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Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians and the Music Industry
ISBN: 9781495091896 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A renowned conductor's insight into the world of music
A renowned conductor's insight into the world of music
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cena:
146,03 |
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Chopin and His World
ISBN: 9780691177762 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to... A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the... |
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170,37 |
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The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820
ISBN: 9780226543659 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
245,95 |
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Easy Contemporary Pieces: For Solo Piano
ISBN: 9781785584305 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
75,98 |
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95 Waltzes by 16 Composers for Piano: Schirmer'S Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 2132
ISBN: 9781495090523 / Angielski / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Piano Collection). A collection of waltzes by 16 favorite composers including Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Lizst, Ravel, Schubert, and Schumann. Highlights include Chopin's Valse brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18, and Tchaikovsky's -Waltz of the Flowers.- Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Level.
(Piano Collection). A collection of waltzes by 16 favorite composers including Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Lizst, Ravel, Schubert, and Schumann. Highlights...
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93,11 |
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Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa
ISBN: 9780190468972 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes tells the story of Tabula Rasa as one of Part and of Europe itself, traced over the course of a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture and politics, history and memory. Beginning at the site of the work's creation in the Estonian SSR,...
One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work tha...
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cena:
439,79 |
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Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life
ISBN: 9780252082696 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum in 1973. Denise Von Glahn 's in-depth examination of Larsen merges traditional biography with a daring scholarly foray: an ethnography of one active artist. Drawing on musical analysis, the composer 's personal archive, and seven years of interviews with Larsen and those in her orbit, Von Glahn...
Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale...
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cena:
116,78 |
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Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780252082979 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.
This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.
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cena:
116,78 |
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Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life
ISBN: 9780252041150 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum in 1973. Denise Von Glahn 's in-depth examination of Larsen merges traditional biography with a daring scholarly foray: an ethnography of one active artist. Drawing on musical analysis, the composer 's personal archive, and seven years of interviews with Larsen and those in her orbit, Von Glahn...
Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale...
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cena:
506,25 |
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The Symphony and Symphonic Thinking in Polish Music Since 1956
ISBN: 9781409464709 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
705,83 |
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Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
ISBN: 9780190851170 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of these efforts across more than two millennia, paying special attention to the relationship between music's essence and its qualities of form, expression, beauty, autonomy, as well as its perceived capacity to disclose philosophical truths. The core of this book focuses on the period between 1850 and 1945. Although...
What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in...
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cena:
179,19 |
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Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
ISBN: 9781785902673 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
A unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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cena:
75,44 |
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
ISBN: 9780190299705 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in on the significance of the symphony in contemporary culture, this book establishes a dialog between Beethoven's world and ours, marked by the earthshattering events of 1789 and of 1989. In particular, this book outlines what is special about the Ninth in millennial culture. In the present day, music is encoded not only as score but also as...
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the c...
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cena:
96,18 |
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
ISBN: 9780190299699 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in on the significance of the symphony in contemporary culture, this book establishes a dialog between Beethoven's world and ours, marked by the earthshattering events of 1789 and of 1989. In particular, this book outlines what is special about the Ninth in millennial culture. In the present day, music is encoded not only as score but also as...
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the c...
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cena:
439,79 |
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Once Upon a Record: A very musical autobiography
ISBN: 9781925666281 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once Upon a Record takes the reader behind the usually sacrosanct doors of the music industry. Geoffrey Weule has worked with some of the greatest names in music and entertainment. His career, spanning more than half a century, covered record retail, record companies, artist management, music, video publishing and, live shows. His open and frank style of writing reveals a personal story of an entertainment industry that has, changed dramatically. His stories, always deliciously told, will amaze and entertain. Very few of us managed to go shopping with Michael... Once Upon a Record takes the reader behind the usually sacrosanct doors of the music industry. Geoffrey Weule has worked with some ... |
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89,32 |
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Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration
ISBN: 9780190662004 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, reveals connections between listening and constructions of community, and testifies to Classical music's enduring political significance in an age of neoliberal exclusion.
How is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores ...
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cena:
366,01 |
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Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People
ISBN: 9781442257665 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populism and nationalism in the realm of classical music held a high place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday American men and women. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy between the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People, Steve Schwartz offers an overdue correction to this distortion of the American...
Populism and nationalism in the realm of classical music held a high place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Coplan...
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cena:
438,10 |
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School of Velocity. op. 299: 15 Selected Studies
ISBN: 9781548969691 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Czerny, Best Studies from op. 299; well balanced selection of studies for different types of technique.
Czerny, Best Studies from op. 299; well balanced selection of studies for different types of technique.
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cena:
43,70 |
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Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848
ISBN: 9780520276253 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
256,20 |
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Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviewsvolume 21
ISBN: 9780520291201 / Angielski / Miękka / 461 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
174,22 |