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Ancient Views on What Is Music
ISBN: 9781936512744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book follows the fascinating attempt of man to explain the nature of Music, that powerful and mysterious art from which cannot be seen. From original accounts from the earliest period of writing when Music was associated with the gods to the early Christian Church, which tried to explain that Music is the part of mathematics you can hear, the speculation continued. Eventually man began to realize that he is more than Reason, that he has a experiential side as well and this led to writing of understanding vs feeling, the bicameral mind finally explained by modern clinical brain research....
This book follows the fascinating attempt of man to explain the nature of Music, that powerful and mysterious art from which cannot be seen. From orig...
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble
ISBN: 9781936512331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the fifth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell's meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century - an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. This volume describes the cultural environment of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars, a century when the military is associated with the highest society....
The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the fifth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature ...
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
ISBN: 9781936512393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire' is the seventh 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 third volume in this series, 'The Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble'. Of great significance is the continuation of the church wind ensemble forms of the sixteenth century and the extraordinary multi-movement concert Hautboisten repertoire of the Baroque. The Hautboisten repertoire was a development of the earlier music of the Les Grands Hautbois and directly...
'Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire' is the seventh volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume 'History and Literature...
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Music Education of the Future
ISBN: 9781936512119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the ancient civilizations music education was based on principles which seemed to them obvious and natural, that there was something universal about how people heard and understood music and that music seemed to have a role in the development of character. Beginning with the Christian Era music education was forced to move from the experiential to the rational and it has never recovered its natural state. In this book the reader will find an argument for restoring music education to a natural relationship between music and man. In the process this book will provide the reader with a new...
In the ancient civilizations music education was based on principles which seemed to them obvious and natural, that there was something universal abou...
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Early Views on Music and Ethics
ISBN: 9781936512775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Name Index, Volumes 1-12
ISBN: 9781936512560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Name Index, Volumes 1-12 is the thirteenth and final volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. This volume includes nearly eight thousand entries - musicians, composers, publishers, historians, royalty, philosophers - a virtual encyclopedia of people who have played a part, big or small, in the creation and growth of the wind band and wind ensemble. From the earliest philosophers of ancient Greece to composers from the twentieth century, this index to the History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series...
Name Index, Volumes 1-12 is the thirteenth and final volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind E...
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500
ISBN: 9781936512171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500 is the first volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell's meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century - an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. This volume includes: 1] court wind music developing form crude ceremonial instruments into the real wind bands of the fifteenth century 2] the ancient tradition of...
The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500 is the first volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the ...
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Renaissance Men on Music
ISBN: 9781936512805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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. 16-18 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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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Renaissance Wind Band and Wind Ensemble
ISBN: 9781936512195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Renaissance Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the second volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell's meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century - an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. This volume includes: court wind music that left important bodies of literature, especially in France and England larger civic wind bands, with extant literature,...
The Renaissance Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the second volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the...
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Aesthetics of Music: Annotated Index, Volumes 1-8
ISBN: 9781936512881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the first, 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.
For the first, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus...
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Essays on the Modern Wind Band
ISBN: 9781936512683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble
ISBN: 9781936512249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the third volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell's meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century - an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. This volume includes: 1] the change of instrumentation from Renaissance consorts to the new modern instruments; 2] the Hautboisten band and its function as a bridge...
The Baroque Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the third volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the Wind...
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140,07 |
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Supernova Explosions
ISBN: 9783662550526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 721 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J. Craig Wheeler offer a modern account of the nature, causes and consequences of supernovae, as well as of issues that remain to be resolved. Owing especially to (1) the appearance of supernova 1987A in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, (2) the spectacularly successful use of supernovae as distance indicators for cosmology, (3) the association of some supernovae with the enigmatic cosmic gamma-ray bursts, and (4) the... Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields,... |
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On the Performance of the Music of Mozart
ISBN: 9781936512928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ancient Views on the Natural World
ISBN: 9781936512737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains a fascinating collection of observations by ancient writers as they were attempting to understand Music in its relationship with the world around them. The book begins with a discussion of Pythagoras (570-495 BC) who perceived a kinship between Music and astronomy, mathematics and physical therapy. One also reads from remote times the question of whether musicians are born or made, whether music is genetic and if geography influences musical perspective.
This volume contains a fascinating collection of observations by ancient writers as they were attempting to understand Music in its relationship with ...
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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. 16-18 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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Foundations of Music Education
ISBN: 9781936512102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Early Thoughts on Performance Practice
ISBN: 9781936512768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents the early views of philosophers and musicians having to do with the general background of what is known as Performance Practice. Performance Practice refers to the knowledge needed by musicians in bringing to life, in the form of present tense performance, older compositions, in view of the fact that we have a very incomplete system for the notation of music. But there are other problems besides our inadequate notational system. These include broad issues of society, the nature of the musical instruments themselves, acoustics, how the listener's brain "hears" music and...
This volume presents the early views of philosophers and musicians having to do with the general background of what is known as Performance Practice. ...
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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. 16-18 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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180,10 |