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Classical Music: A Concise History (Paperback, New ed): Julian Rushton Classical Music: A Concise History (Paperback, New ed)
Julian Rushton
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Portrays the musical era between 1750 and 1830 against its intellectual and cultural background and describes both its famous and obscure composers.

Wieland Wagner - Revolutionar Und Visionar Des Musiktheaters (German, Hardcover): Till Haberfeld, Oswald Georg Bauer Wieland Wagner - Revolutionar Und Visionar Des Musiktheaters (German, Hardcover)
Till Haberfeld, Oswald Georg Bauer
R1,864 R1,609 Discovery Miles 16 090 Save R255 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Im Jahr 2017 wird der 100. Geburtstag des Regisseurs und B hnenbildners Wieland Wagner, eines Enkels von Richard Wagner, begangen. Zu diesem Anlass erscheint eine umfassende Bild- und Textdokumentation seines k nstlerischen Schaffens. Mit der Wiederaufnahme der Bayreuther Festspiele im Jahr 1951 begann die bedeutende Epoche von Neu-Bayreuth , die von Wieland Wagner wesentlich gepr gt war. Mit seinen revolution ren Wagner-Inszenierungen und vor allem seinen vision ren Bildfindungen hat er einen neuen Stil aus dem Geist der altgriechischen Trag die geschaffen, der internationale Beachtung fand. Auch au erhalb von Bayreuth hat er mit seinen Neudeutungen der Aida und des Otello von Giuseppe Verdi, der Elektra und der Salome von Richard Strauss, der Lulu und des Wozzeck von Alban Berg, der Carmen von Georges Bizet sowie der Antigonae und des Osterspiels von Carl Orff das Musiktheater revolutioniert. Der Band l sst mit eindrucksvollen Bildern seiner k hnen Inszenierungen das Wirken Wieland Wagners wieder lebendig werden.

Faust - Vocal Score (Paperback): Faust - Vocal Score (Paperback)
R1,372 R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Save R222 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Canadian Music of the Twentieth Century (Paperback): George A Proctor Canadian Music of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
George A Proctor
R1,058 Discovery Miles 10 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Seven Verdi Librettos (Paperback): Giuseppe Verdi Seven Verdi Librettos (Paperback)
Giuseppe Verdi
R771 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R53 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Translated by William Weaver

Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music. The listener, to understand the opera fully, should understand the situations, the shades of emotion, the nuances of characterization described in the music. William Weaver's translations of seven of the greatest Verdi operas are designed for maximum fidelity to the immediate word. Eschewing artistic renderings, Mr. Weaver offers, on facing pages, exact translations and the corresponding Italian text. The operas chosen for this edition represent Verdi's major achievements in each of the significant periods of his creative life: the first trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata; Un ballo in maschera and Aida from the middle period; Otello and Falstaff, the great late works. The music student as well as the opera buff will find this volume a very useful guide to Verdi's world.

Aspects of Music in Canada (Paperback): Arnold Walter Aspects of Music in Canada (Paperback)
Arnold Walter
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
L'Elisir d'Amore - Vocal Score (Paperback): Gaetano Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore - Vocal Score (Paperback)
Gaetano Donizetti
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Vocal Score). Italian only, with an introductory plot synopsis in English.

Leo Smith - A Biographical Sketch (Paperback): Pearl McCarthy Leo Smith - A Biographical Sketch (Paperback)
Pearl McCarthy
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

