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Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

Kinderman William

ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...

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Irving Berlin New York Genius

Kaplan James

ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...

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Biography & Memoires

Tchaikovsky Papers Unlocking the Family Archive

Kostalevsky Marina, Pearl Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300191363, Yale University Press, April 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and...

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Cherubino's Leap In Search of the Enlightenment Moment

Kramer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226377896, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 51 line drawings

For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence o...

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Language of Its Own Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Katz Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226425979, ISBN: HB: 9780226425962, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous – and enormously influential – dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, "A Language of Its O...

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Musical Instrument

Bassoon

Kopp James B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300118292, Yale University Press, June 2012
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 15 musical examples, 68 black&white illus.

This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in 21st-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years of experience playing the instrument to provide an up-...

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Law

Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Kernfeld Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226431833, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones, 7 line illus.

The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, B...

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Possessor and the Possessed Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius

Kivy Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300180183, Yale University Press, July 2011
304 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.

The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is sud...

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Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456942, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456935, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
408 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 32 line drawings, 35 figures, 60 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

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Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

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