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Sourcebook for Research in Music, Second EditionSourcebook for Research in Music, Second Edition
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The Sourcebook for Research in Music, in this revised and greatly expanded second edition, is an...
Guide to the Aria Repertoire (Indiana Repertoire Guides)Guide to the Aria Repertoire (Indiana Repertoire Guides)
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I was very disappointed with this book, one of the reasons being what another reviewer pointed...
Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq WarSound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
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Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War, Jonathan Pieslak, Indiana University...
Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency (South Asian Cinemas)Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency (South Asian Cinemas)
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In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of...
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post BopMiles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop
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Written by music professor Jeremy Yudkin, Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post...


Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
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How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and...
Hindi Action Cinema: Industries, Narratives, Bodies (South Asian Cinemas)Hindi Action Cinema: Industries, Narratives, Bodies (South Asian Cinemas)
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Valentina Vitali presents the history of Bombay action films, posing new questions about the...
The American Film MusicalThe American Film Musical
"... a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical...
Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)
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Bonnie Blanchard continues her stellar series (Music For Life) with this new book: "Making...
New German Film: The Displaced ImageNew German Film: The Displaced Image
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How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of AnimationHow to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) *First...
Show Case, Second Edition: Developing, Maintaining, and Presenting a Design-Tech Portfolio for Theatre and Allied FieldsShow Case, Second Edition: Developing, Maintaining, and Presenting a Design-Tech Portfolio for Theatre and Allied Fields
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A design tech portfolio showcases a theatre designer/technician's most prized...
DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with VideoDSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video
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The book seems ambitious in its scope -- HDSLR gear, camera techniques, sound, lighting,...
Astrology for Cats : Your Cats Moon Sign and How to Live with itAstrology for Cats : Your Cats Moon Sign and How to Live with itHooray for Yiddish!Hooray for Yiddish!

Positively no: The book of rejectionPositively no: The book of rejectionTrack RecordsTrack Records
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And the bands played onAnd the bands played on
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Killing Bono. Neil McCormickKilling Bono. Neil McCormick
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"Squirm-inducing, excruciatingly honest and painfully funny". ( Joseph O'Connor)....
Contemporary Anthology of Music by WomenContemporary Anthology of Music by Women
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"... a valuable resource for students and teachers, women and men, who wish to enlarge...

The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Drama and Performance Studies)The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Drama and Performance Studies)
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"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety...
The History of Keyboard Music to 1700The History of Keyboard Music to 1700
This classic work has served a generation of pianists, organists, and harpsichordists and...
Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and DesireChoreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
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"Undoubtedly, ¯Choreography and Narrative is an important contribution to dance...
The Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's TechniquesThe Bassoon Reed Manual: Lou Skinner's Techniques
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Each of us makes our reeds to our own specifications right down to the colour of the thread. ...
Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)
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The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity...

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (Music: Scholarship and Performance)A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (Music: Scholarship and Performance)
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I agree with the other review of this book, the Bagby article is wonderful in its insight and...
Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song (African Expressive Cultures)Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song (African Expressive Cultures)
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In Muslim Women Sing, Beverly B. Mack shows Muslim women in northern Nigeria actively involved...
The Writings and Letters of Konrad WolffThe Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff
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"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant...
Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's JourneyYuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey
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Great book although it would be even better if it included more color illustrations. The book...
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.
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The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that...

Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies)Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies)
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Michael Kurtz wrote his biography of Sofia Gubaidulina in German in 2001, ending with the...
Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (Music for Life)Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (Music for Life)
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Making Music and Enriching Lives fills an important niche in the very large world of books about...
John Zorn: Tradition and TransgressionJohn Zorn: Tradition and Transgression
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Long story short - I own over 120 original Zorn recordings and was much looking forward to this...
Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
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Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic...
Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)
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In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie...

Water: Alphabet City Magazine 14Water: Alphabet City Magazine 14
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Writers and artists offer new perspectives on water, with writings and projects...
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Best Price: $24.33
This book was published under the name of Steve Goodman (a lecturer in Music Culture at the...
The Audio Programming BookThe Audio Programming Book
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As a seasoned coder new to audio processing I give this book 5 big stars. It explains through...
Korea's Online Gaming EmpireKorea's Online Gaming Empire
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In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on...
I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh (Music in American Life)I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh (Music in American Life)
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This first biography of Jimmy McHugh captures a lively and significant contributor to American...

I Hear a Voice Calling: A Bluegrass MemoirI Hear a Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir
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During the final years of Bill Monroe's life, bluegrass fiddler Gene Lowinger took a series...
Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs (Music in American Life)Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs (Music in American Life)
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Restless Giant is a fascinating account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the elusive...
Lars von Trier (Contemporary Film Directors)Lars von Trier (Contemporary Film Directors)
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Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von...
Doowop: THE CHICAGO SCENE (Music in American Life)Doowop: THE CHICAGO SCENE (Music in American Life)
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A fascinating journey through the doowop era in Chicago. It's all here-singers, songwriters,...
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)
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The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia...

Music and GenderMusic and Gender
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Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa,...
Come Hither to Go Yonder: PLAYING BLUEGRASS WITH BILL MONROE (Music in American Life)Come Hither to Go Yonder: PLAYING BLUEGRASS WITH BILL MONROE (Music in American Life)
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I've read a number of books about Bill Monroe over the years and this is the best. It is...
The Bluegrass Reader (Music in American Life)The Bluegrass Reader (Music in American Life)
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I`ve never much enjoyed reading about music; far more fun to play or listen to it. Lately,...
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.
Best Price: $40.99
The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that...
Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies)Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Russian Music Studies)
Best Price: $30.03
Michael Kurtz wrote his biography of Sofia Gubaidulina in German in 2001, ending with the...

Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (Music for Life)Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (Music for Life)
Best Price: $65.00
Making Music and Enriching Lives fills an important niche in the very large world of books about...
John Zorn: Tradition and TransgressionJohn Zorn: Tradition and Transgression
Best Price: $60.99
Long story short - I own over 120 original Zorn recordings and was much looking forward to this...
Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
Best Price: $29.89
Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic...
Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)Making Music and Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students (Music for Life)
Best Price: $30.00
In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie...
Water: Alphabet City Magazine 14Water: Alphabet City Magazine 14
Best Price: $8.49
Writers and artists offer new perspectives on water, with writings and projects...

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Best Price: $24.33
This book was published under the name of Steve Goodman (a lecturer in Music Culture at the...
The Audio Programming BookThe Audio Programming Book
Best Price: $41.31
As a seasoned coder new to audio processing I give this book 5 big stars. It explains through...
Korea's Online Gaming EmpireKorea's Online Gaming Empire
Best Price: $14.55
In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on...
The Life of Smetana: The Pain and the GloryThe Life of Smetana: The Pain and the Glory
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My first love exerience with classical music was in a second year English composition class. ...
Cryptic Crosswords and How to Solve ThemCryptic Crosswords and How to Solve Them
An aid to understanding and unravelling the mysteries of cryptic crosswords, with simple...

The Making of JazzThe Making of JazzTheme and Variations: A Study of Linear Twelve Tone CompositionTheme and Variations: A Study of Linear Twelve Tone CompositionComic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American LiteratureComic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature
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LONG STEEL RAIL (Music in American Life)LONG STEEL RAIL (Music in American Life)
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While humming "The Wabash Cannonball," which remains a popular tune even...
TENEMENT SONGS CASSETTE (Music in American Life)TENEMENT SONGS CASSETTE (Music in American Life)
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Women Making Music : The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950Women Making Music : The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950
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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Music in American Life)Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Music in American Life)
This is a great book on the blues tradition in the southeast, probably one of the least...
Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (Working Class in American History)Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (Working Class in American History)
Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American...
Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American CinemaUnspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American CinemaHAPPY IN SERVICE OF LORD (Music in American Life)HAPPY IN SERVICE OF LORD (Music in American Life)
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Carl Ruggles: Composer, Painter, and Storyteller (Music in American Life)Carl Ruggles: Composer, Painter, and Storyteller (Music in American Life)
Carl Ruggles was an crusty ol' opininated prejudiced, cantankerous, stubborn man. Most of...
Santiago de Murcia's "Codice Saldivar No. 4": A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. Vol. 1: Commentary (Music in American Life)Santiago de Murcia's "Codice Saldivar No. 4": A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. Vol. 1: Commentary (Music in American Life)
This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Spanish baroque circa 1700 as well as ...
Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and CultureAfro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture
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In "Afro-Blue", Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have...
Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay (Music in American Life)Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay (Music in American Life)
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Dewey And Elvis: The Life And Times Of A Rock 'n' Roll Deejay is a biography drawn from...
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGEJosephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and...

Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Music in American Life)Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Music in American Life)
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A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how this...
Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)
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Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American...
Continuo Playing on the Lute, Archlute and Theorbo: A Comprehensive Guide for Performers (Music: Scholarship and Performance)Continuo Playing on the Lute, Archlute and Theorbo: A Comprehensive Guide for Performers (Music: Scholarship and Performance)
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I bought this book as an introduction to continuo on the lute. Unfortunately for me I am very...
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian CinemaColonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema
As political barriers crumble, Asian cinema is increasingly attracting the attention of film...
Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant ImaginaireImaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaire

Action! The Action Movie A--ZAction! The Action Movie A--Z
"... Julius has something entertaining to say about every film. A treat for...
The Music of the Troubadours (Music--Scholarship and Performance)The Music of the Troubadours (Music--Scholarship and Performance)
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I liked very much this book because of its scholarly yet plain approach to the troubaudor's...
The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and LiteratureThe Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and Literature
Clyde Taylor exposes the concept of "art" as a tool of Ethnocentricity and racial...
Movement and Meaning: Creativity and Interpretation in Ballet and MimeMovement and Meaning: Creativity and Interpretation in Ballet and Mime
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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies:How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies:
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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray Foreword by...

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in DocumentaryRepresenting Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
"Representing Reality" is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary...
Animation in Asia and the PacificAnimation in Asia and the Pacific
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Animation has had a global renaissance during the 1990s, and nowhere is this more evident than...
Sally Potter (Contemporary Film Directors)Sally Potter (Contemporary Film Directors)
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This survey of Sally Potter?s work documents and explores her cinematic development from the...
Give 'Em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in ChicagoGive 'Em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago
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I am so thrilled to have in my possession another radio project and on one of America's most...
Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)
Best Price: $19.59
I've been playing, singing, and studying folk music for some years now. I enjoyed this book...

Afghanistan in the CinemaAfghanistan in the Cinema
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In this timely critical introduction to the representation of Afghanistan in film, Mark Graham...
From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity (African Amer Music in Global Perspective)From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity (African Amer Music in Global Perspective)
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This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural...
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Perspectives)The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Perspectives)
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I know that Fredric Jameson is highly regarded in LitCrit and CultCrit circles and rightly so: ...
Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in AmericaDone into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America
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This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the...
A Method for the FluteA Method for the Flute
Best Price: $11.45
A useful book for all stages of practice.
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