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Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
ISBN: HB: 9780226629667, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones, 9 line drawings
The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young compose...
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£44,00
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Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...
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£14,99
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Exile's Song Edmond Dede and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221367, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond Dede, raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond Dede, a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France's b...
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£25,00
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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...
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£12,99
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Musical Instruments Highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588395627, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2015
192 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.
Featuring more than 100 extraordinary pieces from around the world and spanning thousands of years, this book displays the astounding diversity of musical instruments. Highlights include Bronze Age cymbals, the earliest known piano, violins made by S...
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£18,99
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Andy Warhol The Complete Commissioned Record Covers
ISBN: HB: 9783791354248, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
264 pp., 30.5x30.5 cm, 287 colour illus.
Now available in an expanded edition, this landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon's lifelong engagement with music and casting a new light on his enormously diverse o...
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£35,00
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Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300194586, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus", but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio's anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Mich...
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£44,00
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Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.
When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...
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£25,00
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Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues Contexts, Style, Performance
ISBN: HB: 9780300149432, Yale University Press, July 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.
Likely to become an essential source for pianists wishing to play Shostakovich's work as well as for listeners, this is the first book-length study in English of Shostakovich's largest work for piano, the "Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87". M...
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£57,00
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Timpani and Percussion
ISBN: PB: 9780300095005, Yale University Press, May 2002
320 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 17 colour plates, 42 black&white illus.
A history of percussion instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Jeremy Montagu, a performer, historian, and curator of musical instruments, discusses common and uncommon percussion instruments from all parts of the world, tracing their...
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£19,95
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