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Ruminations & Reflections - The Musical Journey of Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Hardcover): Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach Ruminations & Reflections - The Musical Journey of Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Hardcover)
Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach; As told to Kurt Renker
R785 R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Save R73 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff (Hardcover, New): Ruth Gillen The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff (Hardcover, New)
Ruth Gillen
R2,789 Discovery Miles 27 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Even after acquiring the Doctor of Laws degree from both the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne (discussed in a letter, along with the effects of living in Europe during the Nazi era), Konrad Wolff's enthusiasm for music was so overwhelming that he became a professional musician in his mid-thirties. That enthusiasm is contagious. The more one reads his work, the more one understands music, but perhaps of greater importance, the more one loves it.

This is the only collection of a substantial quantity of his prolific writings (many never published before) under one cover. With almost 200 musical illustrations and his engaging style of writing, teachers, students, and sophisticated music lovers will find articles such as Schubert's Reaction to Beethoven, Bach's Last Work, and Beethovenian Dissonances in Listz's Piano Music a pleasurable read and an easy way to learn. Correspondence with Sviatoslav Richter, among others, and a brilliant debate between Wolff and Alfred Brendel are unique contributions. Also impressive is the breadth of Wolff's culture. As one scholar who had read the manuscript exclaimed: The writing is so brilliant that it can be applied to fields other than music, as well.

Edith Piaf's Recital 1961 (Hardcover): David L. Looseley Edith Piaf's Recital 1961 (Hardcover)
David L. Looseley
R2,158 Discovery Miles 21 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the beginning of her career in 1935 to her death in 1963 and right up to the present, Edith Piaf has been recognized as unique and iconic. She is France's most celebrated and mythified singing star across the world. Recital 1961 explores her most important album: the live recording of her comeback concert at the Paris Olympia on 29 December 1960, which unveiled her keynote song, 'Non je ne regrette rien' (No Regrets). It examines the content, context and significance of the concert in relation to Piaf's career, her life and her celebrity. What was so special about the performance and why did the ecstatic audiences, that night and at the subsequent performances in 1961, find it so powerful and moving? The book dissects the live show, the album and the songs that feature on it, and at a deeper level their place in the invention of the public Piaf we know today - asking why, more than a century after her birth and 60 years after her death, we still remember her, listen to her and commemorate her around the world.

Fandom, Image and Authenticity - Joy Devotion and the Second Lives of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis (Hardcover): Jennifer Otter... Fandom, Image and Authenticity - Joy Devotion and the Second Lives of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis (Hardcover)
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
R2,587 R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - From Flower Maiden to Marschallin (Hardcover): Kirsten Liese Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - From Flower Maiden to Marschallin (Hardcover)
Kirsten Liese
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dame Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) was a Flower Maiden in Wagner's "Parsifal" in her opera debut. As Marchallin in Strauss' "Rosenkavalier" she made history. This book is a homage to one of the greatest singers of the last century. Honored by Queen Elisabeth II, she not only posessed an unmistakable timbre, but also a bewitching beauty.This pictorial volume, on which the soprano collaborated right up until the time of her sudden death, contains hundreds of costume and portrait photographs from her private estate that together provide a lasting reflection of her personality and elegance. The core pictures were taken by the Viennese photographer to the stars, Lillian Fayer, who for many years was the trusted companion of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

A Tidal Wave of Encouragement - American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age (Hardcover, New): E.Douglas Bomberger A Tidal Wave of Encouragement - American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age (Hardcover, New)
E.Douglas Bomberger
R2,772 Discovery Miles 27 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallee performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States and Europe, a movement that fostered both the development and the perception of American music as a unique art form. "A Tidal Wave of Encouragement"-the title of which is derived from one observer's description of the movement-is the first in-depth study of this significant period in American music. Providing a comprehensive history of the Concerts as well as detailed accounts of the intense critical debate surrounding them, author E. Douglas Bomberger reveals how one decade shaped the future of American classical music and very much impacted the way we hear it today.

The movement, crucial in focusing discussion on American music and providing performance opportunities for composers and musicians for whom no such opportunities had before existed, was far more extensive and widespread than most scholarship had credited it. This oversight is due in large part to the dearth of objective studies of the Concerts; previous considerations have tended either toward the merely nostalgic or toward the unnecessarily disparaging. Bomberger's work is a corrective to this, as well as much-needed historical and critical account of a project whose influence had yet to be fully acknowledged.

