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Barber
 Bach, Beethoven & the Boys - Music History
  Subtitled "Music History as it Ought to be Taught," this book offers a humourous approach to an often dreary field of study, with biographies of major composers and off-beat commentary. Solid scholarship from a humorous viewpoint. 156 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 07245
$17.95
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Barber
 If It Ain't Baroque... (Donald - cartoonist)
  An irreverent look at the real history of Western Music. This book tackles the history of music from the genre viewpoint rather than by biography. 146 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 16008
$19.95
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Barber
 Tenors, Tantrums and Trills (Donald - cartoons)
  Subtitled "An Opera Dictionary from Aida to Zzzz." From strutting singers to cantankerous composers, from ludicrous librettos to pompous primadonnas, Berber skewers them all in this satirical yet affectionate opera dictionary. 77 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 47383
$14.95
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Barber
 When the Fat Lady Sings (Donald - cartoonist)
  Subtitled "Opera History as it Ought to be Taught." A humorous approach to the all-too-often heavy subject of opera history. From Monteverdi to the 20th Century. 145 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 07246
$16.95
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Carse
 Musical Wind Instruments
  Dover reprint of 1939 MacMillan publication. Informative overview of wind instruments used in European orchestras, military, and other wind bands during the past 400 years. Well-illustrated passages describe various types and sizes of woodwinds (flutes,oboes, clarinets, and bassoons) and brass (trumpets, cornets, horns, trombones, bugles, and related instruments). A valuable guide for musicians, teachers, and music students; a delight for music lovers. 30 photos; 41 drawings and diagrams. 11 charts.
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  Item: 45446
$16.95
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Comeau & Covert
 Illustrated History - 20th Century
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  Item: 37879
$29.95
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Comeau & Covert
 Illustrated History - Baroque
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  Item: 33117
$29.95
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Comeau & Covert
 Illustrated History - Classical
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  Item: 33118
$29.95
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Comeau & Covert
 Illustrated History - Middle Ages/Renaissance
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  Item: 37775
$29.95
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Comeau & Covert
 Illustrated History - Romantic
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  Item: 34941
$29.95
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Dellio & Woods
 Quotable Pop - Five Decades of Blah Blah Blah (Rooth - cartoonist)
  Hundres of quotes, insightful, stupid and funny, from the pop music scene over the last 50 years. 134 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 47381
$14.95
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Leonard
 1812 And All That (Bebbington - cartoonist)
  The only date in the history of music is in the title. This leaves space for really important considerations such as the effect of the side drum on the Russian Revolution and the influence of the Times Atlas on the development of opera. It examines why Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla Overture is suitable for boiling eggs, wheras Mozart's Magic Flute is not, and ponders the influence of Haydn's wife on the development of the sonata form. It also makes clear the position held by the camel in Italian opera and why Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is so loud. 128 pages. Paperbound.
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  Item: 47380
$14.95
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Marsh
 Jubilee Singers & Their Songs
  Fisk University was founded in 1866 to provide higher education for freed African-Americans after the Civil War. To raise money for the institution in Nashville, Tennessee, the school's chorus--known as the Jubilee Singers--began performing concerts of Negro folk songs and spirituals. Their popularity and fame spread rapidly. Before the group disbanded in 1880, it had toured the northern states, performed at Boston's World Peace Jubilee and at the White House, sung for Queen Victoria and toured Great Britain and Europe. This book recounts their remarkable story and is supplemented by 139 great spirituals, complete with text, and fully notated in both open score and in a two-stave keyboard reduction ideal for rehearsal and performance. Songs include such all-time favorites as "Down by the river," "Go down, Moses," "Way over Jordan," "This old-time religion," and many, many more. Unabridged republication of The Story of the Jubilee Singers, originally published by The Cleveland Printing and Publishing Co., Ohio, 1892.
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  Item: 48666
$12.95
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Miller   NEW ITEM!
 Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History
  Music history is a required course for all music students. Unfortunately, the typical music history book is dry and academic, focusing on rote memorization of important composers and works. This leads many to think that the topic is boring, but best selling author Michael Miller proves that isn't so. This guide makes music history interesting and fun, for both music students and older music lovers.

* Covers more than Western "classical" music-also includes non-Western music and uniquely American forms such as jazz

* More than just names and dates-puts musical developments in context with key historical events
  Item: 72319


$18.95
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Montgomery & Hinson
 Stories of the Great Composers, v.1 [elementary]
  Item: 37996
$7.95
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Montgomery & Hinson
 Stories of the Great Composers, v.1, w/CD [elementary]
  Item: 37997
$18.95
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Sachs
 History of Musical Instruments
  Written by one of the world's most distinguished musicologists, this is the first comprehensive history of musical instruments. It traces their evolution from prehistoric to modern times, combining scholarship with insight in a remarkable fusion of music, anthropology, and the fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations. 505 pages. 9780486452654. 0486452654.
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  Item: 67650
$21.95
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Watson
 English Hymn - A Critical & Historical Study
  Item: 39613
$45.00

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