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Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words
The Floating Press 1904; US$ 6.95The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse. In these quotes, Beethoven demonstrates his intense preoccupation (or obsession) with thinking artistically and intelligently, and with helping to alleviate man's suffering by providing man with musical... more...
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
University of California Press 2008; US$ 29.95The Danger of Music gathers some two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers such as the New York Times to full-scale critical essays for leading intellectual journals. Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and... more...
On Russian Music
University of California Press 2008; US$ 27.95Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged... more...
Classical Music Top 40
Touchstone 1995; US$ 23.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Gregor Piatigorsky
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 45.00Forced to provide for his family from the age of 8 and thrown out of his home into a bitter Moscow winter at age 12, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky began his career as an archetypal struggling artist, using secondhand and borrowed instruments. When the October Revolution forced his escape to Warsaw, he enjoyed initial success with the Warsaw Philharmonic.... more...
Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
University of California Press 2010; US$ 27.95Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of ?absolute? instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive... more...
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 82.00Ruth Smith sheds new light on Handel's oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal his texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought. more...
Mahler's Sixth Symphony
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 37.00This study uses semiotic theory in order to investigate different kinds of musical communication. more...
Chopin: The Piano Concertos
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 29.00This Handbook re-evaluates the E minor and F minor Piano Concertos so that their many outstanding qualities can be fully appreciated. more...
Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 26.00A guide to Mozart's most famous string quartets, dedicated to his friend, Joseph Haydn. more...









