Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1027 books were found.

Highlife Music in West Africa

Highlife Music in West Africa

Author: Sonny Oti
ISBN: 9789788422082
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A posthumous publication, the book is an excursion into the origins and development of Highlife music in West Africa....  Read More >>

French Music in the XIXth Century

French Music in the XIXth Century

Author: Arthur Hervey
ISBN: 9780217937368
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers...  Read More >>

Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances De Los Senores De La Nueva Espana

Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances...

Author: John Bierhorst
ISBN: 9780292723450
Format: Paperback
$41.95

An authoritative transcription, translation, and commentary on a sixteenth-century Nahuatl codex that is one of...  Read More >>

Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances De Los Senores De La Nueva Espana

Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances...

Author: John Bierhorst
ISBN: 9780292718524
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Compiled in 1582, this title is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into...  Read More >>

The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music

The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical...

Author: Ludwig Pesch (Performer, researcher, and teacher of music, Performer, researcher, and teacher of music)
ISBN: 9780195699982
Format: Hardback
$178.95

The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music 2nd Edition provides an overview of the historical...  Read More >>

The Melodic Tradition of Ireland

The Melodic Tradition of Ireland

Author: James R Cowdery
ISBN: 9781501401008
Format: CD-ROM
$39.60

This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music...  Read More >>

THE MELODIC TRADITION OF IRELAND

THE MELODIC TRADITION OF IRELAND

Author: James R Cowdery
ISBN: 9781606350249
Format: Paperback
$55.00

This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music...  Read More >>

The Music Room: A Memoir

The Music Room: A Memoir

Author: Namita Devidayal
ISBN: 9780312536640
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A bestseller in India, The Music Room is a deeply moving meditation on how traditions and life lessons are passed...  Read More >>

Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music

Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music...

Author: Blair Kilpatrick
ISBN: 9781604731019
Format: Hardback
$73.92

An outsider's account of her transformative obsession with Louisiana's joyous music  Read More >>

Music Club Programs from All Nations

Music Club Programs from All Nations

Author: Arthur Elson
ISBN: 9781103030361
Format: Paperback
$62.70

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Ditson Subjects: Concerts...  Read More >>

Music Club Programs from All Nations

Music Club Programs from All Nations

Author: Arthur Elson
ISBN: 9781103030415
Format: Hardback
$76.53

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Ditson Subjects: Concerts...  Read More >>

Lives in Chinese Music

Lives in Chinese Music

Author: Helen Rees
ISBN: 9786613895486
Format: Electronic book text
$148.90

Most scholarly work on Chinese music in both Chinese and Western languages has focused on genres, musical structure,...  Read More >>

Lines from a Mined Mind

Lines from a Mined Mind

Author: John Trudell
ISBN: 9781282468160
Format: Electronic book text
$39.47

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Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music

Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music...

Author: Burton W. Peretti ,  Jacqueline M. Moore
ISBN: 9780742558113
Format: Hardback
$100.19

Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from...  Read More >>

Lives in Chinese Music

Lives in Chinese Music

Author: Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Helen Rees (UCLA)
ISBN: 9781283583039
Format: Electronic book text
$124.08

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Serbian and Greek Art Music: A Patch to Western Music History

Serbian and Greek Art Music: A Patch to Western Music...

Author: Katy Romanou
ISBN: 9781282312432
Format: Electronic book text
$52.80

Serbian and Greek Art Music is the first ever book in the English language to examine the assimilation and development...  Read More >>

Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government...

Author: Beth S Noveck
ISBN: 9781282131606
Format: Undefined
$52.67

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Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music

Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music...

Author: Blair Kilpatrick
ISBN: 9781282485860
Format: Electronic book text
$73.92

By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then...  Read More >>

Performing Africa

Performing Africa

Author: Paulla A Ebron
ISBN: 9781282158542
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

The jali - a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers - is a charismatic but contradictory...  Read More >>

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California:...

Author: Mark F. DeWitt
ISBN: 9781604730906
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States

Author: William Francis Allen
ISBN: 9781443735223
Format: Hardback
$102.83

This 1867 landmark book was the first systematic effort to collect and preserve songs sung by plantation slaves....  Read More >>

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume...

Author: Encyclo Garland
ISBN: 9780415994033
Format: Hardback
$924.00

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Slave Songs Of The United States (1867)

Slave Songs Of The United States (1867)

Author: William Francis Allen ,  Charles Pickard Ware
ISBN: 9781437194692
Format: Hardback
$100.19

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs...  Read More >>

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