Written By Mrs Bach: The Amazing Discovery That Shocked the Music World by Martin Jarvis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
The majestic Bach Cello Suites are among the world's best loved pieces of music - but which Barch wrote them? Australian musical sleuth Martin Jarvis explosively claims the suites were composed by Bach's beloved second wife Anna Magdelena.
Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age
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Category: Music
Listen. What do you hear? We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are example ...Show more
The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity by Andrew Ford
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Category: Music
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 movies. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their films? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, soundtracks play a crucial role in how we experience cinema. Andrew Fo ...Show more
The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
The first and only global social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: opera.
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater by Larry Stempel
$52.95 AUD
Category: Music
Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals of the last 150 years to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Combining original research with insightful analysis, Larry Stempel examines musicals in their cultural context. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of ...Show more
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
Ballet De La Nuit by Michael Burden
$150.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Wendy Hilton Dance & Music Series
This new study brings together visual images and scholarly discussion of "Le Ballet de la Nuit", a major ballet de cour organised by Louis de Hesselin and first performed in the Louvre's Salle du Petit Bourbon in 1653. "Le Ballet de la Nuit" was notable for many reasons: most prominent among them was th ...Show more
The Gilded Stage: The Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
$99.95 AUD
Category: Music
This is the first and only global social history the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: Opera. Opera, the most complex of all the performance arts, inspires great passions. From its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy it has spread acros ...Show more
Everything is Connected: The Power of Music by Daniel Barenboim
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Category: Music
'The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is connected' Daniel Barenboim's new book vividly describes his lifelong pursuit of knowledge and understandin ...Show more
Opera: Composers, Works, Performers by Andras Batta
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Ullmann
Opera portrays pieces in their historical context and highlights key events in the history of music, as well as important performances and interpretations. The most important details including everything from the characters, sequences of scenes, and premieres through to examples of the sheet music for i ...Show more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness : The secret life and shameful death of the classical record industry by Norman Lebrecht
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Category: Music
Inflated egos, corporate insanity, slave labour, sexual excess, dazzling genius. Welcome to the world of classical recording. "Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness" is a sparkling expose of the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. Leading music critic Norman Le ...Show more