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Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
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
Music, Sound, Language
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
Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music
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
Variations on a German Theme
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
The Musical City of Carlos Varela
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
Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror
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
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
A History of Canadian Popular Music
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
An Introduction to Die Meistersinger
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
Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France
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
Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly
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
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
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
A Newfoundland Songbook
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
A Life in Canadian Music
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
A History of Vocal Pedagogy
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.

Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487526795
Pub Date: November 2020
Virginia Woolf
Music, Sound, Language
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
Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music
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
Variations on a German Theme
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
The Musical City of Carlos Varela
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
Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror
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
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
A History of Canadian Popular Music
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
An Introduction to Die Meistersinger
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
Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France
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
Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly
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
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
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
A Newfoundland Songbook
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
A Life in Canadian Music
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
A History of Vocal Pedagogy
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.