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George Gershwin

Starr Larry

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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Saxophone

Cottrell Stephen

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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Ravel

Nichols Roger

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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Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...

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Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera

Della Seta Fabrizio

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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Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Dawn Goss Glenda

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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I Feel So Good The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

Riesman Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007090, ISBN: HB: 9780226717456, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
366 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues wit...

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Arcana VI Musicians on Music

Zorn John

ISBN: PB: 9780978833756, DAP, Hips Road - Tzadik, September 2012
316 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 73 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed "Arcana" series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical p...

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Bob Dylan Like a Complete Unknown

Yaffe David

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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Bassoon

Kopp James B.

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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