wyszukanych pozycji: 53
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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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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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80,92 |
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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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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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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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Aesthetics of Music: Aesthetics of Music in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781936512270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 478 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 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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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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182,08 |
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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141,61 |
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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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121,39 |