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Little, Brown & Company The Great Animal Orchestra
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WW Norton & Co Music in the Medieval West
Book SynopsisMedieval music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.Table of Contents**Contents subject to change 1. The Making of the Middle Ages 2. The Foundations of the Western Middle Ages: Music and Music Theory in the Late Roman Empire 3. Chant and the Carolingians 4. The Office, the Mass Ordinary, and Varied Practices of Troping 5. Sound and Spaces, Theory and Practice in the Eleventh Century 6. Conquest, Changing Tastes, and Pilgrimage in the Twelfth Century 7. Poet-Composers in an Age of the Individual 8. The Thirteenth Century: "Then Truly Was the Time of Singing Come" 9. Music and Learning in the Thirteenth Century 10. Music and Narrative in Fourteenth-Century France 11. The Fourteenth Century in Italy and England 12. Epilogue: On the Edges
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McGraw-Hill Education Music An Appreciation 2025 Release ISE
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Picador USA The Rest is Noise
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present.
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Yale University Press Stalins Music Prize
Book SynopsisMarina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best in Soviet culture. This revealing study sheds new light on the Communist leader's personal tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of Socialist Realism, offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through 1954.Trade Review“A great attraction of the book is the wit and enthusiasm that suffuse its tone. . . A thoroughly engaging style as well as a consummate mastery in handling archival materials makes this book as enjoyable a read for a wide audience as it is indispensable for specialists.”—Michelle Assay, SEER 'Frolova-Walker’s study of the Stalin Prize is permeated with the joy of discovery. Although the subject is tremendous, since it deals with the machinations of power under a dictatorial regime, the author delights in what she calls time travelling and eavesdropping. The amount of sources in which actual conversation had been preserved verbatim enables the historian a fly-on-the-wall perspective that leads her up to Stalin's writing desk.' - Francis Maes, European History Quarterly'Stalin’s Music Prize represents a milestone in the literature on Soviet music and cultural politics.' - Leah Godman, Journal of the American Musicological Society “These books give fuller, finer-grained and better-shaded accounts of Soviet policy ups and downs and their impact on musicians than any previous study.”—Richard Taruskin, TLS“Thanks to Frolova-Walker’s engaging and readable written style, such material is brought to life, providing a rich and engrossing narrative of Soviet cultural history during this turbulent period.”—Erik Levi, BBC Music -- Erik Levi * BBC Music Magazine *'Frolova-Walker’s study of the Stalin Prize is permeated with the joy of discovery. Although the subject is tremendous, since it deals with the machinations of power under a dictatorial regime, the author delights in what she calls time travelling and eavesdropping. The amount of sources in which actual conversation had been preserved verbatim enables the historian a fly-on-the-wall perspective that leads her up to Stalin's writing desk.' - Francis Maes, European History Quarterly -- Francis Maes * European History Quarterly *'Stalin’s Music Prize represents a milestone in the literature on Soviet music and cultural politics.' - Leah Godman, Journal of the American Musicological Society -- Leah Godman * Journal of the American Musicological Society *“These books give fuller, finer-grained and better-shaded accounts of Soviet policy ups and downs and their impact on musicians than any previous study.”—Richard Taruskin, TLS -- Richard Taruskin * TLS *
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Ecw Press Days and Days
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Warner John Petrucci Wild Stringdom with CD Book CD
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Mel Bay Publications,U.S. J. S. Bach
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Book SynopsisThe definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."Trade Review"Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." -- Howard Kissel - The Daily News"The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions." -- Ken Furtado - Echo Magazine
£11.39
Hal Leonard Corporation The Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory A
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Harvard University Press Bach and the Patterns of Invention
