Category: Classical

Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life

By: Adams, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 2008

Seller ID: 793537

ISBN-13: 9780374281151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and "he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker). Now, in Hallelujah Junction, he incisively relates his life story, from his childhood to his early studies in classical composition amid the musical and social ferment of the 1960s, from his landmark minimalist innovations to his controversial "docu-operas." Adams offers a no-holds-barred portrait of the rich musical sce...
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J. S. Bach (Volume 2)

By: Bach/Sweitzer

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 802367

ISBN-13: 9780486216324

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's J. S. Bach is one of the great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its influence on the subsequent performance of Bach's music was enormous, and there is scarcely a later work on Bach which does not acknowledge a deep debt to Schweitzer's. Grove's Dictionary says of the book, Schweitzer has probably been more quoted than any authority since Spitta.The first volume contains a virtual history of P...
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

By: Bach/Wolff, Christoph

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 811878

ISBN-13: 9780393322569

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between t...
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Scriabin, a Biography: Second, Revised Edition (Dover Books on Music)

By: Bowers, Faubion

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : March 2011

Seller ID: 448098

ISBN-13: 9780486288970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This definitive biography of Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), newly revised and updated by the author, incorporates many confessional letters and personal reminiscences in a vivid, highly personal portrait of the controversial Russian composer. One of the visionary pioneers who sought a new musical language -- at least a full decade before the advances of Stravinsky and Schoenberg -- Scriabin immersed himself in a search for a way to express, in sound, the mystical and theosophical ideals that obsessed him.This monumental biography probes the complexities of the composer's personal revolution a...
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The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life

By: Cage/Revill, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Arcade Publishing : November 1993

Seller ID: 678047

ISBN-13: 9781559702201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Life of Debussy

By: Debussy/Nichols, Roger

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : July 2011

Seller ID: 762998

ISBN-13: 9780521578875

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The early music of Claude Debussy was influenced by the work of Wagner, for whom he had great admiration. However, soon Debussy's music became more experimental and individualistic, as is clear in his first mature work Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Debussy quickly moved away from traditional techniques and produced the pictures in sound that led his work to be described as "musical Impressionism." This new biography--the first in English in 30 years--offers new insights into the life of this enigmatic composer, revealing a figure more seminal and revolutionary than previously thought.
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The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs

By: Feinstein, Michael

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2012

Seller ID: 707449

ISBN-13: 9781451645309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From celebrated entertainer Michael Feinstein comes a beautifully illustrated account of the lives and legacies of the Gershwins--told through stories of twelve of their greatest songs and accompanied by an original CD of those songs, performed by the author. The "Ambassador of the Great American Songbook" Michael Feinstein was just twenty years old when he got the chance of a lifetime: a job with his hero, Ira Gershwin. During their six-year partnership, the two became close friends. Feinstein blossomed under Gershwin's mentorship and Gershwin was reinvigorated by the younger man's zeal for h...
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition

By: Gilbert & Sullivan/Bradley, Ian

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : June 2016

Seller ID: 668920

ISBN-13: 9780199392414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely as "easily the best annotated Gilbert & Sullivan available" (Gayden Wren, New York Times) was published by Oxford University Press in 1996. This brand new 20th anniversary edition includes Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration which is now being increasingly performed, despite the loss ...
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Five Centuries of Keyboard Music (Dover Books on Music)

By: Gillespie, John

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1972

Seller ID: 567229

ISBN-13: 9780486228556

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A practicing musician and professor of music offers the first work in English to comprehensively survey the development of solo keyboard works. Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.
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Conversations with Glenn Gould

By: Gould, Glenn/Cott, Jonathan

Price: $12.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : November 2005

Seller ID: 812138

ISBN-13: 9780226116235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often hummed aloud during concerts and appeared in unpressed tails, fingerless gloves, and fur coats. In 1964, at the height of his controversial career, he abandoned the stage completely to focus instead on recording and writ...
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Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten

By: Hutcheon, Linda,Hutcheon, Michael

Price: $7.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : November 2016

Seller ID: 507383

ISBN-13: 9780226420684

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-re
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Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story

By: Lang, Lang,Ritz, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House : September 2009

Seller ID: 458300

ISBN-13: 9780385524575

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"Number One" was a phrase my father--and, for that matter, my mother--repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents' friends and by their friends' children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number One leader of a manufacturing plant, the Number One worker, the Number One scientist, the Number One car mechanic. In the culture of my childhood, being best was everything. It was the goal that drove us, the motivation that gave life meaning. And if, ...
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Who Killed Classical Music?: Maestros, Managers, and Corporate Politics

By: Lebrecht, Norman

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr : May 1997

Seller ID: 525642

ISBN-13: 9781559724159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the closing years of the twentieth century, classical music and opera have undergone radical transformation, and a structure that stretched back to Bach and Handel has been destroyed.In recent years, the price of concert tickets has risen beyond the reach of ordinary music lovers-and orchestras have been limited to catering to the tastes of the rich. And yet, with box office receipts soaring, orchestras are dying. They need big-name performers to attract audiences, but are held ransom by the stars, who demand exorbitant fees, while orchestra members must take cuts in pay.In this controversi...
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The New International Dictionary of Music

By: Morehead, Philip D.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Plume : November 1992

Seller ID: 548186

ISBN-13: 9780452011007

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Mozart

By: Mozart/Gay, Peter

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 572407

ISBN-13: 9780670882380

Binding: Hardcover

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Mozart is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over precociousness, and who later broke away from a loving but tyrannical father to pursue his vision unhampered. Peter Gay traces the development of the man and the composer who pushed every genre - especially opera - into new realms.
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Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music

By: Mozart/Glover, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : January 2006

Seller ID: 789669

ISBN-13: 9780060563509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Throughout his life, Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women -- and he was equally complex to them. But, first and last, Mozart loved and respected women. His mother, his sister, his wife, her sisters, and his female patrons, friends, lovers and fellow artists all figure prominently in his life. And his experience, observation and understanding of women reappear, spectacularly, in the characters he created. As one of our finest interpreters of Mozart's work, Jane Glover is perfectly placed to bring these remarkable women -- both real and drama...
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The sonata in the classic era, (His A history of the sonata idea)

By: Newman, William S

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton : January 1972

Seller ID: 556504

ISBN-13: 9780393006230

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Sonata Since Beethoven,

By: Newman, William S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : February 1972

Seller ID: 556503

ISBN-13: 9780393006247

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Oxford Companion to Music

By: Oxford/Scholes, Percy A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford - the softback Preview : January 1991

Seller ID: 586557

ISBN: B000S5XDVU

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

By: Patner, Andrew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : April 2019

Seller ID: 692472

ISBN-13: 9780226609911

Binding: Hardcover

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"Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy."--Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, Andrew Patner was right there. As a classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT radio, Patner was able to trace the arc of the CSO's changing repertories, all while cultivating a deep rapport with its four principal conductors. This book assembles Patner's reviews of the concerts given by...
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Category: Classical