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Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute
ISBN: 9781409400417 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti passed away in June 2006, he was widely feted as being one of the greatest composers of our time. His complete published works were recorded during his lifetime and his music continues to inspire a steady stream of performances and scholarship. "Ligeti's Laments" provides a critical analysis of the composer's works, considering both the compositions themselves and the larger cultural implications of their reception. Bauer both synthesizes and challenges the prevailing narratives surrounding the composer's long career and uses the theme of lament to...
When the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti passed away in June 2006, he was widely feted as being one of the greatest composers of our time. His comple...
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728,68 |
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Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys
ISBN: 9780615511405 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite what the doomsayers have been predicting for years, classical music is not dead. In fact, the next generation of young musicians is passionate, focused and driven to change the world through their music, and change how the world sees classical music. From the slums of Ukraine to the halls of Manhattan's elite Juilliard School, Driven tells the stories of six incredible young musicians creating a life in music in the modern world. All made their national broadcast debut on the NPR/PBS program From the Top.
Praise for Driven: "Nick Romeo is a skilled writer who... Despite what the doomsayers have been predicting for years, classical music is not dead. In fact, the next generation of young musicians is passionate...
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59,66 |
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Cuban Timba: A Contemporary Bass Technique
ISBN: 9780615526812 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new and innovative book on Cuban Timba Bass Stylings. All bass lines are written and recorded in Havana, Cuba by the master of Timba Bass Feliciano Arango. The book consists of note by note transcriptions and explanations of key concepts and an accompanying CD (sold separately) https: //www.createspace.com/1985098. This book allows bassists to develop the Timba style using a practical and comprehensive approach "directly from the source." This book is bilingual in English and Spanish
A new and innovative book on Cuban Timba Bass Stylings. All bass lines are written and recorded in Havana, Cuba by the master of Timba Bass Feliciano ...
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79,82 |
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The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven's Life and Music
ISBN: 9780500278710 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference book containing information about Beethoven's life and times. Features include a chronology of Beethoven's life and works, a list of works with commentaries, a who's who of contemporaries, historical and musical background and accounts of daily life from diaries and documents.
A reference book containing information about Beethoven's life and times. Features include a chronology of Beethoven's life and works, a list of works...
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132,85 |
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Carlos Aldama's Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum
ISBN: 9780253223784 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bata identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associated with it. This book recounts the life story of Carlos Aldama, one of the masters of the bata drum, and through that story traces the history of bata culture as it traveled from Africa to Cuba and then to the United States. For the enslaved Yoruba, bata rhythms helped sustain the religious and cultural practices of a people that had been torn from its roots. Aldama, as guardian of Afro-Cuban music and as a Santeria priest, maintains the link... Bata identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associa... |
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97,10 |
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The Music of Alban Berg
ISBN: 9780300184129 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this original book. He examines each of the composer's works--including the Piano Sonata, Opus 1, the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and the Violin Concerto--and defines the main components of his musical language. Charting Berg's development as he progressed from late-romantic tonality to atonality and finally to his own distinctive dodecaphonic...
Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical lands...
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320,26 |
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2012 Questions: An Apocalyptic Inquiry
ISBN: 9781441479761 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 21, 2012, the Aztec Long Count ended. A great galactic alignment occurred. Is it the end times or a new beginning? Prophecy or myth, how can you know? Is looking back in history to one of the great prophets or sages the answer? Alternatively, do the answers reveal themselves by looking inward, here and now? Inside are 2,012 questions. They are simple, odd, evocative, and provocative. Your quest is to answer them and see what arises in yourself. You are about to go on a pilgrimage of self-discovery. Who is your guide? Bob Dylan. Contemporary singer-songwriter, visionary poet,...
On December 21, 2012, the Aztec Long Count ended. A great galactic alignment occurred. Is it the end times or a new beginning? Prophecy or myth, how c...
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57,87 |
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Sunset Afire: Alien Blue
ISBN: 9781453858080 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Alien Blue" is a multimedia release by Sunset Afire. Feeling like a stranger in the place one calls home, this record presents encounters with a new global culture coming into awareness. The album contains new music. Blending influences from the Philippine Islands, Africa, and Brooklyn, new sounds are being explored for voice and guitar. The booklet contains lyrics, stories, poems, and photographs from travels all over the world. The film documents encounters with three different lands that speak to the unity of the people of the world.
"Alien Blue" is a multimedia release by Sunset Afire. Feeling like a stranger in the place one calls home, this record presents encounters with a new ...
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39,91 |
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Through Our Eyes: A Fan's Perspective on Artist David Archuleta
ISBN: 9781461060406 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every now and then, a powerfully gifted performer emerges and resonates well beyond his exceptional voice. He puts forth a shining example of kindness and humility. He taps into his talents to lift up those who are in need. And, above all, he nurtures a deep spirituality that is an inspiration to all who follow him. For fans like author Pamela Pike, such is the impact of breakthrough American Idol star David Archuleta, whose musical genius catapulted him to fame at the young age of sixteen. Today, he continues to create phenomenal music, while also serving as a rare role model for a life...
Every now and then, a powerfully gifted performer emerges and resonates well beyond his exceptional voice. He puts forth a shining example of kindness...
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79,62 |
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Songs From My Heart
ISBN: 9781463727123 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Pantuso's songs and the unique story behind each one of them makes for delightful reading and heartfelt devotionals. The thirty-one chapters and songs cover a wide range of style and message.
