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  • German Song Onstage

    Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of ... Read more

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  • The Jellybean Tree

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  • German Song Onstage

    Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of ... Read more

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  • Pluralising Pasts

    Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies

    From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue.This book explores what heritage means now heritage is big business and how it is used to encourage people to identify with particular places and 'traditions', now it is entangled with capitalism. Examining a range of questions, including the way contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Tourist-Historic City

    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    Reflects the importance of heritage to cities, and cities to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism. This book presents a review of the state of urban heritage tourism at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

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    **WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS.'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer' John Humphrys________________________ ... Read more

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  • Mass Tourism in a Small World

    This book reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism. It covers theoretical perspectives (including political economy, ethics, sustainability and environmentalism), the historical context, and the current challenges to domestic, intra-regional and international mass tourism. As tourism and tourist numbers continue to grow around the world, it becomes increasingly important that this ... Read more

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  • A Geography of Heritage

    The concept of heritage relates to the ways in which contemporary society uses the past as a social, political or economic resource. However, heritage is open to interpretation and its value may be perceived from differing perspectives - often reflecting divisions in society. Moreover, the schism between the cultural and economic uses of heritage also gives rise to potential conflicts of interest ... Read more

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  • Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities

    Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities ... Read more

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  • Chamber Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Playing together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, a principle of one player per part, without a conductor. Second, that location is more a state of mind than an actual venue--thus, chamber music can exist in the home and on the concert platform. ... Read more

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    Chamber Music

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Unabridged

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    Playing together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, a principle of one player per part, without a conductor. Second, that location is more a state of mind than an actual venue—thus, chamber music can exist in the home and on the concert platform. Third, it is the province of both amateurs and ... Read more

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