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Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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Tenor

Potter John

ISBN: PB: 9780300168938, Yale University Press, August 2010
306 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 12 black&white illus.

From its emergence in the sixteenth century to the phenomenon of the 'Three Tenors' and beyond, the tenor voice has grown in popularity and esteem. This engaging and authoritative book – the first comprehensive history of tenor singing – presents fas...

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Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues Contexts, Style, Performance

Mazullo Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300149432, Yale University Press, July 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.

Likely to become an essential source for pianists wishing to play Shostakovich's work as well as for listeners, this is the first book-length study in English of Shostakovich's largest work for piano, the "Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87". M...

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Performing Arts

French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles

Somfai Laszlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226768137, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
416 pp., 24x15.5 cm, 220 music examples

Interest in the authentic performance of early music has grown dramatically in recent years, and scholarly investigation has particularly benefited the study of keyboard music of the classical period. In this landmark publication, the most comprehens...

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Robert Schumann Life and Death of a Musician

Worthen John

ISBN: PB: 9780300163988, Yale University Press, March 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a completely fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadn...

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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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John Cage Book of Days 2010 Calendar

Kuhn Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781935202011, DAP, The John Cage Trust, August 2009
120 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, 52 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I am say...

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Jewish Studies

Music

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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Poetry

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Singing Emptiness Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir

Hess Linda

ISBN: HB + CD: 9781905422838, Seagull Books, March 2009
166 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Here, two men, 5 centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great 20th Century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings Kabir, the great 15th Century poet. Kabir composed poetry that evoked...

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