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History of music
Brand: Peter Lang
The monograph concerns one of the most important trends in contemporary classical Polish music. The ‟new romanticism" represented the reaction to the crisis of the avant-garde in the 70s. It appeared in works by the ‟1933 generation" (Penderecki, Gó..
69.97£
Brand: Peter Lang
Musicologue de réputation internationale connu pour ses éditions critiques de Girolamo Frescobaldi, Etienne Darbellay est aussi un homme de goût pour qui la peinture compte autant que la musique. Notre page de titre en rend compte..
118.91£
Brand: Zone Books
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In this path-breaking boo..
24.90£
Brand: Transworld
With a foreword by Paul McCartney'We wanted to live the mystique of this legendary studio' Kanye West 'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile RodgersMany people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitor..
30.61£
Brand: Princeton University Press
An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composerAlban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Sch..
35.47£
Brand: Peter Lang
The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by..
70.37£
Brand: Backbeat
Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as "California Dreamin'," the iconic folk music single that catapulted The Mamas & The Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, SiriusXM produ..
28.43£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music. As a teacher and writer, Babbitt has influenced two generations of students, including such notable musicians as St..
56.86£
Brand: Peter Lang
While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner ..
47.56£
Brand: Peter Lang
Dieser Band enthält die Vorträge des Symposiums Arthur Honegger, das am 25./26. November 2005 im Münchener Institut français abgehalten wurde, sowie zwei weitere Studien. Der 50. Todestag Honeggers (1892-1955) bot den Anlaß, auf das ungeheuer vielfä..
86.51£
Brand: Peter Lang
This book explores the artistic principles of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, his concert activities, his art of piano playing, as well as his pedagogy and his attitude towards his students. The author presents the biographical data of the artist as ..
34.84£
Brand: Profile
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American cultur..
18.80£
Brand: Peter Lang
Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies to the great majority of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Once Bach has his personal tuning aesthetic acknowledged, a new dimensio..
62.50£
This compelling study examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum.May 1945. A Soviet military patrol searches Hitler's secret bu..
26.01£
Brand: Faber & Faber
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived. 'A gem of a book . . . beautiful.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'A wonderf..
13.43£
Brand: Peter Lang
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the &«dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote ..
61.67£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-Saëns-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to ..
41.69£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to "Like a Virgin," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "Sister Christian" to "Love Is a Battlefield," "What's Love Got to Do with..
28.43£
This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers..
36.71£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Mit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in breiter Form zugänglich. Sie wirft neues Licht auf die Entwicklun..
139.86£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music ..
34.17£
Brand: Princeton University Press
This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a co..
44.89£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk ChopinFryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who prefer..
33.66£
Brand: Peter Lang
Ce volume présente les contributions des cinquièmes Rencontres Internationales organisées à Lausanne par la Fondation harmoniques en septembre 2010. Il offre un regard panoramique et des études à plusieurs voix sur la variété des écoles de facture d..
61.80£