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  • The Viola da Gamba

    by Bettina Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Paul Ferguson ...
    The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Mozart

    by Julian Rushton ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills--he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Pathetick Musician

    Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    by Bruce Haynes, Geoffrey Burgess ...
    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Verdi

    by Julian Budden ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

    by Jeffery Kite-Powell ...
    Series series Publications of the Early Music Institute
    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Performing Pitch

    The Story of 'A'

    by Bruce Haynes ...
    This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries. Written from a practical perspective and addressed to performers it is the first book to attach frequency values to pitch names and describe where, when, and why various historical pitch levels were used. It surveys a period from the 16th century to the present and focuses on Italy ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Opera Singer's Career Guide

    Understanding the European Fach System

    by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis ...
    Any singer longing to have a career in opera, particularly in Europe, should be familiar with the European system of classifying voices know as Fach. The Opera Singer's Career Guide: Understanding the European Fach System presents valuable information to help readers learn, understand, and use the Fach system to their professional advantage. More than just soprano, alto, tenor, or bass, students ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Music in the Galant Style

    by Robert Gjerdingen ...
    Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Language of the Modes

    Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality

    by Frans Wiering ...
    Series series Criticism and Analysis of Early Music
    The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • MOZART P

    by Stanley Sadie ...
    Few people these days would question Mozart's rating as the most popular of all classical composers. Yet there exists no substantial, up-to-date English-language study of the man and his works. In this study of Mozart's early years, Stanley Sadie aims to fill this gap in the form of a traditional biography on a straightforward chronological basis. The volume covers the period up to 1781, the year ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Clarinet in the Classical Period

    by Albert R. Rice ...
    A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets. Rice also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Performance of 16th-Century Music

    Learning from the Theorists

    by Anne Smith ...
    Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century ... Read more

    $42.29 USD