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Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

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Bach's Major Vocal Works Music, Drama, Liturgy

Rathey Markus

ISBN: HB: 9780300217209, Yale University Press, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural conte...

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Musical Instruments Highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moore J. Kenneth, Dobney Jayson, Strauchen-Scherer E. Bradley

ISBN: PB: 9781588395627, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2015
192 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Featuring more than 100 extraordinary pieces from around the world and spanning thousands of years, this book displays the astounding diversity of musical instruments. Highlights include Bronze Age cymbals, the earliest known piano, violins made by S...

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Art of Music

Coleman Patrick, Shaw-Miller Simon, Leppert Richard, Benito Sandra, Brown Michael, Grebl James, Plotek Ariel, Rodrigues Gemma, Sardar Marika, Yu Yu Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300215472, Yale University Press, October 2015
318 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 280 colour illus.

"The Art of Music" is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and...

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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...

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Leonard Bernstein Letters

Simeone Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205442, Yale University Press, October 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

<p>Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ("West Side Story"), symphonies ("Age of Anxiety"...

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Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...

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Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work

Marissen Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300194586, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus", but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio's anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Mich...

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Franz Schubert The Complete Songs

Johnson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300112672, Yale University Press, April 2014
3000 pp., 24.6x16.5 cm, 600 black&white illus.

This three-volume boxed set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopaedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Ric...

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Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.

Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...

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