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Classical Music of North India (1967 Film)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The master musician of North India, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, demonstrates a short example of North Indian classical music. He plays the instrument which he has helped to make famous in India and abroad, the...

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Ensembles in Performance (1994 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Performances of the Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in D Major, and the first movement of the Schubert Octet Opus 6 No 4.

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John Adams - A Portrait and Concert of American Music (2002)

aka: John Adams - American Classic - A Portrait

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

A look a the life and work of John Adams, one of America’s most frequently performed living composers who has managed to write accessible music that still surprises and challenges his listeners. Includes...

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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £12.99

Tony Palmer’s documentary is the first ever film about the composer Gustav Holst.

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Africa I Remember (1995 Video)

Director

Paul Balmer

Producer

Paul Balmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £50

Nigerian-English musician and composer Tunda Jegede spans the African and western music traditions in ‘The Cycle Recokoning’, the world’s first full-scale work for African harp lute (kora) and western...

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David Starkey’s Music & Monarchy (2017)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £7.99

Presented by renowned historian David Starkey, this BBC series reveals how British kings and queens shaped the story of the nation’s music as patrons and taste makers, and even as composers and performers....

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You Can’t Live with Your Mouth Shut (1999 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

On the island of Santiago, in the Cape Verde archipelago, lives Mano Mendi, the last player of cimboa, a one-string violin used to accompany the traditional batuque music. Through the portrait of Mano Mendi...

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John Cage Talks of His Work and Aesthetic (1969)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...

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Darker Side of Black, The (1994 Video)

Director

Isaac Julien

Subject

Music; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 59 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Investigates the social and political influences on the music styles rap and ragga and their hard-core proponents. Seeks an informed response to the complex issues involved, including ritualised machismo,...

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Arvo Part: The Early Years

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 126 minutes), €17.98

Estonian Arvo Pärt is widely regarded as one of today’s most original creators of music. Largely self-taught, he is remote from the mainstream of the contemporary avant-garde. Much of his music is bound...

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