Music & Performing Arts
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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 ground-breaking and highly readable book is the first-ever study of the role played in musical history by song collectors. It examines their extraordinary lives, how they set about their task, and the music they have collected. In showing the... .... Learn More -
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Composing Myself and Other Texts: Collected Writings [Hardback]
Andrzej Panufnik(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780907689904
Published by : Toccata Press
Series: Musicians on Music
Volume: 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 -
The Cultural History of Musical Instruments in Scotland: 1700 to the Present Day [Paperback]
Vivien E. Williams(Editor); Hugh Cheape(Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9781910900208
Published by : John Donald
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical in... .... Learn More -
Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times [Hardback]
Patrick Zuk(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275755
Published by : Boydell Press
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored documentation, this biography reappraises the life and work of Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) - a central figure in twentieth-century Russian musical culture.
The story of Myaskovsky's unlikely rise to pr... .... Learn More -
Bizet in Italy: Letters and Journals, 1857-1860 [Hardback]
Hugh Macdonald(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781783275809
Published by : Boydell Press
In 1857, Georges Bizet (1838-1875) won the prestigious Prix de Rome scholarship which allowed him to study in Italy for a few years at the expense of the French state. While Bizet's correspondence from this time suggests that he was not fond of It... .... Learn More -
The Event of Music History [Paperback]
J.P.E Harper-Scott(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783275991
Published by : Boydell Press
This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl... .... Learn More -
The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos [Hardback]
Jeremy Dibble(Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9781783275779
Published by : Boydell Press
Frederick Delius' (1882-1934) music has proved impervious to analytical definition. Delius's approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts are all highly individual, not to say eccentric in their deliberate aim to avoid conf... .... Learn More -
Nurturing the Love of Music: Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music [Paperback]
Vincent A. Lenti(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781648250156
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Meliora Press
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Nurturing the Love of Music: Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music [Hardback]
Vincent A. Lenti(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781648250149
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Meliora Press
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