Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: $129.76
Review An H.G. Wells Chronology (Author Chronologies) / Palgrave MacMillan:A detailed chronology of the life of H. G. Wells, tracing his career from his earliest writings to his world fame as a novelist, prophet and popular educator. The book brings to life his extraordinary energy and industry, and the wide range of his friendships and interests.
Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $129.99
Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.
Authors
- Philip R. Evans
- Linda K. Evans
Price: $35.00
Review Bix: The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story / Jazz Productions:
Publication date: 1995-11-28
Dewey code: 785.7194092
List Price: $65.00
Price: $129.99
Review The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven / Princeton University Press:This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration, whereas the last two, Opp. 131 and 135, reintegrate the language that Beethoven himself had destabilized. Through analyses that unearth peculiar features characteristic of the surface and of the deeper structures of the music, Chua interprets the "Galitzin" quartets as radical critiques of both music and society, a view first proposed by Theodore Adorno. From this perspective, the quartets necessarily undo the act of analysis as well, forcing the analytical traditions associated with Schenker and Schoenberg to break up into an eclectic mixture of techniques. Analysis itself thus becomes problematic and has to move in a dialectical and paradoxical fashion in order to trace Beethoven's logic of disintegration. [+]The result is a new way of reading these works that not only reflects the preoccupations of the German Romantics of that time and the poststructuralists of today, but also opens a discussion of cultural, political, and philosophical issues.
Creator: Hans Gaertner
Edition: Supplement
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 808
List Price: $232.00
Price: $232.00
Review Vitae Parallelae, vol. I, fasc. 1: Theseus et Romulus, Solon et Publicola, Themistocles et Camillus, Aristides et Cato maior, Cimon et Lucullus (Bibliotheca ... Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) / K.G. SAUR VERLAG:The first fascicle of the first Vitae volume contains biographies often needed by philologists and scholars of ancient history. In this edition, renowned international Plutarch specialist Hans Gärtner has included comprehensive "Addenda et Corrigenda" and misprint notes.
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Anton Bruckner - A Documentary Biography: Trial, Tribulation and Triumph in Vienna (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, Volume 83b) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study provides a fuller account of Bruckner's early and middle years than has hitherto been available, and supplements the more accessible information about his years in Vienna by drawing on a rich source of material in contemporary reviews of performances of his works, comparisons between him and Brahms, and the well-documented accounts of hostility between the "conservative" pro-Brahms faction (represented by Hanslick, Halbeck and others) and the "progressive" pro-Wagner and pro-Bruckner faction (represented by the Schalk brothers, Ferdinand Lowe and Hugo Wolf).
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: $29.95
Review The Marat/Sade Journals (Sad1) / Tundra Publishing Ltd.:
Publication date: 2002-08
Price: $175.00
Review Richard Hutten: Taking Form, Making Form / 010 Uitgeverij:
Publication date: 2002-01-10
Dewey code: 782.421660922
Price: $72.00
Review The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul / Oxford University Press, USA:The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life-composition, performance, recording and reception histories-from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles.
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Review Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician / Oxford University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $129.65
Review Trauma Texts / Routledge:These essays gathered from two special issues of the journal "Life Writing" take up a major theme of recent work in the "Humanities: Trauma". Autobiography has had a major role to play in this 'age of trauma', and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and where and why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic experiences be read. These essays deliberately set out to establish some new fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a broader global context, into various texts, media and artifacts, representing diverse histories with specific attention to different voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political effect and emotional affect. This book was previously published as a special issue of "Life Writing".
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American Singer and Social Activist (Black Studies, V. 14) / Edwin Mellen Press:Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African-American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among her own people as a tool for social change. Her efforts led to the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement. This work uses newspaper accounts and archive studies documenting Madame Hackley's tours cross-coutry and abroad to rasie funds for African-American classical musicians. It shows Hackley's intense devotion to her African-American roots, as she easily could have passed for white. Nevertheless, she traveled throughout the South in "Jim Crow" railway cars by choice. This work also recovers several of her influential published works, including "A guide to voice culture" (1909); "The coloured girl beautiful" (1916), an etiquette book for African-American women desiring professional jobs; and "hints to young coloured artists" a series of acticles designed to help young African-American classical musicans succed.
Publication date: 2003-11-30
Dewey code: 709
Price: $24.95
Review Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia / Minneola Press:Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia is anchored by Jack's reflections, dramatized by Hertz into first person narratives, of the early days of CalArts and the last days of Chouinard; the New York artworld; the trials and tribulations of finding and maintaining success; his inter-personal relationships; and his disappearance from the art scene. They are complemented by the dramatized first person narratives of Jack's friends, including John Baldessari, Troy Brauntuch, Rosetta Brooks, Jean Fisher, Robert Longo, Matt Mullican, and James Welling. There are provocative portraits of many well known personalities of the 80s, including Mary Boone, David Salle, and Helene Winer, all working at a time when "the competitive spirit was strong and often brutal, caring little about anything but oneself and making lots of money. " Has anything changed?.
Publication date: 2005-03-30
Review Baba Allaudin Khan (Lotus collection) / Roli Books Pvt Ltd:Biography of Ustad Allaudin Khan, 1881-1972, Hindustani musician and sarod player.
Creator: Jim Dale
Publication date: 2005-03-01
Dewey code: 791.43028092
Price: $35.00
Review The Complete Sid James / Reynolds & Hearn:Sid James rubbed shoulders with the great and good of Hollywood, including Charlie Chaplin, Burt Lancaster, and Lana Turner. He also battled opposite such top-line comedians as Arthur Askey, Stanley Holloway, and Peter Sellers, sang with Tommy Steele, and even danced with Joe Brown. Sid's classic television sitcoms included Citizen James, George and the Dragon, Two In Clover, and the celebrated Bless This House. The Complete Sid James is the indispensable guide to a career that began in South Africa and came to a premature end on the stage of the Sunderland Empire. Compiled with the full support of those who knew Sid best, this is a fitting tribute to a star whose legend lives on.
Publication date: 1987-12-09
Dewey code: 785.320924
Price: $58.00
Review Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring / University of California Press:
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 782.421680943
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review The Themes of the German Lied from Mozart to Strauss (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:A study that systematically maps and classifies the major German lieder according to the themes of their text. The author traces in detail the extent to which each theme has evolved from German folk-song, or derives from elsewhere, notably the Romantic period. This analysis also affords insights into the differing personalities of the major lieder composers. It constitutes a comprehensive reference-work, an encyclopedia of lieder themes.
Publication date: 1945-10-29
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Beethoven / French & European Pubns:
Creator: Angela M. Pilchak
Publication date: 2005-12-31
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $135.00
Price: $143.09
Review Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music (Contemporary Musicians) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2004-10-30
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $14.95
Price: $129.99
Review Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorized Biography / Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.:For more than 25 years, Iron Maiden has led the way in heavy metal -selling over 50 million records, setting trends, and influencing everyone from Metallica to Marilyn Manson. In this popular biography, now in its third edition, the authors interview individual band members and get their stories of how it all began, describe Maiden's rise to the top, and provide a general picture of the music industry.
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