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  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Biography, 'Memoirs' and 'Recollections of Anton Rubinstein'

    by Graham Griffiths ...
    Series series Elements in Women in Music
    Leokadiya Kashperova's romantic compositions were highly regarded by Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui, and by Balakirev whose works she premiered and recorded. In 1907, Kashperova performed her own compositions to critical acclaim in Leipzig, Berlin and London. After the 1917 Revolution following her death in 1940, her name joined her fine music in historical anonymity and oblivion. This Element is the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

    Numerical and Analytical Methods with Matlab and Maple

    by Graham Griffiths, William E. Schiesser ...
    Although the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) models that are now studied are usually beyond traditional mathematical analysis, the numerical methods that are being developed and used require testing and validation. This is often done with PDEs that have known, exact, analytical solutions. The development of analytical solutions is also an active area of research, with many advances being ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Stravinsky in Context

    Edited by Graham Griffiths ...
    Series series Composers in Context
    Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Stravinsky's Piano

    Genesis of a Musical Language

    by Graham Griffiths ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's musical upbringing in St Petersburg with emphasis on his education at the hands of two extraordinary ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Teaching Adult Numeracy: Principles & Practice

    by Graham Griffiths, Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead ...
    The first book in the UK to specifically target adult numeracy teacher training, it is useful to both trainee teachers & trainers. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Jean Sibelius and His World

    Edited by Daniel M. Grimley ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    by Alex Ross ...
    **Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World** Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its m... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Classical Music Insights

    Understanding and Enjoying Great Music

    by Betsy Schwarm ...
    If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming to experiment with great music, here are guideposts to help you understand and enjoy what you encounter. The stories and sounds behind the scenes: welcome to Classical Music ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A History of Opera

    The Last Four Hundred Years

    by Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker ...
    Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Singer's Notebook

    by Ian Bostridge ...
    Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical music through the eyes of someone ... Read more

    $12.99 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

    $12.99 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

    $42.99 CAD