LEO SMITH-cellist, journalist, composer, and teacher-was one of the most picturesque and frequently idolized artists on the Canadian scene. His career spanned the years between the old music and the new, between the time when artistic education was private and the time when people fasten their cultural hopes on public education and government funds, between the last days when white gloves were worn to drawing room musicales and the days when men dash to recitals without ties. Throughout this period, Leo Smith not only composed and performed for the public, but carried his public with him into the new era. His history, then, provides a changing picture of the Canadian cultural scene through one of the most formative periods in the country's social history. To the crowds at large popular concerts such as the Toronto Proms, this elderly, contented musician represented the epitome of the music maker. In his music, Leo Smith bridged the gap between the old orthodoxies and new idioms, and as a teacher of theory and composition, he showed a younger generation, intent on yet newer innovations, how to be consistent as creative experimentalists. And in the last years of his life he moved out of the scholar's study into the hurly-burly of a metropolitan newspaper to become one of Canada's most trenchant and informed music critics. Pearl McCarthy's biography vividly recapitulates the Canadian musical scene between 1910 and 1952 and provides a coda to the career of an important influecne in Canadian music.

Measure - In Pursuit of Musical Time (Hardcover): Marc D. Moskovitz Measure - In Pursuit of Musical Time (Hardcover)
Marc D. Moskovitz
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of external measuring devices and continuing to the present-day use of the Smartphone app. The book opens with an exploration of musical time keeping as expressed in the artwork and musical writing of the Renaissance, sources that inform our early understanding of an age when music making was bound up with motions of the body and the pulsing of the human heart. With the adoption of the simple pendulum and the subsequent incorporation of tempo-related language, musicians gained the ability to communicate concepts of speed and slowness with ever-increasing precision. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the development of a diverse array of musical time-keeping devices, yet it was not until the nineteenth century that a single device combined the critical elements of accuracy, functionality and affordability. Enter the metronome: portable and affordable, a triumph of innovation that enabled musicians to establish and faithfully reproduce musical time with accuracy and ease. From Beethoven to Ligeti, Moskovitz looks to a number of distinguished composers who used or refused this revolutionary machine and explores the complicated relationship that unfolded between the metronome, the musical world and practitioners in other disciplines who sought to exploit its potential. Engagingly written, Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time will appeal to professionals and amateurs alike.

Listening to Mendelssohn - An Owner's Manual (CD): David Hurwitz Listening to Mendelssohn - An Owner's Manual (CD)
David Hurwitz
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe's most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in his posthumous reputation, and as a result Mendelssohn's music was obscured by a host of extra-musical factors: changes in taste, the rise of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and contempt for Victorian culture. This "owner's manual" offers a guide to Mendelssohn's musical output, major and minor, providing points of entry into a large body of work, much of which remains far too little known. There's much more to Mendelssohn than the "Italian" Symphony and the "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, and a whole creative world of vivid, expressive, and fantastical music is ready for exploration.

Schoenberg and His School (Paperback): Rene Leibowitz Schoenberg and His School (Paperback)
Rene Leibowitz
R479 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R25 (5%) Pre-order

This book talks about music. It incorporates modal and tonal music. It talks about Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of contempoary music, Alban Berg and how the past plays on contemporary music and Anton Webern and the future of contemporary music. As well as the structure of contemporary musical speech. Rene Leibowitz was a French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland. During the early 1930s, Leibowitz studied composition and orchestration with Ravel in Paris, where he was introduced to Schoenberg's Twelve-note technique by the German pianist and composer Erich Itor Kahn. He subsequently studied with Schoenberg's pupil Webern. Many of the works of the Second Viennese School were first heard in France at the International Festival of Chamber Music established by Leibowitz in Paris in 1947. Leibowitz was highly influential in establishing the reputation of the Second Viennese School, both through activity as a teacher in Paris after WWII and through his book Schoenberg et son ecole, published in 1947 and translated by Dika Newlin as Schoenberg and his School (US and UK editions 1949). This was among the earliest theoretical treatises written on Schoenberg's 12-tone method of composition. Leibowitz's advocacy of the Schoenberg school was taken further by his two most gifted pupils, each taking different paths in promoting the musics of Schoenberg, Webern and the development of serialism, namely Pierre Boulez and Jacques-Louis Monod. His American students include the composers Will Ogdon, Janet Maguire, and the avant-garde film director-animator John Whitney. As conductor, Leibowitz was active in many recording projects. One of the most widely circulated and most notable is a set of the Beethoven symphonies made for Reader's Digest Recordings; it was apparently the first recording of the symphonies to follow Beethoven's original metronome markings. In choosing this approach, Leibowitz was influenced by his friend and colleague Rudolf Kolisch. Leibowitz likewise made many recordings for Reader's Digest in their various compilation albums. He also wrote for Les Temps modernes, applying existentialist ideas to musicology.

Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Music from the Renaissance - Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads (German, Paperback): Bettina... Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Music from the Renaissance - Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads (German, Paperback)
Bettina Schipp, Reynhard Boegl
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Practical Vocal Method (Vaccai) - High Voice - Soprano/Tenor - Book/CD (Paperback): Elio Battaglia Practical Vocal Method (Vaccai) - High Voice - Soprano/Tenor - Book/CD (Paperback)
Elio Battaglia
R610 R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beethoven, A Life (Paperback): Jan Caeyers Beethoven, A Life (Paperback)
Jan Caeyers; Foreword by Daniel Hope; Translated by Brent Annable
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, renowned Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven-his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the "immortal beloved," and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven's world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and vivid depictions of Bonn and Vienna-the cities where Beethoven produced and performed his works. Caeyers explores how Beethoven's career was impacted by the historical and philosophical shifts taking place in the music world, and conversely, how his own trajectory changed the course of the music industry. Equal parts absorbing cultural history and lively biography, Beethoven, A Life paints a complex portrait of the musical genius who redefined the musical style of his day and went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music.

Classical Fake Book: Over 850 Classical Themes and Melodies in the Original Keys (Paperback, Revised): Hal Leonard Publishing... Classical Fake Book: Over 850 Classical Themes and Melodies in the Original Keys (Paperback, Revised)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; Created by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
R1,328 R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Save R172 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

(Fake Book). A comprehensive reference for all classical music lovers, the second edition of this fake book features 250 pieces added since the last edition. Imagine having one handy volume that includes everything from Renaissance music to Vivaldi to Mozart to Mendelssohn to Debussy to Stravinsky, and you have it here We have included as much of the world's most familiar classical music as possible, assembling more than 850 beloved compositions from ballets, chamber music, choral music, concertos, operas, piano music, waltzes and more. Featuring indexes by composer, title and genre, as well as a timeline of major classical composers, this encyclopedic fake book is great to use for playing and performing, but it's also a terrific resource for concert-goers, music students and music lovers. The chords of the harmony are indicated, and lyrics, in the original language, are included where appropriate.

Kalimba Songbook - 40 Klassische Themen / Classical Music Themes - Spielen nach Zahlen - play by numbers + MP3 Sound downloads... Kalimba Songbook - 40 Klassische Themen / Classical Music Themes - Spielen nach Zahlen - play by numbers + MP3 Sound downloads (German, Paperback)
Bettina Schipp, Reynhard Boegl
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Expression and Truth - On the Music of Knowledge (Hardcover, New): Lawrence Kramer Expression and Truth - On the Music of Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
Lawrence Kramer
R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. "Expression and Truth" rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig WittgensteinOCOs scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world.Recent years have seen the return of the claim that musicOCOs power resides in its ineffability. In "Expression and Truth," Lawrence Kramer presents his most elaborate response to this claim. Drawing on philosophers such as Wittgenstein and on close analyses of nineteenth-century compositions, Kramer demonstrates how music operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that music matters too profoundly to be cordoned off from the kinds of critical readings typically brought to the other arts. A tour-de-force by one of musicologyOCOs most influential thinkers.OCoSusan McClary, "Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music."

