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The American Opera Singer: The Lives & Adventures of America's Great Singers in Opera & Concert from 1825 to the Present
ISBN: 9780385421744 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading opera stage throughout the world.In this lively and engrossing account, Peter G. Davis, music critic for New York magazine and a leading opera authority, tells the story of how these plucky, resilient and supremely talented American singers have transformed this venerable European-born art form and made it their own.
Starting with opera's arrival in America in the early nineteenth century, Davis shows how American singers grew in... In America today, opera has never been more popular, and one reason for this is, no doubt, that American opera singers are fixtures on every leading o...
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96,34 |
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Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
ISBN: 9780385471992 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sellnearly five million copies of their landmark albumNevermind, whose thunderous soundand indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emergingGeneration X. Come As You Are is theclose-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- theonly book with exclusive in-depthinterviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates -- now updated toinclude a new final chapter detailing the lastyear of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic...
Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sellnearly five million copies of their landmark albumNevermind, whose thunderous soundand indelible mel...
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92,48 |
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Night Beat: A Shadow of Rock & Roll
ISBN: 9780385484367 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex...
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, ...
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73,22 |
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The Circus Fire
ISBN: 9780385496858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward O'Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this... The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism the great...
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88,63 |
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The Physics of Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780387983745 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 756 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When we wrote the first edition of this book, we directed our presenta tion to the reader with a compelling interest in musical instruments who has "a reasonable grasp of physics and who is not frightened by a little mathematics." We are delighted to find how many such people there are. The opportunity afforded by the preparation of this second edition has allowed us to bring our discussion up to date by including those new insights that have arisen from the work of many dedicated researchers over the past decade. We have also taken the opportunity to revise our presentation of some aspects...
When we wrote the first edition of this book, we directed our presenta tion to the reader with a compelling interest in musical instruments who has "a...
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443,82 |
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Copland on Music
ISBN: 9780393001983 / Angielski / Miękka / 1963 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whose fault is it that the artist counts for so little in the public mind? Has it always been thus? Is there something wrong, perhaps, with the nature of the art work being created in America? Is our system of education lacking in its attitude toward the art product? Should our state and federal governments take a more positive stand toward the cultural development of their citizens? These are some of the provocative questions which Aaron Copland raises and answers in Copland on Music. Whose fault is it that the artist counts for so little in the public mind? Has it always been thus? Is there something wrong, perhaps, with the nat... |
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92,44 |
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A Guide to Musical Styles: From Madrigal to Modern Music
ISBN: 9780393002003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book transports the reader into the spirit of great music, so that when he encounters an unfamiliar composition he will feel at home in its style and will have some idea of what to expect. It examines five great periods--the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern--and teaches him the technique of listening so that he can identify the style and form of a piece of music and place it in its proper period. For unless our ears can tell us the difference between a fugue and a sonata, the study of names, dates and historical trends will be futile.
This book transports the reader into the spirit of great music, so that when he encounters an unfamiliar composition he will feel at home in its style...
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115,56 |
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The Creative World of Mozart
ISBN: 9780393002188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The introduction is an essay on the special nature of Mozart's genius. Erich Hartzmann leads us into the composer's workshop; Edward E. Lowinsky and Hans T. David analyze his rhythm and harmony; Nathan Broder describes the instrument for which the piano works were written; Ernst Fritz Schmid contrasts Mozrt's personality and output with those of his friend and older contemporary, Haydn; Friedrich Blume unravels the tangled skein of the creation of the requiem; Frederick W. Sternfeld establishes the relationship between Papageno's song and Bach's motetSinget dem Herren ein neues lied;...
The introduction is an essay on the special nature of Mozart's genius. Erich Hartzmann leads us into the composer's workshop; Edward E. Lowinsky and H...
