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  • Charles Avison in Context

    National and International Musical Links in Eighteenth-Century North-East England

    Redigeret af Roz Southey, Eric Cross ...
    Despite recent interest in music-making in the so-called ’provinces’, the idea still lingers that music-making outside London was small in scale, second-rate and behind the times. However, in Newcastle upon Tyne, the presence of a nationally known musician, Charles Avison (1709-1770), prompts a reassessment of how far this idea is still tenable. Avison’s life and work illuminates many wider trends ... Læs mere

    494,98 kr.

  • Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films

    Serier serie Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    At present, the marketplace for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics and materials science lacks a book that presents a comprehensive discussion of ferroelectrics and related materials in a form that is suitable for experimentalists and engineers. This book proposes to present a wide coverage of domain-related issues concerning these materials. This coverage ... Læs mere

    3.633,72 kr.

  • Lydbog

    American Scenery, Vol. 2 (Unabridged)

    Uforkortet

    4 timer 53 min

    In the captivating pages of "American Scenery, Vol. 2," Nathaniel Parker Willis paints a vivid tapestry of the burgeoning nation's landscapes. From the majestic Hudson River to the serene shores of Lake George, Willis's keen eye captures the grandeur and beauty of America's natural wonders. Through his evocative prose, readers embark on a literary journey, witnessing the untamed wilderness, ... Læs mere

    42,00 kr.

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  • Folk Song in England

    af Steve Roud ...
    In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts ... Læs mere

    143,75 kr.

  • The Classical Music Map of Britain

    The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and fascinating journey around the UK from a classical music perspective. Extensively researched and beautifully written, every entry explains why each place was so special to the composer in question, which pieces were composed there, and whether it's currently open to the public. The Classical Music Map of Britain is an enchanting adventure around ... Læs mere

    93,62 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Sounds in the Silent Air

    af David Borrill ...
    'Sounds in the silent air' takes it title from a song by Ivor Gurney (1890 –1937). He was one of a number of English composers who fought in the First World War, alongside Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams. How did their experience affect the music they wrote and what impact did it have on their creative soul? This eBook reflects on these issues.Selected works by Gurney, Bliss and Vaughan ... Læs mere

    19,18 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • O Sing unto the Lord

    A History of English Church Music

    af Andrew Gant ...
    Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the role church music has played in ordinary lives and how it reflects those lives back to us. The author considers why church music remains so popular and frequently tops the classical charts and why the ... Læs mere

    118,28 kr.

  • Britten's Children

    af John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Læs mere

    98,75 kr.

  • Handel

    Serier serie Composers Across Cultures
    Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex ... Læs mere

    464,95 kr.

  • Handel

    Biography of the composer. According to Wikipedia: "George Frederic Handel (23 February 1685 14 April 1759) was an English Baroque composer of German birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. Born as Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, the native German spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a naturalized subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727.[3] Perhaps ... Læs mere

    7,94 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

    Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new ... Læs mere

    143,75 kr.

  • Purcell

    A Biography

    In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth, churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine music survived. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, one of the first things he demanded was music, sacred and profane, anthems and motets, pavannes and gavottes. In 1659 Henry Purcell was born, and his genius would give the period and nation an unforgettable ... Læs mere

    156,25 kr.