Right Place at the Write Time (Hardcover): D. Bergen White, Mitchell B White Right Place at the Write Time (Hardcover)
D. Bergen White, Mitchell B White
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes (Hardcover, New): Jeffrey Kresky A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes (Hardcover, New)
Jeffrey Kresky
R3,044 Discovery Miles 30 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Chopin's set of 24 interconnected "Preludes (Op. 28)," we are presented with 24 distinct compositional surfaces, aiming at as many distinguishable emotional expressions. As such, the Preludes stand as a virtual survey of the developing musical manners of the 19th century--which was, after all, the stylistic period in which mood was promoted most energetically and frankly. Under analytic investigation, the technical means to these varied expressive ends can be discovered and assessed. 24 separate explorations reveal themselves to the inquiring musician, who can investigate any or as many of the pieces as is wished or needed. At the same time, the Preludes form a fairly compelling total entity, related by precise balances of mood and key, as well as certain subtler interconnecting details.

The individual analyses aim at conjoined descriptive statements that take into account the various separable, but ultimately fused, musical elements: line and harmony in the pitch domain; rhythm in terms of local detail, but also at the levels of meter, phrase, and form; and the various expressive modifications of dynamics and articulation. Form is seen to grow out of the harnessed progress of these elements, which together determine expressive content. "The Chopin Preludes," a centerpiece of 19th-century Romanticism, are unique: two dozen distinct moods that seem to summarize the musical manners of the time, they also function as an organic whole. This book is a detailed guide through the "Preludes," both individually and as a group. The analyses assess technical and expressive means and ends.

Miles - The Companion Guide to the Miles Davis Autobiography (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Marc Antomattei Miles - The Companion Guide to the Miles Davis Autobiography (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Marc Antomattei
R651 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unfinished Music (Hardcover): Richard Kramer Unfinished Music (Hardcover)
Richard Kramer
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation. An opening chapter of this book examines some explosive ideas from the mind of J. G. Hamann, eccentric figure of the anti-rationalist Enlightenment, on the place of language at the seat of thought. These ideas are pursued as an entry into the no less radical mind of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose bold idiosyncrasies, like Hamann's, disrupted the discourse of Enlightenment aesthetics. Bach is a central player here, his late music the subject of fresh inquiry. In several chapters on the late music of Beethoven, Bach reappears, now something of a spiritual alter ego in the search for a new voice. The improvisatory as a mode of thought figures prominently here, and then inspires a new hearing of the envisioning of Chaos at the outset of Haydn's Creation, aligned with Herder's efforts to come to an understanding of logos at the origin of thought. The improvisatory is at the heart of a chapter on Beethoven's brazen cadenzas for the Concerto in D minor by Mozart, another ghost in Beethoven's machine.
Music seductively unfinished is the topic of other chapters: on some unstudied late sketches, finally rejected, for a famous quartet movement by Beethoven; on the enigmas set loose in several remarkable Mozart fragments; and on the romanticizing of fragment and its bearing on two important sonatas that Schubert left incomplete. In a final coming to terms with the imponderables of musical intuition, the author returns to Benjamin'sepigraph, drawing together his foundational essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities with Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, and with a draft for a famous passage in the andantino of Schubert's Sonata in A (1828). Unfinished Music explores with subtle insight the uneasy relationship between the finished work and the elusive, provocative traces of the profound labors buried in its past. The book will have broad appeal to the community of music scholars, theorists and performers, and to all those for whom music is integral to the history of ideas.

Cyril Scott - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Laurie Sampsel Cyril Scott - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Laurie Sampsel
R2,492 Discovery Miles 24 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference guide to the life and work of the prolific British composer, Cyril Scott, includes a brief biography and detailed bibliography and discography sections. Sometimes referred to as the British Debussy, Scott was one of the first English composers to incorporate a noticeable modern style. He composed in virtually every genre and for every instrument and ensemble. His works, as detailed in the discography, include three operas, two symphonies, five concertos, chamber music, piano music, and over 100 songs. The bibliography section includes writings both by and about Scott.

This comprehensive reference will appeal to music scholars and to those with an interest in Cyril Scott's music. As a useful research tool, each section of the volume is cross-referenced. Two appendices list Scott's compositions, one alphabetically by genre and the other chronologically.

No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny (Paperback): Helen O'shea No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny (Paperback)
Helen O'shea
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

No Better Boy tells the story of a master of traditional Irish music: the legendary East Clare fiddler Paddy Canny, whose haunting music was remarkable for its virtuosity and sophistication. In the 1950's, when he was in his thirties, and at the pinnacle of his career, Paddy Canny became an international radio star, played solo in Carneige Hall, toured England with the renowned Tulla Ceili Band, and made a much-loved recording. All were extraordinary achievements for a man raised on a marginal farm, where the gramophone records that inspired him were accessible only through the good grace of neighbours. In richly evocative prose, Helen O'Shea distils stories of success and adversity that Paddy Canny told to family and friends, to radio interviews and historians. These stories illuminate the rural life in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, major social and economic changes, and the decline and revival of traditional music and dancing. A compelling story told with passion and insight, this is a book for readers with an interest in Ireland's social history and for music lovers everywhere. No Better Boy includes annotated transcriptions of music played by Paddy Canny and his contemporaries, sourced from archives and personal collections as well as commercial recordings.

Madvillain's Madvillainy (Paperback): Will Hagle Madvillain's Madvillainy (Paperback)
Will Hagle
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop. Written from the alternating perspectives of three fake music journalist superheroes-featuring interviews with Wildchild, M.E.D., Walasia, Daedalus, Stones Throw execs, and many other real individuals involved with the album's creation-this book blends fiction and non-fiction to celebrate Madvillainy not just as an album, but as a folkloric artifact. It is one specific retelling of a story which, like Madvillain's music, continues to spawn infinite legends.

The Mendelssohn Companion (Hardcover, New): Douglass Seaton The Mendelssohn Companion (Hardcover, New)
Douglass Seaton
R2,618 Discovery Miles 26 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Mendelssohn Companion" represents a collection of advanced scholarly research in Mendelssohn studies that examines the composer's life and music. In recent decades, studies of his music manuscripts have discovered much previously overlooked work, and a reconsideration of his biography has permitted a more realistic portrayal of Mendelssohn. The first three chapters of this volume place the composer in his intellectual context and discuss his family and social circle and his professional activities. Later chapters examine the major areas of his compositional work, providing new analytical observations, contextual perspectives, and interpretations. Historical views and documents are included with each chapter and are all newly translated.

The new material in this fully documented study will appeal to scholars, students, and music enthusiasts alike. An updated bibliographic list of Mendelssohn's works, which identifies the autograph manuscripts and the most important published editions will be of special interest.

Pocket Dolly Wisdom - Witty Quotes and Wise Words from Dolly Parton (Hardcover): Hardie Grant Books Pocket Dolly Wisdom - Witty Quotes and Wise Words from Dolly Parton (Hardcover)
Hardie Grant Books
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

I m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I m notdumb and I m not blonde either. Don t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. People are always asking me in interviews, What do you think of foreign affairs? I just say, I ve had a few. Dolly Parton or the Dolly Lama, as she has been called is renowned for her hilarious quotes, witty one-liners, and self-deprecating humor.In "Pocket Dolly Wisdom," the Queen of Country s best quotes have been compiled into a handy pocket-sized edition, perfect for reading on the go. So if you re feeling blue, need a laugh, a hug, or some solid Southern advice, this is the book for you. From love to diets, life advice, and more, there s something for every Dolly fan."

Symphonic Paradox - The Misadventures of a Wayward Musician (Hardcover): Sam Denov Symphonic Paradox - The Misadventures of a Wayward Musician (Hardcover)
Sam Denov
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sam Denov recounts his fascinating adventures as a musician in one of America's greatest orchestras. This story of intrigue, corruption and redemption is one that will appall, amuse and enlighten everyone who loves classical music.

Straighten Up and Fly Right - A Chronology and Discography of Nat King Cole (Hardcover, New): Klaus Teubig Straighten Up and Fly Right - A Chronology and Discography of Nat King Cole (Hardcover, New)
Klaus Teubig
R2,471 Discovery Miles 24 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz style faded away, and a selection of his later jazz-related trio sides. It includes for the first time Cole's unknown 16 transcriptions of his Wild Root broadcasts. This volume documents the development of a gifted pianist into a ballad-singing star and leader of the most famous jazz trio of the 1940s. All routes and recording activities by Cole and his fellow musicians from 1936 to the 1950s are chronicled here.

Nat King Cole is widely known as a singer of unforgettable fame, but that he was a true King of Jazz Piano in its heyday and the inventor of today's piano trios is almost forgotten. This discography gives all details of the King Cole Trio's activities, listing recording sessions, available broadcasts on discs, film soundtracks, and guest appearances by the trio or by Cole alone, on such shows as Jubilee, Command Performance, Supper Club, Mail Call, and Kraft Music Hall. A special listing is included of those occasions when Cole participated as unknown or unnamed pianist on radio transcriptions for singers like Anita Boyer, Anita O'Day, The Dreamers, The Barrie Sisters, Bonnie Lake, Rose Murphy, Maxine Johnson, and Juanelda Carter. In addition, the book includes the Cole Trio's engagement routes with exact dates if known, names of promoters, and much more. The biographical portion is a fascinating period piece of Jazz-age memorabilia.

