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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The traditional performing arts of Bali are among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere in the world. This book by two leading experts is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of Balinese dance, drama and music."--Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America is the first complete biography of William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-1939), the innovative father of modern jazz drumming and a leading bandleader of the Swing Era, whose band and music thrilled dancers and audiences across the country. Webb was born in East Baltimore and had chronic spinal tuberculosis as a child, leaving him only four feet tall with a hump on his back. He moved to Harlem in...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself-known to most as the composer of Messiah-is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document-Handel's will-offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In...
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