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  • The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers

    Series series Dover Books On Music: Violin
    Along with the instruments of Stradivari and del Gesù, the violins of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini have long been favored by professional musicians for their responsiveness, tonal quality, and projection. Originally published in 1949 in a very limited edition, this study remains the most comprehensive account of G. B. Guadagnini's work and the legacy carried on by his descendants.Author Ernest N. ... Leer más

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    A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house.If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.Opera 101 is recognized as the ... Leer más

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  • The Red Priest: The Life of Antonio Vivaldi

    de James Fritz ...
    Born in Venice, Italy, Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most influential and highly regarded Baroque composers, although his fame blazed only briefly. He is most remembered for his concertos, particularly “The Four Seasons,” but his overall production was enormous, ranging from orchestral and vocal music for both secular and church settings, as well as opera scores and libretti. In addition, Vivaldi ... Leer más

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  • The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

    de George Hart ...
    "It is in connection with the Italian divisions of the book that the reader will discover, I venture to hope, information which he will regard as interesting in its character, besides being of somehistorical value. The greater part of this new matter has been obtained from original MSS. belonging to the trustees of the Civic Museum at Cremona, which Institution is located in the palacebequeathed ... Leer más

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  • Toscanini

    Musician of Conscience

    de Harvey Sachs ...
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  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Leer más

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  • Sounds and Sweet Airs

    The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    de Anna Beer ...
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  • The Gilded Stage

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  • Ticket to the Opera

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  • Stradivari's Genius

    Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection

    de Toby Faber ...
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  • A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

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    Series series Publications of the Early Music Institute
    Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of ... Leer más

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