The Bible in Music - A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More (Paperback): Siobhan Dowling Long, John F. A. Sawyer The Bible in Music - A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More (Paperback)
Siobhan Dowling Long, John F. A. Sawyer
R2,193 Discovery Miles 21 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

There have been numerous publications in the last decades on the Bible in literature, film, and art. But until now, no reference work has yet appeared on the Bible as it appears in Western music. In The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, scholars Siobhan Dowling Long and John F. A. Sawyer correct this gap in Biblical reference literature, providing for the first time a convenient guide to musical interpretations of the Bible. Alongside examples of classical music from the Middle Ages through modern times, Dowling Long and Sawyer also bring attention to the Bible's impact on popular culture with numerous entries on hymns, spirituals, musicals, film music, and contemporary popular music. Each entry contains essential information about the original context of the work (date, composer, etc.) and, where relevant, its afterlife in literature, film, politics, and liturgy. It includes an index of biblical references and an index of biblical names, as well as a detailed timeline that brings to the fore key events, works, and publications, placing them in their historical context. There is also a bibliography, a glossary of technical terms, and an index of artists, authors, and composers. The Bible in Music will fascinate anyone familiar with the Bible, but it is also designed to encourage choirs, musicians, musicologists, lecturers, teachers, and students of music and religious education to discover and perform some less well-known pieces, as well as helping them to listen to familiar music with a fresh awareness of what it is about.

The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings - The Must-Have CDs and DVDs (Paperback): Edward Greenfield, Ivan... The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings - The Must-Have CDs and DVDs (Paperback)
Edward Greenfield, Ivan March, Paul Czajkowski, Robert Layton 1
R520 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski, to create an essential guide to the best recordings. Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today - but how do you pick your way through the vast array of music now on offer? With clear, simple, easy-to-use A to Z listings of composers and performers, the pick of the latest CD releases, as well as established landmark recordings, short guides to ballet, opera and the history of recording, and indications of budget and mid-range price CDs, this guide offers a treasury of outstanding music, whether you are just starting to build a collection or tracking down a particular favourite.

Hunnenschlacht, S.105 - Study score (German, Paperback, Taubmann ed.): Franz Liszt Hunnenschlacht, S.105 - Study score (German, Paperback, Taubmann ed.)
Franz Liszt; Edited by Otto Taubmann; Introduction by Soren Afshar
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The eleventh in Liszt's series of thirteen tone poems for orchestra, "Hunnenschlacht" or 'Battle of the Huns' - composed from 1855-57 - was inspired by a painting of the same title by Wilhelm von Kaulbach which portrayed the legendary Battle of the Catalaunian Plains between the Huns under Attila and a coalition of Romans, Visigoths and others fought around June 20, 451, where the fighting was supposedly so bitter that the spirits of the fallen warriors continued the battle in the skies above the field. Liszt conducted the premiere himself in Weimar on 29 December 1857. This new study score is a digitally-restored reissue of the score edited by Otto Taubmann in the sixth volume of the Liszt-Stiftung edition, published in 1910. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.

Songs from the Threepenny Opera - For Voice and Piano (Paperback): Songs from the Threepenny Opera - For Voice and Piano (Paperback)
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story " With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

Symphony No.4 'The Inextinguishable' Op.29 (Book, Study Guide): Carl Nielsen Symphony No.4 'The Inextinguishable' Op.29 (Book, Study Guide)
Carl Nielsen
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Italian, Paperback): Alberto Zedda Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Italian, Paperback)
Alberto Zedda
R1,247 R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Save R113 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Italian/English - Paper Score. Edited by Zedda.

Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe (Hardcover): Joy H. Calico Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe (Hardcover)
Joy H. Calico
R1,680 Discovery Miles 16 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw--a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. A twelve-tone piece in three languages about the Holocaust, it was written for an American audience by a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, Schoenberg had immigrated to the United States and become an American citizen. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide.

Music and the Elusive Revolution - Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (Paperback): Eric Drott Music and the Elusive Revolution - Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (Paperback)
Eric Drott
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the "long" 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott's detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in response to 1968 and his pathbreaking reflections on the nature and significance of musical genre come together to provide insights into the relationships that link music, identity, and politics.

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