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  • Sounds Beyond

    Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground

    by Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo Pärt's most famous music, which was created in dialogue with underground creative circles in the USSR.In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes studies the interconnected alternative music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s, revealing the audacious origins of some of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's most famous music. Karnes shows how Pärt ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History

    Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

    by Kevin Karnes ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa

    by Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Pärt broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes tells the story of Tabula Rasa as one of Pärt and of Europe itself, traced over the course of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Arvo Pärt

    Sounding the Sacred

    by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, Robert Saler, Andrew Albin, Maria Cizmic, Adriana Helbig, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas0, Christopher May1, Ivan Moody2, Andrew Shenton3, Sevin Yaraman4 ...
    Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt’s music (including the trope of silence), writing and listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies

    The Landscape Since 1991

    Edited by Kevin C Karnes, Joachim Braun ...
    This volume is the first to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the production of musicological knowledge in and about the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Its collected ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Korngold and His World

    Edited by Daniel Goldmark, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best ... Read more

    Was $107.79 CAD Now $48.39 CAD

  • A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe

    Edited by Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
    Although unjustly neglected by modern writers, William Bathe‘s contributions to music pedagogy in late sixteenth-century England were profound. Bathe‘s A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song (1596) not only includes the first explication of a four-syllable, non-hexachordal solmization method published by an English writer (a system similar to that which would become the standard in England ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Brahms and His World

    Edited by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    The key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers.In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by S. Andrew Granade ...
    Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the Fury, and his use of highly sophisticated instruments of his own creation, Partch is still regularly ... Read more

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  • Early English Meals and Manners with some Forewords on Education in Early England, 13 cook books published 1460 to 1500

    by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
    This collection, first published in 1868, includes: John Russell's Boke of Nurture, c. 1460 Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge, 1513; The Boke of Curtasye, c. 1460; R. Weste's Booke of Demeanor, 1619; Seager's Schoole of Vertue, 1557; The Babees Book, 1475; Aristotle's ABC, 1430; Urbanitatis, c. 1460; Stans Puer ad Mensam; The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, c. 1480; For to serve a Lord; Symon's ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy ... Read more

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  • Macbeth

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    "A splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable." - Around the GlobeMacbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This Arden Shakespeare Third Series edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as ... Read more

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