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  • Sex, Death, and Minuets

    Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

    par David Yearsley ...
    Collections series New Material Histories of Music
    "Insightful commentary on the Bach family's musical life and . . . the culture in which the Bachs lived. . . . Important and fascinating . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceAt one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701–60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bach's Feet

    The Organ Pedals in European Culture

    par David Yearsley ...
    Collections series Musical Performance and Reception
    The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents an interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    The Learned Musician

    par Christoph Wolff ...
    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Schubert's Winter Journey

    Anatomy of an Obsession

    par Ian Bostridge ...
    Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mozart

    A Life

    par Maynard Solomon ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, this thoroughly researched study of the Classical composer deeply examines his life and work.Considered one of the most important music biographies ever written, esteemed biographer Maynard Solomon draws on a half-century of new information to provide an in-depth account of Mozart's family life, his passions, and his personality. ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • J.S. Bach - Volume 1

    par Albert Schweitzer ...
    A fantastic little book about Bach and the musical climate before and during his life, with a look at his continuing influence in music. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Brahms and His World

    Modifié par Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Richard Wagner and His World

    Modifié par Thomas S. Grey ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. ... En savoir plus

    $48.39 CAD

  • Wagner and the Wonder of Art

    An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

    par M. Owen Lee ...
    Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist in any field of human endeavour.' H.L. Mencken declared, 'It took more skill to plan and write it ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Richard Wagner

    A Life in Music

    par Martin Geck ...
    Traduit par Stewart Spencer ...
    "[An] intriguing exploration of the composer's life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography." — Library JournalBest known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Franz Liszt and His World

    Modifié par Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    par Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD