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Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 halftones. 17 line illus. 14 tables. BIC Classification: AVGJ; JHBS; KNTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150888
- ISBN
- 9780691150888
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.69
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Hardback. Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. This book examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. It shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFD; JHB; KNTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148731
- ISBN
- 9780691148731
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€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a 'total work of art' combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. This book examines his works. Editor(s): Grey, Thomas S. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 560 pages, 24 halftones. 50 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 824.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143668
- ISBN
- 9780691143668
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.78
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Paperback. Addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. This work considers three overlapping genres that are central to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Num Pages: 480 pages, 31 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141053
- ISBN
- 9780691141053
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.89
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Hardback. Edward T Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. This title collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years. It represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music. Editor(s): Morgan, Robert P. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 line illus. 12 tables. 31 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140117
- ISBN
- 9780691140117
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. This work examines the composer's life, presenting a comprehensive portrait of both the man and the age in which he lived. Editor(s): Adams, Professor Byron. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 halftones. 25 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134468
- ISBN
- 9780691134468
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.89
€ 43.99
€ 30.89
paperback. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, and master teacher, Franz Liszt reinvented the concert experience, advanced an agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, and transmitted the foundations of modern pianism. Placing emphasis on historical contexts, this book aims to advance our understanding of the composer with fresh perspectives. Editor(s): Gibbs, Christopher H.; Gooley, Dana. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 37. Weight in Grams: 870.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129020
- ISBN
- 9780691129020
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
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Paperback. Chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life. Editor(s): Behrend, Jeanne. Num Pages: 504 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127163
- ISBN
- 9780691127163
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
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Hardback. Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AVGJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123578
- ISBN
- 9780691123578
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Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.98
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Paperback. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. This work expands the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations - historical, cultural, and political - that forged them. Editor(s): Fay, Laurel E. Series: Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120690
- ISBN
- 9780691120690
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.73
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€ 39.73
Hardback. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 line illus. 24 halftones. BIC Classification: APF; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120089
- ISBN
- 9780691120089
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Condition: New
€ 84.14
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Paperback. Brings together several Leos Janacek scholars to look closely at a range of issues surrounding his life and work. This book features essays accompanied by translated writings by the composer himself. It includes essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde and four impressionistic chronicles of the 'speech melodies' of daily life. Editor(s): Beckerman, Michael. Series: Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC6; AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116761
- ISBN
- 9780691116761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.00
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€ 42.00
Hardback. Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. This book presents an overall picture of his musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It also examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck. Translator(s): Ellis, Daphne. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114972
- ISBN
- 9780691114972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.13€ 67.89
€ 89.13
€ 67.89
Paperback. Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. This volume examines the broader political, social, and literary changes reflected in Mahler's music. It examines the composer's Jewish identity, and considers contemporary theories of memory, and the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-siecle politics. Editor(s): Painter, Karen. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVGC6; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691092447
- ISBN
- 9780691092447
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
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Paperback. A collection of essays, which address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. It explains how the young Beethoven chose his pianos, and William Kinderman shows Beethoven in the process of sketching and revising his compositions. Editor(s): Burnham, Scott; Steinberg, Michael P. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 350 pages, facsimiles, music, portraits. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070735
- ISBN
- 9780691070735
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
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Paperback. Shows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European. Num Pages: 616 pages, 127 music exs., 11 figures, 3 diagrams. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AV; CFP; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070650
- ISBN
- 9780691070650
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Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.79
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Paperback. It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. This work explores the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. It combines readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within the observed historical contexts. Editor(s): Smart, Mary Ann. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 illus, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGC9; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058139
- ISBN
- 9780691058139
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.56
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Hardback. Offers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 312 pages, 54 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ADT; AVGC4; AVGC9; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058122
- ISBN
- 9780691058122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.53€ 97.61
€ 129.53
€ 97.61
paperback. Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, this book explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. It is of interest to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691050584
- ISBN
- 9780691050584
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. Explores the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. This book argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and Fritz Lang's 1920s film "Die Nibelungen" exploits contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; AVGC9; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049717
- ISBN
- 9780691049717
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89