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Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 90.00Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. more...
Historical Harpsichord Technique
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 28.95Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in the modern player. Reviewing the work of the pedagogues and performers of the late Renaissance through the late Baroque, she gives special emphasis to la... more...
Two cities, one life
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 38.95Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on... more...
Empty Words
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 14.99Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music." more...
Before the Chinrest
Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 28.99Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical aspects of playing the pre-chinrest violin, these... more...
Max/MSP/Jitter for Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 26.99In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working systems, the book equips you with everything... more...
Take Control of iCloud
TidBITS 2011; US$ 15.00Understand the features, get set up, and enjoy iCloud! (Updated March 26, 2013) iCloud may seem simple, but complexity lurks below the surface. In this essential title from best-selling author Joe Kissell, you'll learn how to set up and use iCloud successfully on Macs (running 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion), iOS devices, second- and third-generation... more...
Das verlorene Ich
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 16.17Hauptbeschreibung Jeden Tag hören wir viele Lieder: Summen mit, singen, tanzen dazu. Aber oft machen wir uns überhaupt keine Gedanken darüber, was die Texte wirklich bedeuten. Wollen uns die Texte etwas sagen oder die Songschreiber selbst? Dieses Buch analysiert Liedtexte von Herbert Grönemeyer, einem der erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Musiker... more...
Ten Plagues' and 'The Coronation of Poppea'
A&C Black 2011; US$ 12.99In London. Came the plague in sixteen sixty five. One hundred thousand dead. But I alive. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten... more...
Hanns Eisele
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Josef Mengele oder Karl Brandt stehen für die Verstrickungen eines ganzen Berufsstandes in die verbrecherische Politik Hitlers. Doch neben wenigen hochrangigen Medizinern waren es vor allem die zahlreichen namenlos gebliebenen Ärzte, die als Mitglieder der SS in den Konzentrationslagern Dienst taten und zu Mittätern am nationalsozialistischen... more...









