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“george kennaway”

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  • John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain

    by George Kennaway ...
    The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range of musical topics and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal of progress through rational thought, he typified the Enlightenment ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Playing the Cello, 1780-1930

    by George Kennaway ...
    This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over time, while acknowledging that many different practices co-existed. By placing an awareness of this diversity at the centre of an historical narrative, George Kennaway has produced a unique cultural history of performance practices. In addition to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Music of Joni Mitchell

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  • The Making of Cabaret

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  • Music, Sound and Space

    Transformations of Public and Private Experience

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  • The Bjorling Sound

    A Recorded Legacy

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    Prokofiev's Soviet Years

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