Book SynopsisIn this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach’s music “against the grain” of contemporaries, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach’s approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.Trade ReviewLaurence Dreyfus’s Bach and Patterns of Invention…is the first study in some time to deal above all with the reasons that music lovers ought to listen to him or play him. Dreyfus’s writing is clear and entertaining…and the advantage of [his] approach to Bach is that it makes us listen to his work as he himself listened to the music of his contemporaries, and as they would have listened to his. It does not claim to read the composer’s mind, but it reconstructs some of the processes through which he had to go to compose in each case, and it does so by referring to aural experience, leaving questions of ideology and doctrine temporarily on the side. -- Charles Rosen * New York Review of Books *Johann Sebastian Bach is not the easiest of composers to write about, for his music can often seem so perfect that it renders description irrelevant. But Bach and the Patterns of Invention, by Laurence Dreyfus, a…totally absorbing study of Bach’s processes of composition, is written with a clarity appropriate to a discussion of his music and with an enthusiasm that immediately communicates itself. -- Charles Osborne * Daily Telegraph *An original and detailed appraisal of Bach’s achievement… Much of this book is concerned with detailed analysis that tries to illuminate, and at least to some extent to recreate, Bach’s processes of composition. The result is the uncovering of processes that appear somewhat messy but are convincingly real. This is a fundamentally imaginative approach to analysis, involving as it does speculations about the order in which the inventions of the piece were composed and the role of procedures that were started by the composer but destined for only partial success due to the grammar of tonal music… Dreyfus’s ideas should be of interest to anyone interested in exploring new ways of understanding 18th-century music. -- Barry Mitchell * Times Higher Education Supplement *Dreyfus’s new analytical study of Bach’s processes of composition…challenges received ideas about what constitutes a style, a form and a genre in Bach’s music, showing how the composer’s individuality stems largely from his writing ’against the grain’. Dreyfus’s book is not always easy, and neither is Bach’s music, but few readers—even the more general—of the former will be left without a better understanding of the latter. -- Malcolm Boyd * BBC Music Magazine *[Bach and Patterns of Invention] stands head and shoulders above anything else in the field of post-war Bach criticism… Dreyfus believes that the human side of the compositional process is what must interest us about Bach, the sense of an intelligence adhering strictly to the rules he considered God-given, while freely abusing those that his contemporaries held dear. In this way we might attain a sense of the very historical nature of Bach’s music—not merely the generic and formal similarities within the idioms of his age (often the principal object of modern scholarship), but particularly the way in which the composer went against the grain of his age. -- John Butt * Early Music *Dreyfus is concerned with how Bach thought in music, but from that deduces some idea of how he thought about music. A stimulating book. * Early Music Review *This brilliant book sets out to answer one of the enduring mysteries of music, namely, what was the compositional method that allowed Bach to write such a vast quantity of music of such surpassing quality?… It’s a moving and convincing picture of Bach, and a thoroughly original one, delivered in lucid prose in which close argumentation is often capped by an illuminating metaphor. Like Bach’s music, it is rhetorical in the best sense. -- Ivan Hewett * Music Times *
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Harvard University Press The Harvard Dictionary of Music Harvard
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AMSCO Music No Direction Home Bob Dylan A Martin Scorsese
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Hal Leonard Corporation Mary Poppins
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Velocity Press Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British
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Hal Leonard Corporation 3 Chord Worship Songs for Guitar
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Hal Leonard Corporation Music 4.1
Book SynopsisToday''s music industry is constantly changing at a dizzying pace and this ÊMusic 4.1: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet AgeÊ is fully equipped to help you navigate it. Written for artists overwhelmed by the seemingly endless options of the quickly evolving Internet this is the only book that offers a comprehensive strategy for online success.ÞIn ÊMusic 4.1Ê Bobby Owsinski includes an in-depth look at the economics of streaming music with the real information about royalties that distributors and record labels don''t want you to know and that simply can''t be found anywhere else. The book also looks at how revenue is generated from YouTube and other video streaming services and it provides techniques for optimizing both videos and channels for maximum success. Also included are lists of effective tips (both high- and low-tech) and checklists with every chapter as well as a reference list of online tools for inexpensive music and merchandise distribution sales ma
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Yale University Press The Opera Lovers Companion
Book SynopsisServing as a guide to the 175 most popular operas, this book consists of entries that set each opera within the context of its composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and give relevant background information on the libretto, the staging, and the most famous and influential interpreters of the principal roles.Trade Review"'A loving and expert guide to the great operas in the repertoire, written from many years of experience. A must for all opera lovers young and old. I love it.' Dame Joan Sutherland 'An erudite, instructive and unpretentious guide.' Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph 'This book is exactly what the title claims: an opera lover's companion. Reading it is like going to the opera with a knowledgeable friend who tells you enough to make you want to see the piece but not so much you're drowned in superfluous detail.' Richard Fawkes, Opera Now"
