Western "classical" music books

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Raising the Roof: A Dazzling History of Classical Music and its Colourful Characters

Raising the Roof: A Dazzling History of Classical Music...

Author: Jack Pepper ,  Michele Bruttomesso
ISBN: 9781787419285
Format: Hardback
$35.00

A cool introduction to classical music  Read More >>

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective:...

Author: Axel Körner (University College London) ,  Paulo M. Kühl
ISBN: 9781108826884
Format: Paperback
$64.66

As Italian opera gained an international following during the nineteenth century, the idea of operatic Italianness...  Read More >>

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Author: Frank Lehman
ISBN: 9780367430771
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the...  Read More >>

Degeneration

Degeneration

Author: Max Nordau
ISBN: 9781909606302
Format: Hardback
$158.37

Vitriolic, vituperative, and systematic ripping apart-in a medicalising mode-of some of the art and literary movements...  Read More >>

A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level

A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level

Author: Deke Sharon ,  Dylan Bell
ISBN: 9781538172667
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In this highly anticipated sequel to A Cappella Arranging, Deke Sharon and Dylan Bell provide even more tools and...  Read More >>

Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance

Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance...

Author: Carrie Churnside ,  Gregory Barnett (Person)
ISBN: 9781837651580
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Featuring 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United...  Read More >>

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Roberta Montemorra Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032168883
Format: Paperback
$83.99

"Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic ""experiences"" outside...  Read More >>

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno...

Author: Gianmario Borio
ISBN: 9780367762551
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical...  Read More >>

Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the...

Author: Arne Herman
ISBN: 9781032054278
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book reflects on the sustainability crisis...  Read More >>

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis...

Author: Abigail Shupe
ISBN: 9780367762414
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book studies Crumb’s Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma....  Read More >>

Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673: On the Music of Poetry and Power of Rhythm

Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi,...

Author: Peter Martens
ISBN: 9781032305967
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Isaac Vossius’s De...  Read More >>

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

Author: Rhoderick McNeill
ISBN: 9780367622947
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting...  Read More >>

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical...

Author: Mark Delaere
ISBN: 9781032308562
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book includes work on avant-garde music developed in the domain of classical music as well. In addition to...  Read More >>

A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level

A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level

Author: Deke Sharon ,  Dylan Bell
ISBN: 9781538172650
Format: Hardback
$80.99

In this highly anticipated sequel to A Cappella Arranging, Deke Sharon and Dylan Bell provide even more tools and...  Read More >>

Music in Edwardian London

Music in Edwardian London

Author: Simon McVeigh
ISBN: 9781837651603
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon...  Read More >>

Music in Edwardian London

Music in Edwardian London

Author: Simon McVeigh
ISBN: 9781837651344
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music: A Celebration of Dead White Male Composers

An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music: A Celebration...

Author: Robert R. Reilly ,  Jens F. Laurson
ISBN: 9781680538489
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Great composers' music is to be enjoyed, not fretted about! An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music, with chapters...  Read More >>

Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

Author: Paul Thom
ISBN: 9781666914252
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and...  Read More >>

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul

Author: Valeria Z. Nollan
ISBN: 9781666917611
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English....  Read More >>

Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices

Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century...

Author: David Friddle ,  Nick Strimple
ISBN: 9781666911190
Format: Paperback
$80.99

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices,...  Read More >>

Pirates of the High Cs: Revised 2024 Edition: Opera Bootlegging in the 20th Century

Pirates of the High Cs: Revised 2024 Edition: Opera...

Author: Nicholas E Limansky
ISBN: 9781936411702
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Practiced internationally between 1960 and 2000, opera piracy (the illegal practice of recording live operatic performances...  Read More >>

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic...

Author: David Friddle ,  Amanda Quist
ISBN: 9781666911138
Format: Paperback
$80.99

David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century....  Read More >>

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