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Paperback. In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques structural listening as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of musical structure itself. This title explores not only the implications of structural listening model but also alternative listening strategies that have developed in specific communities. Editor(s): Dell'Antonio, Andrew. Num Pages: 343 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 table, 15 music examples. BIC Classification: AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237605
ISBN
9780520237605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790's, it reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Num Pages: 636 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 13 tables, 1 music example. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236646
ISBN
9780520236646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.81
€ 76.74

Hardback. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. Editor(s): Mangan, Timothy; Herrmann, Irene. Num Pages: 310 pages, 1 music example. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236554
ISBN
9780520236554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

Hardback. Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is explored in this history of the Paris Odeon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. The book traces the complete arc of the Odeon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure. Num Pages: 348 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 11 tables, 13 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC9; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234451
ISBN
9780520234451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

Paperback. Presents an exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records. This title examines the crucial roles played by recording technologies in the construction of rock music and shows how songwriters, musicians, engineers, and producers contribute to the creative project. Num Pages: 276 pages, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVX; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
SECOND PRINTING
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232242
ISBN
9780520232242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 219 pages, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232082
ISBN
9780520232082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. This collection of twenty-seven essays represents the full range of Adorno's music writing. Editor(s): Leppert, Richard. Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 760 pages, 1 music example. BIC Classification: AV; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
760
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226722
ISBN
9780520226722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.42
€ 60.97

Paperback. There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? This text demonstrates how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meaning to them. Num Pages: 275 pages, 24 music examples, 5 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390. 275 pages, Illustrations. There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? This text demonstrates how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meaning to them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Calif. Pbk
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225411
ISBN
9780520225411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Hardback. During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 210 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; HBT; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225374
ISBN
9780520225374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224933
ISBN
9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Explores ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. This book uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 365 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 20 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 32. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520223028
ISBN
9780520223028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 49.59

Hardback. Illuminates the diverse elements that constitute opera by focusing the investigation around three main categories: composition and production; words, music, and drama; and the interaction of society, genre, and aesthetics. Translator(s): Schneider, Edward. Num Pages: 442 pages, 34 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; AVGC9; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press Berkeley
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217195
ISBN
9780520217195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 49.74

Paperback. A selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute" and "Tristan and Isolde". Num Pages: 359 pages, 80 music examples, 3 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520213777
ISBN
9780520213777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Hardback. Traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 196 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVGD; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210080
ISBN
9780520210080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.22
€ 46.08

Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
405
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520209336
ISBN
9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.54

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. Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from 12th-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Editor(s): Solie, Ruth A. Num Pages: 353 pages, 5 figures, 17 music examples, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201460
ISBN
9780520201460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.64

Hardback. Argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. This book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. It also discusses new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality. Num Pages: 272 pages, 120 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
2 Rev Exp
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201422
ISBN
9780520201422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.67
€ 57.47

Hardback. The account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history, and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 340 pages, 90 b&w illustrations, 84 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DVH; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 187 x 27. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520084858
ISBN
9780520084858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.42
€ 60.97

Hardcover. No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. This biography explores the interrelationships between Herrmann's music and his turbulent personal life. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition ~1st Printing
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520071230
ISBN
9780520071230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 49.59

Paperback. Treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine; the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and, the true significance of musical nationalism. Translator(s): Whittall, Mary. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 129 pages, music. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
129
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520067486
ISBN
9780520067486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 472 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVA; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520067479
ISBN
9780520067479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Focuses on the two operas of Alban Berg. If you have ever had any questions about Berg's opera Wozzeck, this book answers them for you. Each paragraph, each quoted music example, each analysis moves the argument forward in a clear incisive manner. Num Pages: 268 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AGB; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520066175
ISBN
9780520066175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. In its analytical sophistication, its critical insights and in the implications which it has for our understanding not only of Alban Berg but of a whole body of post-diatonic music, this title presents us with a sophisticated musical analysis of the composer. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520066168
ISBN
9780520066168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

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