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Pages: 352
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to
Music, Imagination, and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Nicholas Cook
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the exp
A Luthier's Alphabet of Imaginary Instruments
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Pages: 64
Authors: Fred Carlson
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A whimsical alphabet book of full-color woodcuts and humorous poems of fantastical musical instruments from the off-beat imagination of musical instrument maker
Music of the past, instruments and imagination
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Michael Latcham
Categories: Art
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Ce volume présente les délibérations des Deuxièmes Rencontres Internationales harmoniques du printemps 2004. Les conférences ont été données par des exp
Music and the Racial Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 728
Authors: Ronald M. Radano
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relatio