Humanities & Culture
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Silver and Frankincense: Scent and personal adornment in the Arab world [Paperback]
Sigrid van Roode(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9789492940100
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Although scent has always played a major role in personal adornment in the Arab world, its evanescent quality leaves very few or no traces at all over time. This book presents an introduction into this lesser known aspect of personal adornment in ... .... Learn More -
Composing Myself and Other Texts: Collected Writings [Hardback]
Andrzej Panufnik(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780907689904
Published by : Toccata Press
Series: Musicians on Music
Volume: 11
Sir Andrzej Panufnik used to say that he communicated in music, not words. But his literary legacy is substantial, as this book demonstrates. Its major element is Composing Myself, the autobiography he wrote in 1985, long since a collector'... .... Learn More -
La parola intonata: Memorie di una maestra di canto [Paperback]
Anna Di Gennaro(Author)
$12.00ISBN: 9788856404791
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Libro verità | Nuova Serie
Volume: 54
The author, a singing teacher since 1989, offers an accurate reflection on teaching and the profession of an opera singer. His testimony embraces various themes that revolve around the singing world, from exercises to refine vocal technique to the... .... Learn More -
‘Giselle’ e il teatro musicale: Nuove visioni per la storia del balletto [Paperback]
Maria Venuso(Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9788859621874
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Universitario | Teatro
Volume: 1
This essay is dedicated to the study of Giselle, ou Les Wilis, a mid-nineteenth-century ballet born from the idea of the writer Théophile Gautier, who composed the book. It was performed for the first time in 1842 in Paris with choreography... .... Learn More -
John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain [Hardback]
George Kennaway(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783276417
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Volume: 29
The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide rang... .... Learn More -
The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim [Hardback]
Valerie Woodring Goertzen(Editor); Robert Whitehouse Eshbach(Editor); Styra Avins(Contributor); Beatrix Borchard(Contributor); Kimberly Crow(Contributor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783276547
Published by : Boydell Press
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro... .... Learn More -
Beethoven's Conversation Books: Volume 4: Nos. 32 to 43 (May 1823 to September 1823) [Hardback]
Ted Albrecht(Editor); Ted Albrecht(Translator)
$80.00ISBN: 9781783276219
Published by : Boydell Press
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun carrying bl... .... Learn More -
British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone [Hardback]
Peter Lynan(Author); Julan Rushton(Author); Olive Baldwin(Contributor); Donald Burrows(Contributor); John Caldwell(Contributor); Julian Rushton(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276479
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Volume: 28
British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years through a better-informed historical perspecti... .... Learn More -
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition [Hardback]
Michael Church(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9781783276073
Published by : Boydell Press
This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music's unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the Turks were trying to erase in the 1915 Genocide; the prisoner in a Nazi concent... .... Learn More -
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics [Hardback]
Paul Ugor(Editor); Bamba Ndiaye(Contributor); David Kerr(Contributor); Ty-Juana Taylor(Contributor); Ibrahim Bangura(Contributor)
$125.00ISBN: 9781648250248
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: 92
This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety ... .... Learn More
