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Silencing the Sounded Self
University Press of New England 2013;Understanding John Cage in America's experimental continuum more...
Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
LSU Press 2013; US$ 99.00During the nineteenth century, New Orleans boasted the most active classical music life of any American metropolis, outshining New York, Boston, and San Francisco before the Civil War and rivaling them thereafter. While other cities offered few if any productions at all, New Orleans was renowned for its glorious opera seasons. Resident composers, performers,... more...
Chopin
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 6.99Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th Century. Discovered as a child-prodigy pianist in his native Poland, he later travelled to France, where he remained after the Polish uprising of 1830-31. There he gave few public performances, but worked as composer and piano teacher. He later became a French citizen... more...
Piano Notes
Free Press 2002; US$ 16.99Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend -- the... more...
Stravinsky
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 35.00This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh?s magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate, all too aware of the war clouds beginning to... more...
Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 18.99Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music explores the nature, production, and evolution of timpani tone and provides insights into how to interpret the music of J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. In drawing on 31 years of experience, Steven L. Schweizer focuses on the components of timpani tone and methods for producing... more...
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 29.00The first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. more...
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 28.99The Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, represent Beethoven's most extraordinary achievement in the art of variation-writing. In their originality and power of invention, they stand beside other late Beethoven masterpieces such as the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the last quartets. William Kinderman's study of... more...
Mozart
Random House 2011; US$ 21.34Mozart: A Cultural Biography is a fresh interpretation of a musical genius, meticulously researched and gracefully written. It places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly... more...
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 21.86Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged... more...









