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Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music of Jamaica
ISBN: 9789766400286 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form of resistance and subversion, as a repository of oral history and beliefs, and, ultimately, as a means of survival.
The work is based on decades of research into the music sung and played by the working people of Jamaica. Lewin relates the music to traditions that preserve an African way of life, such as Revivalism and its strong heritage of... Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. ...
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134,87 |
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Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life
ISBN: 9780198161462 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not only the foremost organist and church musician of his generation, but a vigorous campaigner for higher standards in cathedral music. Peter Horton has drawn on a wide range of source material to produce a detailed account of Wesley's life and career as he moved from cathedral to cathedral in search of an unattainable ideal. The book is illustrated by a generous selection of musical examples and plates, and includes the most detailed list of works to appear in print.
Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not only the foremost organist and church musician of his genera...
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969,09 |
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Mozart Studies 2
ISBN: 9780198163435 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published to complement Mozart Studies (published in 1991), Mozart Studies 2 offers a forum for the most important trends in recent Mozart scholarship, including substantial contributions in gender and genre studies, close readings of individual works (among them the "Prague" symphony and Le nozze di Figaro), textual and contextual research, and new directions in analysis, both for the operas and instrumental music. At the same time, it also aims to suggest directions for future research. In addition to Cliff Eisen, the contributors include leading Mozart scholars, among them Mary Hunter,...
Published to complement Mozart Studies (published in 1991), Mozart Studies 2 offers a forum for the most important trends in recent Mozart scholarship...
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1061,89 |
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Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain
ISBN: 9780199254071 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular Music was a powerful and persistent influence in the daily life of millions in interwar Britain, yet these crucial years in the development of the popular music industry have rarely been the subject of detailed investigation. For the first time, here is a comprehensive survey of the British popular music industry and its audience. The book examines the changes to popular music and the industry and their impact on British society and culture from 1918-1939. It looks at the businesses involved in the supply of popular music, how the industry organised itself, and who controlled it. It...
Popular Music was a powerful and persistent influence in the daily life of millions in interwar Britain, yet these crucial years in the development of...
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539,90 |
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Essays on Music in the Byzantine World
ISBN: 9780393332766 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In twenty-two essays that comprise this collection, Dr. Strunk discusses aspects of musical development and style from late antiquity to that period of Byzantine history corresponding to the early Renaissance. His contributions in the study of medieval Slavic chants and Carolingian music, for examples, have served as pace setters for all who have done research in this field. Through the writings presented here, the craft and intellectual artistry of this extraordinary scholar are revealed. Kenneth Levy, a gifted Byzantine scholar and former student of Dr. Strunk's, has provided a foreword...
In twenty-two essays that comprise this collection, Dr. Strunk discusses aspects of musical development and style from late antiquity to that period o...
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103,86 |
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The Feminine in German Song
ISBN: 9780820481579 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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493,04 |
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The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
ISBN: 9781556527616 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based in part on therecent interviews with more than 125 peopleamong them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zornthis book focuses on punk s beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, inboth makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan s Lower East Side in the early 1970s, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, the patron saint of punk, and...
Based in part on therecent interviews with more than 125 peopleamong them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly K...
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65,32 |
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We're Going to See the Beatles!: An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There
ISBN: 9781595800329 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""We're Going to See the Beatles "" presents the story of Beatlemania in America as experienced by their most devoted fans.
""We're Going to See the Beatles "" includes anecdotes from those who cheered the group as they arrived at Kennedy Airport in 1964, who kept vigil for them outside the Plaza Hotel, and who sat in the studio audience of "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the band's landmark first live TV broadcast. Other fans detail what it was like to see the Beatles in one of their rare concerts at such famous venues as Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park. From the earliest whispers about... ""We're Going to See the Beatles "" presents the story of Beatlemania in America as experienced by their most devoted fans.
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100,00 |
![Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel. [Facsimile of 1760 Edition] Mainwaring, John 9781904331292 Travis and Emery Music Bookshop](/9781904331292_memoirs_of_the_life_of_the_late_george_frederic_handel_facsimile_of_1760_edition.jpg "Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel. [Facsimile of 1760 Edition]") |
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel. [Facsimile of 1760 Edition]
ISBN: 9781904331292 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic, originally published in 1760, now includes a catalogue of worksand observations on the works of George Frederic Handel.
This classic, originally published in 1760, now includes a catalogue of worksand observations on the works of George Frederic Handel.
