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  • Unheard Of

    Memoirs of a Canadian Composer

    Modifié par John Beckwith ...
    Collections series Life Writing
    The memoir of renowned Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his more than sixty years in creative output and music education. His life story is a slice of Canadian cultural history.Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his early days in Victoria, his studies in Toronto with Alberto Guerrero, his first compositions, and his later studies in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger, of whom he ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Musical Canada

    Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann

    Modifié par John Beckwith, Frederick Hall ...
    Collections series Heritage
    The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical research, bibliography, analysis, criticism, and creative composition.Among the subjects ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Modern Composer and His World

    Modifié par John Beckwith, Udo Kasemets ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960. ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Mapping Canada's Music

    Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann

    par Helmut Kallmann ...
    Mapping Canada’s Music is a selection of writings by the late Canadian music librarian and historian Helmut Kallmann (1922–2012). Most of the essays deal with aspects of Canadian music, but some are also autobiographical, including one written during retirement in which Kallmann recalls growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in 1930s Berlin under the spectre of Nazism.Of the seventeen selected ... En savoir plus

    $46.39 CAD

  • Weinzweig

    Essays on His Life and Music

    Modifié par John Beckwith, Brian Cherney ...
    First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, Weinzweig was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian ... En savoir plus

    $55.19 CAD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    par Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $9.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Nicholas Cook ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Illegal Harmonies

    Music in the Modern Age

    par Andrew Ford ...
    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”.In response to the noisiest ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Aaron Copland

    The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

    par Howard Pollack ...
    A candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer.The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became one of America's most beloved and esteemed composers. His work, which includes Fanfare for the Common Man, A Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring, has been honored by a huge following of devoted listeners.But the full richness of Copland's life and accomplishments ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Orchestra

    A Very Short Introduction

    par D. Kern Holoman ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic society. Far from an anachronistic organization that cannot long survive, it is shown to be powerful political and social force, occupying critical positions in cultural diplomacy, national identity, and civic pride. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Selected Letters of John Cage

    par John Cage ...
    This annotated selection of more than five hundred letters by the groundbreaking composer and avant-garde icon covers every phase of his career.This volume reveals the intimate life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Modifié par Andrew Shenton ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD