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  • The Voice of Music

    Conversations with Composers of Our Time

    Edited by Anders Beyer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. Extensive and generously illustrated interviews have been a feature of the lively Danish music periodical "Dansk Musik Tidsskrift" (Danish Music Review) since the 1960s. Now a long-standing tradition, these "conversations" with influential composers from all over the world are prepared by professional musicians and experienced writers on music. This volume ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • How to Listen to Great Music

    A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart

    by Robert Greenberg ...
    The perfect music gift from one of the most trusted names in continuing education. Learn how to better appreciate music in this guide that will unlock the knowledge you need to understand “the most abstract and sublime of all the arts.”Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beethoven

    by William Kinderman ...
    Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Music as Alchemy

    Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

    by Tom Service ...
    How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Modern Music and After

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Over three decades Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war and the struggles of the ensuing peace were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Gyorgy Ligeti

    by Richard Steinitz ...
    An illuminating study of the life and work of György Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time.For 50 years György Ligeti has pursued a boldly independent and uncompromising course, yet his music is widely loved and admired. Ever since Stanley Kubrick's (unsanctioned) use of his music on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, interest in Ligeti has extended far beyond ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Illegal Harmonies

    Music in the Modern Age

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”.In response to the noisiest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Music in the Nineteenth Century : The Oxford History of Western Music

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The War on Music

    Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

    by John Mauceri ...
    A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past centuryThis book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.Probing why so few ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Music in the Early Twentieth Century

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD