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Paperback. The best concise introduction to a very large subject: Music. Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 160 pages, c. 30 b/w line and half-tone in text. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781256428
ISBN
9781781256428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.65

Paperback. What is music? Rudolf Steiner regards the essence of music as something spiritual, inaudible to the senses. The world of tones, borne on the vibrations of air, is not the essential element. 'The true nature of music, the spiritual element in music', he says, 'is found between the tones, lies in the intervals as an inaudible quality.' Translator(s): Barton, M. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: AV; HRQC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855845268
ISBN
9781855845268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.50

hardcover. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723763
ISBN
9780804723763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411248
ISBN
9781421411248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.80
€ 75.66

Hardback. Musical AKAs is an index to more than 15,000 assumed names and sobriquets of approximately 9,800 composers, songwriters, lyricists, librettists, hymnists and writers on music. The term "assumed names" includes legal name changes, pseudonyms, pen names, and nicknames. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 228 x 46. Weight in Grams: 2079.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810857391
ISBN
9780810857391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 222.45

Hardback. Series: Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; GBCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914913139
ISBN
9780914913139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.16

This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199669660
ISBN
9780199669660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.88

Hardcover. Num Pages: 161 pages, tables. BIC Classification: AV; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 190 x 17. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600217081
ISBN
9781600217081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.92
€ 132.34

Hardback. The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783272013
ISBN
9781783272013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.99

Paperback. The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 384 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVGJ; AVH; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532. South African Women Thinking in Jazz. Series: Refiguring American Music. 376 pages, 32 illustrations. The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVGJ; AVH; BGFA. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 24. Weight: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349143
ISBN
9780822349143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. This book incorporates the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man, and discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 109 pages, music. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
109
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231073196
ISBN
9780231073196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Hardcover. Explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; AVGC5; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
BOYE6
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580461856
ISBN
9781580461856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.46

Paperback. Offers performers, teachers, and researchers practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. Drawing together the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences, this book is useful for those involved in music research, education, and performance. Editor(s): Williamon, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages, numerous figures. BIC Classification: AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198525356
ISBN
9780198525356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 104.18

Hardback. Editor(s): Kerchner, Jody L.; Abril, Carlos R. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578869459
ISBN
9781578869459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.52

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 134 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646978
ISBN
9780691646978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.10

paperback. Musical Form and Transformation collects four of David Lewin's analytic essays to stimulate thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199759958
ISBN
9780199759958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.30

Hardback. Felix Mendelssohn is chiefly remembered for the oratorios "Paulus" and "Elijah". This is an analysis of "Paulus", beginning with an overview of the oratorio traditions of the early 19th century. He details phases of the compositional process as well as principles governing its development. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 illustrations, tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVGD; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810840478
ISBN
9780810840478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.32

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science. Editor(s): Godoy, Rolf Inge; Leman, Marc. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 black & white tables, 44 black & white halftones, 62 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415998871
ISBN
9780415998871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.29

Paperback. Robert Ponsonby has been at the centre of the music world both in Britain and elsewhere for some sixty years. This title presents a distillation of his experiences, achievements and friendships in that world. It paints portraits in many formats of the fifty or so figures he knew best, including conductors, composers, performers and administrators. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 black and white. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AV; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900357296
ISBN
9781900357296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.50

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