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Paperback. In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11. BIC Classification: AB; AVA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195098723
ISBN
9780195098723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.67

Paperback. aeo This is a clear and straightforward introduction to the main issues raised by the study of popular music, written by a leading authority in the field. aeo It is wide--ranging and covers the main studies and theoretical contributions to the field, including studies of the industry, and of the reception and use of popular music in everyday life. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGF; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745613185
ISBN
9780745613185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.88

Hardback. A collection of essays that address the ways that writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, critics, and scholars speak of music from varying standpoints and in varying ways. An introduction to the volume identifies common themes and issues. Editor(s): Chapin, Keith. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823251384
ISBN
9780823251384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.77

Hardback. Musical understanding has evolved dramatically, principally through an appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This book examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value. Editor(s): Chapin, Keith. Num Pages: 226 pages, 23 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230099
ISBN
9780823230099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.74

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Martin, Ian. Num Pages: 96 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 5AK; AVA; YNC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 258 x 186 x 6. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851621814
ISBN
9780851621814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.62

Hardcover. From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. This title investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226333281
ISBN
9780226333281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 78.49

Paperback. Music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. The author investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142852
ISBN
9780226142852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.76

Paperback. Philosophers on Music presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Aestheticians, musicologists, music practitioners, and those interested in philosophy generally will find the papers in this volume rewarding reading. Editor(s): Stock, Kathleen. Num Pages: 274 pages, 25 musical examples. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199587995
ISBN
9780199587995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. Confronting a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons. Editor(s): Bergeron, Katherine; Bohlman, Philip V. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226043708
ISBN
9780226043708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.29

hardcover. "On Track" offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415941358
ISBN
9780415941358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.30

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634636216
ISBN
9781634636216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.00
€ 126.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 100 b&w illustrations, 14 colour plates. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 264 x 191 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816651597
ISBN
9780816651597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199755424
ISBN
9780199755424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.26

Paperback. A groundbreaking look into the connections between music, dance, emotion, and trance Num Pages: 210 pages, 17 b&w photos, 26 figures, 8 color photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AVA; JHMC; JMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216724
ISBN
9780253216724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415239
ISBN
9781421415239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.20
€ 51.96

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
€ 29.91

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JJ; AVA; AVGC4; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319476407
ISBN
9783319476407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; VSP; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 34. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892812653
ISBN
9780892812653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.36

Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGR; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 124 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623561833
ISBN
9781623561833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Editor(s): Sterne, Jonathan A. C. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415771313
ISBN
9780415771313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.68

Hardback. Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our lives. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 228 pages, 60 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465625
ISBN
9781580465625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardback. This text provides conductors with the information necessary to select choral-orchestral works suitable to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles. It also provides them with the history of each piece and a detailed evaluation of performance issues for the choir, orchestra, and soloists. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842069
ISBN
9780810842069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 b/w illus., 48 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691177762
ISBN
9780691177762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.78

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