Western "classical" music books

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The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance

The Carole: A Study of a Medieval Dance
Author: Robert Mullally
ISBN: 9781138252011
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

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Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Bennett Zon (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138253780
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

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Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918

Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918
Author: Paul Rodmell
ISBN: 9781138252042
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

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Don Giovanni: vocal score

Don Giovanni: vocal score
Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte ,  Natalia McFarren
ISBN: 9781540407658
Format: Paperback 		$52.77

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Pierre Boulez Studies

Pierre Boulez Studies
Author: Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen) ,  Peter O'Hagan
ISBN: 9781107062658
Format: Hardback 		$282.04

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection...  Read More >>

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Albion's Dance: British Ballet during the Second World War

Albion's Dance: British Ballet during the Second World...
Author: Karen Eliot (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780199347629
Format: Hardback 		$179.95

Exploring the ballet boom in Britain during WWII, this book asks how art and artists thrive during conflict. Author...  Read More >>

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Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums: Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums: Horse-Mounted Bands...
Author: Bruce P. Gleason
ISBN: 9780806154794
Format: Hardback 		$47.00

Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet,...  Read More >>

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Mass in B Minor: Vocal Score

Mass in B Minor: Vocal Score
Author: J S Bach
ISBN: 9781540318930
Format: Paperback 		$25.08

Vocal score for J.S. Bach's B minor mass (BMW 232). The mass was one of Bach's last compositions, being completed...  Read More >>

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St Matthew Passion: Vocal Score

St Matthew Passion: Vocal Score
Author: J S Bach
ISBN: 9781540337580
Format: Paperback 		$26.27

Vocal score for J.S. Bach's great St Matthew Passion (BMW 244) in the original German, for solo voices, two choirs...  Read More >>

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Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis

Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition...
Author: Janet K. Halfyard
ISBN: 9781138247994
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

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The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960

The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960
Author: Rhoderick McNeill
ISBN: 9781138253254
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

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Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception

Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception...
Author: Robert Fallon ,  Christopher Dingle
ISBN: 9781138269651
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen's compositional approach and the...  Read More >>

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Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as...
Author: James Kennaway
ISBN: 9781138249141
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be...  Read More >>

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Heinrich Schutz - Mensch, Werk, Wirkung: Texte Und Reden

Heinrich Schutz - Mensch, Werk, Wirkung: Texte Und Reden...
Author: Wolfram Steude
ISBN: 9783828838406
Format: Hardback 		$100.32

Collection of texts partly published previously.  Read More >>

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British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century

British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music...
Author: Laura Seddon
ISBN: 9781138249639
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth-century....  Read More >>

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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film
Author: Andrew Kirkman ,  Alexander Ivashkin
ISBN: 9781138250444
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment....  Read More >>

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Opera From the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation

Opera From the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation...
Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781138249813
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

"Explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case...  Read More >>

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John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical and Political Perspectives

John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical...
Author: Timothy A. Johnson
ISBN: 9781138250314
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

John Adams' opera, ""Nixon in China"", is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature....  Read More >>

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Die Walküre: Erster Tag aus der Trilogie: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Die Walküre: Erster Tag aus der Trilogie: Der Ring des...
Author: Richard Wagner (Princeton Ma)
ISBN: 9783743340848
Format: Paperback 		$43.56

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A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation

A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation...
Author: Gregory Johnston (Professor, Professor, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780190628475
Format: Paperback 		$115.95

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In...  Read More >>

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Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance

Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance...
Author: Ruth Tatlow
ISBN: 9781107459694
Format: Paperback 		$82.80

In the eighteenth century the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of the unity (1:1) were philosophically,...  Read More >>

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Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through

Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through
Author: Fiona Maddocks (Classical Music Critic - Observer)
ISBN: 9780571329380
Format: Hardback 		$44.75

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort...  Read More >>

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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
Author: Russell Hartenberger (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781107151505
Format: Hardback 		$316.80

Russell Hartenberger offers a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions, from his iconic minimalist...  Read More >>

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The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day: Press the note to hear Vivaldi's music

The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day: Press...
Author: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
ISBN: 9781847808776
Format: Hardback 		$35.00

Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day, following a little girl called Isabelle...  Read More >>

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Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film

Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse...
Author: David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781474291422
Format: Hardback 		$220.00

The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest...  Read More >>

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