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Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition

It is well known that Béla Bartók had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. Wha...

Callas - Gesichter eines Mediums / Images of a Legend

Die Faszination, die von Maria Callas (1923-1977), ihrer Persönlichkeit und ihrer Stimme ausgeht, hat inzwischen die Dimension kultischer...

Concise History of Western Music - International Student Edition

Barbara Hanning's Concise History of Western Music offers students a manageable introduction to the forces that shaped music. Combining c...

Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance - Music in the 'Reichskommissariat Norwegen' (1940-45)

When Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, the long lasting bilateral relations changed fundamentally. Immediately, the administration ...

The Rolling Stones - 365 Days

A compelling array of photographs, many never before published, accompanied by detailed, informative captions, follows the Rolling Stones...

Alvin Lucier's Reflexive Experimental Aesthetics

Making audible what is usually inaudible, rendering sound visible in an unusual way, and facilitating a spatial experience of sound-this ...

Franz Schubert - The Fragmentary Piano Sonatas

This study of the fragmentary piano sonatas by Franz Schubert, composed between 1815 and 1825, offers an individual analysis of each work...

Olivier Messiaen's "Livre du Saint Sacrement" - Mystery of the Eucharistic Presence

In his last monumental organ piece, "Livre du Saint Sacrement," the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) approaches the mystery of ...

Telling Sounds - Tracing Music History in Digital Media Archives

The importance of audio-visual documents for new approaches in the field of musicology How are music and sound involved in the creation o...

Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music

A detailed survey of Chinese traditional music: folk songs, dance music, narrative singing, music from Chinese opera, and instrumental mu...

Music in Hungary - An Illustrated History

After wide-ranging research by the new generation of music historians, numerous previously hidden codices, music manuscripts and printed ...

Musicbox - Photographing the All-Time Greats

Music and photography have always shared a special relationship when an iconic musician is portrayed by a first-rate photographer, the re...

Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 65/2020 - Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik. 65. Jahrgang - 2020. Populäre Lieder im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Popular Songs in the Long 19th Century

Das Jahrbuch "Lied und populäre Kultur" 65/2020 ist den populären Liedern des langen 19. Jahrhunderts gewidmet, sind diese doch in doppel...

The Management of Opera (1861-1918) - Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic

The book offers for the first time an in-depth look into the mechanisms that governed opera production in Eastern Adriatic theatres durin...

Listen - On Music, Sound and Us

There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and genres. But rarely does a book delve into what'...

Nikolai Medtner: Music, Aesthetics, and Contexts

The publication of the present volume marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Russian composer-pianist Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)...

»eine schöne, prächtige Stadt. -« - Wolfgang Amadé Mozart an Constanze Mozart. Brief vom 28. September 1790

. Wichtiges Dokument aus der Biografie des späten Mozart . Kulturhistorisch aufschlussreiche Schilderung einer Fernreise im späten 18. Ja...

Wahnfried - Das Haus von Richard Wagner - The Home of Richard Wagner

Richard Wagners Wohnhaus Wahnfried in Bayreuth: - zentraler Ort in der musikgeschichtlichen Topographie Deutschlands und Europas - Modell...

Exhibiting SoundArt

Museum directors, scholars, journalists and editors explore the variety of relations between sound as an object of investigation. Issues ...

Organ and Organ playing in the Romantic period

This publication is designed for organists who wish to integrate the latest research in historical performance practice into their playin...

Free Music Production. FMP - The Living Music

This book is dedicated to the history of the music label Free Music Production (FMP), which from 1968 to 2010 achieved incomparable thing...

I feel everything you say, I feel everything you hear.

Das "Week-End Fest" blickte 2021 auf 10 Jahre der Begegnung von über 100 internationalen Musiker*innen zurück. Seit dessen Beginn 2011 is...

The Pipes of War ; A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18

The Pipes of War ; A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18, a classical book, has b...

Radio Cologne Sound - Das Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR

Rarely has a radio institution left such a mark on music history in such a short space of time. Founded in 1951, the WDR Studio for Elect...

Leonard Bernstein - Ein New Yorker in Wien / A New Yorker in Vienna

Ein reich illustriertes Buch, das zum 100. Geburtstag von Leonard Bernstein dessen Verhältnis zur Musikstadt Wien in den Fokus rückt, dab...

The Birth of Rock'n Roll: 70 Jahre Sun Records - die Sie hören sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist. Autorisierte amerikanische Originalausgabe. With a Foreword by Jerry Lee Lewis.

