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  • Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music

    Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet

    by Peter H. Smith ...
    Series series Musical Meaning and Interpretation
    "This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expressive Intersections in Brahms

    Essays in Analysis and Meaning

    by Heather Platt, Peter H. Smith ...
    "This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today." — Nineteenth-Century Music ReviewContributors to this exciting volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms's music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America In Comparative Perspective

    New Approaches To Methods And Analysis

    by Peter H Smith ...
    This book highlights the necessity of analyzing Latin American society and politics within broad comparative frameworks. It explores methodological strategies for regional comparison and offers new approaches to the study of women, state power, corporatism, and political culture. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Approaches to Latin American History

    Edited by Richard Graham, Peter H. Smith ...
    New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history.Using as examples such subjects as salvery, dictatorship, immigration, and the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music

    Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet

    by Peter H. Smith ...
    "This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Beethoven

    by William Kinderman ...
    Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Classical Form

    A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    by William E. Caplin ...
    Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience

    by Kenneth Drake ...
    The definitive study of Beethoven's piano sonatas is "remarkable as an insider's account of the works in an individual perspective." ( European Music Teacher)In "one of the most interesting, useful and even exciting books on the process of musical creation" ( American Music Teacher), Kenneth O. Drake groups the Beethoven piano sonatas according to their musical qualities, rather than their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SchenkerGUIDE

    A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis

    by Thomas Pankhurst ...
    SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to undergraduate students since 2001.Divided into four parts, SchenkerGUIDE offers a step-by-step method to tackling ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Bach's Works for Solo Violin

    Style, Structure, Performance

    by Joel Lester ...
    J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Joel Lester, a highly regarded scholar, teacher, violinist, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Mozart's Piano Music

    by William Kinderman ...
    Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Comprehensive Musical Analysis

    by John D. White ...
    Now available in paperback! Evolved from the author's widely used book, The Analysis of Music (Prentice-Hall, 1975; 2nd. ed. Scarecrow Press, 1984), Comprehensive Music Analysis is a guide for acquiring the tools of musical analysis, skills which are essential to every serious musician and musical scholar. The new volume presents material on Heinrich Schenker and reductive linear analysis and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD