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  • Poor Relief or Poor Deal?

    The Social Fund, Safety Nets and Social Security

    by Trevor Buck ...
    Series series Studies in Cash & Care
    The social fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988. This book brings together new research and debate on the role and effect of the social fund in relieving poverty, and introduces evidence from the wider European field to allow comparison to be made with other countries' experience of providing a 'safety net' for their poorest citizens. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Ombudsman Enterprise and Administrative Justice

    by Trevor Buck, Richard Kirkham, Brian Thompson ...
    The statutory duty of public service ombudsmen (PSO) is to investigate claims of injustice caused by maladministration in the provision of public services. This book examines the modern role of the ombudsman within the overall emerging system of administrative justice and makes recommendations as to how PSO should optimize their potential within the wider administrative justice context. Recent ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • International Child Law

    by Trevor Buck ...
    International Child Law examines the international laws for children at both a global and a regional level. In particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is described and critically assessed, while at the regional level the child in Europe is examined and how far the ECHR is engaged as a vehicle to progress childrens rights. Other key issues, increasing regulated by international ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Influence of the Organ in History

    Enriched edition. Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University

    by Dudley Buck, Trevor Bainbridge ...
    In "The Influence of the Organ in History," Dudley Buck intricately weaves a narrative that explores the pivotal role of the organ across various historical epochs. Buck's prose is both erudite and accessible, skillfully blending scholarly analysis with an engaging literary style. This work not only chronicles the evolution of the organ as an instrument but also delves into its profound cultural ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

    by Ross W. Duffin ...
    "A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical MusicWhat if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Handel

    The Man & His Music

    by Jonathan Keates ...
    Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Handel

    by Edward J. Dent ...
    Biography of the composer. According to Wikipedia: "George Frederic Handel (23 February 1685 14 April 1759) was an English Baroque composer of German birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. Born as Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, the native German spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a naturalized subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727.[3] Perhaps ... Read more

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  • Beethoven: His Life and Music

    by Jeremy Siepmann ...
    Beethoven bestrides the history of music like no other. Without him it would have been a very different story. This biographical portrait reveals a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No mans music is more universal; few mens lives are more inspiring. Yet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bel Canto

    A Performer's Guide

    by Robert Toft ...
    Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be turned into passionate declamation. In other words, vocalists ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Handel

    by Donald Burrows ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Power of Robert Simpson

    A Biography

    by Donald Macauley ...
    Robert Simpson (1921-1997) is widely regarded as the most important British composer in the generation following Benjamin Britten. He wrote 11 symphonies, 15 string quartets, much other chamber music and works for brass band. He also wrote definitive studies of Bruckner and Nielsen. A committed socialist and pacifist, Simpson worked as a volunteer on a mobile surgical unit during the London blitz. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Organ

    Edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Geoffrey Webber ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organ and its music. It examines in turn the instrument, the player and the repertoire. The early chapters tell of the instrument's history and construction, identify the scientific basis of its sounds and the development of its pitch and tuning, examine the history of the organ case, and consider the current trends and conflicts within ... Read more

    $31.99 USD