{"title":"Techniques of music \/ music tutorials","description":"Books on the subject of Techniques of music \/ music tutorials","products":[{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-medieval-music-paperback-9780521608619","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music (Paperback) 9780521608619","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerfect for students of this key topic, this Companion is a practical guide to the music of the Middle Ages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Everist (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521608619, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e514 pages, 15 b\/w illus.  2 maps  56 music examples\u003cbr\u003e24.7 x 17.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.99 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… will rightly be received as a vital item on any musician's bookshelf.' Early Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Mark Everist\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Repertory, Styles and Techniques: 1. Plainsong Susan Boynton\u003cbr\u003e 2. Enriching the Gregorian heritage Michael McGrade\u003cbr\u003e 3. Early polyphony to c.1200 Sarah Fuller\u003cbr\u003e 4. The thirteenth century Mark Everist\u003cbr\u003e 5. The fourteenth century Elizabeth Eva Leach\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Topography: 6. England Peter Lefferts\u003cbr\u003e 7. Italy to 1300 Marco Gozzi\u003cbr\u003e 8. The trecento Marco Gozzi\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Iberian Peninsula Nicolas Bell\u003cbr\u003e 10. Music east of the Rhine Robert Curry\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Themes, Topics and Trajectories: 11. Music and liturgy Sam Barrett\u003cbr\u003e 12. Vernacular poetry and music Ardis Butterfield\u003cbr\u003e 13. Latin poetry and music Leofranc Holford-Strevens\u003cbr\u003e 14. Compositional trajectories Peter Lefferts\u003cbr\u003e 15. Secular institutions and ecclesiastical foundations Rebecca Baltzer\u003cbr\u003e 16. Theory and notation Dolores Pesce\u003cbr\u003e 17. Music manuscripts Emma Dillon\u003cbr\u003e 18. The geography of medieval music Christopher Page\u003cbr\u003e 19. Reception Lawrence Earp\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Educational: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Educational: History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Educational:%20History%20%5BYQH%5D%22\"\u003eYQH\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Medieval history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20history%20%5BHBLC1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Techniques of music \/ music tutorials [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Techniques of music \/ music tutorials\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Techniques%20of%20music%20\/%20music%20tutorials%20%5BAVS%5D%22\"\u003eAVS\u003c\/a\u003e], Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20\u0026amp;%20Renaissance%20music%20%5Bc%201000%20to%20c%201600%5D%20%5BAVGC2%5D%22\"\u003ec 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2\u003c\/a\u003e], Music: styles \u0026amp; genres [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music: styles \u0026amp; genres\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music:%20styles%20\u0026amp;%20genres%20%5BAVG%5D%22\"\u003eAVG\u003c\/a\u003e], Music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music%20%5BAV%5D%22\"\u003eAV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899365253400,"sku":"9780521608619","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521608619i_4008ce15-bf77-47ee-b865-6fc66d8d00db.jpg?v=1691370472"},{"product_id":"music-and-culture-in-the-middle-ages-and-beyond-liturgy-sources-symbolism-paperback-9781108792639","title":"Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond; Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108792639","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMusic and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiturgy, Sources, Symbolism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Brand (Edited by), David J. Rothenberg (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108792639, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e378 pages, 18 tables  31 music examples\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This collection groups its fifteen essays into three themes reflecting its dedicatee Craig Wright's interests in sources, ceremonies, and symbolism. The editor's introductory chapter frames the volume, but also provides a useful literature review within these fields and of Craig Wright's distinctive contributions … The fifteen essays' thematic alignment is a testament to Craig Wright's breadth and vision, and the editors' syncretizing ingenuity.' Magnus Williamson, Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIt has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, witnessed calls for broader methodologies and more fully contextual approaches that in turn anticipated the emergence of the so-called 'New Musicology'. The fifteen essays in the present collection explore three interrelated areas of inquiry that proved particularly significant: the liturgy, sources (musical and archival), and musical symbolism. In so doing, these essays not only acknowledge past achievements but also illustrate how this broad, interdisciplinary approach remains a source for scholarly innovation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Benjamin Brand and David J. Rothenberg\u003cbr\u003e 1. Music and liturgy in medieval Capua Thomas Forrest Kelly\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theory meets practice: the model antiphon series Primum quaerite in Hucbald's Office In plateis and in other post-Carolingian chant Barbara Haggh-Huglo\u003cbr\u003e 3. Singing from the pulpit: polyphonic improvisation and public ritual in medieval Tuscany Benjamin Brand\u003cbr\u003e 4. Liturgy and politics in Renaissance Florence: the creation of the 1526 Office for St Zenobius Marica S. Tacconi\u003cbr\u003e 5. Music