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Schoenberg and His School
ISBN: 9780806529561 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book talks about music. It incorporates modal and tonal music. It talks about Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of contempoary music, Alban Berg and how the past plays on contemporary music and Anton Webern and the future of contemporary music. As well as the structure of contemporary musical speech. Rene Leibowitz was a French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland. During the early 1930s, Leibowitz studied composition and orchestration with Ravel in Paris, where he was introduced to Schoenberg's Twelve-note technique by the German pianist and composer Erich...
This book talks about music. It incorporates modal and tonal music. It talks about Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of contempoary music, Alban Berg and...
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77,07 |
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Music and More: Essays, 1975-1991
ISBN: 9780810110762 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Classical music today is in deep trouble." With these disturbing words, Samuel Lipman introduces us to his own testimony on the current condition of music-and of our culture itself. His bold essays passionately defend the best in this culture against what Lipman sees as its growing banalization and politicization. Lipman's expertise in music is unmistakable, but he writes with the general reader in mind-lucidly, nontechnically, arrestingly.
"Classical music today is in deep trouble." With these disturbing words, Samuel Lipman introduces us to his own testimony on the current condition of ...
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63,62 |
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Compendium of American Musicology: Essays in Honor of John F. Ohl
ISBN: 9780810115361 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Compendium of American Musicology is a collection of thirteen fascinating essays in three fields of musicology: chant studies, music from the Renaissance to the Classic Era, and source studies from the Romantic and Postromantic periods. This collection by thirteen esteemed musicologists was compiled and edited in memory of John F. Ohl, whose career spanned study and work at Harvard, Fisk, and Northwestern Universities. He founded Northwestern's Department of Music in 1951. Arranged chronologically by subject, the essays cover the history of Western music from the liturgical...
A Compendium of American Musicology is a collection of thirteen fascinating essays in three fields of musicology: chant studies, music from the...
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313,46 |
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Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780810834194 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of Black Women in American Bands & Orchestras (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1982) was lauded for providing access to material unavailable in any other source. To update and expand the first edition, Handy has revised the profiles of members featured in the first edition, corrected omissions, and added personal and career facts for new faces on the scene. Profiles are presented under the headings of orchestras and orchestra leaders, string players, wind and percussion players, keyboard players, and non-playing orchestra/band affiliates. Features 100 photographs.
The first edition of Black Women in American Bands & Orchestras (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1982) was lauded for providing access to materi...
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489,77 |
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Jimmy Dorsey: A Study in Contrasts
ISBN: 9780810835368 / Angielski / Twarda / 698 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dorsey brothers were prominent members of the Big Band fraternity in the late thirties, forties, and fifties. Jimmy Dorsey: A Study in Contrasts is a bio-discographical text that spans Jimmy Dorsey's career as a musician, orchestra leader, and composer. The book is a collection of chronological listings of every recording on which Dorsey is believed to have played or have been present, interspersed with brief biographical notations and contemporary historical information that show the close relationship between his talents and his life experiences as well as points out the many contrasts...
The Dorsey brothers were prominent members of the Big Band fraternity in the late thirties, forties, and fifties. Jimmy Dorsey: A Study in Contrasts i...
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685,68 |
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State Songs: Anthems and Their Origins
ISBN: 9780810837232 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America: "Land of the free and the home of the brave." The United States has long been using song as a way of capturing its unique identity. Now, in one volume, official songs from every state (except Michigan and New Jersey, which have no official song) have been compiled. This text is a tremendous resource, from which readers will gain insight into the heritage of American statehood. Histories of these songs, biographical information about the composers and lyricists, and background on each song's entrance into status as "official" make this source the most comprehensive in existence. The...
America: "Land of the free and the home of the brave." The United States has long been using song as a way of capturing its unique identity. Now, in o...
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328,15 |
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Pianists on Playing: Interviews with Twelve Concert Pianists
ISBN: 9780810838895 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve internationally-known keyboard artists discuss their daily lives of practicing and performing.
Twelve internationally-known keyboard artists discuss their daily lives of practicing and performing.
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235,10 |
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Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology
ISBN: 9780810839144 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth century developments. It explores a multitude of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, folk traditions, the legendary salsa, urban pop, and commercial music. The volume also examines musical differences in various regions,...
Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read S...
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284,07 |
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Music in Ibero-America to 1850: A Historical Survey
ISBN: 9780810839977 / Angielski / Twarda / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of Music and Music Activities in Ibero-America to 1850 emphasizes historical data rather than musical analysis. Folk and popular music are mentioned only to the extent that they have affected the cultivated strains of Ibero-American music. Of interest to music historians and students of Ibero-American culture.
This study of Music and Music Activities in Ibero-America to 1850 emphasizes historical data rather than musical analysis. Folk and popular music are ...
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773,84 |
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Yogaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780810843257 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."--Luciano Berio Yogaku discusses over a century of musical activity in Japan, detailing, in particular, the music that was inspired by Western music after the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century, and its development through the end of the 20th century. The book not only examines the infiltration of Western music into Japan, but also provides insight into the aesthetic and theoretical aspects of Japanese musical thought. The word yogaku (Western music) is made...
