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Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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£35,00
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Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque
ISBN: HB: 9780300197921, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 35.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex...
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£40,00
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Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780300197150, Yale University Press, August 2013
352 pp., 24.4x16.8 cm, 100 black&white illus.
The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. In this groundbreaking stage history Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes the – often scandalous – great productions that have left their mark not only on our understanding of Wagner but on modern thea...
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£15,99
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George Gershwin
ISBN: PB: 9780300192384, ISBN: HB: 9780300111842, Yale University Press, March 2013
215 pp., 23.6x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.
In this welcome addition to the immensely popular "Yale Broadway Masters" series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer's entire career. Starr presents Gershwin a...
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£30,00
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Saxophone
ISBN: HB: 9780300100419, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm
In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's full social, historical and cultural trajectory, and considers how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic...
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£35,00
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Ravel
ISBN: PB: 9780300187762, Yale University Press, November 2012
420 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly translated and some derived from interviews with the comp...
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£18,99
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Bob Dylan Like a Complete Unknown
ISBN: PB: 9780300181876, Yale University Press, July 2012
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American music and cultural history, lauded by "Time Magazine" as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the singer-songwriter has crafted his unique brand of music,...
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£9,99
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Bassoon
ISBN: HB: 9780300118292, Yale University Press, June 2012
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 15 musical examples, 68 black&white illus.
This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in 21st-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years of experience playing the instrument to provide an up-...
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£65,00
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Music for Silenced Voices Shostakovitch and His Fifteen Quartets
ISBN: PB: 9780300181593, Yale University Press, April 2012
368 pp., 21x14 cm
Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the...
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£14,99
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Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9780300171938, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsi...
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£45,00
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