and pageantry in the formation of Hispano-Christian identity: the Feast of St Hippolytus in sixteenth-century Mexico City Lorenza Candelaria\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Archival and Source Studies: 6. The sources and the sanctorale: dating by the decade in thirteenth-century Paris Rebecca A. Baltzer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Vernacular contexts for the monophonic motet: notes from a new source Mark Everist\u003cbr\u003e 8. Tradition and innovation in fourteenth-century instrumental music: evidence from archival and musical sources Keith Polk\u003cbr\u003e 9. Melchior or Marchion de Civilibus, prepositus brixiensis: new documents Margaret Bent\u003cbr\u003e 10. Papal musicians at Cambrai in the early fifteenth century Alejandro Enrique Planchart\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the beginning of music printing in fifteenth-century Rome Jane A. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Symbolism: 12. The gate that carries Christ: wordplay and liturgical imagery in a motet from c.1300 David J. Rothenberg\u003cbr\u003e 13. A musical lesson for a king from the Roman de Fauvel Anne Walters Robertson\u003cbr\u003e 14. Preaching to the choir? Obrecht's Motet for the Dedication of the Church M. Jennifer Bloxam\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Madonna triptych: a mystical reading of three early music videos Andrew Tomasello.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History: specific events \u0026amp; topics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History: specific events \u0026amp; topics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History:%20specific%20events%20\u0026amp;%20topics%20%5BHBT%5D%22\"\u003eHBT\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e], Techniques of music \/ music tutorials [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Techniques of music \/ music tutorials\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Techniques%20of%20music%20\/%20music%20tutorials%20%5BAVS%5D%22\"\u003eAVS\u003c\/a\u003e], Musical scores, lyrics \u0026amp; libretti [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Musical scores, lyrics \u0026amp; libretti\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Musical%20scores,%20lyrics%20\u0026amp;%20libretti%20%5BAVQ%5D%22\"\u003eAVQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Individual%20composers%20\u0026amp;%20musicians,%20specific%20bands%20\u0026amp;%20groups%20%5BAVH%5D%22\"\u003eAVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Music: styles \u0026amp; genres [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music: styles \u0026amp; genres\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music:%20styles%20\u0026amp;%20genres%20%5BAVG%5D%22\"\u003eAVG\u003c\/a\u003e], Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20music%20\u0026amp;%20musicology%20%5BAVA%5D%22\"\u003eAVA\u003c\/a\u003e], Music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music%20%5BAV%5D%22\"\u003eAV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913267274008,"sku":"9781108792639","price":34.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108792639i_cefe9540-1754-4ebe-b9fd-eb14525d7033.jpg?v=1696719520"},{"product_id":"playing-with-history-the-historical-approach-to-musical-performance-paperback-9780521013581","title":"Playing with History; The Historical Approach to Musical Performance (Paperback) 9780521013581","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaying with History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Historical Approach to Musical Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis challenging 2002 study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Butt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521013581, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 May 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Few are better qualified than Butt to tackle this subject. His book is stimulating, thought provoking, rounded and readable … music students of all denominations should be encouraged to red this thorough yet economical discussion of these important contemporary issues.' The Strad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of  the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors of the movement, while claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. He also asks whether the phenomenon of historically informed performance reflects changes in the culture of western music and how it, in turn, may have influenced that culture, particularly in regard to such issues as the status of the composer, the work, intentionality and notation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Historically Informed Performance in Music Criticism: 1. Joining the historical performance debate\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Historically Informed Performance and the Implications for Work, Composer and Notation: 2. Historical performance and 'truth to the work': history and the subversion of Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Historical performance and 'truth to the composer': rehabilitating intention\u003cbr\u003e 4. Negotiating between work, composer and performer: rewriting the story of notational progress\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Historically Informed Performance within the Culture of the Late Twentieth Century: 5. Historical performance at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism\u003cbr\u003e 6. 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British Journal of Music Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have proved hugely influential to generations of popular singers, from the wholesale adoptions of singers like Robert Cray or James Brown, to the subtler vocal appropriations of Mariah Carey. Their own music, and how it operates, is not, however, always seen as valid in its own right. This book provides an overview of both these genres, which worked together to provide an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Their histories are unfolded and questioned; representative songs and lyrical imagery are analysed; perspectives are offered from the standpoint of the voice, the guitar, the piano, and also that of the working musician. