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The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies
Häftad, 2012
502 kr
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With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new …
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Av Russell Hartenberger, Ryan McClelland
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of …
The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones
Häftad, 2019
348 kr
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The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential, prolific, and enduring Rock and Roll bands in the history of music. This groundbreaking, specifically commissioned collection of essays provides the first dedicated academic overview of the music, career, influences, history, and cultural impact …
The Cambridge Companion to Handel
Häftad, 1997
502 kr
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Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber …
The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
Häftad, 2022
452 kr
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This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this exceptionally heterogeneous and decentralized …
The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar
Häftad, 2003
435 kr
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From the first mention in courtly poetry of the thirteenth century to enormous global popularity in the twentieth, the guitar and its development comprises multiple histories, each characterised by distinct styles, playing techniques, repertories and socio-cultural roles. These histories …
The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Häftad, 2003
502 kr
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This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and …
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
Av Allan Moore
Häftad, 2003
452 kr
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From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have proved hugely influential to generations of popular singers, from the wholesale adoptions of singers …
The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra
Av Colin Lawson
Häftad, 2003
435 kr
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This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in the breadth of its coverage. It combines orchestral history and orchestral repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra as a sociological and as an artistic phenomenon. This …
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Häftad, 2003
502 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yet focussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time. Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, this volume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of the composer, enhancing the readers' appreciation …
The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
Av Emanuele Senici, Emanuele Senici
Häftad, 2004
435 kr
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This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; …
The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
Häftad, 2004
435 kr
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This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's …
The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music
Inbunden, 2012
1559 kr
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Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral music, its emergence and growth worldwide and …
The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music
Häftad, 2012
502 kr
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Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral music, its emergence and growth worldwide and …
The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
Av Alain Frogley, Aidan J. Thomson
Häftad, 2013
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502 kr
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An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been …
The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
Av Alain Frogley, Aidan J. Thomson
Inbunden, 2013
1559 kr
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An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been …
The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt
Häftad, 2012
401 kr
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Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, …
The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder
Av John Mansfield Thomson, Anthony Rowland-Jones
Häftad, 1995
435 kr
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This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder. Seven contributors from four different countries write on topics such as the recorder and its music through the centuries, the recorder as orchestral instrument, the professional recorder player through history and today, and …
The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
Inbunden, 1992
1152 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Violin offers students, performers, and scholars a fascinating and composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day. The volume comprises fifteen essays, written by a team of specialists, and is intended to develop …
The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
Häftad, 1992
435 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Violin offers students, performers, and scholars a fascinating and composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day. The volume comprises fifteen essays, written by a team of specialists, and is intended to develop …
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
Av Colin Lawson
Häftad, 1995
452 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet is a practical guide to the world of the clarinet. It offers students and performers a composite survey of the history and repertoire of the instrument from its origins to the present day, as well as practical guidance on teaching and performing. Special …
The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Av Jim Samson, Jim Samson
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 …
The Cambridge Companion to the Piano
Häftad, 1998
452 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned essays offers an accessible introduction to the history of the piano, performance styles, and its vast repertoire. Part 1 reviews the evolution of the piano, from its earliest forms up to the most recent developments, including the acoustics of the …
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert
Häftad, 1997
502 kr
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This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived …
The Cambridge Companion to Brahms
Häftad, 1999
435 kr
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This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes …
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting
Häftad, 2003
394 kr
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In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance …
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations to its growth through Europe and the …
The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn
Häftad, 2004
435 kr
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The Companion to Mendelssohn, is written by leading scholars in the field. In fourteen chapters they explore the life, work, and reception of a composer-performer once thought uniquely untroubled in life and art alike, but who is now broadly understood as one of the nineteenth century's most deeply …
The Cambridge Companion to Elgar
Av Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony has prompted a critical revaluation of his music. This …
The Cambridge Companion to Ballet
Av Marion Kant
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor …
