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  • The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I

    The Eighteenth-Century Symphony

    by Simon McVeigh, Timothy Noonan, Allan Badley, Jeannette Morgenroth, Adena Portowitz, Paul R. Bryan, Judith L. Schwartz, Suzanne Forsberg, Robert O. Gjerdingen, Peter Alexander, Joanna Cobb Biermann, Sarah Mandel-Yehuda, René Ramos, R. Todd Rober, Michael E. Ruhling, Bertil H. van Boer, Richard Will, Jean K. Wolf, Sterling E. Murray, Marita McClymonds ...
    Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Child Composers in the Old Conservatories

    How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

    by Robert O. Gjerdingen ...
    In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system of conservatori was created to house, nurture, and train these fanciulli vaganti (roaming children) to become hatters, shoemakers, tailors, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Reflections on the Musical Mind

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential.In Reflections ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

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  • Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set: 5-vol. set

    5-vol. set

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical time period in the history of western music. All five books are also being offered in a shrink ... Read more

    Was $755.99 USD Now $593.99 USD

  • Early Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Forrest Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Classical Music

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Julian Johnson ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Pick up where Classic FM leaves offWhat does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? With such a rich tradition, what relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field, and examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, emotion, the weight of history, and self ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    by Philip Gossett ...
    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

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  • A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

    by Jeffery Kite-Powell ...
    Series series Publications of the Early Music Institute
    Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

    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-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks- the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Music in the Galant Style

    by Robert Gjerdingen ...
    Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Baroque Violin & Viola

    A Fifty-Lesson Course Volume I

    by Walter S. Reiter ...
    In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

    Edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell ...
    Series series Publications of the Early Music Institute
    Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of ... Read more

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