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  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

    by Jeffery Kite-Powell, Sally Sanford, Julianne C. Baird, Anne H. Heider, Gary Towne, Herbert Myers, Bruce Dickey, Steven Plank, John M. Cooper, David Douglas, Julie Andrijeski, Mark Kroll, Marc Vanscheeuwijck, Paul O'Dette, Stuart Cheney, Jack Ashworth, George Houle, Dorothy Olsson, James Middleton ...
    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of English Music

    ca. 1400-1958

    by Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. Some of the truly great "English" composers figuring in this ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals.In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend -- the piano itself. Drawing upon a lifetime of wisdom and ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Bach

    The Search for Transcendence in Sound

    by Paul Elie ...
    The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

    by George Alexander Fischer ...
    Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven's life, this book enhances understanding of the composer's character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work.George Alexander Fischer illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his ... Read more

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  • On Playing the Flute

    by Johann Joachim Quantz ...
    Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice. In spite of its title, it is not simply a tutor for the flute, but a fully-fledged programme for training musicians of all types, with detailed information on intonation, ornamentation, dynamics, the 'duties' of the various accompanying ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • And the Band Begins to Play. Part Three: The Definitive Guide to the Beatles’ A Hard Day's Night

    by Steve Lambley ...
    And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Three examines the LP A Hard Day's Night and associated singles.Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to record, from the first EMI session in 1962 to their acrimonious break-up in 1970. In short, this 12 ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gilded Stage

    A Social History of Opera

    by Daniel Snowman ...
    Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influential art-form: operaFrom its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy opera has permeated through Europe, America, and beyond, becoming a global business in the digital age. This history unwraps the story of opera from the charm and chaos ... Read more

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  • Complete Guitar Workout

    by Ashley J. Saunders ...
    This is the ultimate guide for every Guitarist! Inside you'll discover the 10 eBooks which make up the Basic Guitar Series as well as the 10 eBooks which form the Advanced Guitar Series.Simply put this one manual contains a lifetime of learning. Using this ebook, you will learn:- Over 600 chords- Music theory basics- The CAGED system- Scales- Rhythms in common and odd time signatures- Big band ... Read more

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  • The Pathetick Musician

    Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    by Bruce Haynes, Geoffrey Burgess ...
    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Classic Rock

    A guide to the best rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s

    by Brian Westland ...
    From a 2014 perspective, the classic rock era falls basically between the years of 1965 and 1985, It is the rock music produced during these years that is the focus of this book. The book serves as a guide to that music, as well as later recordings produced by the artists that came to prominence during the classic rock era.The book provides biographical information on the greats of classic rock ... Read more

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  • Talent Education and Your Child

    by Phillip L Scheldt ...
    Your Child and You in Talent Education is a brief history of Talent Education. The "method" has swept throughout the world and was built upon the idea that ALL children can learn. The method was first called "Listen and Play".When we consider how difficult it is for adults to master a foreign language, we must admit that the ability among children must be very high. Talent in general is thought to ... Read more

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