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  • Mahler's Symphonic World

    Music for the Age of Uncertainty

    by Karol Berger ...
    A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world.Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911. Mahler's Symphonic World provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Reason

    Wagner contra Nietzsche

    by Karol Berger ...
    Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the “secret” of large-scale form in Wagner’s music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Music, Sense and Nonsense

    Collected Essays and Lectures

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

    by William Kinderman ...
    Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Brahms and His World

    Edited by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on ... Read more

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  • Music in the Nineteenth Century : The Oxford History of Western Music

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Bach's Works for Solo Violin

    Style, Structure, Performance

    by Joel Lester ...
    J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Joel Lester, a highly regarded scholar, teacher, violinist, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Wagner

    by Michael Tanner ...
    ‘A fine, intellectually sparkling and always engaging little book – a welcome addition to any Wagner library’Hans Vaget, Opera QuarterlyWhilst no one would dispute Wagner’s ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer. His supposed personal defects have provoked intense hostility which has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Mahler

    A Musical Physiognomy

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.Since its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Richard Wagner and His World

    Edited by Thomas S. Grey ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. ... Read more

    $31.69 USD