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Music and the Language of Love
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 37.95Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of... more...
Louder Than Hell
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 23.99The definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includes hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years. Unlike many forms of popular music, metalheads tend to embrace their favorite bands and follow them over decades. Metal... more...
Woodstock Revisited
F+W Media 2010; US$ 12.95This collection contains fifty stories written by people who attended the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Since all the books that preceded it have focused on the musicians, promoters, and staff, this book will be the first one that chronicles the audience's experience in an up close and personal way. This book documents the event itself, but... more...
Who Wrote The Book Of Love?
Doubleday Canada 2012; US$ 14.95¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorded. (He wrote the original version while working as a dishwasher in a bus station in Georgia.) ¸ Paul Simon's 1972 hit "Mother and Child Reunion" takes... more...
Harmony in Haydn and Mozart
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions. more...
Louder Than Hell
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableThe definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includes hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years. Unlike many forms of popular music, metalheads tend to embrace their favorite bands and follow them over decades. Metal... more...
Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 15.99Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Koln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's... more...
Music Then and Now
W. W. Norton & Company 2012; US$ 45.60A ?you are there? guide to masterpieces of Western music. Music Then and Now offers a vivid introduction to Western music by focusing on 28 works in-depth. Its ?you are there? approach?demonstrated by each chapter?s rich historical and cultural context?engages students in the excitement of hearing the music as original audiences did when the music... more...
Political Beethoven
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day. more...
The Accessibility of Music
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Jochen Eisentraut's book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music. more...









