Western "classical" music books

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Wagner as I Knew Him

Wagner as I Knew Him
Author: Ferdinand Praeger ISBN: 9781108078221 Format: Paperback	$80.21
The German composer, performer and critic Ferdinand Praeger (1815–91) was active in London from 1834. His personal... Read More >>

Richard Wagner's Letters to his Dresden Friends: Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine

Richard Wagner's Letters to his Dresden Friends: Theodor...
Author: Richard Wagner , J. S. Shedlock ISBN: 9781108078245 Format: Paperback	$106.09
An 1890 collection of letters from Richard Wagner to his three great Dresden-based friends, covering the period... Read More >>

Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel: With a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals

Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel: With a Brief...
Author: Richard Wagner , William Ashton Ellis ISBN: 9781108078597 Format: Paperback	$54.34
Mannheim-based music publisher Emil Heckel (1831–1908) founded the first Wagner Society in 1871 to raise money for... Read More >>

Family Letters of Richard Wagner

Family Letters of Richard Wagner
Author: Richard Wagner , William Ashton Ellis ISBN: 9781108078603 Format: Paperback	$75.04
William Ashton Ellis (1852–1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies.... Read More >>

Wagner and his Isolde

Wagner and his Isolde
Author: Gustav Kobbé ISBN: 9781108078559 Format: Paperback	$67.27
The German poet Mathilde Wesendonck (1828–1902) was the wife of Wagner's patron, the wealthy silk merchant Otto... Read More >>

An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St Cecilia's Day in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St Cecilia's...
Author: William Henry Husk ISBN: 9781108080323 Format: Paperback	$62.10
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Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song

Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento...
Author: Lauren Jennings ISBN: 9781472418883 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in late medieval Italy through afresh evaluation of... Read More >>

Bizet

Bizet
Author: Hugh Macdonald (Avis Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music, Avis Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music, Washington University in St. Louis) ISBN: 9780199781560 Format: Hardback	$133.95
Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most... Read More >>

Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture

Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German...
Author: Tina Frühauf (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, NY) , Lily Hirsch (Recent Assistant Professor of Music, Recent Assistant Professor of Music, Cleveland State University, Bakersfield) ISBN: 9780199367481 Format: Hardback	$297.00
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Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera

Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern...
Author: Bryan Gilliam (Duke University, North Carolina) ISBN: 9780521456593 Format: Hardback	$282.04
Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth... Read More >>

Octavia

Octavia
Author: Friedrich Chrysander , Reinhard Keiser ISBN: 9781505428827 Format: Paperback	$39.57
Title: Octavia Composer: Reinhard Keiser Original Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete score... Read More >>

Masquerade

Masquerade
Author: Deborah Bell ISBN: 9781322394619 Format: Electronic book text	$118.80
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Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837

Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Author: Professor Emerita of French and German Katherine Kolb (Southeastern Louisiana University) , Professor Emeritus of French and Italian Samuel N Rosenberg (Indiana University) ISBN: 9781322576428 Format: Electronic book text	$237.47
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Castrato

Castrato
Author: Associate Professor of Music Martha Feldman (University of Chicago) ISBN: 9781322884349 Format: Electronic book text	$158.40
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth... Read More >>

Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio

Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio
Author: Pietro Metastasio , Joseph G Fucilla ISBN: 9781322602783 Format: Electronic book text	$92.40
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698--1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important... Read More >>

Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas

Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas
Author: Assistant Professor of Music Theory Seth Monahan (Eastman School of Music) ISBN: 9781322964898 Format: Electronic book text	$184.67
Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time... Read More >>

Urban Politics and Cultural Capital

Urban Politics and Cultural Capital
Author: Dr Ma Haili , Ma Haili ISBN: 9781336099838 Format: Electronic book text	$290.27
This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male... Read More >>

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Author: Thomas Peattie (Boston University) ISBN: 9781316315248 Format: Electronic book text	$330.00
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Experiencing Tchaikovsky

Experiencing Tchaikovsky
Author: Professor David Schroeder ISBN: 9781322975641 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
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Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth

Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth...
Author: Professor of Music Christopher Alan Reynolds (University of California, Davis) ISBN: 9781336281073 Format: Electronic book text	$171.60
In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony on two major... Read More >>

Roland Hayes Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor the Legacy of an American Tenor

Roland Hayes Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American...
Author: Christopher A Brooks , Robert Sims ISBN: 9780253015396 Format: Electronic book text	$105.57
Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American... Read More >>

Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts

Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts
Author: Alicia Kopfstein-Penk ISBN: 9781336034259 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
In this first in-depth look at the series, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk illustrates how the cultural, social, political,... Read More >>

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
Author: Ellen T. Harris ISBN: 9780393088953 Format: Hardback	$65.95
An intimate portrait of Handel's life and inner circle, modelled after one of the composer's favourite forms: the... Read More >>

A Day for Dancing: The Life and Music of Lloyd Pfautsch

A Day for Dancing: The Life and Music of Lloyd Pfautsch...
Author: Kenneth W. Hart ISBN: 9781574415674 Format: Hardback	$64.99
After earning his theology degree from Union Seminary in New York, Lloyd Pfautsch (1921–2003) found his true calling... Read More >>

Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism

Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism
Author: Massimiliano Locanto ISBN: 9782503553252 Format: Hardback	$430.32
Bringing together twenty-four essays by scholars of different nationalities, this volume aims to shed new light... Read More >>

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