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Theory of African Music, Volume I
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...
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£25,50
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£78,00
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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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Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones
At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles
ISBN: PB: 9780226768137, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
416 pp., 24x15.5 cm, 220 music examples
Interest in the authentic performance of early music has grown dramatically in recent years, and scholarly investigation has particularly benefited the study of keyboard music of the classical period. In this landmark publication, the most comprehens...
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£47,00
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Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226063263, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
240 pp., 23.5x21.3 cm, 4 musical examples, 9 halftones illus., 19 colour illus.
Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman's provocative opening salvo – "Are Jews Musical?" – this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteen...
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£37,00
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Darker Side of Genius Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism
ISBN: PB: 9781584652403, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and hi...
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£18,00
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Mahler A Musical Physiognomy
ISBN: PB: 9780226007694, University of Chicago Press, August 1996
188 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's wor...
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£21,00
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