:53) -- Messiaen and the Organ (3:31) -- Messiaen's Colorful Music Palette (4:01) -- Messiaen's "Your Voice" (3:25) -- Messiaen's Bird Songs (2:53) -- Messiaen's Catalogue of Birds (4:10) -- "Color" of the Countryside (2:17) -- Bird Sounds in Instruments (3:24) -- Garden of Love's Sleep (5:47) -- Messiaen Becomes a Prisoner of War (4:06) -- Intermezzo and the Hands of the Abyss (4:30) -- Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (3:36) -- Spectrum of Sound (3:32) -- Messiaen's Importance of Faith (3:30) -- Messiaen's Modern Music (2:32)…”
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Classical music : an introduction / Michael Swift.

Table of Contents: “…The romantic era: Mendelssohn; Brahms; Tchaikovsky; Wagner; Mahler; Puccini; Rachmaninov; Verdi; Other Romantic composers -- 5. Modern music: Elgar; Britten; Pärt; Other modern composers -- 6. …”
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Power and image in early modern Europe / edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire, and Gaoheng Zhang.

Table of Contents: “…Bartholomew's Eve and the iconology of the "state of exception" / Caroline Behrmann -- Anxious masculinity, affectation, and the creation of a personal image : echoes of Quintilian in Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano / Jennifer Newman -- Mother's milk and Deborah's sword : the anatomy of Joan of Arc in Henry VI / Kathryn Falzareno -- Echo and Narcissus : labyrinths of the self in early modern music / Ljubica Ilic -- Aristocratic spectacle : visual and literary portraiture in the senteenth-century French salon / Hiva Hafiz -- The future of the past looks bleak : Spenser's recycled image and Baudrillard's simulacrum / Thomas LeCarner -- Taking Mary's pulse : Cartesianism and modernity in Rembrandt's The death of the Virgin / Elissa Auerbach -- Secular relic : the spectacle of the body in decay on the early modern English stage / N.M. …”
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The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV. by Burton, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I: The Life of Francesco Galezaai; Part II: The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music; Appendix: Writings and Compositions by Francesco Galeazzi; THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL ELEMENTS OF MUSIC; Preface; Part III: Theory of the Principles of Ancient and Modern Music; Article I: Principles of Ancient and Modern Music; Article II: Greek Music Theory; Article III: Diatonic Genus; Article IV: Chromatic and Enharmonic Genera; Article V: Guido d'Arezzo; Article VI: Notation and Clefs; Article VII: Note Shapes and Mensuration.…”
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Music video games : performance, politics, and play / edited by Michael Austin.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Taking note of music games / Michael Austin -- SIMON : the prelude to modern music video games / William Knoblauch -- Mario Paint Composer and musial (re)play on YouTube / Dana M. …”
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Religion in times of crisis / edited by Gladys Ganiel, Heidemarie Winkel, Christophe Monnot.

Table of Contents: “…Religion and the Crisis of Modernity; Music, Branding and the Hegemonic Prosumption of Values of an Evangelical Growth Church (Wagner); Religion as a Response to the Crisis of Modernity: Perspectives of Immigrants in Ireland (Kmec); The Electronic Frontier of Catholicism in Poland: An Answer to the Crisis of Religious Community? …”
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Stan Kenton : this is an orchestra! / by Michael Sparke. by Sparke, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Balboa bandwagon (1941) -- Hollywood highs and Big Apple blues (1941/1942) -- Hanging on (1942/1943) -- Dance band days (1944/1945) -- A new beginning (1945) -- The arrival of Rugolo (1946) -- The artistry orchestra (1946) -- Artistry off the rails (1947) -- Progressive jazz (1947) -- The lost years (1948/1949) -- Innovations in modern music (1950/1951) -- New concepts of artistry in rhythm (1952) -- If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium (1953) -- "Kenton presents jazz" (1954/1955) -- Stompin' at the Savoy (1955) -- Fuego cubano! …”
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Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 / edited By Reine Meylaerts, Lieven D'hulst & Tom Verschaffel.

Table of Contents: “…Politics -- Towards a comparative history of mediators : double men and women / Christophe Charle -- Mediating through translation : Irish cultural nationalism and European importations / Anne O'Connor -- Germany as a cultural paragon : transferring modern musical life from Central Europe to Finland / Vesa Kurkela & Saijaleena Rantanen -- Dada -- rag-time -- cabaret : artistic internationalism and multilingual writing in Walter Mehring's work / Dirk Weissmann.…”
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Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music. by Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology of Works in Volume 7; Introduction; Note on the Text; Plan Regarding New Signs for Music; Letter to the Mercure on a New System of Musical Notation; Dissertation on Modern Music; Letter on Italian and French Opera; Letter on "Omphale" (Grimm); Remarks on the Subject of the Letter by M. …”
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Modernism today / edited by Sjef Houppermans [and others].

