Yearsley David (141 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Crawley, Jim (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. A year has passed since Cloverdaisy 1 when, during a recent holiday in Cornwall, haunting vibes and ghostly callings filter through to Kate and Clara and 'call' them 'home'. Lost souls from the Abbey, through Ida the Nun and the Lord Abbott, combine with links to King Edward I - the Abbey's founder - and the Arthurian legend at Glastonbury.Following a meeting at the Church manse with the Minister, Reverend Donald and Arthur the baker, this leads them to the summer solstice where a mind-blowing plan is hatched through the enchantments, taking them back to 1270 - the year the Abbey was built prior to being consecrated.Ghosts, sorcerers, teleporting, a subterranean lake, haunted houses and a Wizard - Mervyn - takes them beyond earth and to new 'depths' - literally.…

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Yearsley, Alchemy and counterpoint in an age of reason. Barnett, Modal theory, church keys, and the sonata at the end of the seventeenth century. Morrison, Skyrabin and the impossible. Frolova-Walker, "National in form, socialist in content": musical nation-building in the Soviet republics. 9.25" tall; 233 pages.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Richer not Poorer: Death was the Start.If you enjoyed watching the Grantchester Mysteries, Father Brown, or the brilliant 'Endeavour' series and the Exorcist, you're in for a treat with this first ever Romantic Thriller by acclaimed children's author, David Yearsley.A fascinating blend of English and Eastern bloc with a mixed tale of intrigue, fantasy, murder, fraud, suicide, romance and the Devil. Set in 1980's Oxfordshire, Reverend Eric Padstock of Barthomley Parish Church is a 58 year old Church of England Vicar and brilliant preacher, polymath and family man. Tragically widowed following the vile rape and tragic death of his late wife Kate, he tracks down the perpetrator. His socialist leanings and professional life spiral out of secular and religious control leading to crisis upon catastrophe involving his children and 'others'.A trip to an abandoned, mysterious French Monastery during a holiday, draws him to an old Abbey where he has strong spiritual experiences before a finale of exorcisms in Rome. He eventually returns to England and a centuries old secret key, priceless paintings and graveyard apparitions before a haunting meeting with the 'dead' and a new wife.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked copy. Edge wear to top front cover and a couple of light scratches on front cover, otherwise in excellent condition. 314 p. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity. Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks and their owner, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a multifaceted historical subject--at once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widow--and visit along the way the coffee house, the raucous wedding feast, and the family home. David Yearsley explores the notebooks' more idiosyncratic entries--like its charming ditties on illicit love and searching ruminations on mortality--against the backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany, from status in marriage and widowhood, to fulfilling professional and domestic roles, money, fashion, intimacy and sex, and the ever-present sickness and death of children and spouses. What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotion--for living and for dying.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sub obscuritate quadam ostendensLatin canon in the early Renaissance motet (Charles Turner) / The annotator of the Lorraine Chansonnier and his taste in accidentals (Cynthia J. Cyrus) / Farinelli and the Duke of Leeds: tanto mio amico e patrone particolare (Thomas McGeary) / Senesino disobliges Caroline, Princess of Wales, and Princess Violante of Florence (David Hunter) / The awkward idiom: hand-crossing and the European Keyboard scene around 1730 (David Yearsley) / In defence of the Minuet and Trio (Christopher Hogwood) / The Handel Gloria reconsidered (Clifford Bartlett, Anthony Hicks, Hans Joachim Marx, Michael Talbot) (M13).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity. Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks and their owner, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a multifaceted historical subject--at once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widow--and visit along the way the coffee house, the raucous wedding feast, and the family home. David Yearsley explores the notebooks' more idiosyncratic entries--like its charming ditties on illicit love and searching ruminations on mortality--against the backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany, from status in marriage and widowhood, to fulfilling professional and domestic roles, money, fashion, intimacy and sex, and the ever-present sickness and death of children and spouses. What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotion--for living and for dying.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Bach's Feet: The Organ Pedals in European Culture. Book.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Richer not Poorer: Death was the Start.If you enjoyed watching the Grantchester Mysteries, Father Brown, or the brilliant 'Endeavour' series and the Exorcist, you're in for a treat with this first ever Romantic Thriller by acclaimed children's author, David Yearsley.A fascinating blend of English and Eastern bloc with a mixed tale of intrigue, fantasy, murder, fraud, suicide, romance and the Devil. Set in 1980's Oxfordshire, Reverend Eric Padstock of Barthomley Parish Church is a 58 year old Church of England Vicar and brilliant preacher, polymath and family man. Tragically widowed following the vile rape and tragic death of his late wife Kate, he tracks down the perpetrator. His socialist leanings and professional life spiral out of secular and religious control leading to crisis upon catastrophe involving his children and 'others'.A trip to an abandoned, mysterious French Monastery during a holiday, draws him to an old Abbey where he has strong spiritual experiences before a finale of exorcisms in Rome. He eventually returns to England and a centuries old secret key, priceless paintings and graveyard apparitions before a haunting meeting with the 'dead' and a new wife.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents an interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European instruments, by investigating the German origins of the uniquely independent use of the feet in organ playing. Delving into a range of musical, literary and visual sources, Bach's Feet demonstrates the cultural importance of this physically demanding mode of music-making, from the blind German organists of the fifteenth century, through the central contribution of Bach's music and legacy, to the newly-pedaling organists of the British Empire and the sinister visions of Nazi propagandists.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine trade paperback, a clean, attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near mint.

Condition: New.