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  • U2
    Neufeld / Timothy D. Neufeld / Timothy DNeufeld
    U2’s significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative career that has given each of these elements an unusual degree of social and cultural r...
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    55,83 €

  • Unfinished History
    David Montgomery
    This study addresses a long-standing mythology concerning the "Unfinished" Symphony and reviews anachronistic performance practices that prevent listeners from experiencing the work as a product of its own time.David Montgomery’s Unfinished History challenges the traditional story of Franz Schubert’s B-minor Symphony and searches for a more credible account of this great work. ...
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    104,81 €

  • The Words and Music of Brian Wilson
    Christian Matijas-Mecca
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    82,48 €

  • Polish Style in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
    Paczkowski / Szymon Paczkowski
    Now appearing in an English translation, this book by Szymon Paczkowski is the first in-depth exploration of the Polish style in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach spent almost thirty years living and working in Leipzig in Saxony, a country ruled by Friedrich August I and his son Friedrich August II, who were also kings of Poland (as August II and August III). This period...
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    150,26 €

  • Earl Scruggs
    Casterlnero / David L. Russell / David LRussell / Gordon Castelnero
    As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble farm boy from North Carolina could have imagined. Scruggs’s revolutionary three-finger roll patterns electrified audiences and transformed the banjo into a mainstream solo instrumen...
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    55,74 €

  • Music, Theater, and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846)
    Luiz Costa-lima Neto / Stephen Thomson Moore
    This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) - a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided into three groups, which I have called Lundu, Aria, and Alleluia. The sound unive...
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    157,52 €

  • Complete Preludes, Nocturnes & Waltzes
    Before there was Glenn Gould or Liberace, before there was Vladimir Horowitz, before there was Arthur Rubinstein . . .  there was Frederic Chopin.One of music’s first true superstars, Chopin set hearts aflutter around the world with some of the most beautiful piano compositions of the Romantic Era. Beloved by fans as well as contemporaries like Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann, ...
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    32,86 €

  • Complete Preludes, Nocturnes & Waltzes
    One of music’s all time greats, Frederic Chopin has written some the most beautiful piano compositions of the Romantic Era. Beloved by his contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann, the brilliant yet fragile Chopin created an astonishing enduring body of work in his short lifetime.This comprehensive collection of Chopin’s technically demanding work includes 26 prel...
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    23,58 €

  • The Kinks
    Carey Fleiner
    Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies’s band, the Kinks, became one of England’s most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as 'You Really Got Me,' 'Lola,' and 'Sunny Afternoon,' the Kinks produced 24 studio albums between 1964 and 1996. The Kinks’ prolific and varied catalog have made them ...
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    64,11 €

  • Schumann
    From the tortured soul of Robert Schumann came the music that practically launched the Romantic Era.  A firm believer in music’s ability to capture and express feelings, thoughts, and emotions, Schumann poured his heart into every note he composed.The very definition of a Romantic, Schumann created a majority of his piano compositions for his beloved wife, the renowned pianist ...
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    27,91 €

  • Believe Your Ears
    Kirke Mechem
    Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, ...
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    53,09 €

  • Michael Jackson, Inc.
    Zack O. Greenburg / Zack OGreenburg
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    17,22 €

  • Living in the Woods in a Tree
    Sybil Rosen
    This is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949–1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, “If I Could Only Fly.” It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Fol...
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    17,23 €

  • Partners in suspense
    A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history. ...
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    169,71 €

  • Bob Dylan
    Brown / Donald Brown
    Donald Brown follows shifting versions of Dylan, from songs of social involvement to more personal songs, exploring his influential albums, tours, and personas. In an engaging adventure, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s entire career in the context of its times to assess the relationship of Dylan's music to American culture. ...
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    21,81 €

  • Música y enfermedad mental
    Carlos Delgado Calvete
    La posible relación entre genio y locura ha sido objeto de interés y de diversas interpretaciones a lo largo de la historia; más recientemente estos dos conceptos han sido sustituidos por los de creatividad y enfermedad mental.La música se encuentra presente a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad. Es la forma artística más intangible, abstracta e incluso espiritual de las ar...
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    17,00 €

  • Gary Numan, An Annotated Scrapbook
    Paul Sutton
    Gary Numan was one of the first pop artists to place equal emphasis on image and sound, a true Warholian artist who advanced on Andy’s light and sound experiments with The Velvet Underground, by bringing a real grandeur to live performances, and by changing the music of the world with a single finger. This book collects together articles from England, America, Japan, Spain, Ita...
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    64,21 €

