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  • av David Schiff
    300,-

    The most complete bathroom design sourcebook, filled with accessible design solutions and practical advice

  • av David Schiff
    406,-

    Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts, Elliott Carter is widely lauded as one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most preeminent figures in classical music and modernism. David Schiff, Carter's former student and lifelong associate, offers here the first full overview of Carter's life and complete oeuvre. This newest addition to the Master Musicians Series paints with a fine brush thefascinating story of one of America's greatest and most prolific composers.

  • av David Schiff
    1 096,-

    Arguably the most important American composer of the century, Elliott Carter often has been more highly regarded in Europe than in his native land. Interest in his work has grown rapidly in recent years, however, and the celebration of his ninetieth...

  • av David Schiff
    436,-

    Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.

  • av David Schiff
    1 346,-

    This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

  • av David Schiff
    546,-

    An accessible introduction to Luhmanns' complex work as well as an exploration of his claim that jurisprudence is part of laws self-description.

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