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Oxford Keynotes eBook Series

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  • Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa

    by Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Pärt broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes tells the story of Tabula Rasa as one of Pärt and of Europe itself, traced over the course of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Songs That Saved Your Life (Revised Edition)

    The Art of The Smiths 1982-87

    by Simon Goddard ...
    One of the seminal groups of the Eighties, The Smiths' career was as brilliant as it was brief. Now, drawing on interviews with band members, producers, and colleagues, music journalist Simon Goddard presents a meticulous chronological survey of the group's musical evolution, from their first demos in 1982 to their final fractured studio session five years later.Investigating the stories behind ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History

    by Chuck D ...
    A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre-until now.Based on Chuck's long-running show on Rapstation.com, this ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • Oasis' Definitely Maybe

    by Mr Alexander Niven ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    A brilliant study of Oasis' debut album, highlighting the band's massive cultural impact and the raw, positive power of those early songs.Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Nick Drake's Pink Moon

    by Amanda Petrusich ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thirty years after its release. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Program Music

    by Jonathan Kregor ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Music
    Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Harry Partch, Hobo Composer

    by S. Andrew Granade ...
    Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the Fury, and his use of highly sophisticated instruments of his own creation, Partch is still regularly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Late Voice

    Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music

    by Dr. Richard Elliott ...
    Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers and songwriters of a 'late voice'. Lateness here refers to five primary issues: chronology (the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century

    A Cultural History of the Songster

    Edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding ...
    This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Schubert's Late Music

    History, Theory, Style

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Julian Horton ...
    Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Barefoot Composer

    by Iacopo Del Panta ...
    A chat about music between the serious (little) and the facetious (much more) in search of the perfect form in the expression of feeling "In this book I talk about my vision of music and musical aesthetic, starting with the explanation of my main compositions, and going through the story of my personal experience, my education and how I grew up in music and beyond. A book in which I tell my ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus