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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 3

    Creative Responses to Bach, from Mozart to Hindemith

    by Thomas Christensen, Ludwig Finscher, Walter Frisch, Stephen Hinton, William Kinderman, Robert L. Marshall ...
    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.The third volume of the acclaimed series features a roster of scholars analyzing the crucial influence of J. S. Bach’s music ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

    by Reginald L. Sanders, Robin A. Leaver, Wye J. Allanbrook, Gregory Butler, Jason B. Grant, Mary Greer, Tanya Kevorkian, Kayoung Lee, Robert L. Marshall0, Martin Petzoldt1, Steven Saunders2, William H. Scheide3, Hans-Joachim Schulze4, Ruth Tatlow5, Yo Tomita6, Eric Chafe7, Mark A. Peters8, Markus Rathey0 ...
    Series series Contextual Bach Studies
    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 11

    J. S. Bach and His Sons

    by Robert L. Marshall, David Schulenberg, Evan Cortens, Christine Blanken ...
    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that explore these men’s lives and careers via distinctive and, in several cases, alternative and interdisciplinary methodologies.Robert L. Marshall traces how each of the sons grappled with—and at times suffocated beneath—their illustrious father’s legacy. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Pivotal Year

    How Freshmen Can Become Sophomores

    by Robert L. Marshall ...
    The failure of ninth grade students at the state and national level is astronomical and the percentage of students who are retained in the grade or drop out of school as a result has not changed significantly in the past ten years. Freshman year in high school is truly a pivotal year in the lives of many students and a few cost-effective and simple interventions can be implemented to change the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Franz Liszt and His World

    Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • 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

  • Brahms and His World

    Edited by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Bruckner - Mahler - Schoenberg

    by Dika Newlin ...
    The idea of this book originally came to me during my years of study with Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. At that time I was first introduced to the most "radical" works of Schoenberg-works virtually unknown in this country so far as public performances are concerned. I felt the need of a historical background which would explain the origins of the new style. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lies and Epiphanies

    Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg

    by Chris Walton ...
    Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their epiphanies played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler's Second Symphony was supposedly born of a "lightning bolt" of inspiration at the funeral of Hans von Bülow, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... Read more

    $22.39 USD