"This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."--Luciano Berio Y...
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538,76 |
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Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States
ISBN: 9780810846746 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in Paperback Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States provides a colorful introduction for students and nonspecialists alike to the scope of musical styles and venues in America from colonial to contemporary times. Covering all aspects of music, including classical, ragtime, blues, jazz, popular, minstrel shows, and music on radio and television and in film, the text also contains a variety of photographs and illustrations, three time lines presenting highlights in American history, the arts, and music, an appendix of basic musical concepts, a glossary, and two...
Now in Paperback Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States provides a colorful introduction for students and nonspecialists alike ...
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210,60 |
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The Repertoire of Iraqi Maqam
ISBN: 9780810847583 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. It is a remarkably cosmopolitan art, sharing many features with neighboring classical traditions, particularly Iranian. Its repertoire consists of orally transmitted, multi-sectioned compositions, performed with some flexibility regarding ornamentation, arrangement and development. Focusing on the period between 1930-1980, this reference offers the first comprehensive view of the musical contents of the repertoire--scalar...
The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small inst...
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386,93 |
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Lutoslawski on Music
ISBN: 9780810848047 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own compositions and techniques as well as writings on various aspects of twentieth-century musical culture.
Lutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own ...
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573,04 |
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Annual Review of Jazz Studies 8: 1996: Special Edition on Jazz Theory
ISBN: 9780810849730 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showcases professional work in the arena of jazz theory. Among the contributors are scholars of jazz theory as well as musicians, including four of the founding members of the jazz section of the Society for Music Theory.
Showcases professional work in the arena of jazz theory. Among the contributors are scholars of jazz theory as well as musicians, including four of th...
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235,10 |
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Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu
ISBN: 9780810850255 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the relationship of European music to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It shows European Music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the government of Emperor Pedro II and will make an excellent addition to the library of amateur and professional Latin American Historians, musicologists, and enthusiasts.
This book focuses on the relationship of European music to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. ...
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352,63 |
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Music in North America and the West Indies from the Discovery to 1850: A Historical Survey
ISBN: 9780810852525 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before one can seriously study, analyze, or theorize about a subject, one needs to understand its foundation and be comfortable with its basic premises. Music in North America and the West Indies from the Discovery to 1850, in conjunction with the author's first Scarecrow Press book, Music in Ibero-America to 1850, intends to lay the groundwork for the musical and cultural history of North America. Music in North America is a survey of the people, events, and institutions that helped shape music in the early centuries of North America. Collecting information from various historical data,...
Before one can seriously study, analyze, or theorize about a subject, one needs to understand its foundation and be comfortable with its basic premise...
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582,83 |
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The Crucifixion in Music: An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus between 1680 and 1800
ISBN: 9780810852754 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crucifixion in Music studies the musical representation of words and the concepts and contexts to which words refer, examining the way the treatment of a literary text, namely the Crucifixus, coalesces into a recognizable musical tradition that individual composers follow, develop, modify, or ignore.
The Crucifixion in Music studies the musical representation of words and the concepts and contexts to which words refer, examining the way the treatme...
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631,81 |
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Essays in Honor of Laszlo Somfai on His 70th Birthday: Studies in the Sources and the Interpretation of Music
ISBN: 9780810852976 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of essays celebrates Hungarian musicologist Laszlo Somfai (b. 1934), head of the Budapest Bartok Archives for more than three decades, past president of the International Musicological Society, and a leading authority on the music of Joseph Haydn and Bela Bartok. His complex approach to source material involves evaluating biographical data while examining compositional sketches, notation, and performance practice, leading him to an "authentic" understanding of music that reaches beyond the discussion of musical sources. This honorary volume is devoted to the topics and approaches...
This volume of essays celebrates Hungarian musicologist Laszlo Somfai (b. 1934), head of the Budapest Bartok Archives for more than three decades, pas...
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661,20 |
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The Crucifixion in Music: An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus between 1680 and 1800
ISBN: 9780810858725 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crucifixion in Music studies the musical representation of words and the concepts and contexts to which words refer, examining the way the treatment of a literary text, namely the Crucifixus, coalesces into a recognizable musical tradition that individual composers follow, develop, modify, or ignore.
The Crucifixion in Music studies the musical representation of words and the concepts and contexts to which words refer, examining the way the treatme...
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352,63 |
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To Boulez and Beyond
ISBN: 9780810858770 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond. Peyser provides historical context and suggests psychological insight for these masters, including Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern of the Second Viennese School; their immediate ancestors Wagner and Mahler; Rimsky-Korsakov and his pupil Stravinsky; and Hindemith, Bartok, Cowell, and Varese. Discussing proponents of serialism and twelve-tone technique, as well as those who worked against these styles, the book also considers Berio, Stockhausen, Shostakovich,...
Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond. Peyser provides...
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352,63 |
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