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Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...
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£19,00
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Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism
ISBN: HB: 9780226337098, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 68 musical examples, 4 tables
The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, as audiences started to revel in the pure sounds of the...
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£44,00
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Hatred of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...
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£20,00
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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...
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£12,99
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Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents
ISBN: PB: 9780226318097, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
352 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 107 musical examples, 1 halftone
The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an o...
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£47,50
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