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Hardcover. From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. This title investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226333281
- ISBN
- 9780226333281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06€ 75.68
€ 92.06
€ 75.68
Paperback. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 219 pages, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232082
- ISBN
- 9780520232082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.94
€ 32.99
€ 23.94
Hardback. Constraint programming (CP) is a declarative programming paradigm that has relevance for academics and industrial applications (from n-queens to planning, vehicle routing, and optimization, among other fields). This book presents the most current information about musical CP systems from both the scientist's and composer's point-of-view. Editor(s): Truchet, Charlotte; Assayag, Gerard. Num Pages: 244 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848212886
- ISBN
- 9781848212886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.62
€ 173.62
Hardback. Series: Studies in Latin America & Car. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; AVA; AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781439913994
- ISBN
- 9781439913994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.13
€ 111.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486257488
- ISBN
- 9780486257488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.44
€ 20.44
hardcover. Hammer Film Productions produced Horror/Fantasy films with a unique sound. The musicians and the work they did are chronicled here in careful detail. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; AVA; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810829756
- ISBN
- 9780810829756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 302 x 3. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Music Sales Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575605159
- ISBN
- 9781575605159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.76
€ 14.99
€ 13.76
Paperback. Why does music have such an effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Anthony Storr believes that music today is a significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before, and in this book he explores why this should be so. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006861867
- ISBN
- 9780006861867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.33
€ 13.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. A practical guide to jazz composition, illustrating technical and instrumental variations on themes. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGJ; AVGK; AVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 123 x 7. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732091
- ISBN
- 9780226732091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Hardback. Edward T Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. This title collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years. It represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music. Editor(s): Morgan, Robert P. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 line illus. 12 tables. 31 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140117
- ISBN
- 9780691140117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
€ 45.99
€ 32.25
Paperback. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253022318
- ISBN
- 9780253022318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.74
€ 33.99
€ 30.74
hardcover. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723763
- ISBN
- 9780804723763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.30
€ 133.30
The Mediterranean in Music. Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cu...
. Ed(S): Cooper, Mr David; Dawe, Kevin
The most recent scholarship available in the field of Ethnomusicolgy is presented in this collection of essays which seeks to reveal the commonality of traditional music in the Mediterranean region. An interdisciplinary approach to the study embraces not only musicology and ethnology, but also material culture considerations. Editor(s): Cooper, Mr David; Dawe, Kevin. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810854079
- ISBN
- 9780810854079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.67
€ 94.67
Hardback. This text provides conductors with the information necessary to select choral-orchestral works suitable to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles. It also provides them with the history of each piece and a detailed evaluation of performance issues for the choir, orchestra, and soloists. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842069
- ISBN
- 9780810842069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.53
€ 125.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Burgess, Eric. Num Pages: 71 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; JMC; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634830874
- ISBN
- 9781634830874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.48€ 99.25
€ 133.48
€ 99.25
Paperback. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360. The Mediumship of the Listener. 272 pages. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441155870
- ISBN
- 9781441155870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.20
€ 32.20
Paperback. Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 91 music exx., 27 b&w illus., 2 maps, 33 video, 30 audio. BIC Classification: AVA; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019455
- ISBN
- 9780253019455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.24
€ 46.99
€ 41.24
Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415239
- ISBN
- 9781421415239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.66€ 49.88
€ 54.66
€ 49.88
Paperback. An absorbing account of the influence of African rhythms on contemporary black Brazilian music and the development of music worldwide. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps/ 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVA; AVGE; AVGH; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745307312
- ISBN
- 9780745307312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 23.55
€ 35.99
€ 23.55
paperback. Musical Form and Transformation collects four of David Lewin's analytic essays to stimulate thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199759958
- ISBN
- 9780199759958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.73
€ 46.99
€ 46.73
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation United States
- Edition
- Pap/Dvdr
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781458402943
- ISBN
- 9781458402943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.23
€ 41.23
Paperback. In The Sonic Boom, Joel Beckerman provides a new framework for thinking about sound effects on every aspect of our lives. You don't need to be a musician or a composer to harness the power of sound. The key to an effective sonic strategy is the creation of "boom moments" transcendent instants when sound connects with a listener's emotional core. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544570160
- ISBN
- 9780544570160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.90
€ 16.99
€ 14.90
Hardback. Musical understanding has evolved dramatically, principally through an appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This book examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value. Editor(s): Chapin, Keith. Num Pages: 226 pages, 23 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230099
- ISBN
- 9780823230099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.43
€ 101.43
Paperback. When we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed - composition and performance were deeply intertwined. This book offers fresh insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVA; AVH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226085357
- ISBN
- 9780226085357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.63
€ 36.99
€ 28.63