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In Your Mercy, Lord, You Called Me
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 59.95In this study Dr. Nancy C. James analyzes the symbolism in Josiah Conder's poetic hymn, the expression of his beliefs and the notion of prevenient theology that motivated Conder. more...
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De Gruyter 2006; US$ 391.00Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch (Kürschner's German Music Handbook), recording some 12,000 living music professionals from the world of serious music, comprises composers, conductors, soloists, singers and music professors who work predominantly within the German-language area. Individual entries contain biographical particulars, a contact address, place... 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 Advent Project
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long-lasting impact on musicology, religious studies, and... more...
The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 95.00Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was considered one of the most promising young talents in modern British music at the turn of the twentieth century. Scott was not merely a composer but an artist in the broadest possible sense of the term, whose aesthetic ideas informed both his creative practice and his manner of living. The story of Scott's development... more...
The Age of Mozart and Beethoven
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 34.00An examination of one of the crucial periods of musical history, viewed against the social and political background of the time. more...
Als die Oper mit Bier gelöscht wurde
Stiebner Verlag 2012; US$ 14.01Hauptbeschreibung 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...
America's Best Loved Country Songs
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 75.00Covering more than 3,200 classic country music songs, this book embraces the country genre from its earliest roots to the end of 1989. It includes all of the recorded number-one hits from the early 1920s along with notable gospel songs which have become a part of the country music repertory, major fiddle tunes used throughout country music history,... more...
America's Musical Stage
ABC-CLIO 1987; US$ 27.95[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms. . . . Further, Mates introduces readers to inside stuff--the... more...
The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 28.95The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the... more...









