Fleetwood Macs iconic album Rumours is more popular and acclaimed now than ever and attracts listeners across generationsthis deft analysis (Houston Press) celebrates the albums unlikely creation, surprising longevity, and enduring cultural impact.
Die Schrift ist als Beispiel für das entworfen worden, was der Autor, von Jaspers beeinflußt, "Situationsgeschichte" nennt, also die Veranschaulichung eines Ereignisses durch Darstellung aller den Gegenstand berührenden Klein- oder Einzelereignisse.
"e;His aim is true"e; — Greil MarcusFor more than a decade, readers of New York magazine and its Vulture website have been delighted—and occasionally outraged—by Bill Wyman's exhaustive and unapologetically opinionated rankings of the songs of some of the greatest artists in rock and pop history.
A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist.
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades.
Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth.
After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers.
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life.
Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored.
Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.
Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history.
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.
Although, according to the author, much sound research, has been done in the Dufay era in recent years,"e; Charles Hamm's book marks the first time an attempt has been made at a comprehensive chronology of the works of this composer.
Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
1973 was a year that glittered and growled, a year when British music stood at the crossroads of fantasy and fury, glamour and grit, reinvention and collapse.
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture (Questlove).
Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic futurea colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain (Rene Fleming).
