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Ludwig van Beethoven: Approaches to His Music Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an...	Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640 (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $125.00 Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth...	Alma Mahler: or the Art of Being Loved Best Price: $140.06 Like CAROLINE OTERO,MISIA SERT and a few others,ALMA MAHLER came to symbolize the emerging power...	Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $40.00 Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560 - 1613) was rich, artistic, and - as the second son of a noble...	Vincent d'Indy and His World Best Price: $140.00 Over sixty years after his death in 1931, Vincent d'Indy is still a much misunderstood and...



The New Oxford History of Music: Volumes I-X: Vol. 10 The New Oxford History of Music is a magisterial survey of classical music from Ancient and...	Leitmotiv and Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Limits of "Epic" Theatre Best Price: $724.95 Wagner and Brecht are seemingly opposed in their approach to drama, music, and visual...	The Operas of Verdi: Volume 2: From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino Best Price: $37.02 Volume Two covers those works written during the decadence of the post-Rossini period. During...	Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works Volume II: The Dramatic Works Best Price: $322.41 Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921): A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works ensures an...	Haydn's Keyboard Music: Studies in Performance Practice (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $117.10 In this first full-scale study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard...



The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements Best Price: $5.63 As a lifelong resident of Coney Island,and the author of a recently published memoir entitled...	Acting for Singers: Creating Believable Singing Characters Best Price: $23.79 Although the title is Acting for Singers, actors and directors will benefit as well from...	In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music Best Price: $28.02 I'm afraid the previous (one-star) review of this book reminds me of some of the clueless...	Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning Best Price: $55.15 In Ways of Listening , musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical...	Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) Best Price: $17.00 Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...

Teaching Music Globally & Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Package: Includes 2 books, 1 CD (Global Music) Best Price: $35.49 The central books in the global music series which seeks to define various world music genres in...	Music in American Religious Experience Best Price: $24.69 Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for...	Mozart (Master Musicians Series) (Master Musicians (Hardcover Oxford)) Best Price: $16.33 If you are like me and have seen and enjoyed the Mozart operas and own a few CD's of his...	The Oxford History of Western Music	A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan Best Price: $19.49 Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more...

Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) Best Price: $35.98 This is a study of very short songs: pieces long perceived as 'fragments' or remnants of...	Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796 Best Price: $182.50 It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of...	The Works of Thomas Southerne: Volume I (Oxford English Texts) This two-volume collection--based on an exhaustive study of the earliest editions--brings...	The History of John Bull (Oxford English Texts) When Lord Strutt suddenly dies, a falsified will makes Philip Baboon the new Lord Strutt....	The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture, 1749-1764 Best Price: $34.96 The Nonsense Club was a group of five friends and writers--Charles Churchill, Bonnell Thornton,...

A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuuenalis Saturae (Oxford Classical Texts) Best Price: $29.95 A great book for collectors, if you are into latin classical books, this is must. An unusual...	Ancient Greek Music Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. Here at...	Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of Appropriation (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) One of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)...	Ariadne Auf Naxos: Its Genesis and Meaning (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)	Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $724.95 The royal string band at the English court had its origins in a six-man viol consort from Italy...

Music, Imagination, and Culture (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $53.00 I have minimal academic training in music appreciation or theory, but it is a subject that has...	Essays on Opera (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $25.00 Winton Dean has long been regarded as the foremost British expert on Handel and Bizet, as well...	Peter Warlock: The Life of Philip Heseltine (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $95.46 Philip Heseltine. taking on many pseudonyms in his short life but better known...	Schubert (Master Musicians (Paperback Oxford)) Best Price: $198.06 In his late years, John Reed accomplished a magnificent task: writing and revising this book....	Conducting Favourite Concert Pieces Best Price: $30.92 This collection of essays on the interpretation of twenty-two unusual concert pieces was...

Analysing Musical Multimedia Best Price: $138.43 This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different...	Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late Eighteenth Century Anglo-Indian Society Best Price: $166.99 Music of the Raj provides a colourful portrait of daily musical life in the late eighteenth...	Bruckner (Master Musicians) . Oxford UP reissued the old Dent Master Musicians series in updated texts. Unfortunately,...	The Finale in Western Instrumental Music (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $174.95 Why are finales different from other movements? Why can we nearly always tell whether a movement...	The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan Best Price: $36.80 Though sung in English, it can be difficult to understand the words of G&S operas without...

Seize the Dance: BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance Best Price: $39.99 "Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for...	The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas (New Grove Operas) Best Price: $8.45 Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The...	The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas (New Grove Operas) Best Price: $10.99 Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The...	The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz Best Price: $15.00 Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how...	"To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (New Narratives in American History) Best Price: $8.44 Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have...

Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York Best Price: $49.75 B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the...	The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television (Oxford Companions) Best Price: $21.15 High School Musical has sparked interest in the genre of musicals once more, but "The...	Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema Best Price: $14.00 Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a...	A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe Best Price: $15.98 In 1919, the world stood at the threshold of the Jazz Age. The man who had ushered it there,...	Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806 Best Price: $19.01 Honoring God and the City presents the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian...

