Theory of Music & Entertainment
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Theory of Music & Entertainment
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
€ 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
€ 97.15
€ 97.15
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
€ 30.99€ 24.62
€ 30.99
€ 24.62
Paperback. Kathleen Higgins argues that the arguments that Plato used to defend the ethical value of music are still applicable today. Music encourages ethically valuable attitudes and behavior, provides practice in skills that are valuable in ethical life, and symbolizes ethical ideals. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739120859
- ISBN
- 9780739120859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
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
€ 94.74€ 78.49
€ 94.74
€ 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€ 26.97
€ 33.99
€ 26.97
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
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Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647807
- ISBN
- 9780691647807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.85
€ 195.85
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
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
€ 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
€ 168.15€ 126.19
€ 168.15
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.87
€ 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
€ 56.25€ 51.80
€ 56.25
€ 51.80
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 42.99€ 38.36
€ 42.99
€ 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
€ 13.99
€ 11.62