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  • Music and the Language of Loveby Catherine Gordon-Seifert

    Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 37.95

    Simple 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 Hellby Jon Wiederhorn; Katherine Turman

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 23.99

    The 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 Revisitedby Susan Reynolds

    F+W Media 2010; US$ 12.95

    This 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?by Richard Crouse

    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 Mozartby David Damschroder

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions. more...

  • Louder Than Hellby Jon Wiederhorn; Katherine Turman

    HarperCollins 2013; Not Available

    The 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 Concertby Peter Elsdon

    Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 15.99

    Keith 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 Nowby Thomas Forrest Kelly

    W. W. Norton & Company 2012; US$ 45.60

    A ?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 Beethovenby Nicholas Mathew

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day. more...

  • The Accessibility of Musicby Jochen Eisentraut

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    Jochen Eisentraut's book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music. more...