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55,89 |
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The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958
ISBN: 9780851158624 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of British film, and of the British character, set it apart from its Hollywood counterpart. She shows how the differences between the two industries in all aspects of film making variously affected composers on both sides of the Atlantic.In the mid 1930s, when film composers in America were perfecting the formulae of the classical Hollywood score, film music in Britain scarcely existed; within a year or so, however, top British composers were scoring British films. How this...
Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of British film, and of the Bri...
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465,29 |
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Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
ISBN: 9780807133330 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church... Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands ... |
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115,42 |
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Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation and Three Centuries of Conflict
ISBN: 9780195365849 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How important was music to Martin Luther? Drawing on hundreds of liturgical documents, contemporary accounts of services, books on church music, and other sources, Joseph Herl rewrites the history of music and congregational song in German Lutheran churches. Herl traces the path of music and congregational song in the Lutheran church from the Reformation to 1800, to show how it acquired its reputation as the "singing church." In the centuries after its founding, in a debate that was to have a strong impact on Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries, the Lutheran church was torn over...
How important was music to Martin Luther? Drawing on hundreds of liturgical documents, contemporary accounts of services, books on church music, and o...
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231,29 |
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Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth
ISBN: 9780812696479 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If love is a banquet at which we feed, Bruce Springsteen has provided much food for thought. In this collection of metaphysical probes, a gang of E-street philosophers will undress Bruce's deeper mysteries like irresistible Jersey girls. Can Springsteen settle the nature-nurture debate through his song Born to Run? What do the famous philosopher Ricuoer and Springsteen have in common in their depiction of time? These die-hard Springsteen fans, who just happen to be philosophers, compile an entertaining handbook to...
Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If love is a banquet at which we feed, Bruce Springsteen has provided muc...
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73,03 |
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Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance
ISBN: 9780393333459 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his concertos Beethoven joined in a sort of human expression that seems almost universal: a discourse of the individual and the group, or of leader and followers who sometimes work together in harmony and sometimes appear pitted one against the other (early definitions of the concerto, indeed, were divided as to which was the main idea of the genre--cooperation or conflict). In his concertos Beethoven typically cast himself as leader; the concerto was for him mainly a youthful preoccupation intimately bound up with his prowess and ambition as a public pianist. The hope is that a...
In his concertos Beethoven joined in a sort of human expression that seems almost universal: a discourse of the individual and the group, or of leader...
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125,24 |
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American Cultural Rebels: Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s Through the 1960s
ISBN: 9780786437092 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists lifestyles have influenced the larger American culture since the mid-19th century. The study explores the many ways in which Americas experimental artists have impacted upon, and at times transformed, the culture of a modern industrial nation.
This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists lifestyles have influenced the larger American culture since the mid-19th century....
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221,82 |
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The "Beatles" Off the Record
ISBN: 9781847721013 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting an 'as it happened' story of one of the greatest pop group The Beatles, this work features a collection of quotes from the Sixties by John, Paul, George and Ringo themselves and a host of others who were close to the group during the heady days of Beatlemania and beyond, including their families, fellow musicians, and others.
Presenting an 'as it happened' story of one of the greatest pop group The Beatles, this work features a collection of quotes from the Sixties by John,...
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104,00 |
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The Words and Music of Neil Young
ISBN: 9780275999025 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil Young cannot be simply labeled. He has recorded as a solo artist, as a member of a hard rock trio, and with numerous other musician configurations. He can move from the soft sounds of early 1970s acoustic folk to the distorted, fuzz guitar sound of Crazy Horse. And his compositions have responded to musical trends from punk rock to grunge, and to social issues like racism, the Vietnam War, and the war in Iraq as well. "The Words and Music of Neil Young" follows the evolution of Young's musical work from the late 1960s to the present, with special focus on the enduring elements that... Neil Young cannot be simply labeled. He has recorded as a solo artist, as a member of a hard rock trio, and with numerous other musician configurat... |
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299,02 |
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Pick Yourself Up
ISBN: 9780195111101 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in 1904 into a show business family--her father, Lou Fields, was a famed stage comedian turned Broadway producer--Fields first teamed with songwriter Jimmy McHugh in the late 1920s and went on to a...
Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can...
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212,73 |
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Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms
ISBN: 9780195365863 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle. This book offers a fresh perspective on the music of these composers, including a comprehensive discussion of the 19th...
In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on...
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196,49 |
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Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky
ISBN: 9780393006186 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as among the most consistently interesting magazines in America. The Perspectives books will comprise a repository of the clearest thinking and most serious writing about twentieth-century music, forming an essential addition to the libraries of both professionals and amateurs concerned with understanding recent developments."
This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives...
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92,30 |
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