Music & Musicals - Music History and Theory

Lovers & Rakes and Rogues - A New Garner of Love-songs and Merry Verses 1500-1830

John Wardroper - ed

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The love songs and merry verses of past centuries are the most directly appealing part of Britain's lyrical heritage. But much of this lively, often bawdy, material has been left in obscurity, even though ...

$19.99

Opera in America - A Cultural History - the first comprehensive cultural & social history of the US musical

John Dizikes

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$55

Music in a New Found Land

Wilfred Mellers

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Themes and Developments in the History of American Music

$35

This is Music - An Unconventional Guide to the Pleasures of Listening

David Randolph

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$19.99

Journey to the Heart of Music - An Investigation into the Fundamental Structure of Tonal Music - CD

Philip Perry

Rosebay Publications

We all understand the common language of Music, but - like Nature's own tongue - it is a language encoded in numbers This collection of Articles, Essays & Examples on CD in PDF format attempts to crack t...

$13.99

Britten's Gloriana - Essays & Sources

Paul Banks - ed

Boydell & Brewer

'Tells you everything you need to know about Gloriana' - Robert Milnes, Record Review - 193 pages

$39.99

Early Songs of Uncle Sam

George Stuyvesant Jackson

Payton Paperback

This is a Collection of songs (no music) popular in America one hundred years ago, and as such it furnishes an illuminating picture of life during those times Many of the ditties of the days when people did...

$23.99

European Music in the Twentieth Century

Howard Hartog - ed - Penguin pb 1957

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$19.99

Sir Henry Wood - Fifty Years of the Proms - illustrated - Articles & Poems - BBC Tribute on the Jubilee Year of the Promenade Concerts and his 75th birthday 1945

BBC

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$19.99

Penguin Book of Lieder

trans S.S. Prawer - ed

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The words of many of the best known Leider from Haydn to Hindemith

$19.99

Singing and the Actor

Gillyanne Kayes

Methuen

Classical singing training is no longer relevant for the theatre performer today So how does an actor train his singing voice? Now in its second edition, this practical handbook takes the reader through a ...

$25.99

Britten and Auden in the Thirties - The Year 1936

Donald Mitchell - ed

Boydell & Brewer

1936 was a critical year in the Britten/Auden relationship which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period - New Edition - 19 b/w illustrations - 194 pages

$25.99

The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

John Whiteoak & Aline Scott-Maxwell - eds

Currency Press

The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia is unique in its comprehensiveness and its recognition of cultural diversity and community In Dr Whiteoak's words - "Instead of taking a Who's Who appro...

$23.99

Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making

Frank Hubbard

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Unique, seminal and comprehensive

$55

Journey Towards Music

Victor Gollancz - A Memoir - 37 illustrations

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$19.99

Pleasures of Music

Jacques Barzun

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An Anthology of Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw

$29.99

The History of Opera - 4CDs

Richard Fawkes read by Robert Powell

Naxos AudioBooks

The history of Opera on 4 Audio CDs ... Opera began at the end of the 16C when a group of Italians tried to recreate how they felt the Ancient Greeks might have set words to music and it has since fascinate...

$29.99

Opera 66

Charles Osborne - ed

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Articles & Essays

$29.99

Medieval Song

James J Wilhelm

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An Anthology of Hymns and Lyrics from the writings of the Late Roman Empire to the Hundred Years

$35

Three Classics in the Aesthetics of Music

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater - Debussy

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater (Debussy) & Sketch of a New Esthetic Music (Busoni) & Essays Before a Sonata (Ives)

$19.99