Music, Imagination, and Culture (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $53.00 I have minimal academic training in music appreciation or theory, but it is a subject that has...	Essays on Opera (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $25.00 Winton Dean has long been regarded as the foremost British expert on Handel and Bizet, as well...	Peter Warlock: The Life of Philip Heseltine (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $95.46 Philip Heseltine. taking on many pseudonyms in his short life but better known...	Schubert (Master Musicians (Paperback Oxford)) Best Price: $198.06 In his late years, John Reed accomplished a magnificent task: writing and revising this book....	Conducting Favourite Concert Pieces Best Price: $30.92 This collection of essays on the interpretation of twenty-two unusual concert pieces was...

Analysing Musical Multimedia Best Price: $138.43 This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different...	Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late Eighteenth Century Anglo-Indian Society Best Price: $166.99 Music of the Raj provides a colourful portrait of daily musical life in the late eighteenth...	Bruckner (Master Musicians) . Oxford UP reissued the old Dent Master Musicians series in updated texts. Unfortunately,...	The Finale in Western Instrumental Music (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $174.95 Why are finales different from other movements? Why can we nearly always tell whether a movement...	The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan Best Price: $36.80 Though sung in English, it can be difficult to understand the words of G&S operas without...

Directing the Choral Music Program Best Price: $56.01 Directing The Choral Music Program by kenneth h. Phillips is exceptional and well researched. ...	$Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaning$ Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaning Best Price: $8.81 Now here is a fine weekend escape - a delightful book to be read with one's feet up and an...	Shostakovich: A Life Best Price: $43.76 -- reminds me of a line from "Apocalypse Now" "You are an errand boy, sent by...	Organ Technique: Modern and Early Best Price: $78.78 I have been using ORGAN TECHNIQUE: MODERN AND EARLY for less than a month with three students...	The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning: A Project of the Music Educators National Conference Best Price: $205.39 The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning is a very substantial reference work...

Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film Best Price: $23.72 This is the essential gangster movie, film noir text. Scholars and enthusiasts of the film...	Future Jazz Best Price: $4.48 Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream,...	Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music) Best Price: $51.21 Mariachi Music is much more than Music, it is Mexican Culture. Every region in Mexico has...	Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music) Best Price: $16.00 Music in Japan is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...	Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla Best Price: $22.97 The work of composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) ranges from late-romantic salon pieces to...

Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.86 There are very few expressions of one's ethnic identity as powerful and universal as music....	Australian Film, 1900-1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production Revised edition of this 1980 publication, considered the bible of reference works to the films...	The Australian Essential Dictionary and Thesaurus	The Oxford Companion to Australian Film This eagerly awaited companion, edited by a team led by Brian McFarlane, will become the primary...	Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music For someone already familiar with South Indian classical (Carnatic) music, this book will be a...

Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology Best Price: $6.71 This anthology covers nine Indian women poets writing in English. Edited by the poet and...	I, Durga Khote: An Autobiography Best Price: $30.00 Durga Khote, one of the first women from a "respectable" family to act in films,...	Japanese Musical Instruments (Images of Asia) Best Price: $398.47 During Japan's early history, musical instruments were seen as sources of ritual power,...	Studies in African Music (2 Volumes) This books takes Ewe music as typical of all African music, thus the title, but stays on topic....	The Elizabethan Madrigal: A Comparative Study (American Musicological Society) Best Price: $12.00 Historical study of the field by preeminent scholar.

Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms Best Price: $28.14 In Crossing Paths , John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of...	The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema Best Price: $11.48 The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on...	The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips from Teens and Pros Best Price: $20.00 Learning to play an instrument can be fun and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible...	Tchaikovsky (Master Musicians Series) Best Price: $18.00 In a volume that has brought forth criticism of "turgid, plodding, and pointless" from...	Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti Best Price: $12.99 Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his...

Exploring Twentieth Century Vocal Music: A Practical Guide to Innovations in Performance and Repertoire Best Price: $23.43 The vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio,...	Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music Best Price: $11.18 The Taruskin books are famous in certain circles. Written for an academic audience, one...	Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music Best Price: $20.51 Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres,...	Contemporary Class Piano Best Price: $64.99 Known for its richly diversified styles of repertoire and ensemble pieces and its abundance of...	Mendelssohn and the Organ Best Price: $49.00 Although Mendelssohn was most famous during his lifetime as a composer, virtuoso pianist, and...

A Chronology of American Musical Theater Best Price: $235.00 You will not find anything as comprehensive and thorough as these three volumes. If you want a...	Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber: The New Musical (Great Songwriters Series) Best Price: $5.00 This could have been a really interesting comparison, and there are some nice touches in this...	Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance This collection of essays and reviews offers an evaluation of the early music movement, in an...	Lou Harrison: Composing a World Best Price: $81.63 In this book, Leta Miller and Fredric Lieberman have given the music-historical community a...	Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bï¿1/2la Bartï¿1/2k's Opera Best Price: $74.95 This is the first book-length examination of Bartï¿½k's 1911 opera Duke...

Philosophical Perspectives on Music Best Price: $89.92 Bowman's book is important for the careful detail it provides on past philosophical theories...	Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond Best Price: $36.69 The premise behind Toplin's book is a very interesting one. When Ken Burns' epic...	Music of the Baroque Best Price: $24.98 An ideal instructional package for courses in music history and literature, Music of the...	Bartï¿1/2k Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist Best Price: $145.00 In profound ways, music in the twentieth century reflects the influence of Bï¿½la...	The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology Best Price: $24.34 If you are interested in the technical aspects of the Beatles' music, then make this book...

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