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Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice [Hardback]
Felix Wörner (Editor); Ullrich Scheideler (Editor); Philip Rupprecht (Editor)
$59.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515101608
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Tonality - or the feeling of key in music - achieved crisp theoretical definition in the early 20th century, even as the musical avant-garde pronounced it obsolete. The notion of a general collapse or loss of tonality, ca. 1910, remains influentia... .... Learn More -
Johann Sebastian Bach: Lo specchio di Dio e il segreto dell'immagine riflessa [Paperback]
Mario Ruffini (Author)
$22.00ISBN: 9788859610618
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
God chose music to measure time because music is time, and Johann Sebastian Bach became its most perfect measurer. Bach chose music in order to speak with God. Their dialogue unfolds through coded language and secrets that find in the number 14 an... .... Learn More -
Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse [Paperback]
Joan Silva-Barris (Author)
$59.00ISBN: 9783700169024
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: WIENER STUDIEN
Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse gives a general and comprehensive view of our up-to-date knowledge of ancient Greek song and recitation and goes further into the study of the different poetic genres and metrical-rhythmical phenomena. Unlike mos... .... Learn More -
André Previn: Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung [Paperback]
Frédéric Döhl (Author)
$66.00ISBN: 9783515100786
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
English Description:The American André Previn (b. 1929 in Berlin) is one of the most versatile musicians of today. For over thirty years he has directed the leading orchestras of the world and recorded over 300 records. As a classical pi... .... Learn More -
Majestas Mariae: Studien zu marianischen Choralordinarien des 16. Jahrhunderts [Hardback]
Christiane Wiesenfeldt (Author)
$81.00ISBN: 9783515101493
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (AFMW-B)
Volume: 70
English summary: The history of the musical adoration of Mary is as old as Christianity itself. Because the sources of adoration were derived from both lay devotions as well as from the institution church, the result was a thrilling and exc... .... Learn More -
Soldatenlieder der k. u. k. Armee / Soldier Songs of the Austro-Hungarian Army [CD]
Dietrich Schuller (Editor)
$38.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783700129479
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: TONDOKUMENTE AUS DEM PHONOGRAMMARCHIV PHA CD
Volume: 4
The historical material of the Phonogrammarchiv, the world's oldest sound archive, comprises ca. 4000 recordings, so-called Phonogramme and gramophone discs. The decision in favor of a complete edition was to a large extent motivated by increased ... .... Learn More -
Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137 (Opernfragment) [CD]
Mario Aschauer (Editor)
$27.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783700171263
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
This CD features the first complete recording of Franz Schubert's opera project Adrast (D 137). Around the turn of the year 1819, Schubert composed 13 movements of a libretto by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer that was based on Herodotus' Histories . A ... .... Learn More -
Bach-Jahrbuch 2011 [Paperback]
Peter Wollny (Editor)
$24.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783374029860
Published by : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
English summary: Continuously appearing since 1904, the Bach-Jahrbuch is generally regarded as the most eminent periodical of international Bach scholarship. Each year it presents articles by renowned scholars on newly discovered or newly e... .... Learn More -
Wege, Umwege und Abwege: Antike und Oper in der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts [Paperback]
Juergen Leonhardt (Author); Silke Leopold (Author); Mischa Meier (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9783515099288
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
English summary: The history of the early modern opera is described as a series of attempts to connect with ancient Greek tragedy. Already the first experiments in Florence of the late 16th century oriented themselves toward ancient Greek m... .... Learn More -
Männer als Ammen - Frauen als Liebhaber: Cross-gender Casting in der Oper 1600-1800 [Hardback]
Kordula Knaus (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9783515099080
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (AFMW-B)
Volume: 69
English summary: The setting of women's rolls through singing as well as the adoption of masculine parts through female vocalists was a well established practice in the first two centuries of the history of opera. Kordula Knaus analyses thi... .... Learn More

