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  • Musicking

    The Meanings of Performing and Listening

    Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Christopher Small Reader

    The Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book in Christopher Small's legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, friend, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It is at once a compendium of, a complement to, and an important addition to Small's prior books: Musicking; Music, Society, Education; and Music of the Common Tongue. The Christopher Small Reader brings ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Music, Society, Education

    Collections series Music / Culture
    Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Music of the Common Tongue

    Survival and Celebration in African American Music

    Collections series Music / Culture
    In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Music In The Late Twentieth Century

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $40.79 CAD

  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    par Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Modern Music and After

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $42.39 CAD

  • Who Needs Classical Music?

    Cultural Choice and Musical Value

    par Julian Johnson ...
    During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements. The author maintains that music is more than just "a ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Feminine Endings

    Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    par Susan Mcclary ...
    A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The End of Early Music

    A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century

    par Bruce Haynes ...
    Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. ... En savoir plus

    $67.19 CAD

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Art of Re-enchantment

    Making Early Music in the Modern Age

    par Nick Wilson ...
    In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old' music, while revolutionizing the classical music profession in the process. Yet the rise of Early Music has been anything but ... En savoir plus

    $41.59 CAD