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Franz Liszt Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
ISBN: PB: 9780300228755, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent...
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£14,99
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Bela Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300234374, Yale University Press, April 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
<p>This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartok's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and compose...
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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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In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910
ISBN: HB: 9780300230093, Yale University Press, April 2017
180 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Cafe concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities acro...
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Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...
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Exile's Song Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221367, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dede, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dede, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's b...
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£25,00
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Music in the Air The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
ISBN: HB: 9780300212167, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists, interviewers, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chr...
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Hatred of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...
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Leonard Bernstein
ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...
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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin
ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...
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