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  • Evening in the Palace of Reason

    Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

    de James Gaines ...
    In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.Behind the pomp and flash, Prussia's Frederick the Great was a tormented man, son of an abusive king who forced ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Winter Palace

    A Novel of Catherine the Great

    de Eva Stachniak ...
    From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Joni Mitchell

    In Her Own Words

    de Malka Marom ...
    When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    de Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Gigantic: The Story Of Frank Black And The Pixies

    de John Mendelssohn ...
    The influence and importance of The Pixies cannot be overestimated. Their style of broken, furious yet melodic and exceptionally catchy punk rock blazed a trail for such vital bands as Mudhoney and Nirvana, the grunge movement and the 90s British indie-rock sound. Bossanova and Surfer Rosa have become familiar members of the canon of great rock albums, although the group's initial career was cut ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Richard Wagner

    A Life in Music

    de Martin Geck ...
    Traducido por Stewart Spencer ...
    "[An] intriguing exploration of the composer's life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography." — Library JournalBest known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nailed to History: The Story of Manic Street Preachers

    de Martin Power ...
    Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one the UK's most enduring, intelligent and credible rocks groups, but that quest for greatness has been a difficult, sometimes torturous path; a path which one of their number – the gifted and troubled Richley Edwards – abandoned for destinations still unknown.Nailed To History traces the slow yet inexorable climb of the South Wales band from ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott

    The Never-Ending Highway

    de Hank Reineke ...
    Series series American Folk Music and Musicians Series
    The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for more than 50 years, and his life and career neatly parallel the ascension of folk music's "renaissance" from the 1940s through the present day. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • "On My Way"

    The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero."Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment—New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Grieg: Illustrated Lives Of The Great Composers

    de Robert Layton ...
    A series of biographies of the great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. This volume focuses on Grieg and draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

    Edición de Alain Frogley, Aidan J. Thomson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

    Edición de Daniel M. Grimley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibelius's work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD