The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music

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This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition,...

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Restoration comedy demonstrates the interplay possible between the stage and the audience. Thus, this text argues that only through a performance a...

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender ...

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Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

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Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metro...

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This element identifies the important role played by Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth ce...

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Contributor(s): Editor: K. Anders EricssonEditor: Robert R. HoffmanEditor: Aaron KozbeltIn this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handb...

Language and music have much in common, such as rhythm, structure, sound and metaphor. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, performance studies and m...

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(Musicians Institute Press). A comprehensive guide to: notes, rests, counting, subdividing, time signatures, triplets, ties, dotted notes and rests...

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