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French Romantic Ballets
Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, La Sylphide Adolphe-Charles Adam, Giselle and Le Corsaire
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
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Auber and Scribe's Les Diamants de la couronne is a refined fantasy where a Portuguese queen counterfeits the crown jewels to save her nation. The music is brilliant, with variations of the greatest virtuosity. This edition reproduces the Royal Edition vocal score.
Auber and Scribe’s Les Diamants de la couronne is a refined fantasy where a Portuguese queen counterfeits the crown jewels to save her nation. The music is brilliant, with variations of the greatest virtuosity. This edition reproduces the Royal Edition vocal score.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
A Reader
Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Once one of the most famous of all composers, his reputation declined amidst growing hostility. This Reader reflects his immense fame, the dismissal he faced, and the recent rediscovery and re-evaluation of his art.
Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Once one of the most famous of all composers, his reputation declined amidst growing hostility. This Reader reflects his immense fame, the dismissal he faced, and the recent rediscovery and re-evaluation of his art.
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This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.
This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.
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Auber, a key 19th-century French composer, and librettist Scribe created the successful opéra-comique Le Concert à la cour. In this one-act work, a young singer's debut is sabotaged. It showcases the elegance and finesse of the composer's art.
Auber, a key 19th-century French composer, and librettist Scribe created the successful opéra-comique Le Concert à la cour. In this one-act work, a young singer’s debut is sabotaged. It showcases the elegance and finesse of the composer’s art.
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For the first time, a complete overview of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book describes the instruments—their history, construction, and playing techniques—and explores the traditions of the makers and players.
For the first time, a complete overview of folk musical instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book describes the instruments—their history, construction, and playing techniques—and explores the traditions of the makers and players.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) – Vocal/Piano Score
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
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Temporaries and Eternals
The Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley, 1922-23
Aldous Huxley’s 1922–23 music column offers a snapshot of 1920s musical life and is key to understanding his novels. Huxley’s central theme is how to judge the longevity of composers and their works. This book reproduces all 64 of his articles.
Aldous Huxley’s 1922–23 music column offers a snapshot of 1920s musical life and is key to understanding his novels. Huxley’s central theme is how to judge the longevity of composers and their works. This book reproduces all 64 of his articles.
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The Mission and Message of Music
Building Blocks to the Aesthetics of Music in our Time
This book probes the beauty and meaning of music, arguing it is a message in sound—a covenant between musician and listener. One sends the musical message, the other internalizes it. Intended for music connoisseurs and all interested in artistic thought.
This book probes the beauty and meaning of music, arguing it is a message in sound—a covenant between musician and listener. One sends the musical message, the other internalizes it. Intended for music connoisseurs and all interested in artistic thought.
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This volume provides an understanding of research methodologies in music education, including historical, quantitative, narrative, and arts-based methods. Written by experts, it assists researchers and students in choosing the most appropriate method for their work.
This volume provides an understanding of research methodologies in music education, including historical, quantitative, narrative, and arts-based methods. Written by experts, it assists researchers and students in choosing the most appropriate method for their work.
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A critique of contemporary artistic interpretation whose lessons apply to our entire culture. This essential study is from Ion Piso, drawing on over 50 years of experience as an artist-interpreter on the world's opera stages.
A critique of contemporary artistic interpretation whose lessons apply to our entire culture. This essential study is from Ion Piso, drawing on over 50 years of experience as an artist-interpreter on the world’s opera stages.
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Olivier Messiaen
The Centenary Papers
Olivier Messiaen, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, was a great nature poet and mystic. This volume of essays by international experts marks his centenary, exploring the diverse and lasting sphere of his legacy.
Olivier Messiaen, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, was a great nature poet and mystic. This volume of essays by international experts marks his centenary, exploring the diverse and lasting sphere of his legacy.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Reputation without Cause? A Composer and his Critics
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation's vicissitudes.
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation’s vicissitudes.
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Irish Music Abroad
Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city's public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
This musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950–2010, traces how Irish music moved from private arenas to the city’s public heart. It shows how the community conquered challenges, like the IRA bombings, to create its massive St Patrick’s Parade.
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This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
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This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
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(Per)Forming Art
Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
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The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Love and the Times
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
A Critical Life and Iconography
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer's legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
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An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z
“Singin’ in French”
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
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