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Product Description: A year-by-year history of people and events, this lively multi-layered account tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. The Chronicle of Jazz charts the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and the southern United States to the myriad urban styles heard around the world today, Mervyn Cooke gives us a narrative rich with innovation, experimentation, controversy, and emotion...read more
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9780199341009 | Exp rev edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2013), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A year-by-year history of people and events, this lively multi-layered account tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities.
9780789203991 | Abbeville Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Beginning at the turn of the century, The Chronicle of Jazz charts the evolution of jazz from Africa and the southern United States to the myriad urban styles heard around the world today.
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9780520242593 | Univ of California Pr, January 8, 2005, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II
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9781843837251 | 1 edition (Boydell Pr, November 15, 2012), cover price $80.00
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9781843835912 | Boydell Pr, October 21, 2010, cover price $90.00
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9780521811736 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2008), cover price $160.00
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9780521010481 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2008, cover price $29.99
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9780521780094 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2005, cover price $105.00
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9780521783934 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 16, 2006, cover price $49.99
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9780521663205 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 27, 2003, cover price $115.00
Product Description: Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780851155791 | Har/com edition (Boydell & Brewer Inc, July 1, 1998), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten's strong interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book explores the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian sources.
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9780851158303 | Pap/com edition (Boydell Pr, May 1, 2001), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music.
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9780521573849 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $78.99
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9780521574761 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $49.99
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9780500203187 | Thames & Hudson, February 1, 1999, cover price $14.95
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9780521440899 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $94.99
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9780521446334 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $34.99
Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. A detailed synopsis guides the reader through the musical and dramatic action of the opera and in a chapter devoted to the music, Britten's distinctive technique of tonal symbolism is analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of his musical response to the dramatic suggestions of Melville's story. The most important critical writings on Billy Budd are represented by an expanded version of Donald Mitchell's 1979 notebook on the opera. A final chapter charts the opera's stage history and fluctuating critical reception. (view table of contents)
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9780521383288 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas.
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9780521387507 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $54.99
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