The Return of Jazz - Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change (Paperback): Andrew Wright Hurley The Return of Jazz - Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change (Paperback)
Andrew Wright Hurley
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"In The Return of Jazz, Andrew Wright Hurley has admirably demonstrated Berendt's influence upon the emerging jazz scene of the early Federal Republic. Hurley shows how Cold War politics and rejection of the National Socialist past heightened Berendt's sense of mission. For Berendt, jazz was more than an avocation; it was a program for social and cultural reform. It is to Hurley's credit that he raises so many important issues surrounding jazz's development in the second half of the twentieth century." - H-German

"This is a benchmark study, in showing why a subject that has been overlooked in jazz historiography should not have been. Its importance lies not just in recognising the importance of a major mediator and 'enabler' of postwar jazz; it also models the late twentieth century shift of the jazz centre of gravity away from the US and towards international fusions. In its balancing of cultural theory with the most painstaking empirical research this is, quite simply, essential reading not just in jazz scholarship, but in the larger field of cultural history and its methodologies." - Bruce Johnson Cultural History, University of Turku

Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in a highly productive way, to question their all-too-eager adoption of American culture and how they sought to make valid artistic statements reflecting their identity as Europeans. This book explores the significance of some of Berendt's most important writings and record productions. Particular attention is given to the "Jazz Meets the World" encounters that he engineered with musicians from Japan, Tunisia, Brazil, Indonesia, and India. This proto-"world music" demonstrates how some West Germans went about creating a post-nationalist identity after the Third Reich. Berendt's powerful role as the West German "Jazz Pope" is explored, as is the groundswell of criticism directed at him in the wake of 1968.

Leslie Bassett - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Ellen S. Johnson Leslie Bassett - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Ellen S. Johnson
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leslie Bassett is a 20th-century composer, lecturer, university professor, and winner of many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He is unique among contemporary composers because he has written for many categories of music: brass, band and wind ensemble, chamber, choral, solo voice, instrumental solo, orchestra, organ, and piano. A favorite with students, he has also endeared himself as a guest composer at festivals and symposia in many states for over 30 years. This volume collects for the first time the widely scattered source materials on Bassett and thus documents his preeminence in the history and development of contemporary American music.

The biographical section of this volume first sketches Bassett's life and career and then gives an evaluative description of the progression of his musical compositions. To give a feeling for his music, illustrations of selected scores accompany some of the discussion. Next is a classified list of works arranged in alphabetical order and divided into 11 categories of performance, followed by a discography. The bibliography is annotated; there is a separate section for reviews of performances and concerts. Also included is an appendix that gives a chronological list of guest composer appearances, featuring festivals, symposia, and major educational events. Three other appendices round out the thorough coverage of source materials that have until now been difficult to see as a whole. Here they are readily accessible; thus, the book becomes a ready reference for the study of this acknowledged master of music.

The Composer's Point of View - Essays on Twentieth-Century Choral Music by Those Who Wrote It (Hardcover, New edition):... The Composer's Point of View - Essays on Twentieth-Century Choral Music by Those Who Wrote It (Hardcover, New edition)
Robert Stephen Hines
R2,812 Discovery Miles 28 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of essays by 20th-century American, English, and European composers in which each composer discusses a large choral work or works he has written, along with the principles that guided the composition.

The Rolling Stones - A Musical Biography (Hardcover): Murry R. Nelson The Rolling Stones - A Musical Biography (Hardcover)
Murry R. Nelson
R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones-the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever. By 1964 the United States had been "invaded" by a number of British bands, led by the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were seen as more rebellious and rowdy than The Beatles-they were the "bad boys" as opposed to the "good boys"-and this reputation only served to enhance their popularity with their teenage fans. The Stones far outlasted the Beatles and all the other 60s-era British bands, however The Rolling Stones not only continued, but flourished, their tours drawing enormous crowds for decades. The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography chronicles the fascinating adventures of these Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and sheds light on what has allowed these music legends to enjoy such lifelong popularity and success. A clear timeline of key events in the life of the band that encompasses over 40 years Images of the band members and their performances across time Print and nonprint resources for student research Appendices of albums, awards, film appearances, and more

The Age of Bowie (Paperback): Paul Morley The Age of Bowie (Paperback)
Paul Morley
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Solo - The Biography of Solomon (Hardcover): Bryan Crimp Solo - The Biography of Solomon (Hardcover)
Bryan Crimp
R1,342 Discovery Miles 13 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You? - A Memoir (Paperback): George Clinton Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You? - A Memoir (Paperback)
George Clinton; As told to Ben Greenman
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hansel and Gretel. A Guide to Engelbert Humperdinck's Opera. (Facsimile of 1913 Edition.) (Hardcover): Lewis Isaacs, Kurt... Hansel and Gretel. A Guide to Engelbert Humperdinck's Opera. (Facsimile of 1913 Edition.) (Hardcover)
Lewis Isaacs, Kurt Rahlson; Notes by Travis & Emery
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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