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伴我半世紀的那把琴

by 鄧昌國 ...

Series series 三民叢刊
本書是被譽為「台灣樂壇的時代推手」小提琴家鄧昌國歷年來對工作及生活的感懷之作。其生於內憂外患、軍閥割據的動亂時代，躲避戰火、嚴重缺糧是學生時代的記憶；也經歷過「音樂、藝術要為群眾服務」的左派思潮，並在留學期間遇上全歐反蘇的運動。其以深厚的音樂素養和經歷，娓娓細訴生命中的點點滴滴。作者簡介：鄧昌國（1923～1992）北京師範大學音樂系、比利時皇家音樂院畢業，曾獲頒世界大學及韓國成均館大學名譽博士學位。歷任藝術館館長、藝專校長、臺北市立交響樂團團長兼指揮、史波肯世界博覽會中國館館長、中視副總經理、文化大學藝術學院院長，退休後赴美，創辦華夏管絃樂團，為當代知名的小提琴家及指揮家。 ... Read more

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本書是被譽為「台灣樂壇的時代推手」小提琴家鄧昌國歷年來對工作及生活的感懷之作。其生於內憂外患、軍閥割據的動亂時代，躲避戰火、嚴重缺糧是學生時代的記憶；也經歷過「音樂、藝術要為群眾服務」的左派思潮，並在留學期間遇上全歐反蘇的運動。其以深厚的音樂素養和經歷，娓娓細訴生命中的點點滴滴。作者簡介：鄧昌國（1923～1992）北京師範大學音樂系、比利時皇家音樂院畢業，曾獲頒世界大學及韓國成均館大學名譽博士學位。歷任藝術館館長、藝專校長、臺北市立交響樂團團長兼指揮、史波肯世界博覽會中國館館長、中視副總經理、文化大學藝術學院院長，退休後赴美，創辦華夏管絃樂團，為當代知名的小提琴家及指揮家。
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Songbook

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by Steven Heighton ...

From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton’s lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of ... Read more

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From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton’s lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of
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Partial Guitar Chords

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Partial Guitar Chords eBook will enable you to construct new guitar chords in a number of ways. Whether through using open strings, close harmony or by removing unnecessary notes.Although this is a jazz-based concept, this eBook can be applied to most styles and will help you to progress your knowledge and your guitar playing ability.
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Toto On Track

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by Hamish Kuzminski ...

Series series On Track
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by Héctor Berlioz, Jorge Rizo Martínez ...

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by Andrew Mon Hughes, Grant Walters, Mark Crohan ...

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In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of ‘New York Mining Disaster 1941’. Whilst that haunting classic would be the first of many hits, the Bee Gees consisting of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb had been releasing records since 1963. As extraordinary as it sounds, with more than ten years of performing and four years of recording
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Coldplay: Echoes of the Heart

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U2 were Formed at a Dublin Secondary School by Adam Clayton, Bono, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. Like most bands, they wanted to be among the best in the world. By 1991, with Achtung Baby in the pipeline and War, The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree behind them, they were arguably deserving of that intention. Yet there was more to the band than the stadium records that made their fans
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by John Rahn, Benjamin Boretz ...

Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world. This collection of essays charts Rahn's progression from the construal of music's data structures to ... Read more

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by Martín Salvidea Palma ...

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Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people’s perception of and
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Series series Photo Chords
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by Daniel Schwartz ...

Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and counterpoint.In City Symphonies Daniel Schwartz explores the unheard sonic dimensions of these ostensibly silent films. The book turns its ear to ... Read more

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Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and counterpoint.In City Symphonies Daniel Schwartz explores the unheard sonic dimensions of these ostensibly silent films. The book turns its ear to
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伴我半世紀的那把琴

Songbook

Partial Guitar Chords

Toto On Track

Camel

Eufonía o la ciudad musical

The Bee Gees in the 1960s

GHOSTS BEHIND THE SUN

Le avanguardie musicali nazionali ed internazionali ed il socialism

Brahms and His World

Autoritratto in vinile

Sedotto dal diavolo del violino

Coldplay: Echoes of the Heart

U2

San John Lennon: el Maestro en el cielo eterno del rock

Music Inside Out

AS MÚSICAS DIABÓLICAS DE RAUL SEIXAS

Los Beatles en CD

Music, Health and the Body

Redemption Song

Rock Guitar Photo Chords

Open Tuning Chord Book

City Symphonies

K-Pop Survival Guide