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  • The Cimbalom

    Reference Guide for Performers and Composers

    by Luigi Gaggero, Alessandro Solbiati ...
    Series Book 1 - Intonazioni
    The Cimbalom: Reference Guide for Performers and Composers is a comprehensive study of one of the most distinctive instruments to enter Western classical music.Drawing on decades of experience as a cimbalom player, conductor, teacher, and collaborator with leading composers, Luigi Gaggero brings together historical research, organology, practical instruction, performance technique, and reflection ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Breath of Time

    Agogics, Metre and Phrasing in Classical Music Performance

    by Luigi Gaggero ...
    Series Book 1 - Intonazioni
    What makes a musical phrase breathe? Why can a performance be expressive, technically flawless, and yet fail to convey the deeper structure of the music?In The Breath of Time, Luigi Gaggero explores the intimate relationship between metre, agogics and phrasing in classical music performance. His central argument is that musical time cannot be reduced to regular beats or mechanical measurement: it ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creative Teaching of the Piano (Translated)

    by Carl Adolf Martienssen ...
    Series Book 1 - Intonazioni
    The Creative Teaching of the Piano is one of the most original works of twentieth-century piano pedagogy — and is presented here for the first time in a complete English translation.What happens before a gesture becomes sound? How does the inner imagination of music determine the movements of the body? And can instrumental technique truly be understood apart from listening, expression, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Heaven and Mud: Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr, and the Time of the Sacred

    by Luigi Gaggero ...
    Series Book 1 - Le forme dell'umano
    Two filmmakers, two radically different visions of existence, and two extraordinary ways of experiencing time through cinema.Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr are often compared for the contemplative pace of their films. Yet beneath this apparent similarity lie profoundly different artistic and philosophical worlds.For Tarkovsky, the cinematic image opens toward mystery and transcendence: the visible ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The German Language and the Form of Thought

    Truly Understanding It Through Its Deep Grammar

    by Luigi Gaggero ...
    Series Book 1 - Le forme dell'umano
    Discover the hidden philosophy inside German grammar.For most learners, German is a language of rules, cases, and word order that feels rigid and unforgiving. But what if the very things that make German “difficult” are actually the keys to its profound beauty?In The German Language and the Form of Thought, Luigi Gaggero reveals the deep logic behind the language:• Why the verb is not just a word, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Style and Idea

    by Arnold Schoenberg ...
    In these enlightening essays, the Austrian composer and music theorist presents his vision of how music speaks to us and what it is capable of saying.This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emotion and Meaning in Music

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory"This is the best study of its kind to ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Music and After

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Music as an Art

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Rhythm of Thought

    Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty

    by Jessica Wiskus ...
    Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological light, she offers innovative ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD