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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 494 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-28923-6
EAN 9780226289236
In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled often both but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back ...
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'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music.' Haruki Murakami's ...
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Music for Life
100 Works to Carry You Through
- Faber & Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32938-0
EAN 9780571329380
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39669-9
EAN 9780226396699
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-40756-2
EAN 9780226407562
Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time, as a girl visiting the region, that she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-90-89649-79-9
EAN 9789089649799
For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean ...
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-856-6
EAN 9781780748566
Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz. Revealing not just the lives and works of eight exceptional artists, historian Anna Beer also asks tough questions about the silencing of ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 34,30 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27762-9
EAN 9780571277629
The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics - often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature - the 'Sixties', as we have ...
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Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work ...
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Capturing Music
The Story of Notation
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 46,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06496-4
EAN 9780393064964
An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats-before CDs, the eight-track tape, the radio, and the turntable-there was only one recording technology: ...
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- Canongate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-252-5
EAN 9780857862525
How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - Byrne shows how music ...
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The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. Nothing matched the violin for universal and varied expression, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared in 1768. Affordable, portable, and equally adaptable to Bach, Beethoven, jazz, klezmer, reels, ragas, gypsy fiddlers, and indie rock, as David Schoenbaum notes ...
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- Boydell & Brewer, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84383-718-3
EAN 9781843837183
Why 1853? For many leading composers this year brought far-reaching changes to their lives: Brahms emerged from obscurity to celebrity, Schumann ceased to be an active composer, and both Berlioz and Wagner became active again after long silences. By limiting the perspective to a single year yet extending it to a group of musicians, their ...
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- Picador USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61068-5
EAN 9780312610685
Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller,The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best ...
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- Harper Collins, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,70 €
ISBN 978-0-00-731907-7
EAN 9780007319077
Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross's award-winning international best-seller, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century', has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music. In Listen To This' Alex ...
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- Harper Collins USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-06-162698-2
EAN 9780061626982
Rick Beyer plums the vast archives of the History Channel to deliver a treasure trove of obscure and fascinating stories to delight and entertain. "The Greatest Music Stories Never Told" continues the series tradition with short, fascinating tales accompanied by an array of stunning and diverse photographs from around the globe.
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- Harper Collins, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-734185-6
EAN 9780007341856
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954678-8
EAN 9780099546788
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites is the story of that ...
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Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created ...
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- 4th Estate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84115-476-3
EAN 9781841154763
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2008 A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties.In The Rest is Noise', Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, ...
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