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Paperback. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, this title addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 470 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 84 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267787
- ISBN
- 9780520267787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.91
€ 41.99
€ 29.91
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
€ 65.36€ 50.63
€ 65.36
€ 50.63
Paperback. In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into general strike. This title examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the 'long' 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 10 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268975
- ISBN
- 9780520268975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.31
€ 40.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. Ben Fong-Torres was torn between an alluring American lifestyle - including Elvis and rock 'n' roll - and the traditional cultural heritage his proud immigrant parents struggled to instill in their five children. This title tells of growing up with a double identity - Chinese and American. Num Pages: 296 pages, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; AVGP; BGFA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269682
- ISBN
- 9780520269682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.28
€ 27.99
€ 21.28
Paperback. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, this title explores the jazz greats, and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music. Num Pages: 272 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269811
- ISBN
- 9780520269811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. This title restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music. Num Pages: 350 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 49 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; AVGC4; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273849
- ISBN
- 9780520273849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 65.15
€ 84.37
€ 65.15
Hardback. The tonadilla, a satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together, and their lasting influence the historiography of Spanish music. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 24 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276307
- ISBN
- 9780520276307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.11€ 54.67
€ 70.11
€ 54.67
Hardback. What do we mean when we identify a composer as the creator of a piece of music? Does a printed piece of music embody the work, even if the composer is not the person who puts the work on paper? In this cultural history of Western music's adaptation to print, this title looks at how the concept of musical authorship took root. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; AVGC2; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276505
- ISBN
- 9780520276505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.32
€ 59.42
€ 46.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; CF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276536
- ISBN
- 9780520276536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Presents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AV; JHBS; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276642
- ISBN
- 9780520276642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 496 pages, 45 musical examples, 75 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520279490
- ISBN
- 9780520279490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.48
€ 59.42
€ 46.48
Hardback. examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845 46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 116. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285569
- ISBN
- 9780520285569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 51.06
€ 65.36
€ 51.06
Hardback. Opening with a history of music and musicians in Tudor England, this book covers composition and performance, as well as the changing functions of music over the period. It also contains chapters that are devoted respectively to secular vocal music, to keyboard music, and to ensemble and lute music. Editor(s): Bray, Roger. Series: Blackwell History of Music. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; AVGC2; AVGC3; AVGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631179245
- ISBN
- 9780631179245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 230.33
€ 230.33
Hardback. This guide looks at the key recordings in ten major areas of country music, selecting a main library of 100 discs. In addition, over 300 supplementary albums are listed and described. Crossover artists (who adapted their styles to the pop audience) are also discussed. Num Pages: 496 pages, further reading, index. BIC Classification: AVGL; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Unknown Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631191063
- ISBN
- 9780631191063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.09
€ 57.09
Hardback. Responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AVGF; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197881
- ISBN
- 9780631197881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.45
€ 142.45
Paperback. aeo Informed by original ethnographic research and oral history into popular music and youth culture. aeo Presents a broad--ranging history from the post--Punk era of the late 70a s through the 80a s to the internationalisation ---- or globalisation ---- of sport and music influenced youth and dance clubcultures of the 1990s. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AVGF; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197898
- ISBN
- 9780631197898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.24
€ 52.24
Paperback. Original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies map the competing perspectives on the key terms of contemporary debates on popular music and culture. Each essay describes the history of continuities and conflicts in a terma s meaning, situating the writera s own position on the term in that history of debate. Editor(s): Swiss, Thomas B.; Horner, Bruce. Series: Blackwell Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG; DN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631212645
- ISBN
- 9780631212645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.01
€ 45.01
Paperback. "What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. Num Pages: 272 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVGC5; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002029
- ISBN
- 9780674002029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.77
€ 36.99
€ 30.77
Hardcover. The Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India, which is largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. This work presents an accented edition that is based on manuscripts collected from all over India and Europe. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 946 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; 2BBA; AVGE; HRG; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 185 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 946
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009356
- ISBN
- 9780674009356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.01€ 85.45
€ 95.01
€ 85.45
Paperback. This compact guide to the history and performance of music contains entries drawn and condensed from the "New Harvard Dictionary of Music" and its companion "Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". It is a reference for home or classroom and professional and amateur musicians. Editor(s): Randel, Don Michael. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 768 pages, 150 line illustrations and musical examples. BIC Classification: AV; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 960.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 768
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009783
- ISBN
- 9780674009783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.68
€ 37.99
€ 31.68
Hardcover. Editor(s): Boone, Graeme M. Series: Isham Library Papers. Num Pages: 352 pages, 85ill.25tabs.mus.exs. BIC Classification: AVGC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 49. Weight in Grams: 970.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harvard University Department of Music
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674267060
- ISBN
- 9780674267060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Hardcover. Editor(s): Apel, Willi. Num Pages: 954 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AV; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 191 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Revised & enlarged
- Number of pages
- 954
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674375017
- ISBN
- 9780674375017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.62€ 66.36
€ 73.62
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 299 x 224. Weight in Grams: 1952.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Limited signed ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674440081
- ISBN
- 9780674440081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 267.32€ 241.01
€ 267.32
€ 241.01
Paperback. Series: Harvard Publications in Music. Num Pages: 153 pages, musical illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 310 x 240 x 12. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674640313
- ISBN
- 9780674640313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.93
€ 53.99
€ 44.93