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Music during the English Restoration: Philosophy and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9781936512867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period of functional, even mechanical, music.The contemporary discussion in this volume will help the reader understand that nothing could be further from the truth.The great interest of most musicians living in the Baroque Period was the role of emotion in music both in composition and in performance.The role of all idioms of performance, including especially improvisation, were directly associated with the goal of increased communication of...
With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period ...
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153,20 zł |
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Philosophy and Performance Practice of Music during Jacobean England
ISBN: 9781936512850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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131,31 zł |
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The Longy Club: 1900-1917
ISBN: 9781936512140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Longy Club was a large chamber wind ensemble made up entirely of members of the Boston Symphony and founded by the principal oboist, Georges Longy. Longy and several of the other players had been students of the musicians of the famous Societe de Musique de Chambre pour Instruments a Vent in Paris which had commissioned the well-known Petite Symphonie by Gounod. Repertoire lists--This book includes a complete repertoire list of both the Longy Club and the Societe de Musique de Chambre pour Instruments a Vent. The numerous reviews of several Boston newspapers provide a fascinating view of...
The Longy Club was a large chamber wind ensemble made up entirely of members of the Boston Symphony and founded by the principal oboist, Georges Longy...
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153,20 zł |
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Renaissance Men on Music
ISBN: 9781936512805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains the fascinating views of some of the most well-known and influential men of the Renaissance. Here we find interesting information not mentioned in traditional texts. For example we find that Leonardo da Vinci, who is never described as a musician in his biographies, was the best known music performer to those friends who knew him personally. Taken together, this volume is a testimonial to one of history's most important developments. After centuries when the Church assumed the role of speaking for mankind, it was the first characteristic of the Renaissance that the focus...
This volume contains the fascinating views of some of the most well-known and influential men of the Renaissance. Here we find interesting information...
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131,31 zł |
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Contemporary Descriptions of Early Musicians
ISBN: 9781936512751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first part of this volume presents first-hand accounts of individual ancient musicians, singers, instrumentalists, conductors, both men and women. The second part presents much background information on those wandering musicians of the late Middle Ages who formed a single musical language in Europe, the Jongleurs, Minstrels, Troubadours, Minnesingers and Goliards. The musicians described in this volume are forgotten by history, but they created and passed on our musical culture.
The first part of this volume presents first-hand accounts of individual ancient musicians, singers, instrumentalists, conductors, both men and women....
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131,31 zł |
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Essays on the Modern Wind Band
ISBN: 9781936512683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. David Whitwell is one of the most influential college band directors of the twentieth century and the author of more than forty books on music, education, history and aesthetics. In this new collection of essays, Essays on the Modern Wind Band, he provides a broad perspective of the American Wind Band from his lifetime of experience as performer, teacher, conductor and musiclogist. Through a series of enlightening and thought-provoking essays, David Whitwell provides his unique opinion on such topics as wind band history, repertoire, ethics, and education, as well as behind-the-scenes stories...
David Whitwell is one of the most influential college band directors of the twentieth century and the author of more than forty books on music, educat...
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153,20 zł |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in Sixteenth-Century Germany, the Low Countries and England
ISBN: 9781936512584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason, Emotions, experience and the senses. The present volume gives the reader a comprehensive view of the aesthetics of music in sixteenth-century Germany, England and the Low Countries. Included here are the first significant contemporary German performance descriptions by Michael Praetorius, Cochlaeus,...
For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art v...
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196,96 zł |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in the Early Renaissance
ISBN: 9781936512379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason, Emotions, experience and the senses. The present volume studies these questions and more during the first two centuries of the Renaissance. While the Church continued to sponsor important music, the spotlight had clearly turned to the growing cultivation of the arts in the individual courts and the...
For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art v...
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196,96 zł |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781936512270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation, and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason, emotions, experience and the senses. The present volume studies these questions and more from the beginning of the Christian Era through the Dark Ages to the dramatic twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the Crusades, Troubadours, Minnesingers, Minstrels and poets all point to a new era, the...
For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art v...
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196,96 zł |
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American Music Education: The Enigma and the Solution
ISBN: 9781936512898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century American music educators began a shift toward teaching "Conceptual" aspects of music for the purpose of accountability in the new science led world. But "Conceptual Music Education" is not music at all and the students know it. The students already love music when they arrive at the school door and they want to make music. Because American Music Education is no longer centered on performance, vast numbers of students go home and teach themselves to sing, compose and play keyboard instruments-all without the supervision of professional musician/educators....
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century American music educators began a shift toward teaching "Conceptual" aspects of music for the purpose of account...
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131,31 zł |
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Essays on Music of the French Baroque: Philosophy and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9781936512843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period of functional, even mechanical, music.The contemporary discussion in this volume will help the reader understand that nothing could be further from the truth.The great interest of most musicians living in the Baroque Period was the role of emotion in music both in composition and in performance.The role of all idioms of performance, including especially improvisation, were directly associated with the goal of increased communication of...
With the exception of the new form, Opera, the previous two centuries of musicology have tended to present the Baroque Period, 1600-1750, as a period ...
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153,20 zł |
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
ISBN: 9781936512447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the eighth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. This volume is a companion to the fourth volume in this series, The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble of the Classical Period. Beginning in October 1969, with his series of articles on 'The Incredible Vienna Octet School, ' David Whitwell became the first scholar to introduce to readers everywhere the long forgotten repertoire called Harmoniemusik. This repertoire was associated with the highest levels...
Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the eighth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Liter...
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240,73 zł |
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Foundations of Music Education
ISBN: 9781936512102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book traces the history of music education from the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome to the modern era. The reader will see the most natural concepts of the ancient music education as it then passes through the Dark Ages when the Church made music a branch of mathematics and then through the Renaissance when formal music education meant only theoretical teaching. The search for how music communicates emotion during the Baroque Period began the path back toward teaching music rather than teaching about music.
This book traces the history of music education from the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome to the modern era. The reader will see the mo...
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197,00 zł |
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Early Views on Music and Ethics
ISBN: 9781936512775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ethics, from the original Greek word, "ethos," had to do with the character of a man. The first part of this book presents the arguments of the ancient philosophers who believed that Music education had the primary responsibility in developing character in children. The second part of this book considers "ethics" in the modern sense, in particular the question of the ethical responsibility of the artist toward the public.
Ethics, from the original Greek word, "ethos," had to do with the character of a man. The first part of this book presents the arguments of the ancien...
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131,31 zł |
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Ancient Views on Music and Religion
ISBN: 9781936512720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume is a compilation of original philosophic views on the relationship of music and religion as early history progressed towards more modern times, beginning with the strong association of music with religion. The early Christian Church rejected most of these early views but found it difficult to fashion a new dogma which accounted for the powers of music. By the later Middle Ages public demand and the rediscovery of the books of the ancient philosophers caused the Church to reform its views. The public wisdom and the true nature of music found a perfect marriage in the writings of...
This volume is a compilation of original philosophic views on the relationship of music and religion as early history progressed towards more modern t...
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153,20 zł |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Baroque Music in Italy, Spain, the German-Speaking Countries and the Low Countries
ISBN: 9781936512621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason, Emotions, experience and the senses. Very few music history texts make it clear that the central obsession of Baroque composers and philosophers was the full restoration of the emotions to music. This volume presents these studies in Italy, led by the famous Camerata, Spain and Germany. From Germany we...
For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art v...
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196,96 zł |
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
ISBN: 9781936512461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the ninth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. During the first decades of the nineteenth century one finds continued composition of music for Harmoniemusik. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars there was a new birth of civic bands in Europe and this resulted in numerous original compositions for large concert band. For society at large, however, the nineteenth century was one of enormous interest in all things military, which resulted in a...
Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the ninth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Lite...
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262,62 zł |
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Berlioz on Bands: A Compilation of Berlioz's Writings on Bands and Wind Instruments
ISBN: 9781936512317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The colorful and sometimes startling style expressed in the music of Berlioz is also found in his prose. The man wrote hundreds of newspaper articles and many more private letters which have yet to be made available to English readers. This book mines those resources to introduce the views of Berlioz on wind players and their instruments, his lost band works and his extensive accounts of the wide public success of his great wind masterpiece, his Symphony for Band. Included here as well are his fascinating discussions of conducting, composition, music education, national styles of music and...
The colorful and sometimes startling style expressed in the music of Berlioz is also found in his prose. The man wrote hundreds of newspaper articles ...
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153,20 zł |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in Ancient Civilizations
ISBN: 9781936512218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Aesthetics of Music is a specialized field of Philosophy which studies fundamental questions. Regarding the mind, what is the role of the senses? What is the role of experience? What are the influences of pleasure and pain? Following the pioneer work of Aristotle, the most fundamental definition lies in the distinction between art music and entertainment music. But what is the role of the public? Everyone knows that the purpose of music is to communicate emotions. But does this purpose refer to the emotions of the composer, the performer or the listener? These are important questions...
The Aesthetics of Music is a specialized field of Philosophy which studies fundamental questions. Regarding the mind, what is the role of the senses? ...
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196,96 zł |
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Essays on Renaissance Philosophies of Music
ISBN: 9781936512799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume consists of essays which present the reader with Renaissance views on their philosophy of music. The contemporary opinions here cover the general new view of man himself in the 14th century, a variety of views on the new values of the Renaissance and valuable first-hand commentary on performance practice. Taken together, here Renaissance musicians provide the reader with a broad background which will help enable the musician to make informed judgments in planning his performance of Renaissance music.
This volume consists of essays which present the reader with Renaissance views on their philosophy of music. The contemporary opinions here cover the ...
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153,20 zł |