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Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went o... more

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Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also clos... more

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defines the field for today’s planners and the next generation. As Seymour J. Mandelbaum notes in the introduction, "the...... more

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Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to al... more

Concentrating on Europe, this volume’s sixteen essays discuss different forms of medievalism in Germ... more

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First published in 1958, Basic Concepts in Music Education served as the standard text for a generat... more

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