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  • The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

    Aesthetic of Ambivalence

    by Taylor A. Greer ...
    At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice.As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual arts, global folk melodies, and contemporary European art music into a new musical language. The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The End of Early Music

    A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century

    by Bruce Haynes ...
    Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Music as an Art

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive ... Read more

    $18.39 USD

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    by Robert S. Hatten ...
    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by Andrew Shenton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Stravinsky and the Russian Period

    Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

    by Pieter C. van den Toorn, John McGinness ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Music as Discourse

    Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music

    by Kofi Agawu ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • An Introduction to Music Studies

    Edited by J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Jim Samson ...
    Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace. The book explains the basic concepts and issues involved in the academic study of music, draws attention to vital connections across the field and encourages critical thinking over a broad range ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • 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

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