Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jeanne gregory”
Skip side bar filters

  • Policing Sexual Assault

    by Jeanne Gregory, Sue Lees ...
    Policing Sexual Assault provides a detailed account of current police practice in the UK in response to sexual assault. The authors use case studies and interviews to find out why when the number of rape cases has almost trebled since 1985, the proportion of cases resulting in a conviction has dropped from 24% to 8.6%. Chapters cover:an overview of existing researchpolice culturepolice recording ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 6

    J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture

    by Joshua Rifkin, Jeanne Swack, Steven Zohn ...
    Series series Bach Perspectives
    The sixth volume in the Bach Perspectives series opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite. Rifkin elaborates on his discovery that the work in its present form for solo flute goes back to an earlier version in A minor, ostensibly for solo violin. He also takes the discovery as the point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion of the ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    The Learned Musician

    by Christoph Wolff ...
    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... Read more

    $25.79 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

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach

    by Sir Nicholas Kenyon ...
    The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries.This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and ... Read more

    $9.89 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

  • Bach

    A Musical Biography

    by Peter Williams ...
    J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach: A Life in Music, revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music. Reviewing all ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

    by David Schulenberg ...
    The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world.Intended as both a practical guide and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Bach's Works for Solo Violin

    Style, Structure, Performance

    by Joel Lester ...
    J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Joel Lester, a highly regarded scholar, teacher, violinist, ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Brahms

    Edited by Michael Musgrave ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bach's Feet

    The Organ Pedals in European Culture

    by David Yearsley ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents an interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD