Art music, orchestral and formal music

This book takes you on a captivating journey into the heart of oriental music, from its earliest beginnings to the beginning of the twentieth century, revealing how it transformed from innate sounds into a sublime emotional language that elevates the spirit and imagination.

This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

Challenges current accounts of the French ars nova, a musical art that was both criticised and heralded for its modernity.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Interprets an eighteenth-century musical repertoire in sociable terms, both technically (specific musical patterns) and affectively (predominant emotional registers of the music).

Offers a radical and interdisciplinary analysis that will transform readers'' understanding of this deeply compelling early twentieth-century composer.

Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.

The first substantial study of Victoria''s Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell''s music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

The first major study of Saint-Saëns''s stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

This book charts Messiaen''s transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.

A varied and wide-ranging collection in which the celebrated post-war composer Peter Maxwell Davies presents his work and his opinions.

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

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

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

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.

Glass''s stage works have attracted wide popular acclaim.

Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert''s incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.

This book brings together a significant part of Derek B.

This book brings together a significant part of Derek B.

Born in a small town near Warsaw, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a musical prodigy who began giving public concerts and composed his first piano pieces at the age of seven.

This book explains that the essence of music lies in intangible mental realms.

This book explains that the essence of music lies in intangible mental realms.

Composiciones musicales para bandola, tiple y guitarra es una propuesta didáctica que tiene como objetivo introducir a los estudiantes en los géneros tradicionales de la región Andina colombiana, como el vals, la guabina, el pasillo, el bambuco y la danza.

El libro está dirigido a músicos estudiantes y profesionales que deseen, en su práctica de conjuntos instrumentales, abordar repertorio colombiano en formato de ensamble de saxofones; además de servir como herramienta didáctica para docentes en la clase colectiva.