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Muzyka
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Hymns / Inni
ISBN: 9780226853284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This newest volume in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi series comprises his only two surviving secular choral works: "Inno popolare," or "Hymn of the People," for unaccompanied male chorus, and "Inno delle nazioni," or "Hymn of the Nations," for tenor solo, chorus, and orchestra. This newest volume in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi series comprises his only two surviving secular choral works: "Inno popolare," or "Hymn of the Pe... |
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703,08 |
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Giovanna d'Arco, 7: Dramma Lirico in Four Acts by Temistocle Solera
ISBN: 9780226853307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Giovanna d Arco" (Joan of Arc), Verdi s seventh opera, premiered at La Scala in 1845 to great public success despite sub-par production standards, and modern performances have swept away both audiences and critical reservations when the work is executed with faithfulness to his score. At the heart of this large-scale opera, with its prominent choruses, is the difficult and beautiful part of Joan simultaneously ethereal soprano and dynamic warrior. The libretto by Temistocle Solera, based in part on Schiller s play "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," omits Joan s trial for heresy and burning at the...
"Giovanna d Arco" (Joan of Arc), Verdi s seventh opera, premiered at La Scala in 1845 to great public success despite sub-par production standards, an...
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1666,56 |
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Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia
ISBN: 9780226868455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's musica tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music-which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country-manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of musica tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources...
Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's musica tropical
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156,24 |
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Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
ISBN: 9780226874654 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 1990 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social significance of a West African popular music. Enhanced with maps, color photographs of musicians and dance parties, musical transcriptions, interviews with musicians, and a glossary of Yoruba terms, Juju is an invaluable contribution to scholarship and a boon to fans who want to discover the roots of this vibrant music.
Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nig...
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156,24 |
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Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance
ISBN: 9780226905853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Sounding the Center" is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts.
Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of... "Sounding the Center" is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand...
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416,64 |
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Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance
ISBN: 9780226905860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Sounding the Center" is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts.
Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of... "Sounding the Center" is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand...
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208,32 |
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Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s
ISBN: 9780230601291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Directors and the New Musical Drama offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic shifts in musical theatre in the 1980s and 90s. Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen explores the cultural differences between British and American musicals, examines their critical reception, and demonstrates the crucial role of British and American directors in developing musical dramas that have initiated change in the parameters of this popular art form. Starting with the provocative idea of the "British Invasion," this volume includes analysis of groundbreaking musicals such as Sunday in the Park with George, Les...
Directors and the New Musical Drama offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic shifts in musical theatre in the 1980s and 90s. Miranda Lundskaer-Niels...
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202,66 |
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Symphonic Music, Its Evolution Since the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780231019088 / Angielski / Twarda / 1952 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book attempts to survey this large field afresh, and to do so in connected, chronological fashion. It takes notice of the fact that concertos, overtures, ballets, and suits- often overlooked or minimized in other books on symphonic music- are also parts of the literature.
This book attempts to survey this large field afresh, and to do so in connected, chronological fashion. It takes notice of the fact that concertos, ov...
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520,80 |
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Music as Cognition: The Devlopment of Thought in Sound
ISBN: 9780231057424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Argues that music is nonlinguistic thought, describes the musical development of people from child to adult, and suggests that there are two levels of mental processing in music.
Argues that music is nonlinguistic thought, describes the musical development of people from child to adult, and suggests that there are two levels of...
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577,40 |
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Recent American Opera: A Production Guide
ISBN: 9780231069205 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Provides information on the music, libretto, and major roles of operas and music theater works by more that one hundred modern American composers, and includes selections from reviews of each work.
Provides information on the music, libretto, and major roles of operas and music theater works by more that one hundred modern American composers, and...
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354,14 |
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Musical Elaborations
ISBN: 9780231073196 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss.
Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of...
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88,48 |
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En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera
ISBN: 9780231102698 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 381 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since the release of Wayne Koestenbaum's book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a second look by gender theorists. Can opera - an antiquated, Eurocentric bastion of high culture - in fact be subverting patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?
Since the release of Wayne Koestenbaum's book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take a...
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182,28 |
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
ISBN: 9780231104494 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, O'Meally confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in...
Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of...
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135,98 |
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
ISBN: 9780231112222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how...
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past li...
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869,74 |
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Silent Film Sound
ISBN: 9780231116626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive origianl reserach and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories of this period in film and reveals the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema. Contrary to received opinion, silent films were not always accompanied, nor were accompaniments...
Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of th...
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876,54 |
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Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context
ISBN: 9780231117982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity, to affect a song's mood, to determine chart success: the music video has changed our idea of the popular song. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from the songs they illuminate--and sell. Carol...
Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden e...
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876,54 |
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Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context
ISBN: 9780231117999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity, to affect a song's mood, to determine chart success: the music video has changed our idea of the popular song. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from the songs they illuminate--and sell. Carol...
Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden e...
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158,32 |
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Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
ISBN: 9780231121767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home--and the power to get there--had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography filled with people and places we recognize and to which we are irresistibly drawn. Each viewing of a film stirs, in a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic...
Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, on...
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651,00 |
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
ISBN: 9780231123501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define--it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures....
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch sti...
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876,54 |
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
ISBN: 9780231123518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define--it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures....
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch sti...
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223,86 |
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