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Surveying the field: our knowledge of blues and gospel music Allan Moore\u003cbr\u003e 2. Labels: identifying categories of blues and gospel Jeff Todd Titon\u003cbr\u003e 3. The development of the blues David Evans\u003cbr\u003e 4. The development of gospel music Don Cusic\u003cbr\u003e 5. Twelve key recordings Graeme Boone\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Black twice': performance conditions for blues and gospel artists Steve Tracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Vocal expression in the blues and gospel  Barb Jungr\u003cbr\u003e 8. The guitar Matt Backer\u003cbr\u003e 9. 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The current volume encourages conductors, and to a certain extent scholars, to seriously examine their own music philosophies and performance concepts. It offers examples of how to rethink, retool, and make responsible and informed choices about the presentation of music to a variety of listeners. Most notably, however, this collection of essays displays the fundamental impact the conducting profession has had, and continues to have, on fostering creativity and engendering social and cultural change.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. 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Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. 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Matthew Head, Nineteenth-Century Music Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don José - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or in jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible and touching - or troubling. Musical Exoticism surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as programme music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Ralph P. 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British Journal of Music Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in the breadth of its coverage. It combines orchestral history and orchestral repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra as a sociological and as an artistic phenomenon. This approach reflects many of the current global discussions about the orchestra's continued role in a changing society. Other topics discussed include the art of orchestration, scorereading, conductors and conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener. Written by experts in the field, the book will be of academic and practical interest to a wide-ranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur musicians as well as an invaluable resource for all those contemplating a career in the performing arts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The history of the orchestra Tim Carter and Erik Levi\u003cbr\u003e 2. The development of musical instruments Robert Barclay\u003cbr\u003e 3. The orchestral repertory Peter Laki\u003cbr\u003e 4. From notation to sound Richard Rastall\u003cbr\u003e 5. The art of orchestration Julian Rushton\u003cbr\u003e 6. The history of direction and conducting Jeremy Siepman\u003cbr\u003e 7. International case studies Jon Tolanski\u003cbr\u003e 8. The revival of historical instruments Colin Lawson\u003cbr\u003e 9. Recording the orchestra John Rushby-Smith\u003cbr\u003e 10. Training the orchestral musician Simon Channing\u003cbr\u003e 11. The life of an orchestral musician Clive Gillinson and Jonathan Vaughan\u003cbr\u003e 12. Historical recordings of orchestras Robert Philip\u003cbr\u003e 13. The orchestral composer Robert Saxton\u003cbr\u003e 14. Educational programmes Sue Knussen\u003cbr\u003e 15. The future of the orchestra Stephen Cottrell. Appendix 1. The constitution of selected orchestras\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Orchestras founded in the nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Orchestras founded in the twentieth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Techniques of music \/ music tutorials [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Techniques of music \/ music tutorials\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Techniques%20of%20music%20\/%20music%20tutorials%20%5BAVS%5D%22\"\u003eAVS\u003c\/a\u003e], Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20music%20\u0026amp;%20musicology%20%5BAVA%5D%22\"\u003eAVA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002501353752,"sku":"9780521001328","price":23.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521001328i_32a08d20-d7ac-4ccd-82ec-3c340e085775.jpg?v=1691376339"},{"product_id":"bachs-dialogue-with-modernity-perspectives-on-the-passions-paperback-9781107404601","title":"Bach's Dialogue with Modernity; Perspectives on the Passions (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107404601","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBach's Dialogue with Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerspectives on the Passions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA detailed 2010 analysis of Bach's Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Butt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107404601, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Butt's [is a] scholarly book, with its copious musical examples and often fascinating asides.' Glasgow Sunday Herald\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eProviding a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this 2010 book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles from which each chapter proceeds differ from those of a traditional music guide, by examining the Passions in the light of the mindsets of modernity, and their interplay with earlier models of thought and belief. While the historical details of Bach's composition, performance and theological context remain crucial, the foremost concern of this study is to relate these works to a historical context that may, in some threads at least, still be relevant today. The central claim of the book is that the interplay of traditional imperatives and those of early modernity renders Bach's Passions particularly fascinating as artefacts that both reflect and constitute some of the priorities and conditions of the western world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bach's Passions and the construction of early modern subjectivities\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bach's Passions and the textures of time\u003cbr\u003e 3. The hermeneutic perspective: negotiating the poles of faith and suspicion\u003cbr\u003e 4. The voices we hear and the construction of narrative authority\u003cbr\u003e 5. 