The tooth that nibbles at the soul : essays on music and poetry / by Brown, Marshall, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : music and abstraction -- Music and fantasy -- German Romanticism and music -- Negative poetics : on skepticism and the lyric voice -- Rethinking the scale of literary history -- Mozart, Bach, and musical abjection -- Moods at mid-century : Handel and English literature, 1740-1760 -- Passion and love : anacreontic song and the roots of romantic lyric -- Haydn's whimsy : poetry, sexuality, repetition -- Non Giovanni : Mozart with Hegel.…”
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Jewish identities : nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music / by Móricz, Klára, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Uneasy parallels : from German nationalism to Jewish utopia ; Torsos and abstractions : "music in its promised land" ; On the ashes of the Holocaust : anxiety, abstraction, and Schoenberg's rhetoric of fear ; A taste for "the things in heaven" : cleansing music of politics.…”
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Globalization : the key concepts / by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Table of Contents: “…Globalization today -- What globalization is not -- Globalizers and sceptics -- Dimensions of globalization -- Globalization and distance -- Towards a more abstract world -- Abstract time and temperature -- Money as a means of communication -- Abstract music -- Watersheds -- Nationalism as a template for globalization -- Other disembedding mechanisms -- Critics of disembedding -- Time-space compression -- Accelerated change -- Acceleration in the media -- Simultaneity -- Some further implications of acceleration -- Some standards of a global modernity -- Some contemporary forms of standardization -- Obsolescence -- The globalization of nothing -- McWorld and its discontents -- MS word -- Human rights and identity politics -- The non-standardized -- The network society -- Communication networks -- A networked global economy? …”

Artists and intellectuals and the requests of power /

Table of Contents: “…Kühn -- East Asia -- Philosophers in Japan in the period of World War II : reflecting the philosophy of Nishida against the background of social phenomena / Hisaki Hashi -- Mao und die Intellektuellen / Harro von Senger -- Two musicians of the twentieth century -- Hans Pfitzner : ein Genie und sein Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft / J.P. Vogel -- Abstract musical works as objects of political interest? …”
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Globalization : the key concepts / by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Table of Contents: “…Globalization today -- What globalization is not -- Globalizers and sceptics -- Dimensions of globalization -- Globalization and distance -- Towards a more abstract world -- Abstract time and temperature -- Money as a means of communication -- Abstract music -- Watersheds -- Nationalism as a template for globalization -- Other disembedding mechanisms -- Critics of disembedding -- Time-space compression -- Accelerated change -- Acceleration in the media -- Simultaneity -- Some further implications of acceleration -- Some standards of a global modernity -- Some contemporary forms of standardization -- Obsolescence -- The globalization of nothing -- McWorld and its discontents -- MS word -- Human rights and identity politics -- The non-standardized -- The network society -- Communication networks -- A networked global economy? …”
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Music of the highest class : elitism and populism in antebellum Boston / by Broyles, Michael, 1939-

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Digital media processing for multimedia interactive services : proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services : Queen Mary, Universi...

Table of Contents: “…Baumann -- Perception-based advanced description of abstract musical content / O. Lartillot -- Timbre dissimilarity of violins: specific case of musical instruments identification / E. …”
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Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre / by Beard, David, 1971-

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The power of music.

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Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre / by Beard, David, 1971-

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