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  • The State of Music

    1938 First Edition

    de Virgil Thomson ...
    Composer Thomson, whose film score for Louisiana Story was awarded the Music Pulitzer Prize in 1949, writes about contemporary music and a musician's place in society before World War II.-Print ed. ... Leer más

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  • Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258)

    de Virgil Thomson ...
    Series Libro 1 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
    Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composerFor fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Virgil Thomson

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    de Virgil Thomson ...
    Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious Kansas City boyhood, demanding Harvard education, apprenticeship in Paris between the wars, and hard-won ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings (LOA #277)

    de Virgil Thomson ...
    Series Libro 2 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil ThomsonFollowing on the critically acclaimed edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other literary and critical ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The State of Music

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    de Virgil Thomson ...
    Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    de Ben Watson ...
    The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Frank Zappa - the genius of the absurd, and one of the most prolific and unpredictable characters of 20th century music.A thorough analysis of Zappa's complete recorded output, from the early days of the Mothers Of Invention, through his more avant-garde compositions and classical projects to the most recent posthumous releases. The guide features ... Leer más

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  • Verdi

    de John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Leer más

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  • The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

    Richard Wagner, his Work and his World

    de Barry Millington ...
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of ... Leer más

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  • Out of Silence

    A Pianist's Yearbook

    de Susan Tomes ...
    Out of Silence is a diary of a year in Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in the world, and I think it all over in my own way', it aims to show how a working musician mulls over and draws energy from the events of everyday life.We follow this internationally renowned pianist as she prepares for concerts and ... Leer más

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  • Bach in Berlin

    Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

    de Celia Applegate ...
    Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. ... Leer más

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  • Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences

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    Focusing on Messiaen’s relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources and cultural pressures that shaped Messiaen’s music. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, ... Leer más

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  • I Am Brian Wilson

    A Memoir

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    The astonishing memoir of Brian Wilson, of the legendary music group The Beach Boys.As a cofounding member of The Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like "In My Room," "God Only ... Leer más

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