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Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...
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£48,00
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Composing Japanese Musical Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...
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£24,00
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£78,00
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Language of Its Own Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
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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£28,00
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£43,50
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Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz
ISBN: PB: 9780226100746, ISBN: HB: 9780226098753, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 65 halftones
Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Jazz on the River
ISBN: PB: 9780226102672, ISBN: HB: 9780226437330, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 map
Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer mon...
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£14,00
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£20,50
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Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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£35,00
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Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque
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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£40,00
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More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography
ISBN: HB: 9780226067537, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and the catalog of its recordings – its discography – is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the inte...
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£36,00
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From the Score to the Stage An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging
ISBN: HB: 9780226035086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
416 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 2 tables, 189 colour illus.
Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life – by the stagehands who shift sc...
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£49,00
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Richard Wagner A Life in Music
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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£26,50
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