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9780393064964 | Har/com edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 3, 2014), cover price $45.00
Product Description: A âyou are thereâ guide to masterpieces of Western music. Music Then and Now offers a vivid introduction to Western music by focusing on 28 works in-depth. Its âyou are thereâ approachâdemonstrated by each chapterâs rich historical and cultural contextâengages students in the excitement of hearing the music as original audiences did when the music was first performed...read more
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9780393918403 | Pap/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2012), cover price $73.35 | About this edition: A âyou are thereâ guide to masterpieces of Western music.
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9780393929881 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 19, 2012, cover price $142.00
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9780199730766 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 25, 2011, cover price $11.95
Product Description: This series of seven volumes provides an overview of the best current scholarship in the study of medieval music. Each volume is edited by a ranking expert, and each presents a selection of writings, mostly in English which, taken together, sketch a picture of the shape of the field and of the nature of current inquiry...read more
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9780754628002 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2009, cover price $2350.00 | About this edition: This series of seven volumes provides an overview of the best current scholarship in the study of medieval music.
Product Description: From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music AND was the most frequently performed and the most assiduously studied in Western civilisation...read more
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9780521401609 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $83.99 | About this edition: From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music AND was the most frequently performed and the most assiduously studied in Western civilisation.
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9780521106894 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 2, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music AND was the most frequently performed and the most assiduously studied in Western civilisation.
Product Description: The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking beauty and aesthetic appeal, which has the special quality of embodying, of giving voice to, the words of the liturgy itself...read more
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9780754626329 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 1, 2009, cover price $350.00 | About this edition: The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form.
Product Description: The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that 'unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot be written down'...read more
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9780754626268 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 6, 2009, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West.
Product Description: From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite its historical importance, the "Gregorian" is not the most consistent and probably not the oldest form of Christian chant...read more
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9780521343107 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $104.99
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9780521065979 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 19, 2008), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized.
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, opera was the grandest entertainment in Western culture. In First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas: Handelâs Giulio Cesare (London, 1724), Mozartâs Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787), Meyerbeerâs Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836), Wagnerâs Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1876), and Verdiâs Otello (Milan, 1887).What was it like to be there, to see and hear and perform these operas for the very first time? Kelly takes us behind the curtains to introduce us to the nervous composers, the anxious impresarios, and the performers who had never sung these words to an audience before. Members of the audience, eager with expectation, take to their seats and boxes: What will appear on stage? Will someone miss a line? Will it be a triumph or a humiliation for the composer?Richly illustrated and briskly narrated, this glittering introduction to the world of opera will delight aficionados and neophytes alike.
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9780300100440 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, opera was the grandest entertainment in Western culture.
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9780300115260 | Yale Univ Pr, May 28, 2006, cover price $30.00
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9780300077742 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $38.00
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9780300091052 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $29.00
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9789055442393 | Art Books Intl Ltd, December 1, 1999, cover price $42.95
Product Description: The Exultet rolls of southern Italy are parchment scrolls containing text and music for the blessing of the great Easter candle; they contain magnificent illustrations, often turned upside down with respect to the text, The Exultet in Southern Italy provides a broad perspective on this phenomenon that has long attracted the interest of those interested in medieval art, liturgy, and music...read more
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9780195095272 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 26, 1996, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: The Exultet rolls of southern Italy are parchment scrolls containing text and music for the blessing of the great Easter candle; they contain magnificent illustrations, often turned upside down with respect to the text, The Exultet in Southern Italy provides a broad perspective on this phenomenon that has long attracted the interest of those interested in medieval art, liturgy, and music.
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