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“marina lobanova”

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  • Musical Style and Genre

    History and Modernity

    by Marina Lobanova ...
    Translated by Kate Cook ...
    This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as too avant-garde and published there only in a bowdlerized version in 1990.Drawing on baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary music, Dr. Lobanova proposes an original concept of musical syntax with special emphasis on the role of the categories of time, space, and motion. Embracing ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • 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

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  • Music in the Nineteenth Century : The Oxford History of Western Music

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  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
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  • Music as an Art

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive ... Read more

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  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

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  • Music in the Early Twentieth Century

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by Andrew Shenton ...
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