Odyssey of the voice / by Abitbol, Jean

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of the human voice; Chapter 3. The fossil voice; Chapter 4. …”
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African music : a people's art / by Bebey, Francis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Expression of life -- The African musician -- The musical instruments: stringed instruments ; wind and air instruments ; keyboard instruments ; lithophone ; drums ; the human voice -- The music -- Selective discography -- Recent recordings -- DIstributors -- Notes.…”
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Cinema beyond film : media epistemology in the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to an epistemology of viewing and listening dispositives ; The 1900 episteme / François Albera and Maria Tortajada -- Projected cinema : a hypothesis on the cinema's imagination ; The case for an epistemography of montage : the Marey moment / François Albera -- The 'cinematographic snapshot' : rereading Etienne-Jules Marey ; The cinematograph versus photography, or cyclists and time in the work of Alfred Jarry / Maria Tortajada -- Dynamic paths of thought : exhibition design, photography and circulation in the work of Herbert Bayer ; The lecture : Le Corbusier's use of the word, drawing and projection / Olivier Lugon -- Dancing dolls and mechanical eyes : tracking an obsessive motive from balet to cinema / Laurent Guido -- From broadcast performance to virtual show : television's tennis dispositive / Laurent Guido -- The lecturer, the image, the machine and the audio-spectator : the voice as a component part of audiovisual dispositives / Alain Boillat -- On the singular status of the human voice : Tomorrow's eve and the cultural series of talking machines / Alain Boillat.…”
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Life of Rossini, by Stendhal, 1783-1842

Table of Contents: “…Concerning the various qualities of the human voice -- 35. Madame Pasta -- 36. La Donna del Lago -- 37. …”