Mozart in Person

Peter J Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 14
• The real key to this distinctive book lies in its subtitle. The book's core is an astonishingly detailed medical history of Mozart, spanning his entir... Lees meer

Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice

Allen Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 66
• In this exciting new study of a largely overlooked but nevertheless extremely important figure in American music, author Allen Cohen explores the rela... Lees meer

Electroacoustic Music

Thomas Licata

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 63
• Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of ... Lees meer

Born to Play

Jean E Cazort, Constance T Hobson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• The life of a great musician is always interesting, but the story of Hazel Harrison is exceptional. Her achievement was particularly impressive becaus... Lees meer

Jazz Poetry

Sascha Feinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 44
• Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses ... Lees meer

The Music of Morton Feldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 36
• Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. His unique body of compositions, as well as h... Lees meer

Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions

Mary a Cicora

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 57
• Consisting of six studies that present hermeneutical analyses of Wagnerian dramas, this book discusses Wagner's mature single dramas from Hollander to... Lees meer

The Wind and Wind-Chorus Music of Anton Bruckner

Keith Kinder

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 51
• This comprehensive study treats the wind works of Anton Bruckner as a complete genre and uses them to illustrate how the composer evolved in style thr... Lees meer

Jazz Poetry

Sascha Feinstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 44
• Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses ... Lees meer

The Piece as a Whole

Hugh Aitken

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 45
• Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressi... Lees meer

Chopin Through His Contemporaries

Pierre Azoury

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 54
• Dual natures comprised Chopin's personality. On one hand, he was a highly creative romantic idealist and on the other, a realist trying to cope with t... Lees meer

Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America

Nicholas E Tawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of American Art Music , this new study stands on its own in examining the music of the mos... Lees meer

Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries

Alexandar Mihailovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 49
• Commemorating the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death, these essays reassess the life and work of the composer from a variety of perspectives, ranging fr... Lees meer

Dancing Till Dawn

Julie Malnig

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 25
• This fascinating book explores the rich history of exhibition ballroom dancing from its heyday in the 1910s to the present. Julie Malnig's record of t... Lees meer

Dancing Till Dawn

Julie Malnig

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including... Lees meer

A Most Wondrous Babble

Nicholas E Tawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. He draws information from composers, musi... Lees meer

Wiser Than Despair

Quentin Faulkner

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 40
• This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days... Lees meer

Sing Sorrow

Marianne McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 62
• Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow... Lees meer

Alfred Einstein on Music

Catherine Gold

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of ... Lees meer

Divine Madness and the Absurd Paradox

Bruce G Shapiro

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 29
• This book is a comprehensive study of Peer Gynt , a drama that forms the foundation of not only the entire Ibsen canon but also modern drama as a whol... Lees meer

Voices of Combat

Kent a Bowman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• This study of American liberty and war songs is among the first to examine them in a historical and literary context and to focus almost exclusively o... Lees meer

The Music of Anthony Braxton

Mike Heffley

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 43
• For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed, and attacked for his musical innovations. His ambitious efforts to reco... Lees meer

Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929

Larry Sitsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 31
• Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially s... Lees meer

The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff

Ruth Gillen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance | nr. 48
• Even after acquiring the Doctor of Laws degree from both the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne (discussed in a letter, along with the effects of l... Lees meer