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History of music
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the YearIn November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at ..
15.65£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Although, according to the author, much sound research, has been done in the Dufay era in recent years," Charles Hamm's book marks the first time an attempt has been made at a comprehensive chronology of the works of this composer. Professor Hamm ap..
28.43£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This..
43.49£
Brand: Random House
The best masterclass in classical music you never knew you needed.Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch's life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She's..
30.70£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this isn't the story of punk. Forget punk. Punk was a flash in the pan compared to this. This is the story of the ..
24.74£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Ist musikalische Romantik eine Epoche, ein Stil oder bloß Kitsch? Wird sie von Literaten um 1800 erfunden? Ist Ludwig van Beethoven ein waschechter Romantiker oder doch erst Robert Schumann oder Richard Wagner? Irrt E.T.A. Hoffmann, wenn er schon Jo..
46.84£
Brand: Faber & Faber
How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takács Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular cham..
21.60£
Brand: Watkins Media Limited
Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's pr..
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Brand: Princeton University Press
Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection ..
52.73£
Brand: Candy Jar Books
The untold story of the greatest band of all time's real X factor, that special something which elevated them above all their competitors - the Beatles' COMEDY. The hilarious story of John, Paul, George and Ringo's classic films, cartoons, audio com..
20.36£
Brand: Peter Lang
Dieses Buch faßt den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu Faustina Bordoni(-Hasse) zusammen. Es unternimmt den Versuch einer Begründung des Erfolgs der Stimme gerade dieser Sängerin in der Epoche der Opera seria, in der auch Kastraten außerordentlich geschä..
68.22£
Brand: Backbeat
From the ashes of Nirvana, Dave Grohl rose as a one-man band with a self-titled album: Foo Fighters. Now, twenty-five years on and with a rock-solid outfit—including Nate Mendel (bass), Taylor Hawkins (drums), Chris Shiflett (guitar), Pat Smear (rhy..
44.10£
Brand: Peter Lang
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not on..
70.81£
Brand: Peter Lang
With the terms &«visionary» and &«despot», the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahler's inner biography: his unshakable ..
51.42£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn ach..
43.48£
Brand: Liverpool University Press
Gustav Mahler once said, "With song you can express so much more in the music than the words directly say. The text is actually a mere indication of the… hidden treasure within." Over fourteen years, from 1887-1901, he devoted his compositional outp..
108.03£
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention spa..
26.56£
Brand: Princeton University Press
These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janáçek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at Luhaçovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six, the wife of..
56.86£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage..
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Brand: Flame Tree Publishing
The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have fundamentally influenced popular music. Divided into chapters, each covering a different era, the book tr..
29.42£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Dieses Buch zeichnet ein weites historisches Panorama Europas und der „abendländischen Welt" anhand der Musik, mit deren Hilfe die Menschen ihre Kulturen seit jeher gestaltet haben. Gernot Gruber erzählt die Geschichte der Musik von ihren Anfängen i..
54.44£
Qu'elle permette d'oublier les horreurs vécues, de donner du courage aux soldats et à leur famille, de souder une nation face à l'ennemi, d'accompagner la mémoire des disparus et de réconforter les survivants, la musique a occupé une place important..
50.26£
Brand: Orion
'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it and be inspired, as I was' Bobby Gillespie'Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgea..
24.22£
Brand: Princeton University Press
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the la..
34.43£