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Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher by Robert Riggs
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), exploring his work and important personal associations. In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and... -
A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England by Howard E. Smither 9780807837757
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.48Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive... -
Music and the Ineffable by Vladimir Jankelevitch 9780691090474
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.69Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a... -
Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others by Robert Gottlieb 9781250215062
Booksplease Price: £17.41This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such... -
Camille Saint-Saens and His World by Jann Pasler 9780691155562
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Camille Saint-Saens--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 film music--is... -
Camille Saint-Saens and His World by Jann Pasler
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.80Camille Saint-Saens--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 film music--is... -
An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt by Andrew Mead 9780691601007
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30In 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... -
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays by Richard Taruskin 9780691070650
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin has devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Defining Russia... -
Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone by Edward T. Cone 9780691140117
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Edward 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... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Dorothea von Moltke
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £11.43An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a... -
Puccini's Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition by William Ashbrook 9780691027128
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £47.80Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned... -
In Search of Opera Carolyn Abbate 9780691117317
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization... -
Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays by Roger Sessions
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £36.26Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the... -
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor 9780691202969
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.76How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a... -
Jean Sibelius and His World by Daniel M. Grimley 9780691152813
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham 9780691230689
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.26An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener by Roger Sessions 9780691620145
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.99One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener... -
Bartok and His World by Peter Laki 9780691006338
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Bela Bartok, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and... -
Shostakovich and His World by Laurel E. Fay
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.39Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure... -
Charles Ives and His World by J. Peter Burkholder 9780691011639
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85This 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... -
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity by Raymond Knapp 9780691126135
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes,... -
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only... -
Stravinsky and His World by Tamara Levitz
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and... -
Korngold and His World by Daniel Goldmark
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.59A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of... -
Out of Chaos Comes Bliss: Essential Poems by Dylan Thomas 9781805331193
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved poets of the twentieth century. Richly melodious and expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of childhood days lost... -
Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky by Benjamin Boretz 9780691649061
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £86.28Perspectives 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,... -
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker 9780691182704
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.50A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only... -
Giacomo Puccini and His World by Arman Schwartz 9780691172866
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an... -
Carlos Chavez and His World by Leonora Saavedra 9780691169484
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Carlos Chavez (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,... -
Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in... -
Carlos Chavez and His World by Leonora Saavedra 9780691169477
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £83.10Carlos Chavez (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,... -
Mendelssohn and His World by R. Larry Todd 9780691027159
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.43During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together... -
Tchaikovsky and His World by Leslie Kearney 9780691602639
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine... -
Aaron Copland and His World by Carol J. Oja
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This... -
Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle by Marian Smith 9780691146492
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.81Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s),... -
The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia Edward Campbell 9781316506202
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.64Igor Stravinsky is one of a small number of early modernist composers whose music epitomises the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music, from the Russian nationalist heritage of the early works,... -
Diaghilev and Friends by Joy Melville 9781905791910
Booksplease Price: £22.07Melville's major biography of the Russian impresario brings to life an age of daring sophistication and hedonistic pleasure set against the backdrop of a swiftly changing world. In Paris and London,... -
Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection by Robinson McClellan 9781913875671
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.46This book celebrates one of the world’s finest private gathering of music manuscripts, held on deposit at the Morgan Library. Robert Owen Lehman’s superb collection of French and Russian ballet... -
An Encyclopedia Of Quotations About Music by Nat Shapiro 9780306801389
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a...