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Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China
BRILL 2008; US$ 130.00A study on Chinese music, based on the author's extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature. Itexamines the theoretical underpinnigs. more...
Us emene lääre Gygechaschte
Zytglogge Verlag 2013; Not AvailableBerndeutsche Chansons mit Noten, Strophen und original gesungen von Mani Matter. Inhaltsangabe: I: ds zündhölzli / dr hansjakobli und ds babettli / si hei dr wilhälm täll ufgfüert / mir hei e verein / är isch vom amt ufbotte gsy / hemmige / dene wos guet geit II: dr eskimo / d?nase / dr ferdinand isch gstorbe / alls wo mir id finger chunnt / dr bärnhard... more...
The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 68.00Traces the evolution and transformation of the Latin-texted motet during the lifetime of the leading composer of the age, Guillaume Du Fay. The book includes an account of internal and external forces that influenced the transformation of the motet and of fifteenth-century music more generally. more...
Two Men and Music
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 30.00Presents an account of the development of national culture in India using classical music as a case study. This book demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices. It deals with how a nation's imaginings - from politics to culture - reflect rather than transform societal divisions. more...
History of the Oratorio, Vol. 1
The University of North Carolina Press 1977; US$ 75.00Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination... more...
A History of the Oratorio
The University of North Carolina Press 1977; US$ 75.00Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source. No work on the history of... more...
Hearing the Motet
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 70.00In this collection, musicologists provide a picture of the motet's "music-poetic" nature, looking at the interplay of music and text that distinguished the genre's finest work and reading motets and motet repertories in ways that illuminate their historical and cultural backgrounds. more...
Pianos and Politics in China
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 124.99During the Cultural Revolution the piano, the musical embodiment of Western culture, became the object of intense hostility. This book examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and Western influences generally. more...
Rhapsody in Red
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 45.00Inspiring history of the musicians, composers, and conductors who fostered Western classical music in China, written by a WSJ, NYT, IHT journalist and an internationally-known conductor. 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...









