wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Britten: War Requiem
ISBN: 9780521440899 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniting the famous anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass. Britten's and Owen's pacifist beliefs are compared, and the chronology of the compositional process unraveled from documentary and manuscript sources. The musical language is analyzed in detail, and the fluctuating critical responses to the score are assessed.
The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniti...
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242,17 zł |
The Hollywood Film Music Reader
ISBN: 9780195331189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the heyday of silent film, the book traces film music's progress through Hollywood's so-called Golden Age to changes in musical styles and working practices from the 1960s to the present. Also included are vivid first-hand accounts from composers such as George Antheil, Elmer Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Adolph Deutsch, Jerry...
A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader <...
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559,13 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
ISBN: 9780521780094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Beginning with a survey of operatic legacies, the volume analyzes regional styles and aesthetic trends, and features essays on opera and film, popular operetta and the musical, avant-garde music theatre and minimalism, market forces, changing styles and production trends.
Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from bo...
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423,99 zł |
A History of Film Music
ISBN: 9780521010481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the...
This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not o...
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158,58 zł |
Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten
ISBN: 9780851158303 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential...
Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first ...
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140,00 zł |
Pat Metheny: The Ecm Years, 1975-1984
ISBN: 9780199897674 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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487,87 zł |
A History of Film Music
ISBN: 9780521811736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the...
This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not o...
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394,51 zł |
The Hollywood Film Music Reader
ISBN: 9780195331196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the heyday of silent film, the book traces film music's progress through Hollywood's so-called Golden Age to changes in musical styles and working practices from the 1960s to the present. Also included are vivid first-hand accounts from composers such as George Antheil, Elmer Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Adolph Deutsch, Jerry...
A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader <...
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251,95 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
ISBN: 9780521783934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Beginning with a survey of operatic legacies, the volume analyzes regional styles and aesthetic trends, and features essays on opera and film, popular operetta and the musical, avant-garde music theatre and minimalism, market forces, changing styles and production trends.
Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from bo...
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158,58 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten
ISBN: 9780521574761 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive guide to Britten's work, aimed both at the nonspecialist and the music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is a comprehensive guide to Britten's work, aimed both at the nonspecialist and the music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylisti...
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138,93 zł |
Britten: War Requiem
ISBN: 9780521446334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniting the famous anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass. Britten's and Owen's pacifist beliefs are compared, and the chronology of the compositional process unraveled from documentary and manuscript sources. The musical language is analyzed in detail, and the fluctuating critical responses to the score are assessed.
The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniti...
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134,01 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
ISBN: 9781107094512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India and Japan - the book's contributors are all leading scholars and practitioners in the field. They engage, sometimes provocatively, with numerous stimulating aspects of the history, theory and practice of film music in a series of lively discussions which will...
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various...
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222,52 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
ISBN: 9780521663885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many angles, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays offers informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, taking the reader through a series of five basic subject areas--locating jazz historically and geographically; defining jazz as musical and cultural practice; jazz in performance; the uses of jazz for audiences, markets, education and for other art forms; and the study of jazz.
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many angles, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is cha...
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158,58 zł |
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
ISBN: 9780521387507 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. A detailed synopsis guides the reader through the musical and dramatic action of the opera and in a chapter devoted to the music, Britten's distinctive technique of tonal symbolism is analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of his musical response to the dramatic suggestions...
Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work fro...
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104,53 zł |
Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984
ISBN: 9780199897667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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155,66 zł |