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Yale University Press Singing in Style
Book SynopsisPresenting a historical overview of vocal performance practice and style, this title provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century.Trade ReviewSelected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 by Choice Magazine"This is just the kind of book I wish I'd had access to when I was a student, but I am still ever so grateful to benefit from it now. It is thorough, thoughtful, inclusive, and a real joy to read. I know I'll be referring to Singing In Style frequently in the years to come . . . not to mention recommending it to countless others."—Dawn Upshaw, soprano"Singing in Style opens the door for singers to a better understanding of how to put more thought into their performances of the past four hundred years of song. In some cases, Elliott raises useful questions herself; then she gives us tools and resources for finding the answers. I wish such a book had been available when I was a student."—Drew Minter, countertenor"Full of information which enlightens our interpretive choices, Singing In Style is a most welcome resource and a must read for our profession."—Lucy Shelton, soprano"A very important addition to the field. I recommend it to students and teachers."—Paul Sperry, Manhattan School of Music"An indispensable guide for singers, pianists and teachers. Written from a singer’s viewpoint, Singing in Style raises a host of important issues, addressing them with clarity and insight."—Brian Zeger, Artistic Director of Vocal Arts, Juilliard School
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The University of Chicago Press Music and Trance A Theory of the Relations
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Chicago Review Press How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery
Book SynopsisThis sequel to How to Rap breaks down and examines techniques that have not previously been explained—such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns. Based on interviews with hip-hop’s most innovative artists and groups, including Tech N9ne, Crooked I, Pharcyde, Das EFX, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Big Daddy Kane, this book takes you through the intricacies of rhythm, rhyme, and vocal delivery, delving into the art form in unprecedented detail. It is a must-read for MCs looking to take their craft to the next level, as well as anyone fascinated by rapping and its complexity.Trade ReviewPraise for How to Rap: "Filled with real tools and overflowing with inspiration, this comprehensive how-to manual examines the art and craft of rap. . . . Both newcomers to rap and more experienced listeners and artists can gain insights in the time-honored tradition of learning from the past, as told straight from the artists' mouths. . . . A good read even for nonartists interested in learning more about hip-hop creativity, personalities, and history, this offers insights into music and poetry. Highly recommended." -- Library JournalA clever breakdown of the art form of hip-hop rhymes for anyone who is into the art of incredible raps." -- Speech, Arrested Development"A must-have guide for anyone who ever wanted to understand the blood, sweat, and tears that can go into the art of MCing." -- DJ Rasta Root, Producer, Smokin' Needles Records"If you rhyme, sing, or produce, read this book to improve your craftsmanship and to open up your mind." -- Jump Off TV, Broadcaster of World Rap Championships"An excellent, revealing read... I highly recommend this book to any rap fans or people interested in the technical aspects of music and poetry." -- Mighty Casey, underground rapper"How to Rap has much heart... A marvelous milestone in our ancient storytelling tradition." -- Georgia Anne Muldrow, singer/songwriter"Clear, coherent, and organized... full of useful examples and concise explanations. An invaluable tool for young upstarts and seasoned pros alike!" -- Jamie Collinson, General Manager, Big Dada Recordings"Even MCs with a natural talent will find this book extremely insightful. Anyone thinking about becoming a rapper would do well to read it cover to cover." -- Mike Lewis, General Manager, Lewis Recordings"Filled with real tools and overflowing with inspiration, this comprehensive how-to manual examines the art and craft of rap. . . . Both newcomers to rap and more experienced listeners and artists can gain insights in the time-honored tradition of learning from the past, as told straight from the artists' mouths. . . . A good read even for nonartists interested in learning more about hip-hop creativity, personalities, and history, this offers insights into music and poetry. Highly recommended." --Library Journal
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Cherry Lane Music Co ,U.S. 1001 Jazz Licks
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The University of Chicago Press From the Score to the Stage
Book SynopsisWithout scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. Offering a comprehensive history of the behind-the-scenes world of opera production and staging, this book follows the evolution of visual style and set design in continental Europe from its birth in the seventeenth century up to today.
