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Body Music (Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture)

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:48:21 +0000

Body Music: Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture is a musician’s account of the relationship between corporeal movement and musical sound.

It examines the conscious and subconscious strategies behind musical expression, and ways in which sound and gesture become the medium of inters..

Price: $29.95

Social Partner Dance (Body, Sound, and Space)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:20:35 +0000

Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. It promotes scholarship that understands the various functions o..

Price: $233.99

Music Festivals in the UK (Beyond the Carnivalesque)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:09:48 +0000

The outdoor music festival market has developed and commercialised significantly since the mid-1990s, and is now a mainstream part of the British summertime leisure experience. The overall number of outdoor music festivals staged in the UK doubled between 2005 and 2011 to reach a peak of over 5..

Price: $233.99

Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality (Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:09:13 +0000

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20^th century musical repertoire. Composers discussed include Iv..

Price: $233.99

International Who's Who in Classical Music 2019

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:02:49 +0000

This title is an unparalleled source of biographical information on singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors and managers.

Price: $240.00

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Europe)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:57:57 +0000

Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and e..

Price: $690.00

A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714, Volumes I and II

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:47:12 +0000

This dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714. In addition to basic biographical details, entries feature information on: appointments; probate material; family background; heraldry; signatures and holograph documents; sub..

Price: $310.00

Alberto Ginastera (A Research and Information Guide)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:44:30 +0000

This long overdue research guide to Ginastera's life and works examines all published and unpublished writing by Ginastera, the scholarly secondary materials and the important collections. The complete catalogue of Ginastera’s works with an inventory of the source materials quoted, prove an inv..

Price: $280.00

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (The United States and Canada)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:34:22 +0000

With over 400 lavish illustrations and over 100 accessible articles written by leading scholars in the field, this volume makes available the full range of the American/Canadian musical experience, covering - for the first time in print - all major regions, ethnic groups, and traditional and popul..

Price: $690.00

International Who's Who in Classical Music 2026

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:59 +0000

The International Who’s Who in Classical Music 2026 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved 2026 e..

Price: $1,100.00