Music & Performing Arts
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Truth and Music: The Complete Writings from Music and Musicians, 1957-85 [Hardback]
Hans Keller(Author); Mark Doran(Author); Mark Doran(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780907689805
Published by : Toccata Press
Series: Musicians on Music
Volume: 10
Hans Keller - born in Vienna in 1919 and a Jewish refugee from Nazism - became the most influential writer on music in Britain after George Bernard Shaw. His writings were always concerned with a search for the truth - 'the truthabout music, and t... .... 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 -
Emma and Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship [Hardback]
Gillian Opstad(Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9781783276585
Published by : Boydell Press
The singer Emma Bardac (1862-1934) has often been presented as a woman who ensnared Claude Debussy (1862-1918) because she wanted to be associated with his fame and to live a life of luxury. Indeed, in many biographies and composer-related studies... .... Learn More -
A Medieval Songbook: Trouvère MS C [Hardback]
Elizabeth Eva Leach(Editor); Joseph W. Mason(Editor); Matthew P. Thomson(Editor); Florian Mittenhuber(Contributor); Mélanie Lévêque-Fougre(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276523
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Volume: 24
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The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France [Hardback]
Louis K. Louis K. Epstein(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276691
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Society and Culture
Volume: 9
Patrons have long appeared as colorful, exceptional figures in music history, but this book recasts patrons and patronage as creative forces that shaped the sounds and meanings of new French music between the world wars. Far from mere sources of f... .... Learn More -
Demystifying Scriabin [Hardback]
Vasilis Kallis(Editor); Kenneth Smith(Editor)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783276561
Published by : Boydell Press
This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1875-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new an... .... Learn More -
The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim [Hardback]
Valerie Woodring Goertzen(Editor); Robert Whitehouse Eshbach(Editor)
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John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain [Hardback]
George Kennaway(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783276417
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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 -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 13: Music in German Politics / Politics in German Music [Hardback]
Siobhán Donovan(Editor); Maria Euchner(Editor); Frauke Matthes(General editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140608
Published by : Camden House
Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
Volume: 13
A particularly iconic image of German Reunification is that of Mstislav Rostropovich playing J.S. Bach's cello suites in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. Thirty years on, it is timely to reconsider the crossfertilization of music and... .... Learn More -
The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali [Hardback]
Kendra Stepputat(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781648250316
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
Volume: 11
The kecak is one of the most well-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. It is based on stories from the Old-Indian epic Ramayana, performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a group consisting of appro... .... Learn More