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Scarecrow Press Dies Irae
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive survey of requiem music provides detailed information on 250 requiems. Each entry includes a biography of the composer and a description of the composition. Details of voicing, orchestration, editions and discography are given.Trade ReviewIf Chase is correct that there are between 2,000 and 2,500 "requiem settings" in existence, he has pulled together a compendium of most of them.The book is a valuable resource for that reason alone. * Worship *The reference value of this work cannot be denied... -- Haig Mardirosian * The American Organist, January 2004 *...the fruit of patient and careful, thorough and exhaustive scholarship...no description in a review such as this can begin to do it justice...Dr. Chase's study is an especially welcome addition to the literature. -- John Ogasapian * The Diapason, November 2003 *...helpful for performers and theologians as well as those interested in music and church history. -- Michael B. Shavelson * Bostonia, Winter 2003-2004 *Dr. Chase has not missed anything in this one-of-a-kind, voluminous, comprehensive guide...This is a cornucopia of information: Everything thing is there...well worth the inclusion on the active shelves of libraries, musicians, liturgists, and general readers. -- William Tortolano * Pastoral Music, March 2004 *Chase offers a broad, detailed survey of over 200 requiems and requiem-like compositions from the era of early Western chant to the present. Recommended. All music collections. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Abbreviations Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 1 The Gregorian Requiem Mass Chapter 6 2 The Polyphonic Corsican Requiem Chapter 7 3 The Renaissance and the Franco-Flemish School Chapter 8 4 The High Renaissance Chapter 9 5 The Baroque Requiem Chapter 10 6 The Symphonic Requiem Chapter 11 7 Romanticism Chapter 12 8 The Twentieth Century Chapter 13 9 Dies Irae Chapter 14 10 Ein Deutsches Requiem: The German Requiem Chapter 15 11 The Anglican Requiem Chapter 16 12 The Byzantine-Greek Requiem Chapter 17 13 The Russian Orthodox Panikhida Chapter 18 14 The Serbian Orthodox Requiem: Opelo Chapter 19 15 The Armenian Orthodox Requiem Chapter 20 Appendix A: Dies Irae Melodies Chapter 21 Appendix B: More Liturgical Requiems Chapter 22 Bibliography Chapter 23 Composer Index Chapter 24 About the Author
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Meet Me in the Bathroom
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University of California Press Driven into Paradise
Book SynopsisMany artists and scholars were forced to migrate from Nazi Germany. Their story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this collection, which approaches the subject from diverse perspectives.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Milton Babbitt Reinhold Brinkmann Hermann Danuser Peter Gay Bryan Gilliam Lydia Goehr Stephen Hinton David Josephson Kim H. Kowalke Walter Levin Bruno Nettl Pamela M. Potter Alexander L. Ringer Anne C. Shreffler Christoph Wolff Claudia Maurer Zenck
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University of California Press Earth Sound Earth Signal
Book SynopsisOffers a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. This book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s.Trade Review"Another unmissable text in sound art research." NeuralTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thomas Watson: Natural Radio, Natural Theology 2. Microphonic Imagination 3. The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's Sphere Music 4. The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments 5. Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents 6. Alvin Lucier: Brainwaves 7. Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi 8. Alvin Lucier: Whistlers 9. From Brainwaves to Outer Space: John Cage and Karl Jansky 10. For More New Signals 11. Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Nuclear Weaponry, and Music 12. Long Sounds and Transperception 13. Pauline Oliveros: Sonosphere 14. Thomas Ashcraft: Electroreceptor 15. Black Sun, Black Rain 16. Star-Studded Cinema 17. Robert Barry: Conceptualism and Energy 18. Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments 19. Joyce Hinterding: Drawing Energy 20. Earth-in-Circuit Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press George Szells Reign
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kraus has collected a multitude of telling personal accounts. Charming and illuminating anecdotes that depict interactions among the players and between individual players and the maestro abound, along with sometimes humorous and sometimes harsh instances of Szell's behavior." --Mary Sue Welsh, author of One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra"The author gives us an entertaining and revealing picture of Szell working with his musicians over the years. After you read this you will know him better than if it had been a mere biography. When you finish a chapter you are eager to go on to the next, because it's a fascinating tale--and sometimes it's even rather amazing."--American Record Guide