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The coverage of the book allows the player to understand both the analogies and differences between guitar traditions, and all styles, from baroque, classical, country, blues, and rock to flamenco, African, Celtic, and instrument making will share the same platform. As musical training is increasingly broadened this comprehensive book will become an indispensable resource.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. New Guitar Histories and World Traditions: 1. Picking through cultures: a guitarist's music history Victor Anand Coelho\u003cbr\u003e 2. Flamenco guitar: history, style, status Peter Manuel\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Celtic guitar: crossing cultural boundaries in the twentieth century Chris Smith\u003cbr\u003e 4. African reinventions of the guitar Banning Eyre\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Roots and Rock: 5. The guitar in jazz Graeme Boone\u003cbr\u003e 6. A century of blues guitar Jas Obrecht\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rock guitar from the 1950s to the 1970s: the turn to noise Steve Waksman\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rock guitar since 1980: contesting virtuosity Steve Waksman\u003cbr\u003e 9. The guitar in country music Gordon Ross\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Baroque and Classical Guitar Today: 10. Radical innovations, social revolution, and the Baroque guitar Craig Russell\u003cbr\u003e 11. The revival of the classical guitar in the twentieth century David Tanenbaum\u003cbr\u003e 12. Stradivari and Baroque guitar construction Stewart Pollens\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Glossary.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Techniques of music \/ music tutorials [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Techniques of music \/ music tutorials\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Techniques%20of%20music%20\/%20music%20tutorials%20%5BAVS%5D%22\"\u003eAVS\u003c\/a\u003e], Musical instruments \u0026amp; instrumental ensembles [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Musical instruments \u0026amp; instrumental ensembles\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Musical%20instruments%20\u0026amp;%20instrumental%20ensembles%20%5BAVR%5D%22\"\u003eAVR\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003280118040,"sku":"9780521000406","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521000406i_7062a187-8138-408c-b253-4dca3a008c28.jpg?v=1691376322"},{"product_id":"the-virtuoso-liszt-paperback-9780521108720","title":"The Virtuoso Liszt (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521108720","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Virtuoso Liszt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDana Gooley examines the concert career of the great nineteenth-century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDana Gooley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521108720, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 April 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 16 b\/w illus.  2 tables  10 music examples\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a responsible piece of historical and interpretative writing, a valuable contribution to our understanding of Liszt and the forces that made his remarkable career possible.' 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Performing seventeenth-century Italian guitar music: the question of an appropriate stringing Gary Boye\u003cbr\u003e 9. 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The development of playing techniques and stylistic transitions are traced regionally through a comparison of Italian, French, German, English, and East European performance traits. Through a close study of contemporary violoncello methods, music, early instruments, periodicals, diaries, letters and pictures, Walden provides a cohesive overview which examines construction methods for instruments and bows, fingering and bowing techniques, special effects and ornamentation, accompanying skills and the stylistic preferences of the most famous soloists. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Violoncello and schools of performance\u003cbr\u003e 2. Development of the violoncello\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The first readers\u003cbr\u003e 2. The changing song\u003cbr\u003e 3. Enlightened readers\u003cbr\u003e 4. The science of translation\u003cbr\u003e 5. 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The settings for his musical works are more conservative, and his adventurousness has instead been located in his mastery of the orchestra, as both orchestrator and conductor. Inge van Rij's book takes a new approach to Berlioz's treatment of the orchestra by exploring the relationship between these two forms of control – the orchestra as abstract sound, and the orchestra as collective labour and instrumental technology. Van Rij reveals that the negotiation between worlds characteristic of Berlioz's writings also plays out in his music: orchestral technology may be concealed or ostentatiously displayed; musical instruments might be industrialised or exoticised; and the orchestral musicians themselves move between being a society of distinctive individuals and being a machine played by Berlioz himself.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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