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Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts by Daniel Albright
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles (the urinal is a violin!), Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In this text Daniel Albright shows... -
After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) by Maureen A. Carr 9780199742936
Booksplease Price: $95.56The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern... -
Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Leon Bakst by Leon Bakst 9788867492770
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $48.68Published to accompany an exhibition at the Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, this volume, which gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers, art historians, along with in situ... -
Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism by Finn Egeland Hansen 9788771847116
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. The Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen has chosen three different composers - the French Camille Saint-Saens and... -
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors by Leonard Slatkin 9781538186800
Booksplease Price: $35.58Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the twentieth century and the problems conductors face before... -
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors by Leonard Slatkin 9781538186794
Booksplease Price: $91.45Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the twentieth century and the problems conductors face before... -
A Symphony of Stories: Musical Myths and Tuneful Tales James Mayhew 9781915659347
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.45Six world famous orchestral pieces from six renowned composers feature in this superbly illustrated gift book, introducing children to the world of classical music through story and illustration. ... -
Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and Expression by Per Dahl 9781032111148
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. There are many examples of discrepancies between his literate statements about music and musicians and his musical compositions and... -
Music, Politics, and the Academy by Pieter C. van den Toorn 9780520201163
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $34.80Advocates of 'new musicology' claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. Pieter C. van den Toorn challenges those claims, asking why... -
By with to and from: A Lincoln Kirstein Reader by 9780813029542
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65Lincoln Kirstein's writing is a notable example of a wide historical awareness that was fired by passion and guided by taste. Best known for his pioneering efforts to cultivate ballet in the United... -
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout 9783031070341
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $131.84Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a... -
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout 9783031070310
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $131.84Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a... -
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas 9780241746264
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.1190 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLuminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor... -
The Harmonic Organization of the Rite of Spring by Allen Forte 9780300105377
Booksplease Price: $29.73When The Rite of Spring was first performed in Paris in 1913, it was greeted with a riot. After the shouting died down, it became possible to discern that Igor Stravinsky had created a monument of... -
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9780826499608
Booksplease Price: $41.10In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Philosophy of Modern Music presents a... -
Montreux Riviera, Switzerland by Farrol Kahn 9783952420829
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.34The Montreux Riviera is the most beautiful region along Lake Geneva. It nestles between the Alps and the lake and has attracted tourists (Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron were the first) over the... -
The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 by Gayle Minetta Murchison 9780472069842
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $41.31One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera,... -
Controvertibles by Quan Barry
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.03Controvertibles features more of the refined brilliance and delicate lyricism of this poet, cast in a more meditative mode. Throughout, she examines cultural objects by lifting them out of their... -
Stravinsky (Volume 1): A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882 – 1934 by Stephen Walsh 9781845952211
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05In addition to being a great composer, Igor Stravinsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of his time. His life spanned an amazing range of events and places - pre-revolutionary Russia,... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195103304
Booksplease Price: $68.29Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels"... -
The Hollywood Film Music Reader Mervyn Cooke (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham) 9780195331196
Booksplease Price: $77.19A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern... -
Permanent Attraction: Man Ray and Chess Larry List 9783777444475
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $34.66Authorised by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess, is the first and only book on Man Ray's chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography,... -
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr 9780195100792
Booksplease Price: $63.09What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California - in pursuits such as film, fiction,... -
Pierre Monteux, Maitre by John Canarina 9781574670820
Booksplease Price: $41.06Pierre Monteux became famous at the age of 38 for conducting the riotous world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ERite of SpringE in Paris on May 29 1913. The composer fearing bodily harm escaped... -
In Stravinsky's Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris by Klara Moricz 9780520344426
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $69.57The Bolsheviks' 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with... -
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater by William Anthony Sheppard 9780520223028
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $61.86W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. "Revealing Masks" uncovers... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195139310
Booksplease Price: $47.21Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels"... -
Stravinsky Inside Out by Charles M. Joseph 9780300211986
Booksplease Price: $44.01Popularly known during his lifetime as "The World's Greatest Living Composer," Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the... -
The Stravinsky Legacy by Jonathan Cross 9780521023856
Booksplease Price: $31.15It has become increasingly apparent in recent decades that Stravinsky's music has had far-reaching influence on the development of music in our century. Stravinsky's modernist innovations - evident... -
Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music Michael Christoforidis 9780367882396
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of... -
Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal 9780190696061
Booksplease Price: $136.33Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural,... -
Out of Chaos Comes Bliss: Essential Poems by Dylan Thomas 9781805331193
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Dylan 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... -
The London Philharmonic Discography by Philip Stuart 9780313291364
Booksplease Price: $85.49This great London orchestra made its debut in a recording session shortly before its first public concert in 1932 and now has well over a thousand recordings to its credit. All are dated and detailed... -
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts by Frederick Luis Aldama
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics,... -
Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion by Robin Maconie 9780810884304
Booksplease Price: $73.10Hear the name "Igor Stravinsky" and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, "serious" music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he... -
The Classical Style by Charles Rosen
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.60'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary SupplementThe Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a... -
Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund by C. W. Marshall 9780367552725
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All... -
The Last Opera: <I>The Rake's Progress</I> in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama by Chandler Carter 9780253041586
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work... -
Stravinsky's Ballets by Charles M. Joseph 9780300118728
Booksplease Price: $39.64Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes-The Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring-put... -
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The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel 9781477805145 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.26As war engulfs Europe, 1,500 passengers risk everything to find a brighter future. Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to...