John Pantuso's songs and the unique story behind each one of them makes for delightful reading and heartfelt devotionals. The thirty-one chapters and ...
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31,89 |
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My Teenage Soundtrack
ISBN: 9781466347878 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the anals of rock 'n' roll history this book is full of the personal memories, however blurred by time and whisky, of Vic Faulkner and his time with 70s glam rock band HELLO. It charts his career from playing air guitar with a tennis racket at the age of 9 to the demise of HELLO accompanied by various photos and press clippings and numerous wonderful characature drawings by Vic's good friend Michael Cashmore-Hingley. It also lets you in on the naughty and mischievous activities that he and his band mates got up to. It is written in no particular order so that you can read it in no...
From the anals of rock 'n' roll history this book is full of the personal memories, however blurred by time and whisky, of Vic Faulkner and his time w...
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39,71 |
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Solo Gig: Essential Curiosities in Musical Free Improvisation
ISBN: 9781467911436 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based in a noted musician's decades of personal experiences, "Solo Gig" examines some crucial and far-reaching aspects of musical free improvisation, with particular regard to live performances. In this illustrated collection of narrative essays, the author looks both into and from inside this uniquely paradoxical, challenging and rewarding way of making music, within the context of an inherently eccentric milieu.
Based in a noted musician's decades of personal experiences, "Solo Gig" examines some crucial and far-reaching aspects of musical free improvisation, ...
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63,86 |
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Feliciano Arango: A Collection of Bass Lines. Vol.1: The Greatest Hits of NG La Banda
ISBN: 9781468026252 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Bi Lingual (English and Spanish) book is a compilation of NG La Banda's greatest hits during the time that Feliciano Arango was the principal bassist for the group (1988-2002). There is great value in archiving these bass lines because the rhythmic style of the bass changed completely in Cuban dance music during this time period. This marks the beginning of a new era of the bass's role as an accompanying instrument in Cuban music. At its onset, this new style of playing was criticized due to its complicated rhythmic figures executed during the montunos and body of the arrangement. It was...
This Bi Lingual (English and Spanish) book is a compilation of NG La Banda's greatest hits during the time that Feliciano Arango was the principal bas...
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119,73 |
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Letters from Lines and Spaces
ISBN: 9781468149555 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A colourful, humorous, and sometimes perplexing picture of British musical life, written by a musician with a distinguished career that spans forty five years in classical and popular music, recalling his early experiences in orchestras with Benjamin Britten, Leopold Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein, in pop music, with Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, Barry White, and Paul McCartney, and as a top "session" french horn player featured on many studio recordings and television shows with Peggy Lee, Barbara Streisand, Paul Simon, and Tony Bennett. Terry Johns played on dozens of film sound tracks,...
A colourful, humorous, and sometimes perplexing picture of British musical life, written by a musician with a distinguished career that spans forty fi...
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31,93 |
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Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions
ISBN: 9781469904184 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 16 tunes as played by the legendary Texas fiddler. In standard music notation.
16 tunes as played by the legendary Texas fiddler. In standard music notation.
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139,69 |
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
ISBN: 9780754666455 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment...
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704,38 |
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life
ISBN: 9781848931619 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green's study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor's life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons.
Green's study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor's life for almost a century, it ...
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777,25 |
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Some Are Born To Endless Night: Jim Morrison, Visions of Apocalypse and Transcendence
ISBN: 9781451558067 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written as an autobiography about the turbulent 1960's and set against the backdrop of the emerging rock music scene, drugs, political assassinations, and the Viet Nam war, Some Are Born to Endless Night explores Jim Morrison's vision of American society in the growing chaos of that decade and highlights the literature and revolutionary philosophies behind his lyrics as a singer with the Doors. Nearly 40 years after Morrison's death Kirstein undertakes a review of Morrison's songs that reflected his crumbling psychological profile. As a devotee of Morrison and the music of the Doors he...
Written as an autobiography about the turbulent 1960's and set against the backdrop of the emerging rock music scene, drugs, political assassinations,...
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71,64 |
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Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow
ISBN: 9780739172858 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) was an American-Mexican composer whose works for the player piano exhibit a level of innovation and complexity which remains unmatched even today--his catalogue of works is often considered the Well-Tempered Clavier of the twentieth century. Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow, by Jurgen Hocker, is the first extensive biography of Nancarrow. Hocker gives insight to the life and personality of the often reclusive Nancarrow, making use of many as-yet-unpublished sources and interviews as well as a timeline and a comprehensive catalogue of Nancarrow's works. Encounters...
Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) was an American-Mexican composer whose works for the player piano exhibit a level of innovation and complexity which rema...
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495,50 |
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Tracy G - The Dio Years & Beyond The Skull
ISBN: 9780615621142 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracy Grijalva, the longest tenured and most creative guitarist that ever played in he band Dio. The Dio Years & Beyond The Skull goes inside a magical six year period of the life of G that covers how he got one of the most powerful positions in rock. You will find out how the machine worked in all aspects from the writing of the albums to the touring and even the down time during his tenure in the band Dio. We will also look into the post Dio time all the way to 2012. Find out about some of the great music Tracy has been making in his bands like Driven, Goad-ed, The Tracy G Group and much...
Tracy Grijalva, the longest tenured and most creative guitarist that ever played in he band Dio. The Dio Years & Beyond The Skull goes inside a magica...
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79,78 |
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