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The Management of Opera
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 105.00This book presents the current and future issues facing opera houses and opera companies. Problems in different environments need different solutions. In particular, it opposes the American method of managing cultural institutions, preferring a European one where public support and funds plays a major role. more...
British Music and Literary Context
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00This book refutes the notion that British composers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century lacked literary credentials, showing that they instead displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. It explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate... more...
Polyphone Messen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 51.14Hauptbeschreibung Die polyphone Messe galt von der Mitte des 15. bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts in der praktischen Musikausübung und ihrer theoretischen Reflexion als die zentrale Ausdrucksform der abendländischen Kunstmusik, innerhalb derer sich die maßgeblichen kompositorischen Entwicklungen vollzogen. Um 1500 reifte zudem die Sensibilität für... more...
The 80s Pop Music Quiz Book
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99How well do you know your 80's Pop Music? This Quiz book will test even the most avid fan, with questions that span the 80's bands and songs! Test yourself and your friends with this 80's Pop Music Quiz Book. more...
The Reich's Orchestra
Souvenir Press 2010; US$ 21.86For decades the relationship between the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and National Socialist regime has been shrouded in mystery. In 1933, the world-renowned orchestra came under the control of Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels; the musicians became civil servants of the Reich and until the end of World War Two, the orchestra served as... more...
The Critical Nexus
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 48.99Prologue. 1. The Heritage of Antiquity. Part I. The Eighth and Ninth Centuries. 2. The Reception of Ancient Texts in the Carolingian Era. 3. The Heritage of the Church. Part II. The Synthesis of Ancient Greek Theory and Medieval Practice. 4. Hucbald of St. Amand and Regino of Prum. 5. Alia musica. 6. Pseudo-Bernelinus, Pseudo-Odo, and Guido d'Arezzo.... more...
A Tidal Wave of Encouragement
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 155.00In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallée performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States and Europe, a movement that fostered both the development and the perception of American music... more...
The Italian Traditions and Puccini
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 41.95In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking... more...
Greek Musical Writings, Volume 2
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 90.00A second volume of Greek Musical Writings containing important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory. more...









