Music reviews and criticism

A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers, Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today.

The minstrelsy play, song, and dance "e;Jump, Jim Crow"e; did more than enable blackface performers to spread racist stereotypes about Black Americans.

When Bela Bartk died in September of 1945, he left a partially completed viola concerto commissioned by the virtuoso violist William Primrose.

New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).

The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves.

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "e;The Girl from Ipanema,"e; is not the best bossa nova record.

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe.

Explores how Gershwin''s iconic music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests as well as technological advances.

« Cet essai est une plongée vertigineuse dans l’histoire du blues, de la country, du rock’n’roll et de ses avatars.

In The Composer as Intellectual, musicologist Jane Fulcher reveals the extent to which leading French composers between the World Wars were not only aware of but also engaged intellectually and creatively with the central political and ideological issues of the period.

How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalism What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building?

John Lee "e;Sonny Boy"e; Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s.

Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century.

The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus.

David Bowie was one of the world's most famous rock stars.

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time.

Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.

Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated.

Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture.

Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond.

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild.

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltn Kodly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries.

One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.

The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith.

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them.

A systematic and detailed analysis of the work of this extremely popular composer, providing description, context, examples, and commentary.

For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.

Portrays Schoenberg''s atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out ''musical idea'' and ''basic image'' frameworks.

This book tells the story of a life spent on the road recording the rich diversity of music in America when it was a major part of our lives, not just digital background noise.

The liturgical chant sung in the churches of Southern Italy between the ninth and thirteenth centuries reflects the multiculturalism of a territory in which Romans, Franks, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Jews, and Muslims were all present with various titles and political roles.

Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's Marche militaire no.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself.

Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for his electrifying public performances.

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque.

In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46.

Music and Ethical Responsibility argues that musical experience involves encounters with others, and ethical responsibilities arise from those encounters.

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous-and enormously influential-dialogue with their subject.

Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music.

Stravinsky in the Americas explores the ';pre-Craft' period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945.

Horizons Circled: Reflections on My Music captures Ernst Krenek's profound insights on his artistic journey, articulated through a series of reflective essays.

Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding.

Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.