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  • Children of New Rome

    A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of the Late Roman World

    by Matthew Riley, TBD ...
    Series Book 1 - Children of New Rome
    The empire did not fall. It simply went on, and you are inside it.Children of New Rome is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the Eastern Roman Empire of the ninth century - the long-lived Christian empire ruled from Constantinople that historians later called Byzantium. It is a real time and a real place, and this book takes it seriously.You do not play emperors or legends. You play the people ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • English Diatonic Music 1887-1955

    by Matthew Riley ...
    Much English music from the 1890s through the 1950s stands out for its intensive diatonicism: a studied avoidance of chromaticism and an elaboration of the expressive possibilities of purely diatonic writing. This music attempted to convey metaphysical thoughts, elevated feelings, eternity, and at times mysticism and ecstasy. English Diatonic Music 1887-1955 explores this unique stylistic movement ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960

    Edited by Matthew Riley ...
    Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nation and Classical Music

    From Handel to Copland

    by Matthew Riley, Anthony D. Smith ...
    This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, sounds and resonances to be found in the repertory of each of the nations. Its scope is broad, extending well beyond the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment

    Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

    by Matthew Riley ...
    The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century. Those critics explained numerous technical features of the music of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

    Edited by Jim Samson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the ... Read more

    Was $45.99 USD Now $31.99 USD

  • Edward Elgar and His World

    Edited by Byron Adams ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

    Edited by Jonathan Cross ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth century and engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. This Companion reflects the breadth of Stravinsky's achievement and influence in essays by leading international scholars on a wide range of topics. It is divided into three parts dealing with the contexts within which Stravinsky worked (Russian, modernist and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

    Edited by Robin Stowell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Discover the Symphony

    by Andrew Huth ...
    From modest beginnings in eighteenth-century Italy, the symphony soon developed into the highest form of western instrumental music at the hands of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The symphony became a big, public form that used the community of the orchestra to address the community of the audience. After two and a half centuries of the most varied masterpieces, the symphony still remains an ideal ... Read more

    $6.99 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

    $10.19 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

    $16.79 USD