Cornell University Press
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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... — More…
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Susan Youens's Retracing a Winter's Journey is the most successful and appealing of the various recent studies of Winterreise. Youens is a true Schubertian, able to find the subtlety of the... — 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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Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
- Author: Polenberg, Richard
Polenberg writes engagingly about the Crescent City at the turn of the last century, as he does about everything he addresses in this entertaining and enlightening book." -- Jerome Clark — More…
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Susan Youens's Retracing a Winter's Journey is the most successful and appealing of the various recent studies of Winterreise. Youens is a true Schubertian, able to find the subtlety of the... — More…
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[Lewis] has all of the skills and instincts of a historian, a gift for clear description of complex technologies and a real passion for detail — More…
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The conundrum of musical understanding has always been problematic because of music's keen relationship to time: it progresses through time, and therefore does not reveal itself inherently holistically.... — More…
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A Fiery Gospel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
- Author: Gamble, Richard M.
Lively.... Readers with an interest in 19th-century American religious and political popular culture will enjoy this biography of a hymn — More…
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The conundrum of musical understanding has always been problematic because of music's keen relationship to time: it progresses through time, and therefore does not reveal itself inherently holistically.... — More…
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