wyszukanych pozycji: 53
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Extraordinary Women
ISBN: 9781936512423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For a period which ended 2,500 bc ours was a matriarchal world. History does not tell us how well the women did because history his-story] was written by later men. The men took over about 2,500 bc and how well they have done in organizing and running society is at best debatable. During the 4,500 years of patriarchal rule the women nevertheless continued to make exceptional contributions to society and in this volume the reader will find a generous sampling of extraordinary women. And they are not just writers and women of the stage but also the rulers of nations, generals leading troops...
For a period which ended 2,500 bc ours was a matriarchal world. History does not tell us how well the women did because history his-story] was writte...
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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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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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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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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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120,39 |
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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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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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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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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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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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Essays on Music of the French Baroque: Philosophy and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9781936512843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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180,59 |