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Alfred UK How to Play Bebop 1
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Elegiac Feelings American
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.Trade Review"In terms of language Corso always seems to me the most interesting of the Beats . . . extracting all the power from standard syntax and rhetoric, maintaining the Beat anti-academicism .. . . Put this together with the experimentalism and relevance of the Beat outlook, and you have poetry that not only shares our experience but creates it. " -- Hayden Carruth
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Hal Leonard Signature Licks Steve Vai Alien Love Secrets
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Harvard University Press Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Book SynopsisRichard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. This title studies the composer and his works, showing how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as "Tannhauser", "Die Walkure", "Tristan und Isolde", and "Parsifal".Trade ReviewBy shifting our attention from Wagner's politics to his erotics, Dreyfus enriches our understanding of all the major Wagner operas, as well as of the composer himself. This book will transform Wagner studies and the study of music and sexuality. -- Karol Berger, Stanford UniversityDreyfus's searching study of Wagner's sexuality – one with distinctively feminized and fetishistic qualities – penetrates to the core of both the man and the artist. His achievement is that he not only tells us more about the nature of Wagner's eroticism per se, but also makes clear how this substantively affected the music he wrote. An important contribution that brilliantly illuminates some crepuscular zones of the Wagner phenomenon. -- Barry Millington, Editor of the Wagner JournalLaurence Dreyfus has written an immensely important book about the importance of the erotic in Wagner's life and work. The exploration of the fascinating and contradictory subject is both profound and witty. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Wagner's music. -- Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic OrchestraA fascinating study of a distinct dimension of Wagner's life and art. -- Larry Lipkis * Library Journal *The Nazis have cast a long, retrospective shadow over Wagner, but as Laurence Dreyfus argues in Wagner and the Erotic Impulse, what scandalized (and delighted) 19th-century listeners to Wagner's music was not its politics but its unbridled sensuality. Dreyfus explores the aesthetic and biographical issues (including the composer's fondness for wearing women's silk lingerie) with admirable clarity, laying bare an aspect of the composer that is both central and often strangely ignored. -- Adam Lively * Sunday Times *Even in this supposedly liberal era Wagner's detractors still wag fingers at his love-life...As this ground-breaking new study suggests, it's the erotic yearnings so central to his great works that remain arresting. -- Michael Scott Rohan * BBC Music *Revelatory. -- Alex Ross * New Yorker *[Dreyfus] has produced a scholarly yet eminently readable volume that will bewitch any opera-lover. Like a benign magician--like Wagner himself, perhaps--Dreyfus conjures up a vivid array of characters and allows them to reveal their innermost thoughts through their own words and deeds. Nietzche and Schopenhauer are there, as are Baudelaire, Bulow, Heine, D'Annunzio, Thomas Mann, Krafft-Ebing and Henry James. -- Daniel Snowman * Opera *At this point, the only good reason to add to the mountains of Wagner scholarship is to add another peak, which is precisely what Laurence Dreyfus has done in Wagner and the Erotic Impulse...The payoff for following him through his 250-page argument is that Wagner's music sounds deeper, richer and better than ever...Dreyfus' greatest achievement, a great deal of it pioneering, is in his investigation of Wagner's eroticism in the music itself. It's the hardest kind of work a writer about music can do, and Dreyfus does it with rare insight and imagination, and in language as accessible to the interested lay reader as it would be to fellow scholars...Wagner and the Erotic Impulse tears the roof off Wagner scholarship. The artistic cosmos it finds inside is a vastly more vital and compelling place. -- Tim Pfaff * Bay Area Reporter *[Dreyfus's] persuasive contention is that this music is not only erotic to our ears and understanding, but that it was interpreted as such from the very start. Furthermore, he shows that the explicit connections of eroticism with music long predate the nineteenth century, going back at least as far as the terpsichorean tradition of the sixteenth century. Dreyfus impressively manages to argue that music can be interpreted as expressly erotic without getting himself entangled in the complexities of whether music can in general be assigned particular