ilość książek w kategorii: 60906
Recognition in Mozart's Operas
ISBN: 9780195151978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In Recognition in Mozart's Operas, musicologist Jessica Waldoff draws on a broad base of critical thought on recognition from Aristotle to Terence Cave to explore the essential role it plays in Mozart's operas. The result is a fresh approach to the familiar question of opera as drama and a persuasive new...
Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a...
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186,27 zł |
Researching the Song
ISBN: 9780195152029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too. To effectively communicate the meaning behind these words, singers must understand the many references embedded in the vast international repertoire of great art songs. They must deal with the meaning of the lyrics, frequently in a language not their own and of a culture unfamiliar to them.
From Zelter and Schubert to Rorem and Musto, Researching the Song serves as an invaluable guide for performers, teachers, and enthusiasts to the art song repertoire. Its more... Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too. To effectively communicate the me...
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486,36 zł |
Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice
ISBN: 9780195154160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate spectacles, featuring ornate costumes and set design along with dancing and music. As ambitious works of theater, these productions required not only significant financial backing, but also strong managers to oversee several months of rehearsals and performances. These impresarios were responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at season's end. The systems they created still...
In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercia...
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323,14 zł |
Polymath of the Baroque
ISBN: 9780195154733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first book to consider all aspects of the life of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), a composer, diplomat, and bishop. A remarkable figure of the late 17th and early 18th century Europe, Steffani began his career as a composer, musician, and courtier, but his accomplishments brought him high-level positions in the courts of Germany and the Catholic Church. Throughout his diplomatic and ecclesiatical career, Steffani continued to compose chamber music, vocal chamber music, operas, and sacred music--works which inspired Handel and other Baroque composers.
This is the first book to consider all aspects of the life of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), a composer, diplomat, and bishop. A remarkable figure of ...
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726,39 zł |
Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music
ISBN: 9780195154818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes.
As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused outstanding musicians in nearly every wing of American popular music--blues, folk, gospel, psychedelic rock,... What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited,...
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107,07 zł |
Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent
ISBN: 9780195156386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourcebook that defines musical talent and provides practical strategies for identifying and nurturing it. Joanne Haroutounian uses her experience as teacher, researcher, and parent to clarify central issues concerning talent recognition and development in a way that will easily appeal to a wide audience. The book describes the different stages of development in musical training, including guidelines for finding a suitable teacher at different...
Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourc...
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205,47 zł |
Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music
ISBN: 9780195158786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "electric folk" or "British folk rock." This revival featured groups such as Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, and Pentangle and individual performers like Shirley & Dolly Collins, and Richard Thompson. While making music in multiple styles, they had one thing in common: they were all based on traditional English song and dance material. These new arrangements of an old repertoire created a unique musical voice...
In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles...
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332,75 zł |
Solutions for Singers: Tools for Performers and Teachers
ISBN: 9780195160055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. While many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique and performance, few have time to delve into the specific questions they spawn. Solutions for Singers explores these unanswered questions, filling in gaps that professional performers, students of singing, and voice teachers have long sought to close. Fielding over 200 questions, distinguished teacher and performer Richard Miller tackles problems raised during hundreds of his master classes and pedagogy courses. He deliberately avoids abstract generalities, concentrating instead on...
While many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique and performance, few have time to delve into the specifi...
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236,68 zł |
Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
ISBN: 9780195161311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The band's vaudeville routines were deeply rooted in the minstrel shows and plantation cliches of American show business in the late 19th century, but its instrumental music was central to its performance and distinctive and entrancing to audiences and reviewers. Pioneers of Jazz...
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven...
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243,88 zł |
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World Book & CD
ISBN: 9780195161809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest worldwide with both Jews and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, klezmer has paradoxically moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly "American"...
"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at wedd...
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147,87 zł |
Analyzing Bach Cantatas
ISBN: 9780195161823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. Concentrating on a small number of representative...
Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detai...
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390,35 zł |
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195162578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 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 ...
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157,47 zł |
Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany
ISBN: 9780195165531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere." Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism came censorship and proscription: an art form born on foreign soil and presided over by Negroes and Jews could have no place in the culture of a...
When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the va...
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217,48 zł |
J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
ISBN: 9780195165562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "Great Eighteen" organ chorales, among the most celebrated works for organ, and a milestone in the history of the chorale. Addressed to organists, scholars, and general listeners alike, this lucid and engaging book examines the music from a wide spectrum of historical and analytical perspectives. Stinson examines the models used by Bach in conceiving the original pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection, and his compositional process as preserved by the autograph...
On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "Great Eighteen" organ chorales, among the most celebrate...
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308,74 zł |
Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
ISBN: 9780195166118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite, which occurred despite the fact that Muslims were the major practiti oners of the Indian music that was installed as a "Hindu" national tradition. This book lays bare how a nation's imaginings--from politics to culture--reflect rather than transform societal divisions.
A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the...
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183,88 zł |
Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD [With CD]
ISBN: 9780195166842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the...
Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Gl...
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577,41 zł |
Trumpet Technique
ISBN: 9780195166934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the last forty years, many elite performers in the arts have gleaned valuable lessons and techniques from research and advances in sport science, psychomotor research, learning theory, and psychology. Numerous "peak performance" books have made these tools and insights available to athletes. Now, professor and performer Frank Gabriel Campos has translated this concept for trumpet players and other brass and wind instrumentalists, creating an accessible and comprehensive guide to performance skill. Trumpet Technique combines the newest research on skill acquisition and peak...
In the last forty years, many elite performers in the arts have gleaned valuable lessons and techniques from research and advances in sport science, p...
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186,27 zł |
Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects
ISBN: 9780195167498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kind of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides a guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist's toolkit. Its nine chapters cover...
The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality...
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351,94 zł |
Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects
ISBN: 9780195167504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides a guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist's toolkit. Its nine chapters cover...
The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality...
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255,93 zł |
The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
ISBN: 9780195168129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft, their motivations, their difficulties, and how they how proceed from musical idea to finished composition. While focusing on the process and the stories behind specific works, the composers also touch on topics that will interest anyone involved in creative work. They discuss teachers and mentors, the task of revision,...
The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-...
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195,88 zł |