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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor robert s kramer”
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  • Historical Dictionary of North Sudan

    by Professor Robert S. Kramer, Professor Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    Sudan split into two countries in 2011, with the secession of South Sudan. This volume covers the history of the region, starting in 5,000 BCE and continuing up to 2025. Historical Dictionary of North Sudan contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Sudan

    by Richard A. Lobban Jr., Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Robert S. Kramer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    The Republic of the Sudan was long the largest country in Africa and, according to the general consensus, also one of the least successful in many ways. This was not entirely its fault since it lay along the fault line between Muslim and Christian Africa and between the Nile Valley civilizations and African Sudanic cultures. This partly explains the long and bloody warfare waged by the Southerners ... Read more

    $257.99 CAD

  • Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening

    by Jonathan D. Kramer ...
    Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Classical Form

    A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

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  • The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785–1959

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