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Comedians of the King "Opera-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution

Doe Julia

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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Conversations in Jazz The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby

ISBN: PB: 9780300255232, Yale University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

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Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Philip Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300254822, ISBN: HB: 9780300120691, Yale University Press, September 2020
968 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shos...

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Composing Capital Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Ritchey Marianna

ISBN: PB: 9780226640235, ISBN: HB: 9780226640068, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 musical examples

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism....

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Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics

Camal Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9780226631776, ISBN: HB: 9780226631639, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...

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Classic Albums The Vinyl that Made a Generation

Whiticker Alan J.

ISBN: PB: 9781921024382, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.3x20.8 cm, colour illus.

In the late 1960s and 1970s, vinyl ruled! Fans showed their love and investment in a particularly rock and roll band by paying about $10 ($75 in today's money) for a dozen songs etched into 40 minutes of a vinyl 'long play' or LP record. Not only did...

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Curious and Modern Inventions Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

Cypess Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226319445, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition – but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully expl...

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Cathedral of Music The Archivio Storico Ricordi

Luderssen Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9783791356235, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
224 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 280 colour illus.

This illustrated survey celebrates the panoramic holdings and colorful history of the Archivio Storico Ricordi, one of the world's most important musical archives. This comprehensive and captivating book follows the evolution of Milan's Ricordi arch...

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Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works

Foltmann Niels Bo, Teich Geertinger Axel, Hauge Peter, Krabbe Niels, Moe Bjarke, Bruunshuus Petersen Elly

ISBN: HB: 9788763544054, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2017
616 pp., 23.5x17.2 cm, 300 musical diagrams

"The Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works" is the first ever thematic-bibliographic inventory of composer Carl Nielsen's compositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes incipits (that is, the first couple of bars) for unam...

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Cherubino's Leap In Search of the Enlightenment Moment

Kramer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226377896, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 51 line drawings

For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence o...

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