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  • Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo

    de Carol A. Hess ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's underclass. When it premiered in Spain in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the music of a marginalized culture while others attacked his mixing of classical ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V

    The Symphony in the Americas

    de Katherine Baber, E. Douglas Bomberger, J. Peter Burkholder, Carol A. Hess, Susan Key, Drew Massey, Matthew Mugmon, Douglas Shadle ...
    Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges.In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its origins into the 20th century. In Volume V, Brown's former students and colleagues continue his vision by turning to the symphony in the Western ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Experiencing Latin American Music

    de Carol A. Hess ...
    Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics—identity, the body, religion, and more—and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical contexts. With its brisk and engaging writing, this volume covers nearly fifty genres and provides ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Aaron Copland in Latin America

    Music and Cultural Politics

    de Carol A. Hess ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland’s diaries inform Carol A. Hess’s in-depth examination of the composer’s approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland’s tours facilitated an exchange of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Representing the Good Neighbor

    Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream

    de Carol A. Hess ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Winner of the 2015 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society In Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the twentieth century. Hers is the first study to probe Latin American art music in relation to Pan Americanism, or the idea that the American ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Adventures of a Cello

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    de Carlos Prieto ...
    Traducido por Elena C. Murray ...
    In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art—a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the ... Leer más

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  • The Music of Antônio Carlos Jobim

    de Peter Freeman ...
    Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim’s music made a lasting impression worldwide, and many of his songs are now standards of the popular music repertoire.In The Music of Antônio Carlos ... Leer más

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  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    de Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Leer más

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  • Changing Lives

    Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music

    de Tricia Tunstall ...
    “Reminds us of how arts education can change lives.” —Gary Stager, Huffington PostIn this “vivid story” (Economist), Tricia Tunstall “chronicles the origins and growth of Venezuela’s acclaimed El Sistema national music education program” (Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times) and illustrates its overarching goal: to rescue children from the depredations of poverty through music. What began in Venezuela ... Leer más

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  • Cuban Ballet

    de Octavio Roca ...
    Just as Russian dancers defected from the former Soviet Union in the 1970s, Cuban dancers are now fleeing Castro's regime in droves. Their unique style of ballet is galvanizing the world of dance. This beautifully illustrated book explores the history of Cuban ballet by focusing on the life and career of the indomitable Alicia Alonso. The author also spotlights many of the young dancers who are ... Leer más

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  • Aaron Copland

    The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

    de Howard Pollack ...
    A candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer.The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became one of America's most beloved and esteemed composers. His work, which includes Fanfare for the Common Man, A Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring, has been honored by a huge following of devoted listeners.But the full richness of Copland's life and accomplishments ... Leer más

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  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    de Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Leer más

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