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Hardback. Between 1485 and 1492, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza was the recipient of a music treatise composed for him by 'Florentius Musicus' (Florentius de Faxolis), who had served him in Naples and Rome. Taking the cardinal's predilections into account, this book emphasises on the praises, power, utility, necessity, and effect of music. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 halftones, 163 music examples. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674049437
- ISBN
- 9780674049437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.49
€ 38.99
€ 32.49
Paperback. The "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, this book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translator(s): North, Christine; Dack, John. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 543 pages, 6 music ex, 7 b/w halftones, 55 line art. BIC Classification: AVC; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520294301
- ISBN
- 9780520294301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.74
€ 48.99
€ 34.74
Paperback. Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross's award-winning international best-seller, 'The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century', has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007319077
- ISBN
- 9780007319077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.49
€ 16.99
€ 12.49
Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501321313
- ISBN
- 9781501321313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.71
€ 10.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623568924
- ISBN
- 9781623568924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.58
€ 11.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; AVC; HBJD; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801453120
- ISBN
- 9780801453120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.17
€ 61.17
Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVG; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501322723
- ISBN
- 9781501322723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.73
€ 10.99
€ 10.73
Hardback. Investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; AVC; AVGC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281868
- ISBN
- 9780520281868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.54€ 44.58
€ 57.54
€ 44.58
Hardback. Investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 438 pages, 22 b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; AC; AVC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282346
- ISBN
- 9780520282346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.29€ 48.87
€ 63.29
€ 48.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, colour illustrations, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604864892
- ISBN
- 9781604864892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.05
€ 21.99
€ 17.05
Paperback. A collection of album reviews and themed track samplers. It takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 54. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270347
- ISBN
- 9780571270347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.69
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619025417
- ISBN
- 9781619025417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.84
€ 23.99
€ 17.84
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501308123
- ISBN
- 9781501308123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.83
€ 37.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 black and white. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVC; AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781257456
- ISBN
- 9781781257456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.62
€ 11.99
€ 10.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; HBT; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781254356
- ISBN
- 9781781254356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.16
€ 14.99
€ 12.16
Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages, color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 307 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- Tulika Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789382381778
- ISBN
- 9789382381778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.86
€ 48.99
€ 34.86
Paperback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081569
- ISBN
- 9780252081569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. A survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. It considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Num Pages: 368 pages, 35 b/w. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVC; HBLW; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283152
- ISBN
- 9780520283152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.01
€ 32.99
€ 24.01
Paperback. Tracing a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art, this book combines an artifact-oriented history of music with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and arts. Num Pages: 252 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288027
- ISBN
- 9780520288027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.42
€ 44.99
€ 31.42
Multiple-component retail product. .
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Europe Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783054466
- ISBN
- 9781783054466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.87
€ 21.99
€ 19.87