Hits and misses : crafting top 40 singles, 1963-1971 / by Toft, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Telling a story -- Prosodic tunes -- Guitar-based modalities -- Bel canto : the unbroken tradition -- Invention and arrangement -- Transforming a demo -- Hit-and-miss affair.…”
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The tribe of Pyn : literary generations in the postmodern period / by Cowart, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Caliban -- Colonized Tongue, Colonized Pen: Heritage and Deracination in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" -- Braid of Blood: Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water -- Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day -- The Jeffersonian Vision in Steve Erickson's Arc d'X -- Passionate Pathography: Narrative as Pharmakon in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul -- Anger, Anguish, and Art: Chuck Palahniuk's Choke -- The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto -- The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves -- Thirteen Ways of Looking: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.…”

Experiencing Verdi : a listener's companion / by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

The tribe of Pyn : literary generations in the postmodern period / by Cowart, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Chapter 9. The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. …”
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Experiencing Verdi : a listener's companion / by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

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Singing in style : a guide to vocal performance practices / by Elliott, Martha

Table of Contents: “…The Classical era ; Scores and editions ; Classical instruments ; Articulation and legato ; Tempo and rhythm ; Voice types and ranges ; Mozart on singers ; Vibrato and portamento ; Recitative ; Ornamentation -- 4. Italian bel canto ; Scores and editions ; Articulation and phrasing ; Tempo, rhythmic flexibility, and rubato ; Voice types ; Technique ; Vibrato ; Portamento ; Ornamentation ; Cadenzas and improvised florid embellishment -- 5. …”
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Greek music in America /

Table of Contents: “…Kaloyanides -- Trio Bel Canto and Takis Elenis (b. 1948) / Tina Bucuvalas -- George E. …”
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How to listen to and understand great music by Greenberg, Robert, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Nineteenth-century Italian opera: Bel canto opera ; Lecture 38. Nineteenth-century Italian opera: Giuseppe Verdi ; Lecture 39. …”

Book reports : a music critic on his first love, which was reading / by Christgau, Robert

Table of Contents: “…-- Hip-hop faces the world: Steven Hager's hip hop; David Toop's the rap attack; and Nelson George, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker, and Patty Romanowski's fresh -- Making out like gangsters: Preston Lauterbach's the chitlin circuit, Dan Charnas's the big -- Payback, ice-t's ice, and Tommy James's me, the mob, and music -- Money isn't everything: Fred Goodman's the mansion on the hill -- Mapping the earworm's genome: John Seabrook's the song machine -- Critical practice -- Beyond the symphonic quest: Susan Mcclary's feminine endings -- All in the tune family: Peter van Der Merwe's origins of the popular style -- Bel cantos: Henry Pleasants's the great American popular singers -- The country and the city: Charlie Gillett's the sound of the city -- Reflections of an aging rock critic: Jon Landau's it's too late to stop now -- Pioneer days: Kevin Avery's everything is an afterthought and Nona Willis Aronowitz's (ed.) -- Out of the vinyl deeps -- Impolite discourse: Jim Derogatis's let it blurt: the life and times of Lester Bangs -- America's greatest rock critic, Richard Meltzer's a whore jus like the rest, and Nick Tosches's. …”
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