241円 This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise. Ross shows how the flowering of avant-garde music in early twentieth-century Russia was co-opted, corrupted and crushed by the dictatorial ideology of Stalin’s Russia, with gre...

5,573円 Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discu...

1,440円 Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A ...

405円 HINDUSTANI LYRICS RENDERED FROM THE URDU BY INAYAT KHAN AND JESSIE DUNCAN WESTBROOK Sufism is the Religious Philosophy of Love, Harmony, and Beauty [ZHINGOORA BOOKS] CONTENTS. PORTRAIT OF ZAFAR FOREWORD URDU LYRICS:ー ABRU AMIR ASIF DAGH FIGHAN GHALIB HALI HASAN INSHA JURAT MIR MIR SOZ MIR TAQI M...

9,616円 The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition, production, and consumption. It contains 1,237 entries for items in English, French, German, and Italian. Scholars, students, teachers,...

1,856円 Mahler’s life was a remarkably complex one, his success as a conductor continually overshadowed by his craving for recognition as a composer. Recognition which never came in his lifetime. In this biography, the author reveals how Mahler’s personality, his extraordinary life and his music are inse...

748円 Featuring all 12 pages of sheet music for Frédéric Chopin’s remarkable solo piano piece ‘Heroic’. Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) was a prolific Polish pianist and composer. He excelled as one of the first celebrities in music during the Romantic period, and was known for his remarkable solo piano co...

37,311円 This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students.

803円 This new edited compact guitar book will teach you playing classical guitar in the easiest and in the more efficient way, without too much effort. In this book I tell you step by step all my experiences while I taught myself playing classical guitar. So this book will teach you reading musical no...

1,617円 One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites wea...

1,280円 A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to heal emotional wounds and ease the pain of death. Others struggle with...

3,721円 Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France ...