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Product Description: “A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw, urgent energy.” --Zoe Williams, Guardian “Thrilling and harrowing . . . Unsurpassed and unsurpassable.” --Sunday TimesJames Rhodes's passion for music has been his lifeline--the thread that has held through a life encompassing abuse and turmoil...read more

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9781632866967 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, February 7, 2017, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: “A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw, urgent energy.

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9780486809380 | Dover Pubns, January 18, 2017, cover price $14.95
9781574671711 | Pap/com edition (Amadeus Pr, September 15, 2008), cover price $22.99

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9780520234949 | Univ of California Pr, November 16, 2016, cover price $85.00

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9780520234956 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, November 16, 2016), cover price $29.95

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9780385354349 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 15, 2016, cover price $26.95

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Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience’s expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world’s greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908–92), and Benjamin Britten (1913–76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi’s Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagner’s influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new model of national music. Strauss, on the other hand, struggling with personal and political problems in Nazi Germany, composed the self-reflexive Capriccio, a “life review” of opera and his own legacy. Though it exhausted him physically and emotionally, Messiaen at the age of seventy-five finished his only opera, Saint François d’Assise, which marked the pinnacle of his career. Britten, meanwhile, suffering from heart problems, refused surgery until he had completed his masterpiece, Death in Venice. For all four composers, age, far from sapping their creative power, provided impetus for some of their best accomplishments. With its deft treatment of these composers’ final years and works, Four Last Songs provides a valuable look at the challenges—and opportunities—that present themselves as artists grow older.

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9780226255590 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 22, 2015, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience’s expectations are at a peak.

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9780226420684 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 26, 2016), cover price $18.00
9780387160795, titled "Complexity and Structure" | Springer Verlag, March 1, 1986, cover price $13.50 | also contains Complexity and Structure

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9781138854536 | Focal Pr, October 18, 2016, cover price $150.00

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9781138854543 | Focal Pr, October 18, 2016, cover price $49.95

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9781442240032 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 16, 2016, cover price $45.00

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9780190628475, titled "A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization...read more

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9780190628437 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization.

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Professional and amateur musicians will appreciate this clear, readable guide to the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, and other Baroque composers. Author Victor Rangel-Ribeiro draws upon the writings of C. P. E. Bach, J. J. Quantz, G. P. Telemann, Francesco Geminiani, Leopold Mozart, and Giuseppe Tartini to offer advice on the difficult aspects of eighteenth-century German, Italian, and English masterworks.Advancing from relatively simple material to more complex works, this guide begins by outlining the problems inherent in Baroque performance. Subsequent chapters examine ornamentation and the principles of "figured bass," applying them to various types of works, including keyboard concertos and vocal music. An epilogue sheds new light on a highly complex rhythmic issue, and the appendices present three unfamiliar examples of ornamentation. Profusely illustrated with musical examples, this volume was praised by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin for its "readable and engaging style, free from the pedantic, overly scholarly approach."

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9780028719801 | Gale / Cengage Learning, January 1, 1980, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Professional and amateur musicians will appreciate this clear, readable guide to the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, and other Baroque composers.

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9780486805061 | Dover Pubns, September 21, 2016, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer's Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and teachers of singers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers, all active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern...read more

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9781442271890, titled "Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer’s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works" | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 16, 2016, cover price $120.00

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9781442232976, titled "Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer’s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works" | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 16, 2016, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer's Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and teachers of singers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers, all active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern.

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Product Description: Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works...read more
By Arman Schwartz (editor)

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9780691172859 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 16, 2016, cover price $80.00

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9780691172866 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 16, 2016), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

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9781501306402 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 11, 2016, cover price $120.00

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9781501306396 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 11, 2016), cover price $29.95

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9781501306020 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 11, 2016, cover price $120.00

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9781501306013 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 11, 2016), cover price $34.95

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By Danuta Mirka (editor)

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9780199841578 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 16, 2014, cover price $160.00

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9780190618803 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $50.00

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9780520288089 | Univ of California Pr, September 13, 2016, cover price $85.00

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9780520288096 | Univ of California Pr, September 13, 2016, cover price $34.95

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