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Vintage Guide To Classical Music (92 Edition) by Jan Swafford Publisher Comments The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock and Roll by David P Szatmary Publisher Comments Rockin' in Time intrigues students by providing a social history of Rock and Roll music and explaining its influence. This book was written to address an area that seldom has been discussed. Rather than a compellation of the many... (read more) List Price $62.10 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Musician's Guide To Theory and Analysis - With CD (2ND 11 Edition) by Jane Piper Clendinning Publisher Comments With Music Examples Recordings... (read more) List Price $106.50 Your price: $75.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tonal Harmony-text Only (6TH 08 - Old Edition) by Stefan Kostka Publisher Comments For nearly two decades Tonal Harmony has been the leading text for the two-year theory curriculum for music majors. Used at nearly 800 schools, Tonal Harmony has been consistently praised for its practicality and ease of use for student and instructor... (read more) List Price $143.75 Your price: $96.00 Used - Hardcover
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Singers on Great Singing (82 Edition) by Jerome Hines Publisher Comments Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and Its History by John Covach Publisher Comments With innovative listening guides (both print and electronic), a rich visual program, and a strong support package, the text gives students a comprehensive and engaging introduction to rock history.... (read more) List Price $78.75 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Western Music (Regulation Edition) ((7TH)06 - Old Edition) by J. Peter Burkholder Publisher Comments These CDs are for use with The Norton Anthology of Western Musicand A History of Western Music.... (read more) List Price $80.65 Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stomping the Blues (76 Edition) by Albert Murray Publisher Comments This study of the blues by one of Americas premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular musica blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Practice of Harmony by Peter Spencer Publisher Comments With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, this workbook takes learners from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The approach is “additive”... (read more) List Price $106.15 Your price: $42.00 Used - Spiral/comb
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Wagner Without Fear : Learning To Love--and Even Enjoy--opera's Most Demanding Genius (98 Edition) by William Berger Publisher Comments A witty and informative guide that tells readers all they need to know--from storylines to historical background and from when to visit the rest room to how to sound smart during intermission. Funny and a pleasure to read, "Wagner Without Fear" proves... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Publisher Comments Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M Barry Publisher Comments A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza For four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Rockin'in Time: Social History... (7TH 10 - Old Edition) by David P. Szatmary Publisher Comments This well-organized, visually interesting book offers an in-depth examination of the social history of rock-and-roll. Rockin' in Time emphasizes several main themes, including the importance of African-American culture in the origins and development... (read more) List Price $71.45 Your price: $48.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones Publisher Comments "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Musician's Guide Anthology (2ND 11 Edition) by Jane Piper Clendinning Publisher Comments The Anthology features music for all standard instruments and ensembles so that all students have the opportunity to study works composed for their instruments. This edition also features a new chronological index and short prose headnotes to each score,... (read more) List Price $59.25 Your price: $39.00 Used - Spiral
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Introduction To the Creation of Electroacoustic Music (94 Edition) by Samuel Pellman Publisher Comments This text aims to be accessible to students relatively inexperienced with electronic musical technology, while also sufficiently detailed for technical and musical achievement. Furthermore, it stresses the notion that, despite all the attention given to... (read more) List Price $255.75 Your price: $171.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Noise : Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (94 Edition) by Tricia Rose Publisher Comments From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Soulsville U. S. A. : Story of Stax Records (03 Edition) by Rob Bowman Publisher Comments Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Provides the first history of the groundbreaking label.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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