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Masters of the Keyboard by Deceased Willi Apel 9780674729384
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674729384Author Deceased Willi ApelFormat HardbackPage Count 323Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 735g -
Freedom in the Air: Song Movements of the Sixties by David B. Dunson 9780313223938
£65.53The author focuses on two parallel folk trends: the Freedom Songs arising from the civil rights battles in the South and the topical songs composed by Northern writer/singers.Book InformationISBN 9780313223938Author David B. DunsonFormat HardbackPage... -
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: A Bio-Bibliography by James E. Perone 9780313318245
£72.57A native of New Orleans, Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) is widely acknowledged as the leading American piano virtuoso of the 19th century and as a composer of major significance, particularly in his ability to capture his contemporary public's taste... -
Music of the Renaissance by Giulio Ongaro 9780313322631
£60.35The Renaissance was not a spontaneous cultural explosion, but rather an evolution and cross-fertilization of artistic, philosophical, and scientific principles. This reference presents and examines the rich and varied world of music in Renaissance Europe... -
Erik Leidzen Band Arranger and Composer by Ronald W Holz 9780773408432
£70.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408432Author Ronald W HolzFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g -
A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches by Patricia Hall 9780521808606
RRP: £90.99£77.49This indispensable handbook, first published in 2004, explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts. This book surveys the knowledge necessary to work efficiently in archives and libraries housing... -
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre by Paul Oliver 9780521782593
RRP: £85.00£60.02Yonder Come the Blues combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated with additional essays, this 2001 volume discusses the crucial early development of the blues as a... -
Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals by Thomas Brothers 9780521550512
RRP: £90.00£67.65This book provides an in-depth study of the late medieval chanson, from Gace Brule through Guillaume Du Fay. It is largely concerned with interpretation of the way accidentals function, not only at the level of local detail but also as part of the... -
The Early Flute: A Practical Guide by Rachel Brown 9780521813914
RRP: £90.00£61.57This practical guide for flautists provides a survey of the instrument - its development, its technique, its repertoire and its literature - between 1700 and 1900. Each issue is set in a musical context and technical and stylistic matters such as... -
Putting Popular Music in its Place by Charles Hamm 9780521471985
RRP: £105.00£77.49This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the... -
Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance by John Butt 9780521813525
RRP: £75.00£58.07Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance,... -
Heinrich Heine and the Lied by Susan Youens 9780521823746
RRP: £105.00£78.09More than any other poet, Heinrich Heine has provided composers for almost two hundred years with texts for music: more than eight thousand compositions to date. Nineteenth-century composers were drawn in particular to a limited selection of Heine's... -
Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic by James H. Donelan 9780521887618
RRP: £90.00£67.25James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer - Hoelderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven - developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural... -
Brahms's Song Collections by Inge van Rij 9780521835589
RRP: £90.00£67.65Brahms once complained that singers never performed his songs in the groups in which he had published them, which he likened to 'song bouquets'. Over a century later, many singers and musicologists continue to ignore Brahms's wishes and focus on the... -
Russians on Russian Music, 1830-1880: An Anthology by Stuart Campbell 9780521402675
RRP: £90.00£67.65Tchaikovsky not only composed, he also wrote about music. This substantial anthology of Russian writing on Russian music features the most influential critics of music in nineteenth-century Russia. They wrote on the first two generations of Russian... -
Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God by Ebony A. Utley 9780313376689
£48.28This book provides an enlightening, representative account of how rappers talk about God in their lyrics-and why a sense of religion plays an intrinsic role within hip hop culture. Why is the battle between good and evil a recurring theme in rap lyrics?... -
Questions about Music by Roger Sessions 9780674433212
RRP: £54.95£54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674433212Author Roger SessionsFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622 by Edward Doughtie 9780674330290
£55.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674330290Author Edward DoughtieFormat HardbackPage Count 674Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1120g -
Michael Tippett: A Bio-Bibliography by Gordon Theil 9780313242700
£72.57An important new reference source for students of western musical culture, this volume directs the user to all pertinent, substantive, and accessible information concerning the life and works of Sir Michael Tippett, widely recognized as one of this... -
The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers: Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815 by Spire Pitou 9780313243943
£95.31This second volume of The Paris Opera offers descriptions of balletic and lyrical compositions and biographical sketches of famous vocalists, dancers, choreographers, composers, and librettists. Each entry pertaining to an opera or ballet identifies its... -
Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide by Suzanne Lord 9780313338847
