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Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical period of development in symphonic history. The work follows Brown's outline, is organized by country, and focuses on major composers. It includes a four-chapter overview and concludes with a reframing of the symphonic narrative. Contributors address issues of historiography, the status of research, and questions of attribution and stylistic traits, and provide background material on the musical context of composition and early performances. The volume features a CD of recordings from the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, highlighting the largely unavailable repertoire discussed in the book.
During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself. This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.
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Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
This detailed analysis of every record made by Maria Callas examines the development of her art from her first recordings in 1949 to the last in 1977.
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Jahresabschlüsse lassen sich von Kapitalmarktteilnehmern nur dann sinnvoll interpretieren, wenn sie miteinander vergleichbar sind. Insbesondere bei Börsengängen, bei denen die Veröffentlichung vergleichbarer Abschlüsse für die letzten drei Geschäftsjahre vorgeschrieben ist, ist die Vergleichbarkeit bei gravierenden Änderungen in der Unternehmensstruktur meist nicht gegeben. Dieser Mangel wird mit Pro-forma-Abschlüssen behoben, die das betreffende Unternehmen in der Vergangenheit in der aktuellen Struktur darstellen. Allerdings fehlten bisher tragfähige Bilanzierungsregeln für Pro-forma-Abschlüsse. Thomas Schmotz zeigt die Regelungslücken auf, die HGB, IAS/IFRS und US-GAAP für den Bereich der Pro-forma-Abschlüsse aufweisen. Aus dem übergeordneten Sinn und Zweck von Pro-forma-Abschlüssen leitet er neue, konsistente Bilanzierungsregeln ab und illustriert sie durch Zahlenbeispiele.
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.