Table of Contents: “…/ Otto Boele -- Ten times Pessoa / Paulo de Medeiros -- Modernism in Greek literature (1910-1940) / Hero Hokwerda -- Fun home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania / Jan Baetens -- A modernist "attempt at cinema": the "impurity" of Pierrot le Fou / Peter Verstraten -- Modernism and the art of printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst / Peter de Voogd -- The (post)modern music of Edgard Varèse / Marcel Cobussen.…”
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Ethics and human rights in anglophone African women's literature : feminist empathy / Chielozona Eze. by Eze, Chielozonoa

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Local Music Scenes and Globalization. by Burkhalter, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…PART III Analysis-Six Key Tracks from Beirut11 Zeid Hamdan: "Aranis" (Remixed); 12 Garo Gdanian: "Remains of a Bloodbath"; 13 Mazen Kerbaj: "Blblb Flblb," "ZRRRT," "PIIIIIIIIIIII", "Taga of Daga"; 14 Raed Yassin: "Civil War Tapes"; 15 Charbel Haber: "Track 5"; 16 Rayess Bek: "Schizophrenia"; PART IV History-Music and Noise in Lebanon from the Past and Present; 17 Ground Setting: The Urbanization and Europeanization of Music in the Arab World; 18 Modern Music from Cairo-Old Music from Aleppo; 19 European Music and Christian Hymns in Beirut (1926-1948).…”
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American Musical Theater : a Chronicle.

Table of Contents: “…Pinafore and the Great Transformation, 1878-1892 -- 3 INTERMISSION: Further British Influences and New Stirrings, 1892-1902 -- 4 ACT TWO: The Emergence of American Talent, 1902-1907 -- 5 INTERMISSION: Viennese Operetta and the American Retreat, 1907-1914 -- 6 ACT THREE: The Birth of the Modern Musical, 1914-1921 -- 7 INTERMISSION: The Cinderella Era, 1921-1924 -- 8 ACT FOUR: The Golden Age of the American Musical, 1924-1937.…”
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Northrop Frye on Modern Culture. by Frye, Estate of Northrop

Table of Contents: “…Srinivasa's Lytton Strachey -- 10 The Great Charlie -- 11 Reflections at a Movie -- 12 Music in the Movies -- 13 Max Graf's Modern Music -- 14 Abner Dean's It's a Long Way to Heaven -- 15 Russian Art -- 16 Herbert Read's The Innocent Eye -- 17 The Eternal Tramp -- 18 On Book Reviewing -- 19 Academy without Walls -- 20 Communications -- 21 The Renaissance of Books -- 22 Violence and Television -- 23 Introduction to Art and Reality -- Politics, History, and Society -- 24 Pro Patria Mori -- 25 Wyndham Lewis: Anti-Spenglerian -- 26 War on the Cultural Front -- 27 Two Italian Sketches, 1939 -- 28 G.M. …”
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A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting. by Rosenbaum, Harold

Table of Contents: “…What Can Go Wrong15 Making Recordings -- Finding a Recording Space -- Recording Engineers -- Scheduling Sessions -- In Session -- The Session Begins -- 16 Breaking Rules: When and Why It Is Acceptable -- When Not to Conduct -- When Not to Follow the Printed Score -- 17 The World of Professional Choristers: An Inside Look at The New York Virtuoso Singers -- Rehearsals -- What I Have Learned About Professional Singers -- What I Have Learned From Professional Singers -- Further Observations and Thoughts About Professional Singers -- 18 Performing Modern Music…”
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A companion to Adorno / edited by Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, Max Pensky.

Table of Contents: “…Guilt or Mourning -- References -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School -- 1. The Path: Modernity, Music, and the New (Adorno and Berg)…”
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Michael Jackson FAQ : all that's left to know about the King of Pop / Kit O'Toole. by O'Toole, Kit

Table of Contents: “…Make Me a Believer in Rock 'n' Roll Fever and Bring Back the Memories: What the Jackson 5 Contributed to Modern Music and Pop Culture13. The Good Times We Shared Together: The Jacksons Meet Gamble and Huff; 14. …”
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Musical theatre song : a comprehensive course in selection, preparation and presentation for the modern performer / Stephen Purdy. by Purdy, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…-- Belt and legit -- Beyond belt and legit: Understanding and performing the diverse song and vocal styles used in modern musical theatre -- Mutual plausibility between you and the song: Getting closer than "one-and-the other" -- Does the song cut well? …”