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		An Introduction to Bach Studies
				Music
		Daniel R Melamed; Michael Marissen
		Oxford University Press 2006 189 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0195304926
		Published Price £10.99		Sale Price £2.99
	This user-friendly guide helps the student to negotiate a path through the vast field of JS Bach scholarship. Listing the most important primary and secondary sources, its multiple bibliographies survey topics ranging from Bach's life and world to questions of analysis and performance practice. The authors use their extensive experience to identify hundreds of key works, discussing their place in the long history of Bach studies and drawing attention to the most important issues.
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		The Faber Book of Pop
				Music
		Hanif Kureishi; Jon Savage (Edited by)
		Faber 1995 862 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0571179800
		Published Price £20.00		Sale Price £2.99
	'Pop may have rejected a certain notion of literature,' writes Hanif Kureishi, '... but its progress was accompanied from the beginning by literary comment'. Drawn from those writings - by journalists, social commentators, music critics and musicians - this anthology charts the course of pop music from the 1940s to the 1990s: from Malcolm X's sketch of 'groovy, frantic scenes' in 40s Manhattan to Ann Powers's elegy on Kurt Cobain and Andrew O'Hagan's 1994 article, 'Passing Poison' on music and drugs.
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		Johan Svendsen
		The Man, the Maestro, the Music		Music
		Finn Benestad; Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe
		Peer Gynt 1995 428 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0964523809
		Published Price £34.50		Sale Price £4.99
	Although he is now a neglected composer, Johan Svendsen (1840-1911) was musical director of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House for 25 years, and during his own lifetime he was held in the same high regard as Grieg (with whom he maintained a close friendship). This is the first full-length biography of Norway's greatest symphonist; it includes excerpts from the composer's letters, analysis of the music and a complete list of works.
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		Listening to Reason
		Culture, Subjectivity and Nineteenth-Century Music		Music
		Michael P Steinberg
		Princeton University Press 2004 246 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0691116857
		Published Price £26.95		Sale Price £6.99
	Discussing composers from Mozart to Mahler, Steinberg reveals the pivotal role of musical works and musical culture in the debates that forged European modernity during the 'long' 19th century.
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		Edvard Grieg
		Diaries, Articles, Speeches		Music
		Finn Benestad; William H Halverson (Edited by)
		Peer Gynt 2001 454 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0964523833
		Published Price £34.50		Sale Price £5.99
	The companion volume to Grieg's Letters, this book presents the remainder of the most important writings by the composer, many of them translated into English for the first time. The writings are arranged in four sections: autobiographical writings, notably Grieg's diaries for 1865-66 and 1905-7; articles on other composers (including Dvorak, Mozart and Wagner); articles on various topics ranging from a proposed Norwegian music academy to his own piano pieces; and speeches. Each text is fully introduced and annotated.
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		The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Music
				Music
		Edward A Lippman
		Nebraska University Press 1999 250 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0803279841
		Published Price £18.95		Sale Price £6.99
	Edward Lippman's writings on musical aesthetics include both systematic and historical approaches and reflect his unrivalled knowledge of the philosophical literature on music and his deep understanding of the musical repertory. The 12 articles in this collection, originally published between 1953 and 1994, represent characteristic facets of his work and include studies of symbolism in music, the aesthetics of strophic song, an interpretation of Bach's 'Ich folge dir gleichfalls', the tonal ideal of Romanticism and the aesthetic theories of Richard Wagner.
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		Serge Gainsbourg
		A View from the Exterior		Music
		Alan Clayson
		Sanctuary 2005 248 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1860746462
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £3.99
	One of the most prominent forces in French music in the 20th century, Serge Gainsbourg achieved international recognition (and a certain notoriety) with his hit Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus in 1976. This biography charts the life of a man who was a composer, performer, lothario, and to legions of fans, a genius.