  • Sweet Water Shadow Woman
    Toni Kelleher
    I am Sweet Water Shadow Woman, and the author of this book. If you are silently suffering emotional pain from past events or avoiding the full self-expression of your innate gifts, my story is for you. It will reveal how the roots of pain take hold, how to overcome resistance to expressing yourself freely, and how to feel loved, appreciated and seen for who you truly are. Walk ...
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    21,64 €

  • The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
    Hail-Swadley
    The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner completes the second half of Liszt’s writings about stage works, its composers, and music drama. In this volume, Liszt focuses on the works of his most controversial devotee and son-in-law, Richard Wagner, whose music dramas Liszt championed as conductor during his tenure in Weimar. Here, we see Liszt p...
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    150,84 €

  • John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson
    Inaba / Mitsutoshi Inaba
    John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA Victor labels, Sonny Boy shaped Chicago’s music scene with an innovative style that gave structure and speed to blues harmonica performance. His recording in 1937 of 'Good Morning, School Girl,' followe...
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    66,85 €

  • Pat Patrick
    Banfield / Bill Banfield
    Saxophonist, multi-wind player, arranger, composer, music director, theater works producer, educator, and visionary, Pat Patrick performed with Duke Ellington’s and Quincy Jones’ orchestras, Thelonious Monk, Mongo Santamaria, Nat King Cole, James Moody, Eric Dolphy, Marvin Gaye, Patti Labelle, and Billy Taylor. Most of his career, however, was spent laying down the baseline gro...
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    67,24 €

  • The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster
    JoAnne O'Connell / JoAnne O’Connell
    The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like 'Old Folks at Home' and 'My Old Kentucky Home,' fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel ...
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    65,51 €

  • Experiencing Billy Joel
    MacFarlane / Thomas MacFarlane
    Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and writer Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical journey, from Joel’s apprenticeship in the Long Island music scene to his experiences in both New York and Los A...
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    60,14 €

  • Experiencing Beethoven
    Block / Geoffrey Block
    The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman’s terms a highly representative body of about tw...
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    66,67 €

  • Other Planets
    Maconie / Robin Maconie
    German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental music converted Igor Stravinsky to serialism in the 1950s and has continued to...
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    81,99 €

  • Liebeslieder Suite from Opp.52 and 65
    Johannes Brahms
    In the wake of the positive reception of Brahms's first set of Liebeslieder-Walzer after their 1869 premire, the conductor Ernst Rudorff persuaded the composer to orchestrate the accompaniment for 8 of the 18 selections (plus a ninth piece subsequently included in the Op.65 set) for a concert given at Berlin's Hochschule on March 19, 1870. Offered here is a newly resear...
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    11,73 €

  • Liebeslieder Suite from Opp.52 and 65
    Johannes Brahms
    In the wake of the positive reception of Brahms’s first set of Liebeslieder-Walzer  (the Op.52) after their 1869 premire, the conductor Ernst Rudorff persuaded the composer to orchestrate the accompaniment for 8 of the 18 selections (plus another piece subsequently included in the Op.65 set) for a concert given at Berlin’s Hochschule on March 19, 1870. Offered here is a newly r...
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    11,42 €

  • Le Trouvere, Ballet Music
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Verdi's operas are most often represented in the concert hall by their overtures or 'sinfonias'  with very good reason. A number of them are symphonic gems in their own right. The operas he composed for the Paris stage give us another view of his orchestral virtuosity with their sumptuous ballet scores. The ballet music here was composed for the Paris premiere of Il...
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    22,96 €

  • Don Carlos, Ballet de la Reine
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Verdi's operas are most often represented in the concert hall today by their overtures or 'sinfonias'  with very good reason. A number of them are symphonic gems in their own right. The operas he composed for the Paris stage give us another view of his orchestral virtuosity with their sumptuous ballet scores. The Ballet de la Reine (La Peregrina) was given its premi...
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    16,61 €

  • Jerusalem, Airs de Ballet
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Verdi’s operas are most often represented in the concert hall by their overtures or ’sinfonias’  with very good reason. A number of them are symphonic gems in their own right. The operas he composed for the Paris stage give us another view of his orchestral virtuosity with their sumptuous ballet scores. The Airs de Ballet was given its premiere with the premiere of Jérusalem, t...
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    17,05 €


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