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Hyperion, September 2002. Trade Paperback. The author who has taught tens of thousands of people to love opera now introduces readers to the rich and soul-stirring world of classical music. For anyone who is aching to discover classical music, this comprehensive and accessible book is the ideal teacher. Writing in.....
Prentice-Hall, Inc. Hardcover.
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Everyman's Library, March 2020. Hardcover. A beautiful hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of America's greatest composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of.....
Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Text clean, though pages yellowing. Tear to ffep repaired with pH-neutral document-repair tape. Wear to head and tail of spine; some staining to cloth of front board. Text clean, though pages yellowing. Tear to ffep repaired with pH-neutral document-repair tape. Wear to head and tail.....
Houghton Mifflin, November 1999. Hardcover.
TFH Publications, November 1992. Hardcover.
Doubleday Books, December 1973. Hardcover.
Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. Hardcover. Jacket has much wear and tear, but is in a mylar dust jacket protector. Some brown spotting. Jacket has much wear and tear, but is in a mylar dust jacket protector. Some brown spotting.
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Dover Publications, May 1984. Trade Paperback. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music. Both.....
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxed along top edge. Cracked binding. Foxed along top edge. Cracked binding.
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, March 2005. Trade Paperback. Renowned music critic Conrad Wilson illuminates the music of some of history's greatest composers in relation to their private lives. In each "Notes on ..." volume Wilson selects twenty crucial works of a given composer, discusses each masterpiece with insight and.....
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1992. Hardcover. Since Glenn Gould's death in 1982, the pianist's extraordinary talent has won a new audience through the reissue of his most famous recordings. This volume, containing over 200 of his letters, covers a wide range of Gould's artistic activities: his detailed thoughts about.....
Hardcover.
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Destiny Books, April 1984. Trade Paperback. This study of the hidden side of music and its subtle effects is one of the most detailed books ever written on the subject.
J. Day Co, December 1973. Hardcover.
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W. W. Norton & Company, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In this provocative new study, William Newman presents to the reader "whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be supported by reasoning and analysis in the primary sources for his music." His aim, in brief, is to get.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover. Ex-library. Ex-library.
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Yale University Press, March 2002. Trade Paperback. The piano puts whole worlds of musical sound at the fingertips of one player, evoking the singing of a solo voice, the textural richness of an orchestra, and the rhythmic impetus of a dance band. It has been background or center stage in.....
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Billboard Books, October 1999. Hardcover. Beginning with Stravinsky and his seminal work early in the 20th century, this work traces the course of classical music. The author covers the major figures in music of the past 100 years from Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Varese and Webern to Boulez, Cage, Henze and Stockhausen.....
Not Avail, December 1974. Hardcover.
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Watson-Guptil, May 2000. Trade Paperback. A collection of 23 essays, edited by Joan Peyser and written by specialists in the field of classical music, offering a perspective on the orchestra and its history. This history documents the development of the orchestra from its antecedents in the late 15th century to.....
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Harvard University Press, April 1995. Hardcover. Missing CD. Missing CD. What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it.....
1941. Hardcover.
Schirmer Trade Books, May 2002. Trade Paperback. Slonimsky's 1988 autobiography, expanded in 2002 by his daughter Electra Yourke, tells the fascinating story of his life as pianist, composer, conductor and musical lexicographer.
