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  • 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

  • Bach, Handel and Scarlatti

    Reception in Britain 1750–1850

    by Mark Kroll ...
    Series series Elements in Music and Musicians 1750-1850
    The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Domenico Scarlatti received more performances, publications and appreciation in Britain between 1750–1850 than in any other country during this era. The compositions of these three seminal baroque composers were heard in the numerous public and private concerts that proliferated at this time; edited, arranged and published for ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord

    Edited by Mark Kroll ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Written by fourteen leading experts in the field, this Companion covers almost every aspect of the harpsichord - the history of the instrument, tuning systems, the role of the harpsichord in ensemble, its use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes separate chapters devoted to Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach and Handel. Chapters featuring almost every national style are written by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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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

    $49.49 USD

  • The Classical Music Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Classic Music in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Classical Music Insights

    Understanding and Enjoying Great Music

    by Betsy Schwarm ...
    If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming to experiment with great music, here are guideposts to help you understand and enjoy what you encounter. The stories and sounds behind the scenes: welcome to Classical Music ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings

    The Must-Have CDs and DVDs

    by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Paul Czajkowski ...
    INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARThis completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • 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

    $33.59 USD

  • Early Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Forrest Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Choral Masterworks

    A Listener's Guide

    by Michael Steinberg ...
    Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more ... Read more

    $16.19 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

  • Fanfares and Finesse

    A Performer's Guide to Trumpet History and Literature

    by Elisa Koehler ...
    "A concise guide linking the history of trumpet to performance . . . includes information on band music, bugle calls, orchestral repertoire, and jazz." — American Reference Books AnnualUnlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the ... Read more

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