interpretation. -- Bernard O'Donoghue * Times Literary Supplement *Dreyfus' book is an excellent account of what is by any measure a crucial aspect of Wagner's extraordinary art. -- Bradley Winterton * Taipei Times *This is an altogether unusual portrait of the composer, one resting on a platform of brazen sexuality. Dreyfus posits Eros both as a prism through which to access Wagner's biography and oeuvre anew, and as the impulse driving the latter into existence...The hazards attendant on a study of Eros are offset by the strength of Dreyfus's argument. He elevates the erotic to a central paradigm for Wagner: its force is thematised in Tannhäuser, Tristan and Parsifal, documented throughout Wagner's writings, and substantiated by contemporary discourse, both passionate espousal and disgust. But as the author later explains, erotic impulse is also fundamental to the experience of music...Telling details are often the gems in any history, and this book is richly studded...Dreyfus's command of sources is impressive; all are newly translated, their contextual breadth forming a latter-day answer to Greenblatt's so-called new historicism...A rich study, saturated with insight, fresh perspective and delivered with panache. The virtuosity of Dreyfus's readings is often dazzling, if challenging to a more mainstream approach to Wagner...Yet Dreyfus's strategy of bringing historical voices to the fore allows him to open up broader hermeneutic horizons with ease...So thought-provoking is this study in its claims that it will surely give impetus to further scholarly work on erotics, as an historical nodal point both for Wagner reception, and perhaps for music more broadly. -- David Trippett * Cambridge Opera Journal *Nietzsche's posthumous fragment [on the ardours of music for Tristan und Isolde] is one of many examples which Laurence Dreyfus cites in his book to prove that it wasn't Richard Wagner's broadsides against "Judaism" but rather his connection to eroticism and sexuality which enraged contemporaries. Dreyfus notes rightly that the relationships between what Nietzsche termed Wagner's "morbid sexuality," the treatment of Eros in his music dramas, and its reception at the time has thus far been treated only hesitantly in Wagner scholarship. Wagner and the Erotic Impulse tries to fill this gap, and Dreyfus, to come directly to the point, doesn't shy away from naming "the actual word for the ardours of the music in Tristan." That this musicologist (and virtuoso on the viola da gamba) who teaches at Magdalen College Oxford also exhibits a downright off-the-cuff and refreshingly irreverent handling of Wagner and the subject of eroticism is certainly surprising...That music should be able to simulate (or even stimulate) desire because it lacks an erotic object, and that by "purely musical" means should be able to represent tension, impulses, arousal and deliverance ought to enlighten every Wagner-listener. And how the tender love motive in the first scene of Die Walküre has risen to a wild mania at the end of the first act is conveyed to the listener, if not consciously, then certainly unconsciously. One can confidently subscribe to Dreyfus's conclusion that Wagner's erotics had decidedly more significant artistic consequences than did his anti-Semitism...[Dreyfus] must be credited with having treated a noteworthy theme without striking wrong notes. -- Wolfgang Fuhrmann * Wagner Spectrum *
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Hal Leonard Corporation How the Fender Bass Changed the World
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Cambridge University Press Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Book SynopsisThis unique publication offers fresh perspectives on key manuscript sources of medieval song. In ten chapters, leading experts each treat a single manuscript in detail, offering new findings, essential summaries of each manuscript's contents and historiography, and detailed, accessible analyses of the songs' music and texts.Table of ContentsIntroduction Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach; 1. New light on the earliest medieval songbook Sam Barrett; 2. The careful cantor and the Carmina Cantabrigiensia Jeremy Llewellyn; 3. Across divides: Aquitaine's new song and London, British Library, Additional 36881 Rachel May Golden; 4. Wine, women, and song? Reconsidering the Carmina Burana Gundela Bobeth, translated by Henry Hope; 5. An English monastic miscellany: the Reading manuscript of Sumer is icumen in Helen Deeming; 6. Preserving and recycling: functional multiplicity and shifting priorities in the compilation and continued use of London, British Library, Egerton 274 Helen Deeming; 7. Minnesänger, music, miniatures: the Codex Manesse Henry Hope; 8. Writing, performance and devotion in the thirteenth-century motet: the 'La Clayette' manuscript Sean Curran; 9. A courtly compilation: the Douce Chansonnier Elizabeth Eva Leach; 10. Machaut's first single-author compilation Elizabeth Eva Leach; 11. Songs, scattered and gathered Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.
