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Mbira's Restless Dance An Archive of Improvisation
ISBN: spiral: 9780226626277, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's "Mbira's Restless Dance" documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart...
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£65,00
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Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226740348, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables
This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...
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£44,00
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Nadia Boulanger and Her World
ISBN: PB: 9780226750712, ISBN: HB: 9780226750682, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers – especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass – studying...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...
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£36,00
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£102,00
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Poetry of Pop
ISBN: PB: 9780300248326, Yale University Press, September 2019
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
<p>A trailblazing exploration of the poetic power of popular songs, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles to Beyonce and beyond. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are...
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£16,99
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Musical Composition Craft and Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300218992, Yale University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 125 black&white illus.
This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game mus...
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£17,99
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Notes from the Pianist's Bench
ISBN: PB: 9780300221527, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 177 black&white illus.
In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedago...
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£23,00
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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France
ISBN: HB: 9780226522753, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 31 line drawings, 1 table
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its fo...
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£41,50
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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226236032, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226158082, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 11 line drawings
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jaz...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates
On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement.  "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...
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