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The Music of Bach: An Introduction

By: CHARLES SANFORD TERRY

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Pubns: June 1963

Seller ID:: 20080605142187

ISBN: 0486210758

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Cover creased with previous owner name in marker, name stamp on end page, extensive pencil marginalia & underlining, a good solid reading copy. 104 pp.
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Thais: Opera MIniature Series

By: CHARLOTTE LUND

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Theodore Press Co.: June 1930

Seller ID:: 20080602142090

ISBN: 991156135

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

good/--. Small synopsis of Massenet's most famous opera, Thais. It has a gift inscription on ffep, otherwise, no marks, tight binding. 16mo. 30 pgs.
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Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music

By: Chris Willman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New Press: November 2005

Seller ID:: 108450

ISBN: 1595580174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

An up-close-and-personal take on country music's vast political discord. ""Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.""--Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, March 2003" ""You'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A.'Cuz we'll put a boot in your assIt's the American way.""--from "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)" by Toby Keith On the eve of America's invasion of Iraq, the Dixie Chicks went from being the leading lights of country music to heartland pariahs, thanks to one Bush-bashing aside on a London stage...
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Broken Hallelujahs: Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God

By: Christian Scharen

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Brazos Press: October 2011

Seller ID:: 143703

ISBN: 1587432501

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Moderate cover wear, firm binding, underlining and marginalia in moisture rippled text.
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INSIDE EDGE: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating

By: CHRISTINE BRENNAN

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Scribner: January 1996

Seller ID:: 20080626143378

ISBN: 0684801671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good. Dustjacket very good.
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The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents

By: Christoph Wolff

Price: $24.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 1999

Seller ID:: 114487

ISBN: 0393319563

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.
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The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years

By: Christopher Page

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: May 2010

Seller ID:: 158108

ISBN: 0300112572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Reading this account of liturgical singing in the early Church, one marvels at the detective work of Dr. Page, a reader in Medieval Literature and Musicology at Cambridge. No musical scores survived this period (staff notation itself was first developed in the 11th century, as an aid to church singers) and our knowledge of early liturgical practices is decidedly sketchy. But Page ferrets out bits of evidence from unlikely sources-funerary epitaphs, cathedral architecture, fragmentary chronicles, saints' lives-to construct a fascinating picture of how the Church's musical ministry emerged, and ...
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Vintage Jukeboxes

By: Christopher Pearce

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc.: December 1988

Seller ID:: 165555

ISBN: 1555213235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Book in Like New condition, binding firm, text pristine. Tiny previous owner sticker at bottom of interior hinge on first free endpaper. Jacket shows normal surface wear, but no edgewear at all.
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The Listener's Guide to Music Appreciation

By: CLARENCE G HAMILTON, HENRY ALLEN FELDMAN

Price: $8.00

Publisher: World Publishing: June 1943

Seller ID:: 20080603142131

ISBN: B000NQA6BO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good. 1935 edition. Pencil marginalia on p. 74, overall a clean, solid, unworn copy, very nice. 308 pp.
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Norton Anthology of Western Music (Volume 1: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque)

By: CLAUDE V PALISCA (ED)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Norton*(ww Norton Co: May 1988

Seller ID:: 20090713158965

ISBN: 0393956423

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Paperback edition with minimal wear, occasional notes in margins, a solid attractive copy.
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Notes On Beethoven : 20 Crucial Works

By: CONRAD WILSON

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co: 2005-03-29

Seller ID:: 20071005125216

ISBN: 0802829309

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Renowned music critic Conrad Wilson illuminates the music of some of history's greatest composers in relation to their private lives. In each "Notes on ..." volume Wilson selects twenty crucial works of a given composer, discusses each masterpiece with insight and verve, and tells why these particular works are fundamental to understanding the composer.Permeating these pages are Wilson's vast musical expertise and his colorful, succinct, polished prose style. Meant for any general reader interested in music, these guidebooks are ideal for dipping into as well as reading straight through.
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Elias Mann: The Collected Works (Music of the New American Nation: Sacred Music from 1780 to 1820)

By: Daniel C. Jones

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Routledge: March 1996

Seller ID:: 158443

ISBN: 0815323980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Clean, sturdy ex-library copy with all usual treatments. Severe sunfade to spine, but covers are fine and text pristine. Cover image varies from that shown.
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The New Everyman Dictionary of Music (Everyman's Reference Library)

By: David Cummings, Eric Blom

Price: $35.95

Publisher: Grove Pr: March 1989

Seller ID:: 20071005125187

ISBN: 1555843360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

By: David Dubal

Price: $30.00

Publisher: North Point Press: October 2003

Seller ID:: 164355

ISBN: 0865476640

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem overwhelming at times. In "The Essential Canon of Classical Music," David Dubal comes to the aid of the struggling listener and provides a cultural-literacy handbook for classical music. Dubal identifies the 240 composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music and offers ...
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Encyclopedia of the Opera

By: DAVID EWEN

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Hill and Wang: June 1955

Seller ID:: 20080602142101

ISBN: 991156224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/good. No marks to text, tight binding. The DJ is rubbed, ripped, and slightly stained on one corner. 8vo.
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American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary

By: David Ewen

Price: $11.50

Publisher: H. W. Wilson: December 1986

Seller ID:: 173865

ISBN: 0824207440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ex-library with usual marks/additions. Moderate shelfwear, unmarked text.
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The Sound of Light: The History of Gospel and Christian Music

By: DON CUSIC

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation: June 2002

Seller ID:: 20080623143169

ISBN: 063402938X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Sound of Light is a sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, it traces contemporary Christianity and Christian music to the 16th century and the Protestant Reformation after examining music in the Bible and early church music. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of human composure of Isaac Watts and the social activism of the Wesleys, gospel music was established in 18th century America. With the camp meeting songs of the Kentucky Revival, the spirituals that came from the slave culture, and the hymns from the great revival after the Civi...
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