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In this remarkable study, now an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971, Charles Rosen surveys the langua...
"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."--The New York R...
Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday
Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charl...
A Short Companion
Beethovenโs piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as...
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How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in ...
Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast ran...
Essays on Music and Literature
"Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate th...
In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge...
The World of the Pianist
One of the country's best-known music writers elegantly guides readers through the piano's mysteries, weaving in anecdotes of some of history's most f...
More Than a Game
Conversations about Art and Performance
Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-centuryโs greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain o...
The Mythology of Nineteenth Century Art
How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball
The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English
Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the ...
How to Think about and Improve it
This paper sharply distinguishes "marketing" encompassed in public diplomacy from the marketing of commercial products, focusing instead on the centra...
A Jewish Basketball History
A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York's...
Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees
"Delightful and insightful." โJohn Thorn, author of Total Baseball Baseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball, and there is no loneli...
Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA
The 1980s were arguably the NBA's best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game's greatest playe...
the mythology of 19. century art
Climax, Closure, and the Invention of Genre
Dislocating the End examines how two concepts - catastrophe and typology - have reconceived the notion of ending. This innovation in ending has in tur...
A Novel
The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach
A memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early โ60s by celebrated NBA player and the fir...
The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season
During the 1972โ1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after ...
The Thinking Fan's Guide to Professional Basketball
Definitive and comprehensive, International Securities Regulation is the first treatise on international securities with translations of laws and regu...
A Hermeneutic Reconsideration
"In this new interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey, Andrew Davison demonstrates the usefulness of hermeneutics in political...
Selected Rules & Regulations. Stock exchanges of the world
L This set acts as an instant-access guide to all of the pertinent information concerning the rules and regulations of the world's 49 major stock exch...
Cherokee Grotto
Can you grasp the meaning of one trillion dollar fiscal deficits far into the future? That is what we tax payers can look forward to. Read where Congr...
The Uncensored Life and Times of the NBA's Original Showman
Darryl Dawkins revives his swashbuckling persona in this tell-all account of sex, drugs and racism in pro basketball during the 1970s and '80s, the NB...