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Contextual Bach Studies eBook Series

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  • J. S. Bach's 'Leipzig' Chorale Preludes

    Music, Text, Theology

    by Anne Leahy ...
    Series series Contextual Bach Studies
    In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46. She was a leading light in Bach studies and lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Conservatory of Music and Drama. Posthumously edited by renowned Bach scholar Robin A. Leaver, Leahy's dissertation research forms the basis for this original study of the preludes to Bach's Leipzig chorales.Originally composed in Weimar ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    by Walter Kolosky ...
    This eBook text version of "Follow Your Heart" takes you on a fascinating journey of the music of John McLaughlin -- song by song. The tour guide is Walter Kolosky, author of the award winning Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is aided by a foreword written by Chick Corea, expert musicologists and exclusive insights from John McLaughlin himself."Follow ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beethoven - His Spiritual Development

    by J. W. N. Sullivan ...
    First published in 1927, J. W. N. Sullivan's “Beethoven - His Spiritual Development” explores the subject of Beethoven's spirituality, which the author believes he expressed through his greatest musical compositions. Contents include: “Art and Reality”, “Music as Isolated”, “Music as Expression”, “Beethoven’s Characteristics”, “The Morality of Power”, “The Mind of Beethoven”, “The Hero”, “The End ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart

    by Julian Rushton ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills--he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart

    by Sir Nicholas Kenyon ...
    Why is Mozart the best known and most popular of all the great Western classical composers? As the 250th anniversary of his birth approaches, his reputation stands higher than ever before. This lively new Pocket Guide assesses what Mozart means to us today, and explores why his music is so enduringly valued by listeners.The Guide aims to tell the general reader and listener in concise form all ... Read more

    $9.99 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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  • Johnny Cash's American Recordings

    by Tony Tost ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    This title offers a superb investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who, like his fellow Highwaymen Willie, Waylon and Kris, remained a fondly regarded yet completely marginalized Nashville figure, unheard on the radio and unseen on the charts. Cash ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • John Field and the Nocturne

    by Allan J. Wagenheim ...
    John Field is the most misunderstood composer in the history of classical music. The author, a former educator, classical pianist, and member of the Aldenori Piano Trio, finally sets the record straight. Pianists both professional and amateur, educators, teachers of piano performance, and musicologists who want to meet the real John Field and understand his finest creations, the nocturnes, will ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A History of the Oratorio

    Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A History of the Oratorio, 4 volumes, Omnibus E-book

    Includes all four volumes of A History of the Oratorio

    by Howard E. Smither ...
    The University of North Carolina Press is proud to announce Howard Smither’s ground-breaking four-volume A History of the Oratorio, are now available in one convenient Omnibus E-Book edition. Published as UNC Press Enduring Editions, these volumes bring Smither’s landmark scholarship to a new generation of readers and scholars.Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American ... Read more

    $311.99 CAD

  • Singing Jeremiah

    Music and Meaning in Holy Week

    by Robert L. Kendrick ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on European cultures during the mid-16th century, when devotional trends surrounding liturgical music ... Read more

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  • Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow

    by Walter Frisch ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    "Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity in which composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg poignantly captured the hope and anxiety harbored by ... Read more

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