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Opera for a New Republic - The Zeitopern of Krenek, Weill, and Hindemith by Susan C. Cook 9780835720526
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €31.07An exploration of avant-garde music and operatic form in Weimar Germany Weimar Germany -- the age of Bauhaus and Brecht -- was a time of significant activity in all areas of the artistic... -
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky by Eero Tarasti 9789027979186
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €81.21No detailed description available for "Myth and Music".Book InformationISBN 9789027979186Author Eero TarastiFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint -
The Music of Stravinsky: Collected Essays Pieter C. van den Toorn (University of California, U.S.A.) 9789814968621
RRP: €64.25Booksplease Price: €58.29The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the... -
The Last Opera: <I>The Rake's Progress</I> in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama by Chandler Carter 9780253041586
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67From 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 and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom by Pieter C. van den Toorn 9781107021006
Booksplease Price: €78.86Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and... -
Stravinsky in the Americas: Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) by H. Colin Slim 9780520299924
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.20Stravinsky in the Americas explores the "pre-Craft" period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival... -
Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research Marta Robertson 9781138988156
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is generally considered the most popular and well-known composer of American art music, and yet little scholarly attention has been paid to Copland since the 1950s. This... -
The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 by Gayle Minetta Murchison 9780472069842
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €38.10One 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,... -
L.A.Woman by Eve Babitz
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501132728Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi by Howard Gardner
Booksplease Price: €27.76Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Minds has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with a new introduction by the author, the book uses... -
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Stravinsky`s "Great Passacaglia" - Recurring Elements in the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments by Donald G. Traut
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.28The first full-length analytic study devoted to the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, combining sketch studies, musicological context, and straightforward analyses of all three movements. ... -
Conducting for a New Era Edwin Roxburgh 9781843838029
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.77A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble. Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical... -
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors by Leonard Slatkin 9781538186794
Booksplease Price: €84.36Based 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... -
Symphony of Psalms; Symphony No 10 (Fragments); Liturgical Symphony: New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich - Combined Volume 114-115 by Igor Stravinsky 9781540014696
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €105.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540014696Author Igor StravinskyFormat HardbackImprint -
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors by Leonard Slatkin 9781538186800
Booksplease Price: €32.82Based 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... -
Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War by Mary McAuliffe 9781442276130
Booksplease Price: €23.60Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in... -
Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia by Amy Nelson 9780271031064
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €35.63Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"-Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovich-immediately come to mind. Yet during the turbulent decade... -
Niki de Saint Phalle Janis Mink 9783754400050
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €16.85A key contributor to Nouveau Realisme in early 1960s Paris, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) worked alongside artists such as Arman, Yves Klein, and Jean Tinguely, scavenging real objects in place of... -
Ten Masterpieces of Music by Harvey Sachs
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.03In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music-works that have endured because they... -
The Rite of Spring by Gillian Moore
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Theatre des... -
(In)aesthetic Theory: An Essay on Adorno, Badiou and Aesthetic Modernism Dr Vangelis Giannakakis 9781350450653
Booksplease Price: €101.92A reckoning with the radicalisation of modernist aesthetics that took hold in the mid-twentieth century, (In)aesthetic Theory illuminates the limits of aesthetic presentation by bringing Theodor... -
Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.07LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the... -
Margaret Hillis: Unsung Pioneer by Cheryl Frazes Hill
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €37.66Conductor, chorus director, airplane pilot, educator, activist, mentor, and advocate Margaret Hillis blazed a trail upon which many continue to tread. The first woman to regularly conduct a major... -
In Search of New Scales - Prince Edmond de Polignac, Octatonic Explorer by Sylvia Kahan 9781580463058
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €133.18The first publication and exploration of a pathbreaking treatise on what would become a crucial element in the music of Stravinsky and Ravel: the octatonic scale. In 1879, French amateur composer... -
Havergal Brian on Music - Volume Two: European and American Music in his Time by Havergal Brian
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.61This second volume of Brian's writings shows him to have been one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary music in the twentieth century. In this second volume of selections from his... -
Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet by Laura Jacobs
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €26.10A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates... -
Sergei Rachmaninoff by Rebecca Mitchell 9781789145762
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.56Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated... -
Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilson
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.50The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal... -
Music`s Modern Muse - A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac by Sylvia Kahan 9781580463331
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.36A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century,... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition by Dylan Thomas 9781780227238
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.29Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines, his poems are... -
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music"An assured overview of Poulenc's life and work... -
Music in the World: Selected Essays by Timothy D. Taylor 9780226442259
Booksplease Price: €138.61In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism. Music and the World is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings essays... -
The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century by John Mauceri
Booksplease Price: €30.86A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the "sound of Hollywood," and excluding hundreds of composers"[Mauceri's] writing is... -
Music in the World: Selected Essays by Timothy D. Taylor
Booksplease Price: €37.33In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism. Music and the World is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings essays... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917... -
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Leonie Rosenstiel 9780393317138
RRP: €27.97Booksplease Price: €27.45Nadia Boulanger's life spanned nearly a century, and at her death she was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously... -
Music at the Limits by Edward Said 9780747598749
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66_______________ 'Edward Said had a lifelong passion for music, and possessed the rare ability to write about it for the general reader with a lucid and penetrating intelligence' - TLS 'There... -
First Nights: Five Musical Premieres by Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly 9780300091052
Booksplease Price: €27.64This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's... -
Pierre Monteux, Maitre by John Canarina 9781574670820
Booksplease Price: €37.88Pierre 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... -
Music's Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism by Daniel Albright
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €28.74Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In Music's Monisms, he shows how musical and...