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Paperback. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, this title addresses such questions as: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound so good when heard 'all around'. It shows how the historical conditions under which music is created affect the listening experience. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 65 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319221
- ISBN
- 9780822319221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.02
€ 28.02
This anthology is a study of European music spanning from the late sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. The volume can be used to accompany Music of the Baroque, or independently as a collection of study scores. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC3; AVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199942022
- ISBN
- 9780199942022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 215.29
€ 215.29
Paperback. This textbook is a concise survey of European music from 1600 through 1750 and is designed for junior/senior level courses in Baroque music. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199942015
- ISBN
- 9780199942015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 199.39
€ 199.39
Paperback. Provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Intended as a practical guide and an interpretive study, this book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice. Num Pages: 544 pages, 112 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; AVGC3; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415974004
- ISBN
- 9780415974004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. A reading of the letters between Mozart and his father, placing them in the context of the stylized strategies of the 18th-century epistolary tradition. The book argues that the letters reveal a rebelliousness deep within Mozart's life and work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JF; AVGC4; AVH; BGF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300075427
- ISBN
- 9780300075427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. In Experiencing Mozart: A Listener's Companion, music historian David Schroeder illustrates through the great composer's music how the issues he cared about so deeply in his time remain as pressing to modern listeners. Series: Listener's Companion. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442249196
- ISBN
- 9781442249196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.47
€ 49.47
Paperback. Features guitars that made history, that changed the course of music, that inspired new generations of players and listeners. This title features Torres' classical, the amazing Gibson L-5, Rickenbacker's Frying Pan, Les Paul's Log, B B King's Lucille, Willie Nelson's Trigger, and Eric Clapton's Brownie. Num Pages: 520 pages, 500 full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 105 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Number of pages
- 520
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761138006
- ISBN
- 9780761138006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Hardback. Breaking down walls between genres - classical, jazz, and popular, this book offers an integrated view of twentieth-century music. It demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVGJ; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580. 336 pages, Illustrations. Breaking down walls between genres - classical, jazz, and popular, this book offers an integrated view of twentieth-century music. It demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVGJ; AVGP. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 25. Weight: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245877
- ISBN
- 9780520245877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.95
€ 41.99
€ 29.95
Paperback. Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFR; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415473101
- ISBN
- 9780415473101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.72
€ 33.99
€ 32.72
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 246 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Insight Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608875504
- ISBN
- 9781608875504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 39.14
€ 45.99
€ 39.14
Paperback. Vampyr is a problematic film, partly because some of it is lost. But in what remains, there are problems too. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, a veteran dramatist and film-author reveals how, image by image, this difficult film systematically binds the spectator - spatially, and morally - into its unique world of the Undead. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 185 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844576449
- ISBN
- 9781844576449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.04
€ 17.99
€ 14.04
Paperback. Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AN; AVGC6; AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138248380
- ISBN
- 9781138248380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Paperback. Robinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of moving images precluding any notion of plot development or drama; and as a fledgling dramatic effort, ranging from prizefights to Passion plays. Num Pages: 248 pages, 158 photos, 16 in co. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103398
- ISBN
- 9780231103398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.42
€ 40.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. This intriguing text overturns a myth of film history by examining new evidence surrounding the authorship of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - a film that still exerts its gothic spell after nearly a century. A new introduction considers the place of German Expressionist cinema within the European revival of Gothic at the turn of the 20th century. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 188 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844576494
- ISBN
- 9781844576494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.99
€ 17.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. Charlie Chaplin is the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire; and the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the camera. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 928 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 201 x 45. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141977508
- ISBN
- 9780141977508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.81
€ 26.99
€ 18.81
Paperback. Felicia Pearson, star of the acclaimed TV series The Wire, reveals her incredible, hard-knock life story, one that dramatically parallels her tv character Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APB; APT; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446195195
- ISBN
- 9780446195195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.65
€ 20.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Here is the story of perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era--Etta James. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306812620
- ISBN
- 9780306812620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.12
€ 18.99
€ 14.12
Book. .
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 60
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780634009617
- ISBN
- 9780634009617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
€ 18.58
Hardback. This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and important, genre of the 1930s, and that the very qualities which ensured the comedy film's low status are also its particular strengths. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 303 pages, 20 halftones, 10 line illustrations, filmography, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; APFA; HBT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896030
- ISBN
- 9780859896030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.32
€ 134.32
Hardback. Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413921
- ISBN
- 9781421413921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.82
€ 35.99
€ 29.82