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The fundamental changes resulting in the development of the Baroque style around the turn of the 17th century had a profound effect on music theory. This work explores the metamorphosis in England

This work examines the British experience, the work and contribution of Indian dance practioners based in Britain working primarily in a British/European context and how these factors have contributed to the development

This volume traces the origins of the complex system of devolution and regional home rule that currently shapes and directs the Spanish political process.

Offers an overall view of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003, and includes a study to deal with the rediscovered Messe solennelle.

The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth century, post-war period.

Containing contemporary comedy examples and house-hold names, from the music hall tradition to contemporary sitcoms, this work considers how English comedy reflects national concerns with class, race, gender and sexuality and traces

An examination of the problem of content regulation in the increasing number of broadcasting services available. It explores the moral basis of regulation, including the protection of children, obscenity and bad language,

This study on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying programme based on Hardy's

Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Eric Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both

Between 1908 and 1923, Schoenberg developed a compositional strategy that moved beyond the accepted concepts and practices of Western tonality. This study synthesizes and advances the state of knowledge about this body

Woody Herman was a central figure in the development of jazz. This biography follows his rise to prominence in the 1930s as leader of "the band that plays the blues", through success

This title examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm. Using a small core of repeated musical examples, Swain explores the theory's crucial components including functional and non functional harmonies, harmonic tension

An overview of the history, and present and future prospects of French media, and a consideration of the successes and failures of French media policy from 1945 to the present day. The

This text examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important "old economy" "rustbelt" industrial regions.

First full length discussion of hyperreality. Perry provides the reader with a full length discussion of the origins of the concept, nuances of meaning and case studies of hyperrealism - European tourism,

John Rahn's is prolific as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software. this book charts his intellectual development.

In this study of the composition, reception, extramusical implications, and stylistic eclecticism of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, a staple of the 19th-century musical canon, Cooper devotes extensive attention to the differences between the

This text explores pop's history, and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, critics and fans. In discussing this relationship between the past and the present, the contributors investigate