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  • Thomas Adès: Asyla

    by Edward Venn ...
    Series series Landmarks in Music Since 1950
    In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’. They reshaped how historians saw the British empire, focussing not on the ‘red bits on the map’ and the wishes of policy makers in London, but rather on British economic and political influence globally. Expanding on this analysis, this volume provides an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Music of Hugh Wood

    by Edward Venn ...
    The Music of Hugh Wood provides the first ever in-depth study of this well-known, yet only briefly documented composer. Over the years, Wood (b. 1932) has produced a sizeable oeuvre that explores the established genres of symphony, concerto, and quartet on the one hand, and songs and choruses on the other. Underpinned by an awareness of recent philosophical, theoretical and analytical concepts, Dr ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Student Belonging in Higher Education

    Perspectives and Practice

    Edited by Mi Young Ahn, Edward Venn, Tom Lowe ...
    Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students’ sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support, and diversity and accessibility practices.Drawing on the research and practical expertise of an international ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Thomas Adès Studies

    Edited by Edward Venn, Philip Stoecker ...
    Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
    Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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    Stories From The Shadows – 1850 – 1899

    Embrace the darkness

    by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Amy Levy, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Arabella Kenealy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mew0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, Charlotte Riddell2, Clara Venn3, Edith Nesbit4, Edward Bulwer-Lytton5, Edward Page Mitchell6, Elizabeth Gaskell7, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8, Ella D'Arcy9, Fernan Caballeron0, George Eliot1, George Eliot2, Gustave Flaubert3, Guy De Maupassant4, H G Wells5, Hesba Stretton6, Israel Zangwill7, Jack London8, Jan Neruda9, Jean Lorrain0, John Buchan1, Lafcadio Hearn2, Leo Tolstoy3, Lettice Galbraith4, Louisa Baldwin5, Lucy Hamilton Hooper6, Marcel Schwob7, Margaret Oliphant8, Mary Cholmonderly9, Mary E Penn0, Mary E Wilkins Freeman1, Mary Elizabeth Braddon2, Oscar Wilde3, Rhoda Broughton4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Rosa Mulholland6, Rudyard Kipling7, Thomas Hardy8, Vsevolod Garshin9, Wilkie Collins0, William Hunt1 ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley2, Richard Mitchley3, Christopher Ragland4 ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 47 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

    Edited by Daniel M. Grimley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibelius's work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    Edited by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Schnittke Studies

    Edited by Gavin Dixon ...
    Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death. Schnittke Studies provides a variety of perspectives on the composer and his music. The field is currently diverse and vibrant, and this book demonstrates the range of academic approaches being applied to ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • The Music of Michael Nyman

    Texts, Contexts and Intertexts

    by Pwyll ap Siôn ...
    Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American ... Read more

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