Music & Performing Arts
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Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336 [Paperback]
Linda Paterson(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781843846000
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères pres... .... Learn More -
Richard Wagner’s Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary [Paperback]
Chris Walton(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781648250125
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 175
Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian art of interpretation becam... .... Learn More -
Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn From Period Instruments [Hardback]
David Breitman(Author)
$55.00ISBN: 9781648250101
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 176
Today's pianists are expected to play music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's design from the late 1800s. Other types of pianos, such as Mozart's Walter or Chopin's Pleyel, are increasingly being copied or restored, but they ar... .... Learn More -
Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets [Hardback]
Sophie Redfern(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781648250057
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 173
Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins stand as giants of the musical-theatre world, but it was ballet that launched their stage careers and established their relationship. With Fancy Free (1944), their triumphant debut collabor... .... Learn More -
Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300-1550 [Hardback]
Sarah Ann Long(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9781580469968
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 174
Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around trades and religious devotions dedicated to specific patron saints. The composition of new plainchant ... .... Learn More -
Music's Nordic Breakthrough: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Cultural Exchange, 1890-1930 [Hardback]
Philip Ross Bullock(Editor); Daniel M. Grimley(Editor); Daniel Grimley(Editor)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783275687
Published by : Boydell Press
Following the end of the Cold War, a former East-West binary model of European identity has been replaced with a series of more complex and variegated patterns. Northern Europe is one such territory, and the idea of the 'North' more generally has ... .... Learn More -
J. S. Bach's Material and Spiritual Treasures: A Theological Perspective [Hardback]
Noelle M. Heber(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781783275717
Published by : Boydell Press
In Johann Sebastian Bach's Lutheran church setting, various biblical ideas were communicated through sermons and songs to encourage parishioners to emulate Christian doctrine in their own lives. Such narratives are based on an understanding that o... .... Learn More -
I Manoscritti Miniati del Museo di San Marco a Firenze: Corali Francescani (1440-1530) [Hardback]
Ada Labriola(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9788859620884
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
This volume presents and analyzes a selection of twenty-two choir books, created for Franciscan Observance convents, and kept inside the Museum of San Marco in Florence. The books cover the span of a century: the oldest volume is dated 1438, the m... .... Learn More -
Ignition: Beethoven: Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation [Paperback]
Felix Meyer(Editor); Simon Obert(Editor)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783275908
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Paul Sacher Foundation
Although the notion of a musical "mainstream" with Beethoven as its fons et origo barely holds today, countless composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have referred to Beethoven in their music or creatively sought t... .... Learn More -
African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre [Hardback]
Christine Matzke(B12); Lena van der Hoven(B12); Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos(B12); Christine Matzke(Guest editor); Lena van der Hoven(Guest editor); Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos(Guest editor); Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos(Editor); And
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012579
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Theatre
Volume: 19
Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions ofa few noted genre... .... Learn More
