Western "classical" music books

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Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing

Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical...

Author: Fernando Benadon (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, American University)
ISBN: 9780197659977
Format: Hardback
$202.95

"The way rhythm is taught in Western classrooms and music lessons is rooted in a centuries-old European approach...  Read More >>

Raising the Roof: A Dazzling History of Classical Music and its Colourful Characters

Raising the Roof: A Dazzling History of Classical Music...

Author: Jack Pepper ,  Michele Bruttomesso
ISBN: 9781787419285
Format: Hardback
$35.00

A cool introduction to classical music  Read More >>

Growing Your Choral Program: A Practical Guide for New Directors

Growing Your Choral Program: A Practical Guide for New...

Author: Nicolás Alberto Dosman
ISBN: 9781538158968
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Thisis a practical guide for early career choral directors and music educators in search of tangible and simple...  Read More >>

Vaughan Williams in Context

Vaughan Williams in Context

Author: Julian Onderdonk (West Chester University, Pennsylvania) ,  Ceri Owen (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781108493321
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Taking a revisionist perspective, this book places and explores Vaughan Williams's life and music in their broad...  Read More >>

Handbuch der Oper

Handbuch der Oper

Author: Rudolf Kloiber ,  Wulf Konold
ISBN: 9783662685259
Format: Hardback
$131.97

Ergänzend zu den über 330 Operntexten des Standardwerks stellt Robert Maschka auf ca.  Read More >>

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German...

Author: Austin Glatthorn (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781009066068
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Designed for music scholars, historians, and those interested in music of the 'Classical era', Glatthorn's book...  Read More >>

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Author: Frank Lehman
ISBN: 9780367430771
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories...

Author: Björn Heile (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781009491709
Format: Hardback
$232.88

In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the...  Read More >>

J. S. Bach: The Organ Works

J. S. Bach: The Organ Works

Author: George B. Stauffer (Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History, Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History, Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780195108026
Format: Hardback
$96.95

"In the obituary that appeared soon after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach was described as ""the world-famous organist""...  Read More >>

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond...

Author: Christopher Morris
ISBN: 9780226831299
Format: Paperback
$61.95

"An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media...  Read More >>

The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne

The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English...

Author: Jennifer Thorp
ISBN: 9781638040958
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne considers the life...  Read More >>

Do I Bark Like a Dog?: How an Italian Family History Shaped a Boy in London

Do I Bark Like a Dog?: How an Italian Family History...

Author: Michael Volpe
ISBN: 9781804470862
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Exploring his colourful, rich and often dramatic life in London and summers spent in southern Italy among his large...  Read More >>

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno...

Author: Gianmario Borio
ISBN: 9780367762551
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical...  Read More >>

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical...

Author: Mark Delaere
ISBN: 9781032308562
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the...

Author: Arne Herman
ISBN: 9781032054278
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book reflects on the sustainability crisis...  Read More >>

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis...

Author: Abigail Shupe
ISBN: 9780367762414
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book studies Crumb’s Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma....  Read More >>

Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673: On the Music of Poetry and Power of Rhythm

Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi,...

Author: Peter Martens
ISBN: 9781032305967
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Isaac Vossius’s De...  Read More >>

Topics in Musical Interpretation

Topics in Musical Interpretation

Author: Sezi Seskir (Bucknell University, USA) ,  David Hyun-su Kim
ISBN: 9781032344621
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This collection of essays seeks to remedy this deficit by illuminating ways in which today’s curious musician –...  Read More >>

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

Author: Rhoderick McNeill
ISBN: 9780367622947
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting...  Read More >>

Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments: Trash Music

Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for...

Author: Rachel N. Becker
ISBN: 9781032491769
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Bruno Maderna: His Life and Music

Bruno Maderna: His Life and Music

Author: Rossana Dalmonte ,  Mario Baroni
ISBN: 9781538196403
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Bruno Maderna, one of the most influential composers in the 20th century and a formidable conductor, was the oldest...  Read More >>

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