A fascinating look at the history of Sun Records, the label that started Rock n' Roll, told through 70 of its iconic recordings. In Memph...

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts is a postgraduate program of the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2017, the program has served to deepen...

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Quartet - How Four Women Challenged the Musical World

European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany 1950-1975

This book is a historical and interpretive study of the movement of jazz experimentalism in West and East Germany between the years 1950 ...

Musik-Ikonen / Music Icons - Von ABBA bis The Who. Fotografiert von Michael Putland. / From ABBA to The Who. Photographed by Michael Putland.

Best of Michael Putland: Spektakuläre Fotos der größten Musiklegenden unserer Zeit Rockstars, Pop-Ikonen, Soul-Sänger oder Jazzmusiker - ...

Julius Bürger - Composer - Conductor - Vocal Coach

Viennese composer Julius Bürger (also named Burger (1897-1995)) intersected with many important figures of 20th century western classical...

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology - Pioneers and Discourses

The "anthropological turn" in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam's "Anthropology of music" (1964). The present ...

England's Hidden Reverse - A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, ...

This Must Be the Place - Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City

*A Kirkus Best Book of July* *An InsideHook Book You Should Be Reading This July* A fascinating history that examines how real estate, ge...

Solid State - The Story of "abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles

Kenneth Womack's previous books about the Beatles include Long and Winding Roads and The Beatles Encyclopedia. He is also the author of t...

Bach - Eine Bildbiografie/A Pictorial Biography

Michael Maul, der international bekannte Bachforscher und Intendant des Leipziger Bachfestes, präsentiert seine erste Bach-Biografie - in...

Composing While Black - Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute / Afrodiasporic New Music Today

Composing While Black presents unique new perspectives on Afrodiasporic contemporary composers active between 1960 and the present, a per...

Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach - Klang, Bild und Politik

Bereits fast vierzig Jahre lang verstört und entzückt das Künstlerkollektiv Laibach durch die Verwendung totalitärer Symbolik und martial...

Kunst-Maschine - Essays on the Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach

For over forty years now, the Slovenian music, performance and art collective Laibach has captivated its audience with totalitarian symbo...

Minna Wagner - A Life, with Richard Wagner

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as an artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.

Songs of the Vietnam Conflict

Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war ...

Du meine Seele, du mein Herz - 50 Sololieder für feierliche Anlässe von Hochzeit bis Trauer

Ob Hochzeit, Taufe, Trauerfeier oder Jubiläum - hier findet sich zu jedem Anlass der passende Liedvortrag. Die Sammlung enthält 50 ausgew...

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

"A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdl...

Neu Klang - The Definitive History of Krautrock

"A book which all Krautrock fans should read." - Jean-Hervé Péron, Faust The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed...

Haydn, the Creation

Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. This absorbing and original account of the work provides an in...

From St. Petersburg to Vienna - The New Jewish School in Music (1908-1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance

The history of the so-called "New Jewish School" in music began in 1908 in St. Petersburg with the founding of the Society for Jewish Fol...

Music in the Galant Style C

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century.

Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

To celebrate the launch of their new album, Chinese Democracy, Stephen Davies, author of Hammer of the Gods, the autobiography of Led Zep...

Music in Hungary - An Illustrated History - CD-melléklettel

After wide-ranging research by the new generation of music historians, numerous previously hidden codices, music manuscripts and printed ...

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain - The Story of World Music

Soul-Folk

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the so...

Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story - Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation

The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records, featuring an introduction by Pauline Black

Jazz Voices

Jazz is a globalized music, featuring the voices of musicians with different musical and sociocultural backgrounds as well as different n...

Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters - Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage

Scholar, songwriter, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and...

Romantic Music Aesthetics - Creating a Politics of Emotion

"Romantic music aesthetics has often been reduced to tired clichâes of ineffable feeling and art for art's sake. This book instead explor...

Einstürzende Neubauten's Kollaps

Intended to be "unlistenable," Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten's 1981-debut album Kollaps has attracted listeners four decades after it ...

International Velvet - How Wales Conquered the '90s Charts

How Welsh bands and musicians soared up the music charts in the 1990s. The 1970s and '80s were a bleak time for much of Wales: the closur...

Rock and Roll Writing

"Exploring a diverse range of formats, this book identifies and prioritizes writing forms often excluded from the categorization of rock ...

Turning the Tables - A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music-from ...