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73,17 |
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The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum
ISBN: 9780393002775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Originally written in Latin, ?Steps to Parnassus? was translated into the principal European languages, but the only English version was a free paraphrase published in 1886. The present translation by Alfred Mann is therefore the first faithful rendering in English from the original Latin and presents the essence of Fux's teachings. For its distinction as a classic and its undiminished usefulness for the modern student it is a privilege to offer this fine translation in the Norton Library. Originally written in Latin, ?Steps to Parnassus? was translated into the principal European languages, but the only English version was a... |
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79,11 |
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The Art of String Quartet Playing: Practice, Technique, and Interpretation
ISBN: 9780393003604 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the rapidly growing thousands (both amateur and professional) who find the deepest satisfaction of life in playing chamber music, this is the only practical and authoritative guide. Beginning with such elementary problems as who should sit where, what kind of music stands to use, etc., it goes on to such puzzlers as just how loud forte is, how fast an allegro, how and when an inner voice takes over the lead, and similar problems in the works of composers from Haydn to the moderns. Every musical point is illustrated with specific examples, and there are 132... For the rapidly growing thousands (both amateur and professional) who find the deepest satisfaction of life in playing chamber music, this is the o... |
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77,03 |
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The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day
ISBN: 9780393003697 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the great scores that have made history, from the statements of the composers about their work, from old treatises, scholarly textbooks, and contemporary literature, the author has gathered an engrossing array of evidence on the trends of interpretation. Here the art of the performer is studied in all its aspects, spiritual, technical, historical: the old Italian methods of singing, the royal virginalists, Frescobaldi's organ playing, dance types from galliard to waltz, phrasing and dynamics, acoustical conditions, the story of the metronome, Beethoven's piano playing and Chopin's... From the great scores that have made history, from the statements of the composers about their work, from old treatises, scholarly textbooks, and c... |
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107,86 |
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Structural Functions of Harmony
ISBN: 9780393004786 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Schoenberg's argument is supported by music examples, which range from entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the experimental harmonic progressions of Strauss, Debussy, Reger, and Schoenberg's own early music. The final chapter, "Apollonian Evaluation of a Dionysian Epoch," discusses the music of our time, with particular reference to the possibility of new methods of harmonic analysis Structural Functions of Harmony is a standard work on its subject and provides an invaluable key to the development of musical structure during the last two hundred and...
Schoenberg's argument is supported by music examples, which range from entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the experime...
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84,74 |
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The Essence of Opera
ISBN: 9780393004984 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The contents of this anthology offer a broad historical introduction to the esthetics of opera, reflecting all the major periods and national styles. Ranging from the Florentine Camerata to the twentieth century, the documents give a first-hand view of the basic issues throughout opera's history and the controversies they have aroused. The selections are drawn from letters, essays, prefaces, and books and represent the views held by a wide variety of composers and librettists over the last 350 years, from Rinuccini to Corneille, Addison, Rameau, the French Encyclopedists, and Metastasio to...
The contents of this anthology offer a broad historical introduction to the esthetics of opera, reflecting all the major periods and national styles. ...
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107,86 |
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A History of Song
ISBN: 9780393005363 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours to the present day. Dealing exhaustively with the history and development of secular art-song in the Western world, the book is an indispensable guide to the amateur music-lover, the student, and the singer.
This is the story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours to the present day. Dealing exhaustively with the history and d...
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123,27 |
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The Chopin Companion: Profiles of the Man and the Musician
ISBN: 9780393006681 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For over a hundred years the artistic reputation of Frederic Chopin has suffered not only from the sentimental and romantic legends which surround his name but also from the distortions and misinterpretations of his works by performers. In this book, Alan Walker and ten leading composers, performers, and scholars offer detailed analyses of the works and present an honest historical portrait of their composer. The result is a comprehensive book giving a fresh view of Chopin as man and artist.
For over a hundred years the artistic reputation of Frederic Chopin has suffered not only from the sentimental and romantic legends which surround his...
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100,15 |
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The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts
ISBN: 9780393006773 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here are over three hundred poems by such writers as Heine, Goethe, Ibsen, Villon, Verlaine, D'Annunzio, and Pushkin. Among the composers represented are Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Beethoven, Liszt, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky; a brief critical evaluation of each song is included, with notes on textual variations or omissions.The Ring of Words brings together a repertory of songs well known to every collector of recordings and everyone who attends concerts and recitals. It is a valuable reference work for students and teachers of singing.
Here are over three hundred poems by such writers as Heine, Goethe, Ibsen, Villon, Verlaine, D'Annunzio, and Pushkin. Among the composers represented ...
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130,98 |
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The Experience of Opera
ISBN: 9780393007060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on Dr. Lang s experience as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, this book preserves the immediate reactions of a working reviewer, his on-the-spot responses to the actual experience of theatrical productions, spanning the active repertory from Gluck to the present day. It is at once an introduction to the art of opera and a rich repository of perceptions about the changing nature and esthetics of the musical theater. All of the major composers are discussed: Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg, and Stravinsky. There are...
Based on Dr. Lang s experience as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, this book preserves the immediate reactions of a working reviewer, his ...
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100,15 |
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The Art of Counterpoint
ISBN: 9780393008333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . . The] eighty chapters are] arranged in a logical progression of intricacy, beginning with the materials of counterpoint, intervals, rules of consonance and dissonance, and proceeding finally . . . to a discussion of chromaticisim and its faults. Journal of the American Musicological Society"
Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . ...
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96,30 |
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Seven Verdi Librettos
ISBN: 9780393008524 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
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127,12 |
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The Ring of the Nibelung
ISBN: 9780393008678 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1977 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text.
Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and ...
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100,15 |
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