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WW Norton & Co A History of Western Music
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Don Giovanni Records How To Ruin A Record Label
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Columbia University Press Hard Rain Bob Dylan Oral Cultures and the Meaning
Book SynopsisBob Dylan's iconic 1962 song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan's work.Trade ReviewHard Rain is a rich and genre-busting meditation on oral history, on culture, on folklore, on poetry, on music, on Bob Dylan, and on many other things besides. Portelli, like Bob Dylan, brings to life many voices that are often not heard, and his book radiates critical acumen, encyclopedic knowledge and a bracing freshness of vision. -- Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an IdeaWhile it is common knowledge that Dylan modeled 'Hard Rain' after 'Lord Randal,' Portelli treats the two songs equally. Neither is a footnote in the history of the other. Offering a wonderful analysis of orality and memory, Hard Rain represents a great contribution to our understanding of oral cultures by analyzing a 1960s classic song along with a seventeenth-century ballad. Captivating. -- Yolanda Chávez Leyva, University of Texas at El PasoHard Rain is a tapestry of autobiographical essay, music criticism, and pop culture reflection. The style is lovely, and Portelli addresses everything from innocence and apocalypse to lyric structure and oral tradition mnemonic devices through his comparison of Bob Dylan’s 'Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall' to the traditional folk song 'Lord Randal.' -- Mary Larson, Oklahoma State UniversityDylan fans, and they are legion, will appreciate the backstory and long history that influenced the style, structure, and content of one of his most powerful songs. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Memory, Voice, and the Global Bob Dylan1. Songs of Innocence and Experience2. The Text and the Voice3. Talking Atomic Blues4. Which Way History?Appendix: History’s Lessons UnlearnedNotesIndex of NamesIndex of AlbumsIndex of Songs
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Der Dirigent: Mythos – Macht – Merkwürdigkeiten
Book SynopsisDirigieren ist mehr als das bloße Koordinieren von Musikern! Wolfgang Hattinger zeigt, worüber selten in den Feuilletons gesprochen wird, und was dennoch auf das künstlerische Ergebnis einwirkt: Da sind zum Beispiel Macht und Ohnmacht des Dirigenten oder die Kommunikation mit einzelnen Musikern und dem Orchester nur einige Themen, die die Selbst- und Außenwahrnehmung des Dirigenten bestimmen. Hattinger beschreibt und hinterfragt die weit über das rein Musikalische hinausgehenden Vermittlungsebenen zwischen Dirigent und Publikum, Orchester, Medien, Ästhetik, Partitur und Spiritualität.
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W. W. Norton & Company The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Meet Me in the Bathroom
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£16.58
University of Illinois Press Czech Bluegrass
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lee Bidgood is the first person to do a serious accounting of the forces, political and artistic, that have contributed to the popularity of this outlier music in this unlikely locale. By putting himself in the narrative, one gets an up close and personal sense of the various aspects of the bluegrass and old-time music wave that has swept across the Czech and Slovakian musical landscapes for years--and still counting." --Tony Trischka, from the foreword "Many readers will appreciate both the high level of insight, and that the text makes its points using only 124 pages. Ethnographic works about contemporary music traditions are needed, and Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe is a valuable tool, helping those interested in bluegrass music understand the rooting of the style in multiple cultures."--Journal of Folklore Research "Bidgood's personalized analysis adds a significant, scholarly piece to the bigger picture of bluegrass as an international phenomenon."--Bookreporter"This book will be of interest to those curious about the assimilation and adaptation of music forms. . . Readers eager for stories of bluegrass and country music that diverge from the common narrative of these genres being made by and for American Southerners will also appreciate the global approach to these genres." --Journal of American Folklore
£17.99
Premanand The Beatles Drugs Mysticism India Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Transcendental Meditation Jai Guru Deva OM
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Music of the Arabs
Book SynopsisThe late composer and musicologist Habib Hassan Touma compiled a number of authoritative books on Arab music in his lifetime. Originally published in Germany in 1989 _The Music of the Arabs_ from Amadeus Press is the first English translation of the book joining French and Italian editions. Dr.Touma died in 1998.
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PM Press Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk,
Book SynopsisA unique study tracing the liberal and anarchist origins of the straight-edge movement, far-removed from its conservative Puritan associations.
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Paul Dry Books, Inc Boston Boy
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Globe Pequot Press Hold On World
Book SynopsisHold On World revisits Lennon and Ono''s love affair and startling collaborations. John Lennon''s Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn''t merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a spiritual, public bloodletting. Lennon''s album drove a stake through the heart of the Beatles'' myth while confronting everything else in John''s life, from Dylan to God to his glorified status as a Working Class Hero. Determined to rid himself of childhood traumasabandoned by his father, John, at age nine, watched helplessly as his mother was killed by a carLennon wrote the most powerful song cycle of his career, confronting fear, disappointment, and illusion, all the while espousing his love for Yoko Ono. Released simultaneously, Ono''s album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is emotionally raw and challenging. It inspired bands like the B-52s and Yo La Tengo to employ pure sound, whether shrieking vocals or guitar feedback, to exp
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Headpress Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands
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£13.49
Antenne Publishing SF Rave Flyers 1991-1993 Volume 2
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