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  • Not without Madness

    Perspectives on Opera

    by Fabrizio Della Seta ...
    Translated by Mark Weir ...
    Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, Not without Madness presents new analytical approaches to thinking about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera through the ... Read more

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    Music and Literature Against the Grain

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists."These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, London Review of Books**Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    by Philip Gossett ...
    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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 Baroque Violin & Viola

    A Fifty-Lesson Course Volume I

    by Walter S. Reiter ...
    In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Opera

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Alexandra Wilson ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Opera is often dismissed as outdated and excessive, and perceived to be characterised by excessive passions, sumptuous costumes, and ill-mannered divas. In reality, however, operas address the most fundamental and universal of human concerns - love, death, jealousy, greed, and power. Revealing the diverse reasons behind opera's lasting appeal, opera champion and expert Alexandra Wilson provides a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

    Edited by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Child Composers in the Old Conservatories

    How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

    by Robert O. Gjerdingen ...
    In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system of conservatori was created to house, nurture, and train these fanciulli vaganti (roaming children) to become hatters, shoemakers, tailors, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Solfeggio Tradition

    A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Nicholas Baragwanath ...
    How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education method that was fundamental to the training of European musicians between 1680 and 1830 — a time during which professional ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes styles and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Baroque Violin & Viola, vol. II

    A Fifty-Lesson Course

    by Walter S. Reiter ...
    In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

    $43.19 USD