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  • Transforming U.S. Intelligence

    by Jennifer E. Sims, Burton Gerber, Ernest May, Amy Sands, John MacGaffin, James R. Gosler, Douglas MacEachin, Donald C. F. Daniel, James Simon0, Henry A. Crumpton1, Mark M. Lowenthal2, Britt Snider3 ...
    The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 2

    J. S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and Eighteenth-Century Music Trade

    by George B. Stauffer, Gregory G. Butler, Robert M. Cammarota, Peggy Daub, Andreas Glöckner, George R. Hill, Yoshitake Kobayashi, Ortrun Landmann, Ernest May, Hans-Joachim Schulze0, Neal Zaslaw1 ...
    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.From 1727 to 1787, the Bach and the Breitkopf families enjoyed close professional ties forged by the growing trade between ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Suez Deconstructed

    An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking

    by Philip Zelikow, Ernest May ...
    Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step. The Suez crisis of 1956—now little more than dim history for many people—offers a master class in statecraft. It was a potentially explosive Middle East confrontation capped by a surprise move that reshaped the region for years to come. It was a diplomatic crisis that riveted the world's attention. And it was a short but ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    by Christoph Wolff ...
    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Beethoven Encyclopedia

    by Paul Nettl ...
    This comprehensive A-to-Z reference is comprised of detailed and authoritative entries on every aspect of the great composer's life.Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous and revered composers in classical music. His instantly recognizable concertos and symphonies continue to be among the most performed by symphonies across the globe. In this definitive reference volume, eminent ... 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

  • Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass

    Edited by Yo Tomita, Robin A. Leaver, Jan Smaczny ...
    The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, it is considered by many to be the composer's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' at which scholars from eighteen countries gathered ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Sex, Death, and Minuets

    Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

    by David Yearsley ...
    Series series New Material Histories of Music
    "Insightful commentary on the Bach family's musical life and . . . the culture in which the Bachs lived. . . . Important and fascinating . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceAt one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701–60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Bach

    Edited by John Butt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Bach's Numbers

    Compositional Proportion and Significance

    by Ruth Tatlow ...
    In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister

    The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti

    by Sterling E. Murray ...
    Today the classical style is defined by the music of a handful of composers, Haydn and Mozart being the most prominent. As a result, the accomplishments of these masters have all but eclipsed the music of most of their contemporaries. In this book, Sterling Murray examines one of the most talented of this group, Antonio Rosetti. Born around 1750 and trained in Bohemia, Rosetti spent most of his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Paul Hindemith

    A Research and Information Guide

    by Stephen Luttmann ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides ... Read more

    $68.99 USD