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Author:Greg Prato
Avatar Of The Electric Guitar: The Genius Of Jimi Hendrix
It is widely believed that Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time...and quite possibly, THE greatest. All you have to do is compare what rock guitar sounded like before Jimi burst on the scene in the late '60s, and...- $16.99
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Author:David Walter Leinweber
The Art of Ancient Music
From the very beginning, music has helped us create our world - everything from language, to technology, to philosophy and religion. The Art of Ancient Music discusses the important role music has played in shaping human development. While emphasizing shared human themes, the text...- $105.00
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Author:Dwight Reynolds
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the...- $170.00
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Author:Mathew Knowles Ph. D.
The Emancipation of Slaves through Music
In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...- $27.99
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Author:Steven P. Garabedian
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial
Lawrence Gellert has long been a mysterious figure in American folk and blues studies, gaining prominence in the left-wing folk revival of the 1930s for his fieldwork in the U.S. South. A "lean, straggly-haired New Yorker," as Time magazine called him, Gellert was an...- $27.95
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Author:Andrew Kirkman
The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval Context to Modern Revival
The 'cyclic' polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages, spawning some of the most impressive and engrossing musical edifices of the period. Modern study of these compositions has greatly enhanced our appreciation of their construction...- $41.99
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Author:John Cousins
The Necessity for Consolation: John Cousins Speaks
John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand composers, John Cousins has "thrown the spear furthest," meaning he is one of our most original artists, going beyond the edge. Provocative, penetrating, and fundamentally true, Cousins remains absorbed and energised by creative work. On...- $25.99
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Author:Maya Roy
Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana
Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling songs, which joined the...- $44.95
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Author:Andrew Ford
Try Whistling This: Writings on Music
Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history.Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtw ngler to keep...- $28.99
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Author:Clarence Bernard Henry
Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry...- $35.00
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Author:Roberts Woody
Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll: How America's Live Music Capital Tripped Out, Cowboyed Up and Shook the World
"Behind the scenes" is not just a phrase, but an actual world of its own. No matter who's in the spotlight, there's a dimly lit hive of frenetic activity behind them, including lawyers and managers who cut the deals, backstage technicians who make the...- $28.00
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Author:Barbara L. Kelly
French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939
New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends during the Third Republic. This collection of new essays examines the relationships between discourses of...- $115.00
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Author:Yo Tomita
Exploring Bach's B-Minor Mass
The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from...- $41.99
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Author:Marshall Gu
Krautrock
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the...- $19.95
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Author:Rachael Durkin
The Viola d'Amore: Its History and Development
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its particular sound,...- $140.00
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Author:Judy Lochhead
Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought
What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions,...- $62.95
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Author:Russell Hartenberger
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time...- $111.00
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Author:Mark Evan Bonds
After Beethoven
Exploring the response of five composers--Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Mahler--to what each clearly saw as the challenge of Beethoven's symphonies, Evan Bonds richly enhances our understanding of the evolution of the symphony and Beethoven's legacy.Author: Mark Evan BondsISBN-10: 0674733371ISBN-13: 9780674733374Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage:...- $65.00
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Author:Sheila Whiteley
Queering the Popular Pitch
Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of...- $170.00
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Author:Jann Pasler
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all...- $85.00
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Author:Gregory Camp
Howard Hawks: Music as Communication in Film
Known for creating classic films including His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks is one of the best-known Hollywood 'auteurs', but the important role that music plays in his films has been generally neglected by film...- $64.95
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Author:Elizabeth Goodman
Cat Power: A Good Woman
How Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, Survived Herself-and Became the Indie Rock Queen. Chan Marshall's stark lyrics, minimal arrangements, and wounded, smoky vocals, were an instant indie hit in the nineties-but her mental instability nearly derailed her career. How this sensitive but headstrong Georgian...- $13.95
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Author:J. P. E. Harper-Scott
The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism,...- $41.99
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Author:Katherine Yeske Taylor
She's a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism
Feminism has always been a complex and controversial topic, as female rock musicians know especially well. When they've stayed true to their own vision, these artists have alternately been adored as role models or denounced as bad influences. Either way, they're asked to cope...- $34.95
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Author:Glenda Goodman
Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic
Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution...- $74.00
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Author:Eero Tarasti
Theory of Musical Semiotics
"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " --Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of Western music and...- $39.95
