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Hardback. American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVRL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047846
ISBN
9780674047846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH; BGFA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609804244
ISBN
9781609804244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.57

Paperback. If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway. This book tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 169.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571332274
ISBN
9780571332274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Features essays by scholars and organists that examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified. Editor(s): Archbold, Lawrence; Peterson, William J. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; AVA; AVGC; AVRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580460712
ISBN
9781580460712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. Series: Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. Num Pages: 730 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 178 x 73. Weight in Grams: 2206.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
730
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914913320
ISBN
9780914913320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 212.91

hardcover. Provides an overview of the current state of research on Machaut (ca. 1300-1377), a major figure in 14th century French music and poetry, with fair representation of the many areas of Machaut research that are pursued outside of music. The volume begins with a biography and a section covering his l Series: Composer Resource Manuals. Num Pages: 696 pages, maps, photographs, illustrations, glossary, indexes. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824023232
ISBN
9780824023232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 251.61

Paperback. What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? In this book, the author assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC; DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288805
ISBN
9780520288805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. This book argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267060
ISBN
9780520267060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. This title features five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298. On the Music of Knowledge. 184 pages, illustrations. Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. This title features five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 11. Weight: 298.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273962
ISBN
9780520273962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. This book provides an account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 b&w illustration, 34 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520207004
ISBN
9780520207004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Explores classical music's nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520258037
ISBN
9780520258037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.31

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; PBF; PBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401746069
ISBN
9789401746069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.68

Paperback. Presents an illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, "69 Love Songs" - an album that was afforded "classic" status - as told by participants, fans and others. It also includes studio anecdotes, performance notes from the album shows in New York and London, rare and unpublished images, personal memorabilia, and others. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages, 45 illustrations (b & w). BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 104 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166. Series: 33 1/3. 160 pages, 45 illustrations (b & w). Presents an illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, "69 Love Songs" - an album that was afforded "classic" status - as told by participants, fans and others. It also includes studio anecdotes, performance notes from the album shows in New York and London, rare and unpublished images, personal memorabilia, and others. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGP. Dimension: 157 x 104 x 11. Weight: 164.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826419255
ISBN
9780826419255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages, numerous halftones and musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195181968
ISBN
9780195181968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 89.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810851405
ISBN
9780810851405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.05

Paperback. .
Publisher
Sanctuary Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Book & CD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860741388
ISBN
9781860741388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 182 black and white images. BIC Classification: AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 211 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442. How to Design, Modify, and Build Custom Guitar and Bass Amplifiers. 200 pages, 182 black and white images. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVRL1. Dimension: 272 x 211 x 10. Weight: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hal Leonard
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575604459
ISBN
9781575604459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.35

Paperback. Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636429
ISBN
9780745636429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Hardback. Series: Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914913054
ISBN
9780914913054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.55

Hardcover. A richly detailed portrait of the music and surrounding culture in one of history's most creative eras. Num Pages: 1152 pages, Illustrations and music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 188 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1836.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
1148
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393046083
ISBN
9780393046083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.18
€ 86.77

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