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Comedians of the King "Opera-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226743257, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 16 halftones, 28 line drawings, 5 tables
Opera in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragedie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opera comique, a theatrical form tracing its roots to the...
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£44,00
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Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...
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£62,00
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Learn to Play Piano in Six Weeks or Less Intermediate Level
ISBN: PB: 9781454932314, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2019
128 pp., 25.2x20.9 cm, illus.
In this book, Dan Delaney – hailed by Keyboard magazine as a pioneer in music teaching – and William Chotkowski walk readers through the next set of skills they need to play at the intermediate level. Featuring Dan Delaney s innovative chord method –...
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£10,99
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Play It Loud Instruments of Rock & Roll
ISBN: HB: 9781588396662, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2019
236 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound – from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone and John Lennon's Rickenbacker to the drum set owned by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Lady Gaga's keytar, and beyond. Seven en...
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£35,00
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Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America
ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....
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£15,00
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£28,00
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Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851
ISBN: HB: 9780226402079, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table
What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in...
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£41,50
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Art of the Blues A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226396699, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 350 colour plates
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse ele...
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£26,50
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Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera
ISBN: HB: 9780226749143, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 musical examples, 8 tables
Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension betw...
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£51,00
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Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
ISBN: PB: 9780226005478, ISBN: HB: 9780226304779, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
549 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 47 musical examples, 36 halftones, 12 colour illus.
One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop o...
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£56,00
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