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  • Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

    Venetian Nunneries and Their Music

    by Jonathan E. Glixon ...
    Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music explores the dynamic role of music performance and patronage in the convents of Venice and its lagoon from the sixteenth century to the fall of Venice around 1800. Examining sacred music performed by the nuns themselves and by professional musicians they employed, author Jonathan E. Glixon considers the nuns as collective ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

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    by John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in ... Read more

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  • In Tune With God

    by Lilianne Doukhan ...
    Worship and music have been intimately connected since biblical times. Yet music in worship has become a point of contention-a great chasm separating the young and the not-so-young, the conservative and the liberal, and, quite possibly, the members of the church you attend. Lilianne Doukhan takes on this sensitive issue with a remarkable combination of finesse and refreshing candor. Building upon ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Anton Bruckner

    The Man and the Work. 2. revised edition

    by Constantin Floros ...
    While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler – in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme instance of the tenacious power of prejudice. No less a figure than Gustav Mahler coined the aperçu about Bruckner ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Musical Romania and the Neighbouring Cultures

    Traditions – Influences – Identities- Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference- July 4–7 2013, Iaşi (Romania)

    Edited by Laura Vasiliu, Florin Luchian, Loredana Iatesen ...
    Series Book 2 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iaşi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iaşi in collaboration with the International Musicological Society. The volume includes 35 papers of 38 authors who represent academic centres in ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque

    The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque

    by Tomasz Jasiński ...
    Series Book 4 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book looks at the rich means of text interpretation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Polish music, a relatively unknown phenomenon. The works of old Polish masters exhibit many ingenious and beautiful solutions in musical oration, which will appeal to wide circles of lovers and experts of old music. One of the fundamental components of baroque musical poetics was music-rhetorical figures ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Orpheus in the Marketplace

    Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

    by Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite ...
    Series Book 10 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic ... Read more

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  • Plague and Music in the Renaissance

    by Remi Chiu ...
    Plague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A River Rather Than a Road

    The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience

    by Sarah Morgan, June Boyce-Tillman ...
    Series Book 3 - Music and Spirituality
    This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community choirs, including the use of English folksongmaterial in this context. Some useful arrangements of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Trumpets, Horns, and Bach «Abschriften» at the time of Christian Friedrich Penzel: Probing the Pedigree of «BWV» 143

    by Don Smithers ...
    There can be no doubt as to the authenticity of BWV 143 as a genuine cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. While the originals are lost, there are second and third «generation» copies. This study considers all known facts since the work’s composition in the 18th century and discusses in detail the criteria for judging the authenticity of the work. ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Music and Spirituality

    Edited by Robert Sholl, Sander Van Maas ...
    The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music.Contemporary Music and ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD