wyszukanych pozycji: 52
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La Téléphonie and the Universal Musical Language
ISBN: 9781936512416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Francois Sudre was a nineteenth-century musician who invented something long dreamed of by philosophers: a language based on music. For several decades he successfully demonstrated his new musical language throughout Europe to astonished audiences. No one ever reported a case where this system failed to communicate a desired text, regardless of the original language. On the other hand, no one else could duplicate his accomplishment and so the new musical language failed to take root. There was one remarkable result, however, for Sudre's system was clearly the seed which, in Wagner, blossomed...
Francois Sudre was a nineteenth-century musician who invented something long dreamed of by philosophers: a language based on music. For several decade...
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Mendelssohn: A Self-Portrait In His Own Words
ISBN: 9781936512508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Mendelssohn's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here as well the reader will find Mendelssohn's personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and on some of his compositions. Mendelssohn has also left fascinating first-hand observations on other pianists, composers and personalities whom he knew.
David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Mendelssohn's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. He...
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Schumann: A Self-Portrait In His Own Words
ISBN: 9781936512478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Schumann's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health, the latter a critical issue in the case of Schumann. Here as well the reader will find Schumann's personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and on some of his compositions. Schumann has also left fascinating first-hand observations on other pianists, composers and personalities whom he knew. Foremost among these, of course, are his private thoughts on his wife, the very gifted pianist, Clara Schumann.
David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Schumann's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health, the l...
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Liszt: A Self Portrait In His Own Words
ISBN: 9781936512577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Liszt's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here as well the reader will find Liszt's personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and on some of his compositions. Liszt has also left fascinating first-hand observations on other pianists, composers and personalities whom he knew.
David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Liszt's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here as ...
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121,05 |
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: A Supplementary Catalog of Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
ISBN: 9781936512492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Supplementary Catalog of Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the tenth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. This volume represents Whitwell's continuing research in the field of wind band repertoire with a focus on libraries in England and Italy. Because of the earlier political connection between Northern Italy and Austria, the holdings of the civic libraries in Italy offer important contributions to our understanding of the Harmoniemusik Period of Central Europe. With respect to large band...
A Supplementary Catalog of Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the tenth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History ...
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141,24 |
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Chopin: A Self-Portrait
ISBN: 9781936512409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Chopin's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here too the reader will find Chopin's personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and his resulting compositions. Chopin has also left fascinating first-hand observations on other pianists, composers and personalities whom he knew. Added to this are the fascinating personal descriptions of Chopin by Franz Liszt and George Sand.
David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Chopin's own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here to...
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Band Music of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9781936512812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the definitive study in English of the role of the wind band during the French Revolution and the Bourbon Restoration.In instrumentation the modern wind band begins here. Finally available in a fully updated second edition including new material on works by Anton Reicha, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa and Hector Berlioz."
This is the definitive study in English of the role of the wind band during the French Revolution and the Bourbon Restoration.In instrumentation the m...
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The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: A Catalog of Wind Repertoire Before the Twentieth Century for One to Five Players
ISBN: 9781936512522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Catalog of Wind Repertoire Before the Twentieth Century for One to Five Players is the eleventh volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble has had its focus on the repertoire for ensembles of six or more players. But there is much more to the story of the early professional wind player. His performance of solo repertoire and his participation in smaller wind ensembles reflect the use of such music in smaller palace rooms and in more intimate...
A Catalog of Wind Repertoire Before the Twentieth Century for One to Five Players is the eleventh volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirt...
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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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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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American Music Education: The Enigma and the Solution
ISBN: 9781936512898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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 Longy Club: 1900-1917
ISBN: 9781936512140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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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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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Essays on Renaissance Philosophies of Music
ISBN: 9781936512799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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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Wagner on Bands
ISBN: 9781936512232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wagner was present for the birth of the modern conductor, living and working during the period when the idea of a conductor evolved from a man sitting at the first violin desk setting tempi to the present role of one who personifies the composer's ideas. Because Wagner was also working as a conductor during these transformational years, his letters and the newspaper articles he wrote are filled with a wide perspective of the world of the conductor. In this book we have pulled together his views on The Conductor as a Man, The Education of the Conductor, The Ethics of Conducting and The Art of...
Wagner was present for the birth of the modern conductor, living and working during the period when the idea of a conductor evolved from a man sitting...
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Essays on Italian and Spanish Music of the Baroque: Philosophy and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9781936512829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy, France and Spain
ISBN: 9781936512614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 370 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 gives the reader a comprehensive view of the aesthetics of music in sixteenth-century Italy, France and Spain. Included here are some of the greatest writers and artists of the High Renaissance, including Castiglione, Cardano, Michelangelo and...
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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181,59 |