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  • Two Plus Two Always Equals Four

    Guide for Small Business Owners Who Want to Make Profits.

    by William Weber ...
    As you read this book you will see yourself in each chapter. Many owners were amazed that no one had ever taught them the basics including break-even. This is a simplified guide to basic business principles that are not taught by many business professionals. It has actual examples and true stories of business owners experiences. This book is easy to read and understand but has powerful lessons ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700–1914

    Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists

    Edited by William Weber ...
    "Marries scholarly discipline with intriguing reading . . . The book will satisfy the thirst of historians, musicians and perhaps even an economist or two." — American Music TeacherTo be successful, a musician often has to be an entrepreneur: someone who starts a performing venue, develops patrons, and promotes the project aggressively. Accomplishing this requires musicians to acquire social and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press

    Lully to Wagner

    by William Weber, Beverly Wilcox ...
    This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being taken as models. In a series of interlinked essays, William Weber draws particular attention to the ways in which such ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon

    Edited by Cormac Newark, William Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too — this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Neither Victor nor Vanquished

    America in the War of 1812

    by William Weber ...
    In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812 comes Neither Victor nor Vanquished, William WeberÆs reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict. ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Music and the Middle Class

    The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna between 1830 and 1848

    by William Weber ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are ones which scholars today continue to grapple with: the nature of the middle class(es) and their role ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
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  • The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

    A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

    by David Schoenbaum ...
    The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or ... Read more

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  • Debussy

    by Eric Frederick Jensen ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rare ability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies an engaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and lends mystery to what ultimately is an extremely refined and highly personal approach to composition. Equally fascinating is Debussy ... Read more

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  • Franz Liszt, Volume 1

    The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847

    by Alan Walker ...
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    Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has been recognized. This new perspective has created the need for a fresh, full-scale approach, ... Read more

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  • When Ballet Became French

    Modern Ballet and the Cultural Politics of France, 1909-1939

    by Ilyana Karthas ...
    For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing. It was not until Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes found success in Paris during the first decade of the new century that France embraced the opportunity to restore ballet to its former glory and ... Read more

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  • César Franck

    His Life and Times

    by R. J. Stove ...
    César Franck (1822–1890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century. A number of his works are commonly recorded—such as his Symphony in D Minor, Symphonic Variations, Violin Sonata, and the ever-popular Panis Angelicus—and yet 38 years have elapsed since a biography of him appeared in English.Now with César Franck: His Life and Times, R. J. ... Read more

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