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Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529790Author Aaron CoplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714526003Author Manuel De FallaFormat HardbackPage Count 117Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky is an analytical and historical study of the twentieth century's most influential figures, by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Edward T. Cone, Robert Craft, Claudio Spies, and others; with new bibliographic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571512850Author Benjamin BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 88g

In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with...

This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. The most comprehensive collection of Ives's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486839103Author David DutkaniczFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume-but not...

Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing...

The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price's twenty-five...

After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkey's secularized society disdained the ney, the Sufi reed flute long associated with Islam. The instrument's remarkable revival in today's cities has inspired the creation of teaching and learning...

Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the...

Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus, says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and...

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural...

In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceara, a...

The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and...

Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including...

With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies, Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music. His foundational work in Flatt and Scruggs's Foggy Mountain Boys secured him a place in bluegrass...

One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective, and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field. In this intellectual memoir,...

A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history. Yet we...

A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how this vibrant musical tradition brings together Americans of widely divergent religious and political beliefs. Named after the most popular of the nineteenth-century...

As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486842943Author J. Kalani PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937933063Author Victoria SujataFormat PaperbackImprint Vajra BooksPublisher Vajra Books

A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571518838Author Jonathan HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571514434Author Oliver KnussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 266g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571517848Author Nicholas MawFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571517824Author Julian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571566105Author Jonathan DovePage Count 200Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 1182g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571512676Author Paul De KeyserFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 88g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571515783Author George BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 146g

Following the composition of Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra in 1834, Berlioz began work on the opera Benvenuto Cellini, which subsequently failed on its first performances at the Paris Opera in 1838. Berlioz withdrew the opera for substantial...

A Song Of The NightBook InformationISBN 9780571509072Author Gustav HolstFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571531431Author Oliver KnussenPage Count 52Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 248g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571523610Author Benjamin BrittenPage Count 48Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571512683Author Wendy ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 228g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571511860Author Edward Huws JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 238g

Stringpops 2 (violin part)Book InformationISBN 9780571504855Author M RangerPage Count 16Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 40g