Libros de música

Comprehensive text on the history of film music, including in-depth chapters on Silent Cinema, Sound Cinema, Aesthetic Theories, Music and Animated Cinema, and much more.

In 2008, the whole Studio di Fonolgia di Milano della Rai - including equipment and furniture - was completely reconstructed inside the XXXVI room of the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Sforza Ca...

Facsimile reproduction of the Biblioteca Marciana manuscript of Cesti's score. Includes detailed introduction in Italian and English, and the printed libretto by Nicolò Beregan.

The Nazis turned music into a weapon of propaganda and used it especially to channel consensus and control the masses. In order to achieve this, the Nazis did not hesitate to alter history and introdu...

This book is not a biography, nor a technical-artistic analysis of Rossini's work. It is rather the result of a lifetime of enthusiastic cohabitation with the composer and the desire to spread the wor...

Blues legend Big Bill Broonzy's story in his own words, as told to Yannick Bruynoghe. Although he was born and raised in Mississippi, Big Bill was a pioneer of the Chicago style of blues. During his l...

Larry Sandberg. The set-up, maintenance, and restoration of the 5-string banjo. Clear instructions and detailed photographs and diagrams. Indispensable for amateur and professional.

A highly illustrated study of Daniel Francis O'Neill who was Chief of Police in Chicago at the beginning of the century. He collected and published what was to become the largest collection of Irish m...

This step-by-step instruction book explains everything required to master the basics of tin whistle playing. This easy, straightforward approach to playing the penny whistle has countless diagrams and...

Tomás Ò Canainn is one of Ireland's foremost Uillean piper and formerly singer with traditional music trio Na Fili. In this enlightening book he gives his exhaustive insight into the real meaning of I...

Partituren, Band 2/2. Daniele, David, Tobiae, Turbabuntur impii, Victoria Passionis Christi, Trompetenkonzert

This volume inaugurates the series of Studies of the twice-yearly journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal of 18th and 19th-Century Instrumental Music. These publications are devoted to individual composers wh...

In the span of time that bridged the ancien régime and the Restoration, the absolute monarchies made way for bourgeois liberal aspirations, the cities opened their walls to the increasingly broad hori...

Per la prima volta la vita e il pensiero artistico di Oscar Ghiglia, il grande artista e Maestro recentemente scomparso, raccontati da lui stesso in una lunga intervista rilasciata ad Antonin Vercelli...

Come se, nell’inserire al posto giusto le tessere di un mosaico, mi accorgessi che ciascuna di esse origina attorno a sé un ulteriore arcipelago di lacune. La storia è così. Opera ambiziosamente triva...

In questi racconti, legati dal tenace filo della memoria, l’autore si giova di ricordi altrui - tramandati da aneddoti, battute, esplosioni gergali - e dei propri, guardando indietro verso un’infanzia...