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  • Film, Music, Memory

    by Berthold Hoeckner ...
    Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of individual and collective memory. Berthold Hoeckner analyzes three critical processes through which ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Programming the Absolute

    Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment

    by Berthold Hoeckner ...
    Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, and Schoenberg, whose private messages and public predicaments are emblematic for the ... Read more

    $137.49 CAD

  • Apparitions

    Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

    by Berthold Hoeckner ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
    Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • The Schenker Project

    Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

    by Nicholas Cook ...
    Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

    Edited by Jennifer Shaw, Joseph Auner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • György Ligeti's Cultural Identities

    Edited by Amy Bauer, Márton Kerékfy ...
    Since György Ligeti’s death in 2006, there has been a growing acknowledgement of how central he was to the late twentieth-century cultural landscape. This collection is the first book devoted to exploring the composer’s life and music within the context of his East European roots, revealing his dual identities as both Hungarian national and cosmopolitan modernist. Contributors explore the artistic ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

    $9.99 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

    $46.99 CAD

  • A Theory of Adaptation

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminine Endings

    Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Susan Mcclary ...
    A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD