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  • Music and the Renaissance

    Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation

    Edited by Philippe Vendrix ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music
    This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    by Nick Tosches ...
    A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Verdi's Rigoletto

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    by Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    From the première of Rigoletto at Venice's La Fenice in 1851, the Duke's La donna è mobile caught on with the public and has done much to ensure the ongoing popularity of Verdi's opera about the body in the sack. Rigoletto, the sarcastic court jester, is cursed by a nobleman who he has mocked. Subsequent events see the curse realised, as Rigoletto's daughter Gilda is kidnapped, raped, and later ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Music

    The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

    by Mr. Michael Haas ...
    With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Rock Obituaries - Knocking On Heaven's Door

    by Nick Talevski ...
    The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature especially when it involves our icons celebrities and musicians. Knocking On Heavens Door is the definitive book of rock n roll pop R&B and blues deaths. Often only the biggest selling artists are written about and sometimes it is the death of a personality that cements their iconic status. Knocking On ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Showtime At The Apollo

    The Story of Harlem's World Famous Theater

    by Ted Fox ...
    Showtime at the Apollo is the definitive history of Harlem’s world-famous showplace. Home to nearly every great black star including: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Richard Pryor, Gladys Knight, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Redd Foxx, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn and “Bojangles” Robinson, – the theater still hosts contemporary luminaries like The Roots, Mary J. Blige, Chris Rock, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Who's The Who Sell Out

    by John Dougan ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness; 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mozart's Grace

    by Scott Burnham ...
    Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Leitmotif

    From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

    by Matthew Bribitzer-Stull ...
    The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Composing for the Red Screen

    Prokofiev and Soviet Film

    by Kevin Bartig ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people heard his film music than his efforts in all other genres combined. Films for which Prokofiev composed, ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening

    by Jonathan D. Kramer ...
    Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Music in the Early Twentieth Century

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD