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Oxford Keynotes Série de Livres électroniques

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  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha

    par Benedict Taylor ...
    Collections series Oxford Keynotes
    The Hiawatha trilogy of cantatas (1898--1900), based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, were some of the most popular and widely performed pieces of music in the opening decade of the twentieth century. As a result, their young African British composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875--1912), became widely celebrated in the UK and North America. In this volume, Benedict ... En savoir plus

    $20.39 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

  • 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

  • John Cage

    par Rob Haskins ...
    Collections Livre 43 - RB-Critical Lives
    American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as ... En savoir plus

    $25.09 CAD

  • A History of American Classical Music

    par Barrymore Laurence Scherer ...
    To many people, the term 'American classical music' means a handful of famous names: Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Sousa. But this doesnt begin to scrape the surface of a musical heritage reaching back to colonial times. For instance, did you know that George Washington loved dance music, and that Abraham Lincolns favorite song was Listen to the Mocking-Bird by the American composer Septimus ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • Edward Elgar and His World

    Modifié par Byron Adams ...
    Collections series The Bard Music Festival
    Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a ... En savoir plus

    $48.39 CAD

  • Dvorak's Prophecy

    And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    par Joseph Horowitz ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.**In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    par Ellen T. Harris ...
    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth ... En savoir plus

    $54.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

    Modifié par Achsah Guibbory ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $36.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Highbrow/Lowbrow

    The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

    par Lawrence W. Levine ...
    Collections Livre 3 - The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
    In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Tenderness of Silent Minds

    Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem

    par Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to ... En savoir plus

    $25.19 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    Modifié par Mervyn Cooke ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD