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Basic Ballet: The Steps Defined
ISBN: 9780140464450 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) All the basic movements in classical ballet, illustrated with 275 detailed photographs.
This unique handbook shows all the basic positions, steps, and movements in classical ballet, arranged in the sequence of lessons usually followed over six years of training. An invaluable practice manual for dance students, it is also a wonderful companion to the dance for ballet enthusiasts or anyone who wants a better understanding and appreciation of the art. All the basic movements in classical ballet, illustrated with 275 detailed photographs.
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105,08 zł |
The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations
ISBN: 9780140513974 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations holds the key to understanding the trends and events that have influenced international relations over the last decade. This completely up-to-date reference includes explanations of the dangerous developments that have affected international relations, such as ethnic cleansing and preventive war, as well as detailed entries on broader concepts and key organizations--from game theory to SALT, from Amnesty International to WHO. This is a must for students of the world who want to keep up with the ever-changing pace of foreign relations.
The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations holds the key to understanding the trends and events that have influenced international relat...
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77,74 zł |
A Life in Letters
ISBN: 9780141441467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The letters of one of the world's greatest composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural icon?is among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life story?his marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his father?and a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician. The letters of one of the world's greatest composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic ar... |
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110,67 zł |
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
ISBN: 9780142003527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family...
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a reco...
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105,08 zł |
The Death of Rhythm and Blues
ISBN: 9780142004081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George's book chronicles the rise and fall of "race music" and its transformation into the R&B that eventually dominated the airwaves only to find itself diluted and submerged as crossover music.
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete...
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105,08 zł |
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
ISBN: 9780143036722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic...
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music ...
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74,43 zł |
Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter
ISBN: 9780143037323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab Four There are, of course, many books on the Beatles, but this is the only one available that is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of journalism about the legendary band, before and after the breakup. Consisting of more than fifty articles, essays, interviews, record and movie reviews, poems, and book excerpts-many of them rare and hard to find-Read the Beatles is an unprecedented compilation that follows the arc of the Fab Four's iconic and idiosyncratic career, from...
A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab Four There are, of course, many books on the...
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105,08 zł |
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
ISBN: 9780143037774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social...
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young...
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109,46 zł |
Handel's Messiah: A Celebration
ISBN: 9780156001380 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Pain...
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87,53 zł |
Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale
ISBN: 9780156032964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It was 1994: post Liz Phair, mid Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Trynin took a hard look at herself and gave making it one last shot.
It worked. Suddenly Trynin became the spark that set off one of the most heated bidding wars of the year. Major labels vied for her, to the tune of millions of dollars in deals. Lawyers, managers, and booking agents clamored for her attention. Billboard put her on the cover. Everyone knew she was the Next Big Thing. But then she wasn t. In a series of dizzying,... It was 1994: post Liz Phair, mid Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Try...
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96,29 zł |
The American Songbag
ISBN: 9780156056502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. New Introduction by Garrison Keillor; Prefatory Notes by the Author; Index.
Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs tha...
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140,11 zł |
Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship
ISBN: 9780193112100 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divided into four parts, the first three concerned with common preoccupations (aesthetic, technical, and polemical) and the last a collection of entries intended for a music encyclopedia. Boulez offers penetrating and provocative analyses of the music of the major figures of twentieth-century music including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Debussy, Messiaen, and Ravel. His illuminating comments arise from intimate knowledge of the music, and...
In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divid...
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852,93 zł |
The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780193113343 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have formed an integral part of the cultures of all peoples of the world from the beginning of time. Their range and diversity have inspired the skill and genius of maker, composer, and player. This book is a celebration of that achievement, examining in one alphabetical sequence the astonishing variety of Western and non-Western acoustic musical instruments. Individual entries encapsulate the essential information about the instrument considered. Each entry offers a concise description and, with the aid...
Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have formed an integral part of the cultures of all peoples ...
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489,37 zł |
Conducting a Choir: A Guide for Amateurs
ISBN: 9780193134072 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Imogen Holst (1907-1984), the daughter of the composer Gustav Holst, was a much-loved source of inspiration for the many musicians and students who encountered her over the years at the Dartington Summer School of Music and the Aldeburgh Festival. In this book, originally published in 1973, she sets out clearly and concisely--and often amusingly--a wealth of practical information that will be of particular interest to the amateur conductor. She gives precise and detailed advice on the technique of conducting, how to form and train a choir, the presentation and rehearsal of music, and how to...
Imogen Holst (1907-1984), the daughter of the composer Gustav Holst, was a much-loved source of inspiration for the many musicians and students who en...
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314,46 zł |
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
ISBN: 9780193152526 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of 17th-century England, despite the fact that it was originally composed not for the public theatre but for a private girls' school in Chelsea and takes little more than an hour to perform. Ellen Harris examines the work, s historical position in the Restoration theatre, and shows that, far from being an operatic anomaly, it was deeply rooted in 17th-century English theatrical and music traditions. Her book summarises the cultural climate in which Dido and Aeneas was composed, surveying the choice of subject matter and...
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of 17th-century England, despite the fact that it was originally composed not fo...
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237,83 zł |
A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music 1699-1780
ISBN: 9780193152564 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This catalogue, the most complete bibliography of its kind, contains entries for all printed harpsichord music known to have existed in France in the period 1699-1780, including over 230 volumes and 150 manuscripts. It offers precise transcriptions of title pages, full contents, dating, locations, editions, facsimiles, evaluations in the contemporary press, identifications of dedicatees, and stylistic comments. Indexes and appendices provide alphabetical listings of individual titles as well as listings by date, medium, and composer.
This catalogue, the most complete bibliography of its kind, contains entries for all printed harpsichord music known to have existed in France in the ...
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1288,69 zł |
Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109
ISBN: 9780193153325 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book on Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, Nicholas Marston combines source studies and a Schenkerian analytical approach to produce one of the most extensive and detailed studies of a Beethoven piano sonata ever published. The study is based on a complete transcription of all the surviving autograph musical sources: the sketches, a fragmentary Urschrift, and the autograph score. Early printed editions and manuscript copies are also discussed and the text is handsomely supported by extensive transcription from the sources. After an introductory chapter in which previous work -...
In this book on Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, Nicholas Marston combines source studies and a Schenkerian analytical approach to produce one ...
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915,18 zł |
Music in the Medieval English Liturgy: Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society Centennial Essays
ISBN: 9780193161252 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays celebrates the work of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music society and was written in particular to celebrate their centenary. Founded in 1888, the Society quickly established two areas of activity: to propagate information on medieval music and to revitalize the Anglican liturgy with the riches of the plainchant of the Roman Rite. Focusing on the scholarly side of the society's activities, the essays reflect the founders' interest in medieval music, both monophonic and polyphonic, and, particularly, their concern with chant. The contributors are among the most...
This collection of essays celebrates the work of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music society and was written in particular to celebrate their centenary....
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890,27 zł |
The New Oxford History of Music: The Age of Humanism 1540-1630, Volume IV
ISBN: 9780193163041 / Angielski / Twarda / 1968 / 1004 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.
Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.
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1587,50 zł |
The New Oxford History of Music: Opera and Church Music 1630-1750, Volume V
ISBN: 9780193163058 / Angielski / Twarda / 1975 / 892 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.
Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.
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1811,61 zł |