The Mozart collection of the former Preußische Staatsbibliothek (Prussian state library) is the largest and most important collection of the composer's original manuscripts and transcripts in the world.
The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt.
Ein Vierteljahrhundert verbrachte Alban Berg mit seiner Ehefrau Helene in ihrer Wohnung in Wien-Hietzing, nur drei Sommer konnten die beiden gemeinsam im geliebten Kärntner "Waldhaus" genießen.
Interreligiöser Dialog mit dem Islam gilt in einer globalisierten Welt als unverzichtbar, um friedliche Koexistenz von Menschen unterschiedlicher Religion zu sichern.
Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War.
Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand.
Die Elfte Vollversammlung des Lutherischen Weltbundes in Stuttgart im Jahr 2010 bat die Mitglieder der anabaptistischen/mennonitischen Bewegung um Vergebung für begangenes Unrecht, das bis zu den Anfängen der lutherischen Bewegung im 16.
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Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of ragtime music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War.
Die Forschungsstelle Digital Organology am Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig stellt nicht nur ungeheuer viele und dichte Forschungsdaten bereit, mit denen die Instrumentenkunde in ihren Kontexten überblickt und im Detail beforscht werden kann, sie fördert auch 'Edelsteine' zutage, an denen sich die Musik- und Kulturgeschichte ihrer jeweiligen Zeit exemplarisch ablesen lässt.
This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice.
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs.
Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century.
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.
In this book, Nicolas Laos studies the meaning of the terms "e;world"e; and "e;order,"e; the moral dimensions of each world order model, and wider issues of meaning and interpretation generated by humanity's attempt to live in a meaningful world and to find the logos of the beings and things in the world.
En el campo de la percepción armónica, del sentido rítmico, de la producción del sonido, de la habilidad corporal o de la expresión, determinadas claves permiten tanto evitar como reparar muchas disfunciones.
