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Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE. He considers the physical, religious and social setting of the music, and how the music was performed. The book serves as a reliable introduction... more...
The Rest Is Noise
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 19.99The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds... more...
Religiöses Erleben durch gottesdienstliche Musik
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 64.08Hauptbeschreibung Jochen Kaiser hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, den musikalischen Gottesdienstraum empirisch abzubilden und erlebbar zu machen, wie er in vielen Gemeinden erlebt werden kann. Der Sonntagsgottesdienst steht im Zentrum des Interesses ohne andere Gottesdienstformen auszugrenzen. Durch einen Schreibaufruf wurden Gottesdienstbesucher angeregt,... more...
Geistliche Vokalpolyphonie und Frühhumanismus in England
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 40.66Als die Oper mit Bier gelöscht wurde
Stiebner Verlag 2012; US$ 14.13Hauptbeschreibung Haben Sie gewusst, dass München-Gründer Herzog Heinrich der Löwe ein 13-jähriges Mädchen geheiratet hatte, dass ein Großfeuer in der Oper nur mit Bier gelöscht werden konnte oder dass die Isar bis heute pures Gold in sich führt, das 1550 noch zu Münzen geprägt wurde? Viel Unbekanntes - von der Gründung München bis zu Gegenwart -... more...
Source
University of California Press 2011; US$ 34.95The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins,... more...
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 184.00The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. more...
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 35.00James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics, historians, performers and composers. Of relevance to scholars, students and devotees of nineteenth-century music, and those interested in nineteenth-century culture, art, architecture, literature and aesthetics,... more...
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvère music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. more...









