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Author:Graham Griffiths
Stravinsky's Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language
Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's musical upbringing...- $30.99
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Author:A. Eaglefield Hull
The Great Russian Tone Poet Scribin
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Author:John Michael Cooper
Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music
Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music.Author: John Michael CooperISBN-10: 1538157519ISBN-13: 9781538157510Publisher: Rowman...- $310.00
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Author:Loraine Wyman
Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs From The Kentucky Mountains
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $21.95
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Author:Anonymous
The Union Song Book
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Author:George F. Briegel
44 Old Time Mormon and Far West Songs
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Author:Aaron J. Leonard
Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s
In January 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that "There is all across our land a growing sense of peace and a sense of common purpose." Yet in the ensuing months, a series of crises disturbed that fragile sense of peace, ultimately setting the stage...- $27.95
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Author:Michael Gallope
The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978
An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice...- $105.00
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Author:Joe Boyd
And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
From the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, REM, and Taj Mahal and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour of the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music. This is the story of...- $40.00
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Author:Catherine Hiebert Kerst
California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the Wpa California Folk Music Project
California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New Deal, drawing on the career of folk music collector Sidney Robertson and the musical culture of often-unheard voices. Robertson--an intrepid young woman armed only...- $34.95
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Author:Paul Stjohn Mackintosh
Begin the Beguine
This is a story of three men and a boat - a story that knits together the triumphs, terrors and tragedies of the dawning 20th century. The three men are legendary millionaire balladeer Cole Porter, jazz virtuoso and polymath playboy Artie Shaw - and...- $12.48
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Author:Daniel Hardie
The Birth Of Jazz: Reviving the Music Of the Bolden Era
Jazz id over 100 years Old. Conventional histories briefly mention the first Jazz Band- Buddy Bolden but the actual circcumsstances of its birth are rarely described. The only recording they made has been lost but there were many witnesses to tell the story. How...- $15.00
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Author:David G. Hebert
Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy
Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music in international relations. Inspired by decolonization, this book describes policies and legal frameworks that impact music's role in...- $42.99
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Author:Neil Thomas Smith
Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future...- $63.95
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Author:Jeff Todd Titon
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural AnalysisAuthor: Jeff Todd TitonISBN-10: 0807844829ISBN-13: 9780807844823Publisher: University of North Carolina PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/1995Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 10.01h x 7.03w x 1.03d- $47.50
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Author:Matthew Guerrieri
The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearThis revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written--and its famous four-note...- $22.00
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Author:David J. Levin
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s...- $45.00
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Author:Jonathan Cross
The Stravinsky Legacy
The music of Igor Stravinsky has had a profound impact on the development of twentieth-century music. In this book, Jonathan Cross explores the technical and aesthetic legacy of Stravinsky in relation to a broad range of composers, from Var se to Andriessen, from Messiaen...- $29.99
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Author:Amy C. Beal
New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification Volume 4
New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the...- $85.00
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Author:George Perle
The Listening Composer: Volume 7
George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music"--a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries....- $31.95
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Author:Robert Hodson
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic...- $64.95
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Author:Nikolai Findeizen
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.Volume...- $60.00
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Author:Daniel M. Neuman
The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition
Daniel M. Neuman offers an account of North Indian Hindustani music culture and the changing social context of which it is part, as expressed in the thoughts and actions of its professional musicians. Drawing primarily from fieldwork performed in Delhi in 1969-71--from interviewing musicians,...- $44.00
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Author:Peter Franklin
Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment
Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is 'classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and...- $64.95
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Author:Lori Tucker-Sullivan
I Can't Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy
The stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes--all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what became of their widowed brides? How did they survive a...- $34.95
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Author:Derek Taylor
The Golden Age of Easy Listening
The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took the world by storm, introducing romance and chic into a world brutalised by war....- $22.95
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Author:William Jelani Cobb
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistSEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history With roots that stretch...- $89.00
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Author:Sidney Finkelstein
Composer and Nation
Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the proliferation of scholars and...- $19.99
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Author:Peter C. Cavanaugh
Local Dj: A Rock 'N Roll History
Although the surface thread is autobiographical, "Local DJ" is much more an interwoven narrative on Rock n Roll culture from the late 50 s through present times. Perspective is subjectively recounted by one who was both involved with and influential upon the music over...- $32.99
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Author:Russell Stinson
Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters
Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy is undeniably one of the richest in the history of music, with a vast influence on posterity that has only grown since his rediscovery in the early nineteenth century. In this latest addition to his long list of Bach studies,...- $42.99
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Author:William Coxe
Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith
William Coxe (1748-1828) was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. As such, he was ideally placed to write a biography of Smith, and also of Handel. These Anecdotes are therefore important sources for the lives of both composers. It is notable that...- $12.99
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Author:James R. Anthony
French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1...- $39.95
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Author:Joanne Cormac
Liszt in Context
Explores the political, social, philosophical and professional currents that influenced Franz Liszt's career as performer and composer.Author: Joanne CormacISBN-10: 1108434363ISBN-13: 9781108434362Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 347Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d- $32.99
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Author:Primo Scagnetti
Taylor Swift: "R" is for "RED"
Global sensation Taylor Swift released six studio albums with Big Machine Records between 2006 and 2017. After releasing her sixth album REPUTATION (2017), she parted ways with Big Machine. This project simply pairs the alphabet with 26 corresponding songs from her last three solo...- $7.99
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The Singing Of The Future (1906)
The Singing of the Future is a book written by David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies and published in 1906. The book is a treatise on the art of singing, specifically focusing on the techniques and methods used by professional singers. Ffrangcon-Davies was a renowned Welsh tenor...- $31.95
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Author:Deirdre Loughridge
Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with...- $105.00
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Author:Primo Scagnetti
Peter Gabriel: "I" is for "INTRUDER"
Peter Gabriel left Genesis in 1975 and released his first solo studio album less than two years later. His first six studio albums were released between 1977 and 1992. This project pairs the alphabet with 26 songs from these first six studio albums.Author: Primo...- $8.99
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Author:Barry A. R. Cooper
The Creation of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation through the most extensive study of Beethoven's sketches yet. Beethoven's nine symphonies are a cornerstone of Western classical music and have revolutionised it. Composers succeeding Beethoven found...- $125.00
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Author:Robert Elms
Live!: Why We Go Out
'ABC', as perfect as anything I've ever witnessed up until that point in my tiny little life. Three minutes of divine delirium.In 1972, when Robert Elms was thirteen years old, he saw the Jackson 5 play live at the Empire Pool. At some point...- $26.95
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Author:Anja Bunzel
Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders well-works and composers from woman-centric perspectives.Author: Anja BunzelISBN-10: 1032206594ISBN-13:...- $170.00
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Author:Ethan Roy
Lou Reed 1989-2011: Every Album, Every Song
In this, the second of two volumes on Lou Reed, we will see the phoenix-like rebirth of his career occur in terms of both critical and public resurrection and redemption. Starting in 1989, Lou Reed would release a trio of stunning LPs that would...- $22.95
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Author:Geoffrey Feakes
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell: Rock Classics
Released in 1977 during the height of disco fever and punk rock, Bat Out of Hell is an ambitious debut album that bucked the trend and confounded critics. With the help of several hit singles, it struck a chord with record buyers and became...- $18.95
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Author:Daniel Rachel
Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records Author: Daniel RachelISBN-10: 1636141897ISBN-13: 9781636141893Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 496Format: Hardcover- $32.95
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Author:John Higgs
The Klf: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds
In the early '90s, the KLF were the biggest selling singles band in the world--until they destroyed their records, erased themselves from music history, and literally set fire to one million pounds.In this fascinating music biography, popular British writer and cultural historian John Higgs...- $17.99
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Author:Benjamin Wardhaugh
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical...- $62.95
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Author:Lisa Fagin Davis
The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach
This book reconstructs and studies the music, liturgy, and illustrations of a twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The manuscript was taken apart in the fifteenth century and subsequently sold to various collectors in the twentieth century. The pages are here brought...- $114.00
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Author:Leon Plantinga
Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance
In his concertos Beethoven joined in a sort of human expression that seems almost universal: a discourse of the individual and the group, or of leader and followers who sometimes work together in harmony and sometimes appear pitted one against the other (early definitions...- $32.50
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Author:Michael Haas
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich--and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in...- $22.00
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Author:Michael Gallope
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains,...- $38.00
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Author:Renee Levine Packer
This Life of Sounds
This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo. Composers Lukas Foss (the Center's founder), Lejaren Hiller,...- $72.00
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