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Virtual Haydn Paradox of a Twenty-First Century Keyboardist

Beghin Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226156774, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 23 halftones, 69 line drawings, 8 tables

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was...

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Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi Abramo

ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...

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From the Score to the Stage An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

Baker Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226035086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
416 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 2 tables, 189 colour illus.

Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life – by the stagehands who shift sc...

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Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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Anthology of Rap

Bradley Adam, DuBois Andrew, Gates Henry Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300141917, Yale University Press, October 2011
920 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In "The Anthology of Rap", editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a...

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Opera Fanatic Ethnography of an Obsession

Benzecry Claudio E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226043425, ISBN: HB: 9780226043401, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 17 halftones

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But...

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Sibelius

Barnett Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300163971, Yale University Press, February 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius's own correspondence and diar...

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Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

Bohlman Philip V.

ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226063263, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
240 pp., 23.5x21.3 cm, 4 musical examples, 9 halftones illus., 19 colour illus.

Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman's provocative opening salvo – "Are Jews Musical?" – this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteen...

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Musical Instrument

Oboe

Burgess Geoffrey, Haynes Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300100532, Yale University Press, January 2004
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, discography, 45 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the 21st century, discussing how and why the...

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