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  • Così fan tutte, An Opera of Mimetic Revelation

    by Isabel Díaz-Morlán ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    Isabel Díaz-Morlán reads the characters of Così fan tutte, an opera by Mozart and Da Ponte, through the lens of René Girard’s theory of unconscious mimetic desire. The opera features couples who resemble those from classical literature, including Ovid’s Collatinus and Lucretia, Cervantes’s Anselmo and Camila, and Shakespeare’s Leonatus and Imogen. The book explores the sources of the libretto, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Unhappy Beginnings

    Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts

    Edited by Isabel González-Díaz, Fabián Orán-Llarena ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Arthropod-Plant Interactions

    Novel Insights and Approaches for IPM

    Edited by Guy Smagghe, Isabel Diaz ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book consists of multiple chapters by leading experts on the different aspects in the unique relationship between arthropods and plants, the underlying mechanisms, realized successes and failures of interactions and application for IPM, and future lines of research and perspectives. Interesting is the availability of the current genomes of different insects, mites and nematodes and different ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Yes! We Are Latinos

    Poems and Prose About the Latino Experience

    by Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy ...
    Illustrated by David Diaz ...
    Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is Latino.Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States. Free-verse fictional narratives from the ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    by Philip Gossett ...
    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

    by Jeffery Kite-Powell, Sally Sanford, Julianne C. Baird, Anne H. Heider, Gary Towne, Herbert Myers, Bruce Dickey, Steven Plank, John M. Cooper, David Douglas, Julie Andrijeski, Mark Kroll, Marc Vanscheeuwijck, Paul O'Dette, Stuart Cheney, Jack Ashworth, George Houle, Dorothy Olsson, James Middleton ...
    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Music in the Galant Style

    by Robert Gjerdingen ...
    Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

    Edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell ...
    Series series Publications of the Early Music Institute
    Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baroque Violin & Viola

    A Fifty-Lesson Course Volume I

    by Walter S. Reiter ...
    In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Renaissance Flute

    A Contemporary Guide

    by Kate Clark, Amanda Markwick ...
    The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments. Yet, actually delving into the study of renaissance flute has proven a challenge - there exists a confusing array of editions of renaissance music, specialized (and often expensive) facsimiles of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Verdi

    by Julian Budden ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Child Composers in the Old Conservatories

    How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

    by Robert O. Gjerdingen ...
    In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system of conservatori was created to house, nurture, and train these fanciulli vaganti (roaming children) to become hatters, shoemakers, tailors, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD