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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...
A History of the Oratorio
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 50.00The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio , continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study surpasses in scope and treatment all previous works on the subject. A fourth and final volume, on the oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,... more...
China with a Cut
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 59.00Provides insight into the vibrant popular music scene of contemporary China in the context of globalisation and rapid economic and social change more...
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...
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$ 405.00Kürschners 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...
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...
Echoes from Dharamsala
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in place," but at the same time they have physically... more...
A History of the Oratorio
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 75.00With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio . Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century... 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...









