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  • Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Rachelle Taylor, Hank Knox ...
    Series series Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series
    The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

    by Jeffery Kite-Powell, Sally Sanford, Julianne C. Baird, Anne H. Heider, Gary Towne, Herbert Myers, Bruce Dickey, Steven Plank, John M. Cooper, David Douglas, Julie Andrijeski, Mark Kroll, Marc Vanscheeuwijck, Paul O'Dette, Stuart Cheney, Jack Ashworth, George Houle, Dorothy Olsson, James Middleton ...
    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Erik Satie

    by Mary E. Davis ...
    Series Book 14 - Critical Lives
    A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as ‘The Velvet Gentleman’ for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. Yet his legacy has largely languished in the shadows of Stravinsky, Debussy and ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Recorder

    A Research and Information Guide

    by Richard W. Griscom, David Lasocki ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Claude Vivier

    A Composer's Life

    by Bob Gilmore ...
    Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's archives and interviews with Vivier's family, teachers, friends, and colleagues, musicologist and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Debussy

    by Eric Frederick Jensen ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rare ability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies an engaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and lends mystery to what ultimately is an extremely refined and highly personal approach to composition. Equally fascinating is Debussy ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $16.59 USD

  • Maurice Ravel

    A Guide to Research

    by Stephen Zank ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Maurice Ravel: 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 composer and theorist. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

    Edited by Marion Kant ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD