Music & Performing Arts
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Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and the prince de Vaudémont [Hardback]
Don Fader(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783276288
Published by : Boydell Press
This study stems from discoveries in a trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudémont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of other... .... 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 -
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 -
The Dorset Rotulus: Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet [Hardback]
Margaret Bent(Author); Jared C. Hartt(Author); Peter M. Lefferts(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276189
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Volume: 23
From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth, a body of music important both for its texts and its variety of musical structures... .... Learn More -
Toni Erdmann [Paperback]
Gerd Gemünden(Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9781640141094
Published by : Camden House
Series: Camden House German Film Classics
Volume: 7
Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turns hilarious, cringeworthy, and heart-wrenching, the film revolves around Winfried, a re... .... 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
Volume: 31
Nurturing the Love of Music is the third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of Music, being preceded by For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and the Founding of the Eastman School of Music (2004) ... .... Learn More -
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
Volume: 31
Nurturing the Love of Music is the third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of Music, being preceded by For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and the Founding of the Eastman School of Music (2004) ... .... Learn More -
Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making [Hardback]
Nicolò Palazzetti(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783276202
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Society and Culture
Volume: 8
This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero and beacon of freedom. Following Bartok's reception in Italy from the early twentieth century, through Mussolini's fascist reg... .... Learn More -
Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: The Eglantine Table [Hardback]
Michael Fleming(Editor); Christopher Page(Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9781783274215
Published by : Boydell Press
The reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) has often been regarded as the Golden Age of English music. Many works of high quality, both vocal and instrumental, were composed and performed by native and immigrant musicians, while balladry and minstrelsy ... .... Learn More -
Knowing Britten [Paperback]
Steuart Bedford(Author); Christopher Gillett(With)
$24.95ISBN: 9780957167223
Published by : Bittern Press
The conductor and pianist Steuart Bedford (1939-2021) could not remember a time when he did not know Benjamin Britten. His mother, Lesley Duff, sang with the English Opera Group in the premieres of The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring in... .... Learn More
