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Listening to China Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839
ISBN: HB: 9780226667126, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings
From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers an...
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£44,00
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London Voices, 1820-1840 Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories
ISBN: HB: 9780226670188, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 5 line drawings
London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion pla...
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£49,00
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Letters of Cole Porter
ISBN: HB: 9780300219272, Yale University Press, October 2019
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.
From "Anything Goes" to "Kiss Me, Kate", Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top", "Love For Sale", and "Night and Day". Yet, alongside his professional success, Porter led an eclectic personal life which featured...
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£25,00
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Learn to Play Piano in Six Weeks or Less Intermediate Level
ISBN: PB: 9781454932314, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2019
128 pp., 25.2x20.9 cm, illus.
In this book, Dan Delaney – hailed by Keyboard magazine as a pioneer in music teaching – and William Chotkowski walk readers through the next set of skills they need to play at the intermediate level. Featuring Dan Delaney s innovative chord method –...
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£10,99
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Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp
ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...
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£24,00
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Leonard Bernstein
ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
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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£24,00
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£72,00
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Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
ISBN: PB: 9780226353807, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
112 pp., 15.8x10.7 cm
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations – all these sounds seem like so much noodling o...
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£11,50
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Leonard Bernstein Letters
ISBN: PB: 9780300205442, Yale University Press, October 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
<p>Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ("West Side Story"), symphonies ("Age of Anxiety"...
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£14,99
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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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