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The Perfect Wagnerite
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99Though remembered primarily as a playwright and novelist, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was an insatiably curious intellect whose interests encompassed a broad array of topics. This exegesis on Wagner's Ring cycle relates the opera series to ideas like capitalism and mythological archetypes. more...
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)
Opera Journeys Publishing 2006; US$ 9.75A comprehensive guide to Debussy's PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer. more...
Verdi's Il Trovatore (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)
Opera Journeys Publishing 2006; US$ 9.75A comprehensive guide to Verdi's IL TROVATORE, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer. more...
Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust
Opera Journeys Publishing 2009; US$ 9.75A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. more...
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra
Opera Journeys Publishing 2009; US$ 9.75A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. more...
Laute Musik gleich gute Musik? Der Einfluss des Mixings auf die subjektive Beurteilung eines Popsongs
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37Ist laute Musik wirklich bessere Musik? Hier wird anhand eines Hörexperimentes eine Antwort gegeben und der Einfluss der Musikproduktion bei einem Popsong im Bezug auf die subjektive Bewertung untersucht. Dabei werden dynamischen Aspekte des Gesamtklanges und der Nachbearbeitung von Musik betrachtet. Neben Hintergrundinformationen zum menschlichen... more...
Bayou Underground
ECW Press 2010; US$ 12.95Permeating the shadows and the darkness of the bayoua world all its own that stretches from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabamathis study of marsh music leaves New Orleans to discover secret legends and vivid mythology in the surrounding wilderness. The people and the cultures that have called the bayou homesuch as Bob Dylan,... more...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music
Hardie Grant Books 2012; US$ 12.99Darren Henley and Sam Jackson have set out to make the world of classical music accessible to all. Three sections steer you through the terminology and etiquette of classical music, open the fascinating history of the genre and its key figures over the last 1,000 years, and provide a detailed reference guide. From Bach to Brahms, Dubussy to Dvorak,... more...
Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music
Boydell & Brewer 2007; US$ 99.00The stylistic evolution of Mozart's Viennese instrumental repertory as a whole [1781-1791] has never been systematically addressed. This book fills this gap through a study of stylistic re-invention, a practically- and empirically-based theory that explains how innovative, putatively inspired ideas take shape in Mozart's works and lead to stylistic... more...









