Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Lockwood Lewis)(Paperback)

Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Lockwood Lewis)(Paperback)

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. 'The result is

Beethoven's Lives: The Biographical Tradition (Lockwood Lewis)(Pevná vazba)

Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ages. When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world of music felt an intense loss. The composer's funeral procession was one of the largest Vienna had ever

Beethoven, a Life (Caeyers Jan)(Pevná vazba)

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, renowned Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan

The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography (Bonds Mark Evan)(Pevná vazba)

The Beethoven Syndrome is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until

Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination (Solomon Maynard)(Paperback)

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis

The Music of Life (Revised) (Khan Inayat)(Paperback)

A transcendent exploration of the nature and effects of sound by the Sufi master. The Music of Life is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony that underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. Inayat Khan explores

Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley (Ginell Cary)(Paperback)

WALK TALL: THE MUSIC & LIFE OF JULIAN CANNONBALL

The Conquest of Canaan: Warfare and Victory in the Christian Life (Penn-Lewis Jessie)(Paperback)

Face the Music: A Life Exposed (Stanley Paul)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Face the Music, Paul Stanley--the co-founder and famous 'Starchild' frontman of KISS--reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart,

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music - The Story of My Life and My Music (Roach Archie)(Pevná vazba)

Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide (Dartnell Lewis)(Paperback)

Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers today. Could life exist anywhere else in the universe? What might aliens really look like? Dartnell

John Coltrane: His Life and Music (Porter Lewis)(Paperback)

John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force whose following continues to grow. This new biography, the first by a professional jazz scholar and performer, presents a huge amount of never-before-published material, including interviews with

No One Is Talking About This - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 (Patricia Lockwood Lockwood)(Paperback)

A Better Way: The surprising path to a complete life. (Lewis Gregg)(Paperback)

Recorder Duets from the Beginning - Book 1 (Pitts John)(Paperback)

(Music Sales America). Easy duets for descant recorders, ranging from Beethoven to the blues, to encourage the learning of new notes and rhythms. Suitable for two players or class ensembles, with piano accompaniments in the teachers' books. Ideal for use alongside the Recorder from the Beginning

Till We Have Faces (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback / softback)

Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of Psyche's sister,

Richard Dawkins, C. S. Lewis and the Meaning of Life (McGrath Alister)(Paperback)

Alister McGrath has written to great acclaim on both Richard Dawkins and C. S. Lewis. Here he brings these two intriguing and well-known writers into a conversation. They could hardly have more different perspectives! Engaging with their views is a brilliant way of sharpening up our own thinking on

Lewis Milestone: Life and Films (Robinson Harlow)(Pevná vazba)

This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent to the sound era. Creator of All Quiet on the Western Front, Of Mice and Men, the original Ocean's

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art (Hyde Lewis)(Paperback)

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others--and then holds

The Music and the Mirror (Keeley Lola)(Paperback)

Connecting sounds: The social life of music (Crossley Nick)(Paperback)

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. Musical interactions are often also economic interactions, for example, and sometimes political interactions. They can be forms of identity work, for

Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg (Lewis Gill)(Paperback / softback)

When Willow meets the Wild Things and crosses into The Wilderness, she knows her life is never going to be the same again. The Wild Things discover another group of children - The Bark Skins, but they've taken over their camp, and won't give it back. This means

The Her Campus Guide to College Life, Updated and Expanded Edition: How to Manage Relationships, Stay Safe and Healthy, Handle Stress, and Have the Be (Lewis Stephanie Kaplan)(Paperback)

Sunset Song (Grassic Gibbon Lewis)(Paperback)

Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in her rural community. But as the devastation of the First World War leaves her life-and community-in tatters, she must draw strength from