£58.56Music both influences and reflects the times in which it was created. In the Middle Ages, the previous Dark Ages, the Crusades, and the feudal system all impacted the types and forms of music in the period. Charlemagne standardized the church mass and... -
Songs of the South West by Paul Lawrence 9780646870618
RRP: £22.00£15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646870618Author Paul LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Creativity for GrowthPublisher Creativity for GrowthWeight(grams) 264g -
The Beach Boys: Southern California Pastoral, Revised Edition by Bruce Golden 9780893703592
RRP: £22.99£20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893703592Author Bruce GoldenFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 332g -
Feminist Aesthetics in Music by Sally Macarthur 9780313313202
£83.24Is there such a thing as women's music? Do women write and listen to music differently than men do? While recognizing that the differences among women are as distinct as the differences between genders, this bold new study examines gender's influence on... -
A Tidal Wave of Encouragement: American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age by E. Douglas Bomberger 9780275974466
£83.24In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallee performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States... -
Esther Williamson Ballou: A Bio-Bibliography by James R. Heintze 9780313250699
£38.39Esther Williamson Ballou was greatly admired by all who encountered her remarkable versatility as a musician and teacher. Although her music has continued to be performed over the years since her death in 1973, this volume is the first book-length study... -
Music as Propaganda: Art to Persuade, Art to Control by Arnold Perris 9780313245053
£83.24Perris examines the past and present uses of music as a means for political and social change, overt or disguised. He presents evidence of music as propaganda ranging from Broadway to the official compositions of the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany,... -
A Glenn Gould Catalog by Nancy Canning 9780313274121
£60.75Despite his premature death in 1982, Canadian pianist Glenn Gould remains extraordinarily influential in contemporary music. Known especially for his interpretations of Bach and a wide range of classical, romantic, and twentieth-century composers, Gould... -
The Savoy Label: A Discography by Michel Ruppli 9780313211997
£72.57Ruppli always packs his books with every conceivable convenience, with the researcher in mind. Thus, we find complete listings of every LP and EP issued by Savoy and its subsidiaries, and also all records leased or purchased by Savoy, including, Bop, Dee... -
American Musicologists, c. 1890-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook to the Formative Period by Curt Steinzor 9780313261978
£72.57This volume is the first reference study devoted to early American musicologists. It brings together a vast variety of logically arranged information, including biographical resumes of each subject, complete chronological listings of their writings, and... -
The Ballads of Marco Kraljevic by David Halyburton Low 9780837101514
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837101514Author David Halyburton LowFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Rastafari and Reggae: A Dictionary and Sourcebook by Becky Michele Mulvaney 9780313260711
£60.35A combination dictionary and annotated discography, videography and bibliography, this sourcebook brings together listings of materials on the Rastafarian movement and reggae music. . . . This sourcebook serves as a good introduction to Rastafari and... -
The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach Who Is Sylvia by Sylvia Olden Lee 9780773408463
RRP: £59.95£59.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408463Author Sylvia Olden LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g -
Castles Made Of Sound: The Story Of Gil Evans by Larry Hicock 9780306809453
£37.70Gil Evans was once described by Miles Davis as "the greatest musician in the world," yet he has remained one of the least known and most underrated innovators in jazz. Revered by generations of musicians, Evans created a unique sound, drawing... -
Choral Music on Record by Alan Blyth 9780521035835
RRP: £30.99£23.80Following the successful volumes of Song on Record, this 1991 book surveys all the recordings of major choral works from the Monteverdi Vespers to Britten's War Requiem. Discussion of the various interpretations on record is preceded, in each chapter, by... -
The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms by William Weber 9780521882606
RRP: £105.00£77.49Grounded in knowledge of thousands of programs, this book examines how musical life in London, Leipzig, Vienna, Boston, and other cities underwent a fundamental transformation in relationship with movements in European politics. William Weber traces how... -
Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts by John Kmetz 9780521440455
RRP: £90.00£67.65This 1994 collection of fourteen essays, written by an eminent group of scholars, explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c.1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of... -
Music and Text: Critical Inquiries by Steven Paul Scher 9780521401586
RRP: £90.00£67.65Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted musicologists and literary critics explore diverse topics... -
American Experimental Music 1890-1940 by David Nicholls 9780521424646
RRP: £30.99£23.80From the end of the nineteenth century a national musical consciousness gradually developed in the USA as composers began to turn away from the European conventions on which their music had hitherto been modelled. It was in this period of change that... -
Ethnic and Border Music: A Regional Exploration by Norman Cohen 9780313331923
£79.21Just as American culture has been constructed by people of many ethnicities, roots music in America is multicultural in nature. Native American music resonates from Indigenous traditions of the Great Plains and the American West. Hispanic culture has...