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  • Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg

    Modifié par Charlotte M. Cross, Russell A. Berman ...
    Collections series Border Crossings
    The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies. ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Beethoven

    par William Kinderman ...
    Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Brahms and His World

    Modifié par Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Richard Wagner and His World

    Modifié par Thomas S. Grey ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Richard Wagner

    A Life in Music

    par Martin Geck ...
    Traduit par Stewart Spencer ...
    "[An] intriguing exploration of the composer's life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography." — Library JournalBest known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Modifié par Andrew Shenton ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    par Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Bach

    Modifié par John Butt ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Alban Berg and His World

    Modifié par Christopher Hailey ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss

    Modifié par Charles Youmans ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

    Modifié par Julian Horton ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    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, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    par Martin Iddon ...
    Collections series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD