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Culture and the Course of Human Evolution by Gary Tomlinson
Booksplease Price: $31.99The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes... -
The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130796Author Gary TomlinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
Metaphysical Song: An Essay on Opera by Gary Tomlinson 9780691004099
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has... -
A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951528Author Gary TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.23Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested... -
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact by Gary Tomlinson 9780521873918
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $110.37In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural... -
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact by Gary Tomlinson 9780521110174
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $23.81In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural... -
Monteverdi Richard Wistreich 9781032918600
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $41.05Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music;... -
Musical Theory in the Renaissance Cristle Collins Judd 9781032918020
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $42.80This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the... -
Econophonia: Music, Value, and Forms of Life by Gavin Steingo
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.46This issue theorizes what questions of value might contribute to our understanding of sound and music. Divesting sound and music from notions of intrinsic value, the contributors follow various... -
Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons by Katherine Bergeron 9780226043685
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer... -
Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge by Ian Baucom 9780822368625
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday lives-the air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we use-the way the discourse of climate change influences how we make... -
Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism by Timothy J. Reiss 9780521587952
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $43.72Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a 'spatial' way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a... -
Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism by Timothy J. Reiss 9780521582216
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $105.42Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a 'spatial' way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a... -
European Music, 1520-1640 James Haar 9781843838944
Booksplease Price: $45.67An authoritative survey of music and its context in the Renaissance. The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - the so-called Golden Age of Polyphony - represent a time of great change and... -
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our... -
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium by Nicholas Kenyon 9780198161530
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $65.42No change has had a more profound influence on the development of music-making over the last two decades than the growth of the historical performance movement. The notion that we can - and indeed... -
Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human by Miriam Piilonen 9780197695289
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $73.92What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these... -
Puccini: His Life and Works by Julian Budden 9780195179743
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $39.14Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants... -
Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity by David Trippett 9781316618233
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $53.25Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising...