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Dancing Queen

Dancing Queen

Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

by Melinda Gough

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781487526795

Pub Date: November 2020

Dancing Queen takes up court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’s use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610.
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Music, Sound, Language

by Elicia Clements

Price: $60.00

ISBN: 9781487504267

Pub Date: April 2019

This study investigates how the medium of sound and its most representative art form of music enable Virginia Woolf to develop fresh concepts and methods in her experimental fiction.

Rocking the Boat

Rocking the Boat

Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music

by Silvia Bermudez

Price: $62.00

ISBN: 9781442648524

Pub Date: March 2018

Silvia Bermúdez’s fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since the late 1970s.

The Necessity of Music

The Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

by Celia Applegate

Price: $48.95

ISBN: 9781487520489

Pub Date: April 2017

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.

My Havana

My Havana

The Musical City of Carlos Varela

Edited by Maria Carida Cumana, Karen Dubinsky and Xenia Reloba de la Cruz

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781442615786

Pub Date: September 2014

For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. My Havana is a lyrical exploration of Varela’s life and work, and of the vibrant musical, literary, and cinematic culture of his generation.

Survival Songs

Survival Songs

Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror

by Stephanie Sieburth

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781442644731

Pub Date: July 2014

Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936–39).

Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

by Susan McClary

Price: $97.00

ISBN: 9781442640627

Pub Date: March 2013

Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of various cultural forms - notably the visual arts, poetry, theatre, music, and dance - to grapple with human values in the increasingly heterodox world of the 1600s.

Canuck Rock

Canuck Rock

A History of Canadian Popular Music

by Ryan Edwardson

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9780802097156

Pub Date: September 2009

An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry.

Wagner and the Wonder of Art

Wagner and the Wonder of Art

An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

by M. Owen Lee

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780802095732

Pub Date: December 2007

In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work’s intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre.

Sounding Objects

Sounding Objects

Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France

by Carla Zecher

Price: $87.00

ISBN: 9780802090140

Pub Date: March 2007

Drawing on music treatises and archival sources as well as poems, paintings, and engravings, this unique study aims to enrich our understanding of the interplay of poetry, music, and art in this period, and highlights the importance of musical materiality to Renaissance culture.

A Vision of the Orient

A Vision of the Orient

Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly

Edited by Jonathan Wisenthal, Sherrill E. Grace, Melinda Boyd, Brian McIlroy and Vera Micznik

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9781442613287

Pub Date: September 2006

The combined perspectives that result from this collaboration provide new and challenging insights into the powerful, resonant myth of a painful encounter between East and West.

The Music of Harry Freedman

The Music of Harry Freedman

by Gail Dixon

Price: $68.00

ISBN: 9780802089649

Pub Date: October 2004

Dixon does a great service to Canadian culture with this analytic study of the music of a celebrated twentieth-century figure.

Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket

Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket

by Kay Brainerd Slocum

Price: $117.00

ISBN: 9780802036506

Pub Date: January 2004

Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these within the context of the political and social history of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

Come and I Will Sing You

Come and I Will Sing You

A Newfoundland Songbook

Edited by Genevieve Lehr

Introduction by Anita Best

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802065865

Pub Date: October 2003

The selection represents the state of the folk-song in Newfoundland today; in some part it documents what is lost and forgotten, but it also celebrates what has survived, and thrives.

Niki Goldschmidt

Niki Goldschmidt

A Life in Canadian Music

by Gwenlyn Setterfield

Price: $80.00

ISBN: 9780802048073

Pub Date: June 2003

The captivating story of Niki Goldschmidt's life, following his career as conductor, teacher, and artistic director, including his involvement in the founding of Canada's first opera school and the creation of festivals and tours across the country.

Bel Canto

Bel Canto

A History of Vocal Pedagogy

by James Stark

Price: $64.00

ISBN: 9780802086143

Pub Date: March 2003

A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of bel canto.

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