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Music of Alban Berg
ISBN: PB: 9780300184129, Yale University Press, November 2011
474 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this orig...
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£30,00
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Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780300184167, Yale University Press, November 2011
558 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was one of the most influential music theory texts of the sixteenth century. This translation by Maria Rika Maniates is the first English-language edition of Vicentino's important work. Unl...
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£38,00
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Music and Sentiment
ISBN: PB: 9780300178036, Yale University Press, October 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, music examples
How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully obser...
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£11,99
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Anthology of Rap
ISBN: PB: 9780300141917, Yale University Press, October 2011
920 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In "The Anthology of Rap", editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a...
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£19,99
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Duke Ellington's America
ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...
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Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...
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£36,00
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Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
ISBN: PB: 9780226431833, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones, 7 line illus.
The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, B...
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I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers
ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm
The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...
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£72,00
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Possessor and the Possessed Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300180183, Yale University Press, July 2011
304 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.
The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is sud...
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£22,00
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Opera Fanatic Ethnography of an Obsession
ISBN: PB: 9780226043425, ISBN: HB: 9780226043401, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 17 halftones
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But...
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£84,00
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