Your shopping cart is empty!
Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.
Art music, orchestral & formal music
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gar..
22.35£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one. Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving b..
45.13£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music's unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the Turks were trying to erase in the 1915 Genocide; the prisoner in a Nazi concentra..
36.30£
(PWM). The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczynski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions. The princip..
22.74£
Brand: Profile
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at th..
15.93£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating. But where did opera fit into this fashionable new entertainment world? Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s ..
38.60£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Today's pianists are expected to play music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's design from the late 1800s. Other types of pianos, such as Mozart's Walter or Chopin's Pleyel, are increasingly being copied or restored, but they are ..
56.70£
ISBN: 9781480304703Publisher: RicordiImprint: RicordiPublished date: 01 Oct 1996Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 68Weight: 288gHeight: 305mmWidth: 226mmSpine width: 5mm..
26.05£
Brand: Indiana University Press
In his book on left-hand violin technique, Maestro Ruggiero Ricci addresses common problems in shifting by advocating the study of the glissando technique. He asserts that re-incorporating this technique will not only aid violinists in developing a ..
23.33£
Rechtzeitig zum Jubiläumsjahr 2022, in dem des 350. Todestags von Heinrich Schütz gedacht wird, erscheint ein Heinrich-Schütz-Handbuch: das erste in der renommierten Reihe von Komponisten-Handbüchern bei Metzler und Bärenreiter, das einem Vertreter ..
98.35£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Enthusiasts and experts have long relished Schubert's quotations of his own music. This study centers on a previously unidentified pairing: "Ave Maria," one of his most beloved songs, and the Piano Trio no. 2, a masterpiece that holds a unique posit..
142.98£
Brand: Indiana University Press
Sergei Rachmaninoff A Lifetime in MusicSergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, with the assistance of Sophia SatinaWith a new introduction by David Butler CannataAn indispensable and captivating document, now back in print!Throughout his career as composer..
36.84£
Brand: Lexington Books
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" (1917) announces: "Music will help win the war!" This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society duri..
100.99£
Brand: Faber Music
Six Sonatas for treble recorder and continuo by Italian composer Giuseppe Sammartini. Suitable for Grades 6 to 7. **ABRSM selected piece (Recorder 2008): Allegro and Andante: 1st and 2nd movts (Sammartini) ISBN: 9780571506965Publisher: Faber MusicIm..
15.91£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into ..
28.42£
ISBN: 9781540051844Publisher: SchottImprint: SchottPublished date: 01 Feb 2019Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 80Weight: 318gHeight: 297mmWidth: 226mmSpine width: 10mm..
36.21£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe-this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to th..
46.12£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe-this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to th..
46.62£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
Timeless classics include the opening movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and Pachelbel's "Canon" as well as pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and other legendary composers. Edit..
13.86£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of British film, and of the British character, set it apart from its Hollywood counterpart. She shows how the differences between ..
89.86£
Brand: White Lion Publishing
The Classic FM Family Music Boxis the perfect introduction to the world of classical music. Featuring beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and 8 sound-chip buttons that play short bursts of iconic pieces of music, this unique book brings to life some ..
24.09£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical ..
26.39£
Gabriel Fauré's mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six..
61.41£
Brand: University of Illinois Press
Dorothea Link examines singers' voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna's court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers' voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the perf..
127.37£