Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Introdução à estética musical	Mário de Andrade	"Compilation of Andrade's writings on musical esthetics. Part of a series of publications edited by Flávia Camargo Toni aimed at making Andrade's collection available for study (for other works edit…	OL1004233W
La musique, discipline scientifique	Pierre Barbaud	S'adapter au monde moderne, conserver des possibilités suffisantes d'interventions, comprendre l'évolution des sciences et de leurs innombrables applications, être à jour, c'est-à-dire rester jeune ,…	OL1383231W
A Compendium of Essays	E.A. Bucchianeri	As the title displays, this publication features several essays spanning the gamut of musical styles and eras, from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Impressionist periods to the modern musicals o…	OL15749200W
The music instinct	Philip Ball	The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleepin…	OL16995607W
How Music Works	David Byrne	The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evo…	OL17068219W
The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach	André Pirro	Offered here for the first time in English, The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach (L'Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach), by the celebrated scholar and organist André Pirro, was originally published …	OL17894929W
Interpreting music	Lawrence Kramer	This is a comprehensive essay on musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. The author argues that music, far from being closed to interpreta…	OL19858735W
Virgil Thomson	Virgil Thomson	When, in October 1940, the New York herald tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Music chronicles 1940-1954 presen…	OL19994349W
How music dies (or lives)	Ian Brennan	All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to …	OL20028098W
Parallels and Paradoxes	Edward W. Said	These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Baren…	OL27387W
Der Kampf des Hundes mit dem Jaguar	Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann	The book is on the music of the Bandas de Pífanos in the Northeast of Brazil, a region of excellent conservation of an oral music culture. It is based on field work carried out in 1988, 1989, and 1…	OL2843279W
Expression, truth and authenticity	Mario Vieira de Carvalho	Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most representative German philosophers of the 20th century and of the so-called Frankfurt School. Amongst the main topics of his critical thinking is aest…	OL28591719W
John Cage	Richard Kostelanetz	xvi, 239 p. : 22 cm	OL2906772W
The Shivering Ground & Other Stories	Sara Barkat	The Shivering Ground & Other Stories is a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, a collection of weird fiction with a steampunk aesthetic. In "The Door at the End of the Path" a young girl dis…	OL34960984W
The Exotic in Music	Ralph P. Locke	A Japanese geisha. a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-"Gypsy" fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose, Josephine Baker singing "Petite Tonkinoise" - portrayals of people and places that are co…	OL3721240W
Music through the eyes of faith	Harold M. Best	In writing Music Through the Eyes of Faith, I have tried to keep two purposes before me at all times: to celebrate the uniqueness of music making as part of the larger world of human creativity, and …	OL4321608W
In search of opera	Carolyn Abbate	"In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization …	OL4447586W
Musical time	Barbara R. Barry	xv, 391 : 24 cm	OL4810141W
A philosophy of church music	Robert D. Berglund	Robert Berglund says a worship service is not a concert time. It is not an hour of entertainment. It is a time to worship God in spirit and in truth. In the Christian realm, however, the worship serv…	OL5097554W
Temperament	Stuart Isacoff	"A book that explains how a vexing technical puzzle was solved, making possible some of the most exquisite music ever written."--BOOK JACKET.	OL8035601W