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Musicking
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Christopher Small
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music
Music Learning Today
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: William I. Bauer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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""At the beginning of Chapter 1, I quote author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (1984, p. 36)
Musicking Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Matthew Rahaim
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-29 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit
Musicking in Twentieth-Century Europe
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Klaus Nathaus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Music has gained the increasing attention of historians. Research has branched out to explore music-related topics, including creative labor, economic histories
Music of the Common Tongue
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Christopher Small
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life