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The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera
- Author: Poizat, Michel
- Translator: Denner, Arthur
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Piercing the Structure of Tradition: Flute Performance, Continuity, and Freedom in the Music of Noh Drama
- Author: Anno, Mariko
Anno's writing is clear and engaging, and her enthusiasm for the subject is contagious[.]This book will become essential reading for anyone interested in East Asian music or theatre, and many... — More…
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The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum
- Author: Blum, David
This is a book about the artistic credos of five superb musicians. It is literate, well crafted, readable, and holds one's interest from beginning to end. Arnold Steinhardt (of Guarneri Quartet... — More…
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Reich's first edition contributed to the increase in interest in Clara Schumann and in the performances and recordings of her music. The publication of this revised edition will continue to stir... — More…
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In Rebecca Rischin's excellent... book..., Messiaen's detachment from temporality emerges in high relief when, during World War II, he wrote large parts of his ethereal Quartet for the End of... — More…
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Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations)
- Author: Hildegard
- Translator: Newman, Barbara
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Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"
- Author: Applegate, Celia
Applegate brings together the personnel and circumstances around an event famous in all music history books. Her confident handling of written sources reveals Berlin as a burgeoning city of culture... — More…
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The issue most successfully addressed is one's ability to make general conclusions about the response to music, which by its very nature is highly personal — More…
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Written in lively prose, with a keen sense of reality, this volume ought to be of interest not only to philosophers and musicologists, but to all serious lovers of music." -- Roger Scruton — More…
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Alan Walker's biography of Liszt... has been widely hailed as a groundbreaking work of scholarship.... Not only did his dogged research correct numerous, mostly damaging preconceptions about... — More…
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