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Musical Communication
ISBN: 9780198529354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This new addition to the music psychology list brings together leading researchers from a variety of academic and applied backgrounds. It examines how music can be used to communicate and the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes which underlie such communication. Taking a broad, interdisciplinary look at all aspects of communication, from the symbolic aspects of musical notation, to the use of music in advertising, the book is the first of its kind. It will be valuable for all those involved in music cognition, music education, and communication studies.
This new addition to the music psychology list brings together leading researchers from a variety of academic and applied backgrounds. It examines how...
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767,97 |
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Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms
ISBN: 9780198606987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Printed music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms provides clear, succinct, definitions of a comprehensive range of the musical terms, in English and other European languages, that are likely to be encountered in Western music, including in jazz and popular musical genres.
Over 2,500 A-Z entries range across a spectrum of subjects, among them: rhythm, meter, forms, genres, pitch, scales, chords, harmony and counterpoint, notational systems, composition and... Printed music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Oxford ...
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71,87 |
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New Vocal Repertory: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780198790198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first volume of New Vocal Repertory identified a genuine need, among singers and their teachers, for expert help in choosing contemporary repertoire from the often bewildering volume and variety of music available. It is now in regular use in teaching institutions and many works featured have found a wider audience. This has prompted Jane Manning to produce a further personal selection of over 60 vocal works, recommended for general repertoire.
As before, pieces are graded according to their demands on vocal techniques and musicianship. Each is given detailed treatment from both... The first volume of New Vocal Repertory identified a genuine need, among singers and their teachers, for expert help in choosing contemporary repertoi...
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163,28 |
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With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made [With CD]
ISBN: 9780199214761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.
Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tr...
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521,89 |
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Themes in the Philosophy of Music
ISBN: 9780199241576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they address both perennial questions and contemporary controversies, such as that over the 'authentic performance' movement, and the impact of modern technology on the presentation and reception of musical works. Rather than attempting to reduce musical works to a single type, Davies recognizes a great variety of kinds, and a...
Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and s...
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cena:
685,94 |
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A French Song Companion
ISBN: 9780199249664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet,...
A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted ac...
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475,02 |
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Musical Works and Performances: A Philosophical Exploration
ISBN: 9780199274116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Can recordings substitute faithfully for live performances? This book considers these and other intriguing questions. It first outlines the nature of musical works, their relation to performances, and their notational specification; it then considers authenticity in performance, musical traditions, and recordings. Comprehensive and original, the volume discusses many kinds of music, applying its conclusions to issues as diverse as the authentic performance movement, the cultural integrity of ethnic music, and the implications of the...
What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Can recordings substitute faithfully for live performances? This book considers these and othe...
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250,04 |
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Themes in the Philosophy of Music
ISBN: 9780199280179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they address both perennial questions and contemporary controversies, such as that over the 'authentic performance' movement, and the impact of modern technology on the presentation and reception of musical works. Rather than attempting to reduce musical works to a single type, Davies recognizes a great variety of kinds, and a...
Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and s...
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cena:
231,24 |
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The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text
ISBN: 9780199297764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 984 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A work-by-work commentary on the Bach cantatas by one of the world's most famous Bach scholars, now available in English and in paperback for the first time. It includes all the cantata libretti in German-English parallel text. An indispensable reference book for anyone listening to, performing, or studying any of the Bach cantatas.
A work-by-work commentary on the Bach cantatas by one of the world's most famous Bach scholars, now available in English and in paperback for the firs...
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cena:
639,07 |
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Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
ISBN: 9780226007694 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.
Since its appearance in 1960 in German, "Mahler" has established itself as a classic of musical interpretation. Now available in English, the work is presented here in a translation that captures the stylistic... Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social...
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124,99 |
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Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
ISBN: 9780226012544 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles (the urinal is a violin ), Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In "Untwisting the Serpent, " Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, even though many of the most important artistic experiments of the Modernists were collaborations involving several media Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" is a ballet, Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" is an opera, and Pablo Picasso turned his cubist paintings into costumes...
From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles (the urinal is a violin ), Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to ...
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208,32 |
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Modernism and Music: An Anthropology of Sources
ISBN: 9780226012674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history.
This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others -...
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192,70 |
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Music and German National Identity
ISBN: 9780226021317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music--Bach, Beethoven, Brahms--are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This book explores the questions of how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as...
Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music--Bach, Beethoven, Brahms--are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over th...
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156,24 |
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Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania [With CD]
ISBN: 9780226029801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history.
As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a... Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizin...
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515,59 |
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Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780226029818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history.
As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a... Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizin...
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223,94 |
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A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti Volume 1997
ISBN: 9780226032924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused.
Averill explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz,... The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set agains...
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158,32 |
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Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
ISBN: 9780226039596 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Queen Latifa to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, "Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music" traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, country, and gospel through the rise in rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. Yet despite the vigor and balance of these musical origins, Martha Bayles argues, something has gone seriously wrong, both with the sound of popular music and the sensibility it expresses.
Bayles defends the tough, affirmative spirit of Afro-American music against the strain of artistic modernism she calls... From Queen Latifa to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, "Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music" traces popular music b...
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145,82 |
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Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons
ISBN: 9780226043708 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Provocative and timely, "Disciplining Music" confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons-rules that measure and order, negotiate cultural constraints, reconstruct the past, and shape the future. Written by scholars representing the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, many of the essays tug and push at the very boundaries of these...
Provocative and timely, "Disciplining Music" confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music schola...
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166,66 |
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Evenings with the Orchestra
ISBN: 9780226043746 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's pitch-perfect...
During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the con...
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171,86 |
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780226043791 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Paul Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.
"Paul Berliner's "The Soul of Mbira" is probably the best ethnography ever written about an African musical tradition. It is a complete classic . . . . I know of no other instrument with the range of the mbira, and the book is equal to the instrument." John Chernoff " "The Soul of Mbira"]... This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Pa...
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cena:
104,16 |