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  • Schubert

    A Musical Wayfarer

    by Lorraine Bodley ...
    An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical geniusBrilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.In ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Schubert's Goethe Settings

    by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    The traditional approach to the study of Goethe and Schubert is to place them in opposition to one another, both in terms of their life experiences and in relation to the nineteenth-century Lied. In her introduction to this book, Lorraine Byrne examines the myths that have evolved around these artists and challenges the view that Goethe was unmusical and conservative in his musical tastes. She ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • A Hazardous Melody of Being

    Seóirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail

    by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    Series Book 795 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition.This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Schubert

    A Musical Wayfarer

    by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 45 min

    An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical geniusBrilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.In ... Read more

    Was $48.99 CAD Now $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Schubert's Late Music

    History, Theory, Style

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Julian Horton ...
    Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Music Preferred

    Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honour of Harry White

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a broad timeframe. But for all its variety, this volume is built around two axes: on the one hand, attention is focussed on the history of music and literature in Ireland and the British Isles, and on the other, topics of the German and ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Schubert

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Julian Horton ...
    In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him. Subjecting recurring issues in historical, biographical and analytical research to renewed scrutiny, the twenty-two chapters yield new insights into Schubert, his music, his influence and his legacy, and broaden the interpretative context for the music ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • A Community of the Imagination

    Seoirse Bodley's Goethe Settings

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    Series Book 792 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    In this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Seóirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction. ... Read more

    $52.19 CAD

  • Proserpina

    Goethe's Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein, Orchestral Score, Piano Reduction, and Translation

    Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley ...
    Series Book 796 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    In his early twenties Goethe wrote Proserpina for the Weimar court singer Corona Schröter to perform. His interest in presenting Weimar’s first professional singer-inresidence in a favourable light was not the only reason why this monologue with music (now lost) by Seckendorff is important. Goethe’s memories of his sister Cornelia, who had recently died in childbirth, were in fact the real ... Read more

    $38.59 CAD

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  • Retracing a Winter's Journey

    Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

    by Susan Youens ...
    "I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too," Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Schubert's Winter Journey

    Anatomy of an Obsession

    by Ian Bostridge ...
    Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties

    Translations and Considerations

    by John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD