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Music in the Air The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby, Wenner Jann, Scanlon Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300212167, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists, interviewers, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chr...

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Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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You'll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226142715, ISBN: HB: 9780226300047, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones, 22 line illus.

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what w...

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Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque

Goldfarb Hilliard T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197921, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 35.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex...

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Richard Wagner A Life in Music

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226924618, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 37 line drawings

Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung", Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in histo...

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Biography & Memoires

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Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...

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No Such Thing as Silence

Gann Kyle

ISBN: PB: 9780300171297, Yale University Press, February 2011
272 pp., 20.3x13.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the a...

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Performing Arts

French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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Photography

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State of the Axe Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words

Gibson Ralph, Wilkes Tucker Anne, Paul Les

ISBN: PB: 9780300142112, Yale University Press, September 2008
192 pp., 29.8x21 cm, 80 duotone illus.

In this appealing book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than sixty intimate black-and-white portraits of guitar masters playing their instruments. Focusing his expert lens on musicians who have lent their unmistakable voices to virtua...

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Five Operas and a Symphony Words and Music in Russian Culture

Gasparov Boris

ISBN: HB: 9780300106503, Yale University Press, October 2005
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 88 musical examples

In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works in Russian music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing...

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