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  • Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock)

    Edited by Brian Inglis, Barry Smith ...
    Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time. The volume also provides a new contextual, critical and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Natural and Supernatural: A History of the Paranormal

    by Brian Inglis ...
    Did Moses turn rods into serpents? Does Uri Geller bend spoons? Did Socrates and Joan of Arc have spirit guides? Did Daniel Home levitate? The 1970s provided a striking revival of interest in the paranormal which has continued unabated into the twenty first century.Telepathy ESP, clairvoyance, premonitions, and psychokinesis - the action of mind upon matter - it was not long ago that orthodox ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Coincidence: a Matter of Chance - or Synchronicity?

    by Brian Inglis ...
    In 1981 British Rail had a call from a woman who claimed to have had a vision of a fatal crash in which a freight train had been involved. So clear had it been, she said, that she not merely saw the blue diesel engine, but could read the number: 47 216. Two years later, an accident of the kind she predicted occurred, all the details matching - except one: the engines number was 47 299.That would ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Handel

    The Man & His Music

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    Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his ... Read more

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  • Nijinsky

    A Life

    by Lucy Moore ...
    'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre.Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the ... Read more

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  • Claude Debussy

    by David J. Code ...
    Series Book 31 - RB-Critical Lives
    French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that shaped his music—and in the process brings to life Debussy’s sardonic personality.Claude Debussy ... Read more

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  • A Queer History of the Ballet

    by Peter Stoneley ...
    Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Beethoven: His Life and Music

    by Jeremy Siepmann ...
    Beethoven bestrides the history of music like no other. Without him it would have been a very different story. This biographical portrait reveals a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No mans music is more universal; few mens lives are more inspiring. Yet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Life of Music

    New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

    by Nicholas Kenyon ...
    Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music—across time and cultures“At its lively best when Kenyon’s own passions are laid bare, . . . his belief, above all, in the power of music to unite individual and community.”—Fiona Maddocks, The ObserverImmersed in music for much of his life as writer, broadcaster and concert presenter, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Music: Ideas in Profile

    by Andrew Gant ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile SeriesIs music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language.Andrew Gant introduces us to its long history and its many genres and manifestations. He explains how composers compose, ... Read more

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  • Handel

    by Donald Burrows ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex ... Read more

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  • Five Straight Lines

    A History of Music

    by Andrew Gant ...
    'Fascinating ... Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.' BBC History MagazineWhether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music?Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in ... Read more

    $16.79 USD