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Author:Michael Allis
The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950
The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950aims to raise the status of the genre generally, and in Britain specifically, by reaffirming British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts. The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and...- $125.00
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Author:Susan Forscher Weiss
Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other--including gender, social status, and the role...- $52.00
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Author:David Milsom
Romantic Violin Performing Practices: A Handbook
What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing? This book discusses key issues (and barriers) of putting into practice nineteenth-century violin performing practices. It deals with a number of well-known problems concerning romantic performance including the widely perceived 'gap' between scholarship and...- $115.00
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Author:Robert S. Hatten
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them...- $52.95
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Author:Arthur Lizie
Prince FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Purple Reign
Until his untimely death in 2016, Prince entertained, amused, and just as often confused legions of fans and followers in a prolific and purple career that spanned four decades. This volume covers it all--the number-one hits, the prot馮駸, sidekicks, and rivals, the down-and-dirty funk...- $24.95
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Author:David Lidov
Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification
Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction....- $39.95
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Author:Rebecca Dirksen
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti
Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel...- $44.99
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Author:Peggy Kelley Reinburg
Arp Schnitger, Organ Builder: Catalyst for the Centuries
Peggy Kelley Reinburg has written the first comprehensive book in English to chronicle the remarkable achievements of Arp Schnitger, whose influence extends to the twentieth century with the current interest in Baroque instruments and performance practice. The book gives an account of organ-building activity...- $52.95
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Author:Paulo de Assis
The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research
Gilles Deleuze's intriguing concept of the dark precursor refers to intensive processes of energetic flows passing between fields of different potentials. Fleetingly used in Difference and Repetition, it remained underexplored in Deleuze's subsequent work. In this collection of essays numerous contributors offer perspectives on...- $84.95
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Author:Robert S. Hatten
A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music
In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music...- $85.00
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Author:Max Weber
Die rationalen und soziologischen Grundlagen der Musik
Max Weber (1864-1920) war ein deutscher Soziologe und National konom. Er gilt als einer der Klassiker der Soziologie sowie der gesamten Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Mit seinen Theorien und Begriffspr gungen hatte er gro en Einfluss insbesondere auf die Wirtschafts-, die Herrschafts- und die Religionssoziologie....- $5.30
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Author:Byron Alm駭
Theory of Musical Narrative
Byron Alm駭 proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative illustrated by a...- $35.00
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Author:James T. Lightwood
Charles Dickens and Music
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...- $34.99
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Author:Aida Huseynova
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan...- $40.00
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Author:Anne Thurmann-Jajes
Listen Up!: Radio Art in the USA
Listen Up is the world's first publication to take a look at American radio art as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss how the field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and...- $45.00
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Author:Paul Berry
Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion
Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads...- $88.00
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Author:Michael Fowler
Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking
Michael D. Fowler presents an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens by drawing from the diverse fields of semiotics, acoustic ecology, philosophy, mathematical modelling, architecture, music, landscape theory and acoustic analysis. Using projects--ranging from data-visualisations, immersive sound installations, algorithmically...- $40.00
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Author:Stephen C. Meyer
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three...- $190.00
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Author:Ernst Bernhardt-Kabisch
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: A Critical Biography
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book demonstrates the close interrelationship between Tchaikovsky's life and his work. Author: Ernst Bernhardt-Kabisch, Constantin FlorosISBN-10: 3631742290ISBN-13: 9783631742297Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag...- $67.00
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Author:Charles M. Atkinson
The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a...- $47.99
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Author:Peter Krakauer
Music and Ritual in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Against a backdrop of liturgical change in the Orthodox Slavic world, this book addresses the performance practices of particular numbers as described in a selection of medieval Slavic service books. The feasts of the Holy Cross as observed during the week of September 14,...- $86.95
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Author:Paul Sutton
Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)
The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica,...- $10.00
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Author:Dana Klosner
Beatlemania Lives on: Superfans in the 21st Century
Written by a fan, about the fans, and for the fans, this book is about Beatles fandom and excitement for the band as it continues, undiminished, in the 21st century. The author conducted nearly 100 interviews with superfans across the globe, gathering stories that...- $29.95
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Author:Ben Westhoff
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." -- Kirkus, starred review A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice...- $28.00
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