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"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
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c2007
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English
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For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By...
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This book contains short biographies, alphabetically arranged, of virtually all the great men in music up to our own day; surveys of each composer's place in music; lists of his principal works; descriptions of the various musical forms; thorough analysis of each of the compositions dealt with; explanations of the origin and evolution of all musical forms, and how they were enriched by the work of each composer; programmatic information on every composer's...
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