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		Opus Est
		Six Composers from Northern Europe		Music
		Paul Rapoport
		Kahn & Averill 1985 200 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0900707887
		Published Price £6.95		Sale Price £2.99
	Paul Rapoport presents studies of six little-known composers born between 1876 and 1911, with in-depth discussions of one or more compositions by each composer. As well as describing the lives and music of Matthijs Vermeulen, Vagn Holmboe, Havergal Brian, Allan Pettersson, Fartein Valen and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, with a list of works, discography and bibliography for each writer, the book addresses wider questions about musical creativity in the 20th century and the history of symphonic composition.
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		Early Music
				Music
		Denis Stevens
		Kahn & Averill 1997 224 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1871082625
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	Drawing on his own extensive experience as a scholar and performer, Denis Stevens gathers together much useful information in this very readable introductory guide to musicology and the historically informed performance of early music. He identifies typical problems for editors, covering such thorny issues as musica ficta and barring, instrumentation and continuo. Sage advice is also offered on tracking down editions and facsimiles and selecting the best.
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		Redemption Songs
		1000 Hymns and Choruses		Music
		Collins 2005 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0007212364
		Published Price £30.00		Sale Price £17.99
	This collection of 1,000 hymns and choruses, many of them with one or more alternative tunes, is designed for use in evangelistic meetings or at home. The hymns are arranged by themes such as praise, the Gospel, missionary and workers, the Second Coming, the Holy Spirit and prayer and consecration, with other sections for children and young people, solo singers and choirs. No jacket.
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		The Film Spectator
		From Sign to Mind		Music
		Warren Buckland (Edited by)
		Amsterdam University Press 1995 262 pages		Qty
		Hardback 9053561706
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	This work is divided into three sections: studies based on Chomskyan linguistics, a sophisticated theory of film and television enunciation and film theory based on pragmatics. It addresses issues such as the mental representation of filmic space and the difference between fiction and documentary.
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		Pietro Mascagni and His Operas
				Music
		Alan Mallach
		Northeastern University Press 2002 384 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1555535240
		Published Price £24.50		Sale Price £4.99
	For over fifty years Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was omnipresent on the Italian musical scene, as an innovative, controversial and litigious composer, conductor and teacher. As well as analysing Mascagni's operas, Mallach tells his rags-to-riches story, examining his public and professional life, including his patriotic opposition to Mussolini, as well as his passionate, three-decade love affair with Anna Lolli - the biography is enriched with information gleaned from privileged access to more than 4000 of his letters to her.
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		The Style Hongrois in the Music of Western Europe
				Music
		Jonathan Bellman
		Northeastern University Press 1994 265 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1555531695
		Published Price £31.50		Sale Price £23.00
	With its mixture of quasi-improvisatory performance style and a vernacular musical language, the style hongrois offered late 18th and 19th century composers the chance to explore a different and more 'authentic' world of emotional expression, unfettered by the conventions of 'high' art. Jonathan Bellman's wide-ranging musical, literary and cultural study follows the development of the style from Haydn and Mozart to Liszt, Brahms, Johann Strauss and Bartok and assesses its lasting impact on the development of 19th century music and aesthetics.
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		The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality
				Music
		William Kinderman; Harold Krebs (Edited by)
		Nebraska University Press 1996 281 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0803227248
		Published Price £65.00		Sale Price £9.99
	Focusing on works by, among others, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Wolf and Bruckner, these essays examine the emergence of increasingly complex extended and suspended harmonic techniques in 19th century music.
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		Miles' Diary
		The Life of Miles davis, 1947-1961		Music
		Ken Vail
		Sanctuary 1996 175 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1860741592 275x215mm
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £3.99
	This month-by-month chronology of the jazz trumpeter's life lists all his club and concert appearances from April 1947, when he joined the Charlie Parker Quintet, to the legendary Carnegie Hall concert in May 1961. Also included are the details of Davis's broadcasts, recording sessions and his battle against drug addiction. The text is complemented by contemporary documents including photographs, album covers, press cuttings, advertisements and reviews.
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