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“robert o gjerdingen”

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  • 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 Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I

    The Eighteenth-Century Symphony

    by Simon McVeigh, Timothy Noonan, Allan Badley, Jeannette Morgenroth, Adena Portowitz, Paul R. Bryan, Judith L. Schwartz, Suzanne Forsberg, Robert O. Gjerdingen, Peter Alexander, Joanna Cobb Biermann, Sarah Mandel-Yehuda, René Ramos, R. Todd Rober, Michael E. Ruhling, Bertil H. van Boer, Richard Will, Jean K. Wolf, Sterling E. Murray, Marita McClymonds ...
    Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Musical Mind

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential.In Reflections ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Bel Canto

    A Performer's Guide

    by Robert Toft ...
    Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be turned into passionate declamation. In other words, vocalists ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi

    by Bella Brover-Lubovsky ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between traditional modal thinking and what would later be considered common-practice major-minor tonality ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music

    Edited by Robert Marshall ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
    18th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire. The book begins with an overview of the keyboard instruments that were in use during the period, and a chapter on performance practice. Then, the book proceeds through each major composer, beginning with Bach, and then progressing through the French Masters, Scarlatti, C.P.E and J.C. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

    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

  • Donizetti's Don Pasquale - Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series

    by Burton D. Fisher ...
    A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis. ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Cesario Gussago. Sonate a quattro, sei, et otti

    Edited by Andrew Dell'Antonio ...
    Series series Italian Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
    First Published in 1994. This book contains, previously unpublished, full scores of major works from the Renaissance and Early Baroque; analysing Sixteenth-century Italy, where one of the greatest flowerings of instrumental music in Western culture occurred. The print on which this volume is based, the Sonate a quattro, sei, et otto of 1608, comprises the entirety of Gussago's extant instrumental ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mindsight

    The New Science of Personal Transformation

    by Daniel J. Siegel M.D. ...
    From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can't shake?• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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