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“milton babbitt”

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  • The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt

    by Milton Babbitt ...
    Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music. These writings range from personal memoirs and critical reviews to closely reasoned metatheoretical ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

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  • Back to the Garden

    The Story of Woodstock

    by Pete Fornatale ...
    The definitive oral history of the seminal rock concert, Woodstock—three days of peace and music and one of the most defining moments of the 1960s—with original interviews with Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, and dozens of headliners, organizers, and fans.On Friday, August 15, 1969, a crowd of 400,000—an unprecedented and unexpected number at the time—gathered on ... Read more

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  • Sex Pistols and Punk

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  • Syd Barrett and British Psychedelia

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    Faber Forty-Fives: 1967–1970

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  • New Atlantis

    Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    by John Swenson ...
    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been ... Read more

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  • Young Neil

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  • Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories

    by Robert Craft ...
    Robert Craft was co-conductor, companion and confidant to Igor Stravinsky for the last two decades of the composers life, an intimate working relationship that is unique in musical history. Now, in his ninetieth year, Craft has produced a book of astonishing freshness, warmth and wit as he surveys through the lens of his own distinctive position Stravinskys relationships with others from family ... Read more

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    by Bryce Santiago ...
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