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  • The Doctrine of One

    Personal Encounters with Film, Art and Music

    by Michael Beckerman ...
    This volume is a bold and original meditation on how we interpret art, music, and culture—and what it means to listen, see, and feel differently from others. Drawing on Czech history and aesthetics, the book moves from filmmaker Hugo Haas’s coded tributes to his murdered brother, to the haunting ex libris designs of Josef Váchal, to the deeply personal resonances of Schubert’s chamber music, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classical Music

    Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges

    by Michael Beckerman, Paul Boghossian ...
    This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the twenty-first century. With insights drawn from leading composers, performers, academics, journalists, and arts administrators, special focus is placed on classical music’s defining traditions, challenges and contemporary scope. Innovative in structure and approach, the volume comprises ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tripod

    by George Beckerman, Michael Beckerman ...
    “Tripod” is a children’s picture book about a three-legged dog who feels inadequate. He goes off on a quest to find his fourth leg and realizes that he can do things on three legs that other dogs can’t do on four. Self-confidence gained, inadequate feeling gone. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martinu and His World

    Edited by Aleš Brezina, Michael Beckerman ...
    A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the composer in all his complexity. Born in the present-day Czech Republic, Martinů was rendered stateless as a result of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kaprálová Companion

    by Timothy Cheek, Judith Mabary, Jindriska Bártová, Michael Beckerman ...
    The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list of published works, The Kaprálová Companion is an essential, comprehensive guide to the composer's life ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Music and Displacement

    Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

    by Sean Campbell, Ruth F. Davis, Björn Heile, Jehoash Hirshberg, Sydney Hutchinson, Max Paddison, Peter Petersen, Jim Samson, Philip V. Bohlman, Michael Beckerman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • From My Life

    The Autobiography of Eduard Hanslick

    by Tom Moore ...
    From My Life, the autobiography of the famed music critic Eduard Hanslick, appeared toward the end of his life, in 1894, when it went through three printings. It was republished in 1911, and again, more recently, in 1987, by Bärenreiter, and in 2011, by Taschenbuch. Born in Prague, Hanslick studied piano with Tomaschek, and though, like other compatriots and contemporaries, he studied law and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD