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Christopher Columbus
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2004; US$ 8.99Christopher Columbus set out on August 3, 1492, to find the East by sailing west. Over the course of a few years, he convinced the king and queen of Spain to pay for his trip, promising them fame and riches in return. Columbus discovered more than he bargained for?he had found a new continent. more...
Entartete Musik
Amsterdam University Press 2004; US$ 46.95Tussen 1933 en 1945 zijn complete bevolkingsgroepen van de aardbodem verdwenen. Onder hen ontelbaar veel uitvoerende en scheppende musici. De namen die we onthouden hebben, die we nog kennen of weer hebben leren kennen, vormen slechts een klein deel van wat verloren is gegaan. Een themaproject over 'entartete Musik', zoals Jan Zekveld voor... more...
Raised By Wolves
ECW Press 2000; US$ 11.95As the countercultural movements of the 60s gathered steam, one of its first splinter groups was the Jesus freaks. In addition to culturally hip pastors, the scene produced a handful of musicians who brazenly coupled rock & roll music with lyrics that reflected a Christian world-view and often became an outright evangelistic tool. Jesus music... more...
Music of the Twentieth Century
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 35.00Ton de Leeuw's lifetime engagement with music, European and Oriental, gives this book its unique insight into what constitutes true modernity and innovation more...
Music in the Galant Style
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 44.99Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository... more...
De perfecte verleiding
Amsterdam University Press 2004; US$ 48.00In de zeventiende eeuw ging vrijwel iedere toneelvoorstelling gepaard met muziek. Er werd niet alleen gemusiceerd tussen de bedrijven, maar ook in het toneelstuk zelf. Muziek diende als achtergrond en versiering en was functioneel geïntegreerd in de handeling van het drama. Uit de rekeningen van de Amsterdamse Schouwburg blijkt dat men professionele... more...
Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 33.99Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the fifteenth century. The successive rulers of the Italian city-state, members... more...
Rebirth and Renewal
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 54.00Discusses the recurring literary theme of rebirth and renewal in The Canterbury Tales , The Great Gatsby , The Scarlet Letter , and others. This title provides about 20 explanatory essays and critical analyses from which students studying literature can gain insights. more...
Serbian and Greek Art Music
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00Serbian and Greek Art Music is the first ever book in the English language to examine the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Music education, music life and the creation of the two neighbouring nations since they gained freedom from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century... more...
Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow
University of California Press 2007; US$ 19.96Uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support the claims that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously. more...









