Music & Performing Arts
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The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 [Hardback]
Michael Allis(Editor); Paul Watt(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783275281
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Volume: Volume 26
The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically. The volume reaffirms British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts and takes advantage of the contributors' ... .... Learn More -
Humperdinck: A Life of the Composer of Hänsel und Gretel [Hardback]
William Melton(Author)
$59.00ISBN: 9780907689928
Published by : Toccata Press
Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no full-length biography of Humperdinck (1854-1921) has ever been published in English: althou... .... Learn More -
Julian Anderson: Dialogues on Listening, Composing and Culture [Hardback]
Julian Anderson(Author); Christopher Dingle(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781783274987
Published by : Boydell Press
Julian Anderson is renowned internationally as one of the leading composers of his generation. This substantial book of conversations with the scholar and critic Christopher Dingle captures Anderson's thoughts and memories in-depth for the first t... .... Learn More -
Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores [Hardback]
Paula Musegades(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781580469913
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 169
One of the most influential and beloved American composers, Aaron Copland played a critical role in shaping what is often recognized as the "American sound." He is best known for achieving this through his works for the concert hall and ... .... Learn More -
Allegri's Miserere' in the Sistine Chapel [Hardback]
Graham O'Reilly(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781783274871
Published by : Boydell Press
The Miserere attributed to the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, often performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII... .... Learn More -
Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945 [Hardback]
Adrian Wright(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781783274994
Published by : Boydell Press
Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The upsurge in production at Brit... .... Learn More -
Brahms's A German Requiem: Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts [Hardback]
R. Allen Lott(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9781580469869
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 162
Despite its entirely biblical text, Brahms's long-beloved A German Requiem is now widely considered a work in which the composer espoused a theologically universal view. R. Allen Lott's comprehensive reconsideration of the work's various co... .... Learn More -
Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater [Hardback]
Marcie Ray(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9781580469883
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 72
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French theatrical works created an uneasy dialogue with the often-blistering depictions of marriage in contemporary writings by literary women. For over a century, composers and librettists attempted to silence ... .... Learn More -
Self-Quotation in Schubert: "Ave Maria," the Second Piano Trio, and Other Works [Hardback]
Scott Messing(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9781580469654
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 165
Enthusiasts and experts have long relished Schubert's quotations of his own music. This study centers on a previously unidentified pairing: "Ave Maria," one of his most beloved songs, and the Piano Trio no. 2, a masterpiece that holds a ... .... Learn More -
Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America [Hardback]
Bonny H. Miller(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9781580469722
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 164
Augusta Browne's five-decade career in music and letters reveals a gifted composer and author. Hailed as "one of the most prolific women composers in the USA before 1870," Augusta Browne Garrett (c. 1820-1882) was also a dedicated music ... .... Learn More
