ilość książek w kategorii: 68104
Christmas Motets
ISBN: 9780193437043 / Angielski / Nuty / 1999 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscript or printed sources. There are new English singing translations and playable keyboard reductions in every case.
Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pie...
|
|
cena:
88,92 zł |
Anthems for Choirs 1
ISBN: 9780193532144 / Angielski / Nuty / 1973 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. These fifty anthems were chosen for their accessiblity to the average church choir, but are suitable for larger choirs and concert settings. Four anthems were composed specially for this book by Francis Jackson, Kenneth Leighton, David Lord, and William Mathias; other composers represented date from present day back to the sixteenth-century. The collection covers all main seasons of the church year and includes 21 anthems for general use.
These fifty anthems were chosen for their accessiblity to the average church choir, but are suitable for larger choirs and concert settings. Four anth...
|
|
cena:
86,46 zł |
The Oxford Book of Carols
ISBN: 9780193533158 / Angielski / Nuty / 1984 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A firm favourite with choirs for many years, this is a classic collection of traditional carols. Width its breadth of material, notes on sources, extended introduction and indexes, it is indispensable both as a choral colleciton and as a standard reference book.
A firm favourite with choirs for many years, this is a classic collection of traditional carols. Width its breadth of material, notes on sources, exte...
|
|
cena:
144,18 zł |
The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols
ISBN: 9780193533240 / Angielski / Nuty / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This--the performers' edition of the massive New Oxford Book of Carols--is a selection of 120 carols in 173 different settings. The music, which is divided into composed carols and traditional carols, covers nine centuries of Christmas music from around the world. Popular and unknown material is included: the settings are straightforward and each carol is accompanied by a note on historical background. The emphasis is on the fresh approach to the carol, and the editors have cleared away the accretions of years to recapture the original spirit and vigor of the music. Selections from the book...
This--the performers' edition of the massive New Oxford Book of Carols--is a selection of 120 carols in 173 different settings. The music, which is di...
|
|
cena:
155,52 zł |
A Purcell Anthology
ISBN: 9780193533516 / Angielski / Nuty / 1995 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first anthology to contain all Purcell's most popular anthems. It covers the whole range of full, verse, and symphony anthems, including such famous pieces as the Funeral Sentences, Rejoice in the Lord alway and Hear my Prayer. The collection comprises entirely new and specially prepared editions, with fully realized organ parts and easily playable score reductions of the anthems with strings. Any choir that cares about giving first-class performances will find the selection of pieces, the immaculate editing, and the authoritative information on performance practice...
This is the first anthology to contain all Purcell's most popular anthems. It covers the whole range of full, verse, and symphony anthems, including s...
|
|
cena:
129,38 zł |
A Sixteenth-Century Anthem Book
ISBN: 9780193534070 / Angielski / Nuty / 1987 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents twenty anthems for SATB.
Presents twenty anthems for SATB.
|
|
cena:
106,19 zł |
Improvising : How to master the art
ISBN: 9780193858817 / Angielski / Nuty / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gerre Hancock has long been renowned for his extraordinary improvisations, and has for many years taught the art of improvisation at classes and workshops across the United States. Now he has codified and organized his teaching into a book which carries the organist from the scale through the fugue, covering on the way interludes, hymns, hymn preludes, sonata form, canon, and more. Written in an informal style and illustrated with musical examples and exercises, this book opens wide the door to musical and technical skill.
Gerre Hancock has long been renowned for his extraordinary improvisations, and has for many years taught the art of improvisation at classes and works...
|
|
cena:
222,12 zł |
Bach: The Orgelbüchlein
ISBN: 9780193862142 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length study of the Orgelbuchlein, the masterful collection of organ chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach. This 'Little Organ Book' is regarded by Bach scholars as one of the composer's most important achievements and by organ scholars as a milestone in the development of the chorale. In this lucid and absorbing book Russell Stinson, himself an organist, examines the collection from a range of historical and analytical perspectives in a way that will resonate with not only organists and scholars but the average concert-goer or CD-buyer with an interest in the...
This is the first book-length study of the Orgelbuchlein, the masterful collection of organ chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach. This 'Little O...
|
|
cena:
139,44 zł |
The Oxford Book of Spirituals
ISBN: 9780193863040 / Angielski / Nuty / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. African American spirituals comprise one of the world's greatest and best-loved bodies of music. The Oxford Book of Spirituals is the first anthology to present a comprehensive survey of the genre's repertoire -- its principal composers, themes, and forms -- in a way that is at once stylistically authentic, historically meaningful, and intended for practical use both in worship and in concert. This collection features a rich array of songs, both familiar and less familiar, arranged for SATB choir by twenty-eight of the most significant American composers and presented in chronological order...
African American spirituals comprise one of the world's greatest and best-loved bodies of music. The Oxford Book of Spirituals is the first anthology ...
|
|
cena:
129,38 zł |
Conducting Technique : For Beginners and Professionals
ISBN: 9780193868540 / Angielski / Spiral bound / 2004 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful advice on coducting subtleties. This latest edition takes into account avant-garde music and new music notation.
For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful ad...
|
|
cena:
117,30 zł |
The Story of Jazz
ISBN: 9780195012699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz's cultural effects on American and the world.
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader ...
|
|
cena:
109,84 zł |
The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780195038767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in...
The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison say...
|
|
cena:
132,04 zł |
A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians
ISBN: 9780195040418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introduction to the symphony and short pieces on the orchestra and musical styles. Mordden goes on to describe, chronologically, over 700 pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Further aids to the reader include two lists of repertory builders and a glossary of musical terms.
"Easy and pleasurable to read...a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introductio...
|
|
cena:
104,91 zł |
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
ISBN: 9780195040432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings.
Early Jazz... Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to...
|
|
cena:
70,38 zł |
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909
ISBN: 9780195043105 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing tech...
|
|
cena:
672,24 zł |
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, Volume III: From 1900-1984
ISBN: 9780195043112 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the "fall and rise" of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business.
This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood t...
|
|
cena:
1079,21 zł |
Opera Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780195056617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and witty style that prompted Publishers Weekly to hail him as "one of the most entertaining and provocative writers around."
Mordden has selected a vast collection of classic, arcane and unusual anecdotes, including Giuseppe Verdi's advice on how to run an opera house and how to write an aria, Enrico Caruso's... From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alter...
|
|
cena:
70,38 zł |
Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music
ISBN: 9780195058369 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and...
In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to b...
|
|
cena:
536,59 zł |
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195058499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Varese, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein,...
New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from ...
|
|
cena:
832,57 zł |
Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller
ISBN: 9780195059212 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller offers his reflections on jazz, insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins, and several essays on "the third stream," the genre where jazz and classical music intersect. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music,"...
This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Linc...
|
|
cena:
75,32 zł |