Choir: Gareth Malone
1,246円 The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories and transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir For the first time, Gareth reveals everything he has learned from working with so many groups of memorable people, including the record-breaking Military Wives an...
The Rest Is Noise Series: Invisible Men
241円 This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme. Tracing the development of the American avant-garde, Ross examines the cruci...
From Petipa to Balanchine
10,612円 In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates the roots of modern ballet in the works of M...
Representation in Western Music
5,970円 Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the roles of representation in the composition, performance and reception of Western music. In recent years, there has been increasing academic interest in questions of musical interpretation and meaning and in music's interactions w...
The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn
1,120円 Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions f...
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician
447円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) VOLUME I. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. PROEM. POLAND AND THE POLES. CHAPTER I. ... CHAPTER XIX. VOLUME II. CHAPTER XX. ... CHAPTER XXXII. EPILOGUE. APPENDICES.
Lutosławski Profile
1,591円 Many people will know something about the life of Lutosławski , but few know anything about Lutosławski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Balint Andras Varga fills out the picture of the Polish composer - his life and career, his compositi...
The Concerto
10,280円 Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.
The Classical Music Quiz Book
633円 Do you enjoy listening to classical music? Are you familiar with well-known composers and the music they created? Can you tell the difference between Boccherini and Birtwistle, or maybe you would like to be able to? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are certain to enjoy The Classi...
Masterworks of 20th-Century Music
10,943円 "Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those works that an average audience member is most...
Masters of Russian Music
2,240円 First published in 1936, Calvocoressi's and Abraham's study was the first complete account of its subject to appear in any language, including Russian, and was based on a large amount of original first-hand research. Over 75 years later Masters of Russian Music retains its power - as any study of...
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner
5,573円 Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a hist...
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