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Broadway Sound - The Autobiography & Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett
The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making on Broadway, in Hollywood, and for television…
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis - Cinematic Views of Technology & Fear
A collection of Essays ranging from early seminal works to recent fresh interpretations of this expressionist classic - 19 b/w illustrations - 224 pages
Making of Peter Grimes - Essays
Historic accounts & new material illuminate the creation, early history & artistic intentions of Britten's first opera - 15 colour illustrations, 26 b/w - 298 pages
On Mahler and Britten
Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday Critical essays & studies reflecting the latest thinking on these two major figures of 20C music - 374 pages
Britten and Auden in the Thirties - The Year 1936
1936 was a critical year in the Britten/Auden relationship which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period - New Edition - 19 b/w illustrations - 194 pages
Britten and the Far East - Asian influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten - includes CD - HARDBACK
This investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten’s compositions includes a CD - 279 pages
Hollywood’s Film Wars with France - Film-trade Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Film Quota Policy
This history of American film policy towards France showing how Hollywood was able to establish permanent dominance is documented by a wealth of diplomatic correspondence
Britten and Auden in the Thirties - The Year 1936
1936 was a critical year in the Britten/Auden relationship which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period - New Edition - 19 b/w illustrations - 194 pages
Picturing Performance - The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept & Practice
There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms. Yet…
Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
García Mainar’s critical study of the films of the late Stanley Kubrick includes analysis of all but his last work, Eyes Wide Shut, and offers both a formal analysis of the films based on style and…
The Essential Bach Choir - A Discussion of Original Performance Conventions of Bach’s Sacred Works
What type of choir did Bach have in mind as he created his cantatas, Passions and Masses? How many singers were at his disposal in Leipzig? And in what ways did he deploy them in his music? Seeking…
Diaries of Peter Pears 1936-78
Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal memoirs, and notes on perfomance - 16 b/w illustrations - 272 pages
