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Paperback. From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and this relationship has fascinated generations. This new in paperback edition of diverse, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authored by leading scholars, links the two fields in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of each subject as well as the general reader. Num Pages: 200 pages, Numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: AV; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 189 x 10. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199298938
- ISBN
- 9780199298938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.68
€ 55.68
Paperback. Editor(s): Robinson, Jenefer. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483677
- ISBN
- 9780801483677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.74
€ 34.99
€ 31.74
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838142
- ISBN
- 9781843838142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.82
€ 130.82
Hardback. A collection of essays that examine televised music and the controversial genre of the music video. It addresses the key issues of contemporary Arab society - gender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power, and nation - as refracted through the culture of mediated music. It is suitable for the study of contemporary Arab society and culture. Editor(s): Frishkopf, Michael. Num Pages: 304 pages, 27 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; AVG; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774162930
- ISBN
- 9789774162930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.31
€ 33.31
Hardcover. Combining cultural analysis with historical and personal accounts of a century of musical life at the American Academy in Rome, this volume provides a history of the AAR's Rome Prize in Composition. Editor(s): Brody, Martin. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 348 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580462457
- ISBN
- 9781580462457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.80
€ 113.80
Paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone, 20 tables, 15 music examples. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AVA; AVGC1; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226730332
- ISBN
- 9780226730332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.12
€ 34.99
€ 27.12
Paperback. Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in Cornwall for his remaining years. Num Pages: 174 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; AVGC5; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780859893596
- ISBN
- 9780859893596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.90
€ 36.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Clayton, Martin. Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138265165
- ISBN
- 9781138265165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.92€ 58.14
€ 63.92
€ 58.14
paperback. This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; AV; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349447312
- ISBN
- 9781349447312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.53
€ 61.53
Hardcover. This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3H; AS; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277701
- ISBN
- 9781137277701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.56
€ 108.56
Paperback. It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. Series: Polity Contemporary Political Communication Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: AV; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635446
- ISBN
- 9780745635446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.51
€ 24.51
Hardback. Covers the San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 30 musical examples, 13 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; AV; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268913
- ISBN
- 9780520268913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.12€ 50.14
€ 65.12
€ 50.14
Paperback. Provides an introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959, and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Tracing the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric drumming, and other forms, this book describes how the arts have become a point of negotiation between individuals. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 367 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 13 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AV; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616. Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. 367 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 13 music examples. Provides an introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959, and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Tracing the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric drumming, and other forms, this book describes how the arts have become a point of negotiation between individuals. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AV; HBTB. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 24. Weight: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247116
- ISBN
- 9780520247116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Coelho, Victor Anand. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HB; PDA; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 641.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048142187
- ISBN
- 9789048142187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 182.35
€ 182.35
Paperback. How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? This title details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. It traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 160 pages, music examples throughout. BIC Classification: AVC; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300178036
- ISBN
- 9780300178036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.45
€ 16.99
€ 13.45
Paperback. Focuses on Benjamin Britten, one of the great British composers. Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, this title examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. Editor(s): Haggerty, George E. Num Pages: 295 pages, 15 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246102
- ISBN
- 9780520246102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardcover. CORK The aim of this book is to present a detailed account of music in Cork's civic life from the eighteenth century to 1900 and to examine the contexts in which it flourished. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; AVG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782052203
- ISBN
- 9781782052203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Hardback. 432 pages, 30, 30 line drawing. The book offers unprecedented access to primary sources that have been unavailable in English, or which lay unknown on archival shelves. Music and Soviet Power offers cultural history told through documents - both colourful and representative - with an extensive commentary and annotation throughout. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; AV. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 33. Weight: 896.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837039
- ISBN
- 9781843837039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 43.78
€ 46.99
€ 43.78
Hardcover. Editor(s): Berger, Karol; Newcomb, Anthony. Series: Harvard Publications in Music. Num Pages: 400 pages, 13 halftones, 28 line drawings & 54 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Music,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780964031722
- ISBN
- 9780964031722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.57
€ 40.99
€ 33.57
Hardback. Traces the development and growth of community schools of the arts, now found in every region of the U.S. and in Canada. Num Pages: 489 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; JFS; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 32. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 489
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810821170
- ISBN
- 9780810821170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.04
€ 174.04