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  • Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film

    by Heather Wiebe ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    In Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film, author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s. In acclaimed films such as The Red Shoes and Brief Encounter as well as experimental documentaries, colonial propaganda films, and largely forgotten melodramas, music was persistently given a central role in the action. As this book ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Britten's Unquiet Pasts

    Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

    by Heather Wiebe ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Howard Skempton: Conversations and Reflections on Music

    by Esther Cavett, Esther Cavett, Matthew Head, Matthew Head, Heather Wiebe, Howard Skempton, Pwyll Ap Siôn ...
    Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, performer and commentator. His music is characterised by simplicity yet sophistication and is appreciated by lay and specialist listeners in equal measure. Skempton studied in London with Cornelius Cardew in the late 1960s, co-founding the Scratch Orchestra, and has written over 600 pieces since then ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts, Second Edition

    by Robert A. Wiebe, Gary R. Strange, Heather M. Prendergast, Valerie A. Dobiesz, William F. Ahrens, Robert W. Schafermeyer ...
    Series series Just The Facts
    The quick reference you need to prepare for any pediatric emergency medicine examination or stay abreast of the latest developments in the fieldCovering the full scope of pediatric emergency medicine, this concise, yet comprehensive, review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-training, board certification, or recertification examinations, or for use as a clinical refresher. Pediatric Emergency ... Read more

    $90.79 USD

  • Peter Panzerfaust Vol. 2

    by Kurtis Wiebe ...
    Series series Peter Panzerfaust
    Collects PETER PANZERFAUST 6-10 All the major players of the Peter Pan mythology come to new life in this action packed second volume, with new allies in Tiger Lily, Big Chief and the Braves. Combining forces with the French Resistance, Peter and the boys lead a deadly game of espionage to locate and free their lost brother, Felix. All that's stopping them is the combined might of the Nazi army ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Britten's Century

    Celebrating 100 Years of Britten

    Edited by Mark Bostridge ...
    2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event.Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Weinzweig

    Essays on His Life and Music

    Edited by John Beckwith, Brian Cherney ...
    First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, Weinzweig was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gareth Malone’s Guide to Classical Music

    The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music

    by Gareth Malone ...
    Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal eBook, previously published as ‘Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music’, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure.Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings

    The Must-Have CDs and DVDs

    by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Paul Czajkowski ...
    INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARThis completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A Queer History of the Ballet

    by Peter Stoneley ...
    Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ... Read more

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  • Modern Drama

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance. This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD