Art music, orchestral and formal music

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.

In this significant study of the music of Pierre Boulez, Dr.

The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leos Janacek's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt).

This is a music theory text that presents a systematic approach to polyphonic composition in the ecclesiastical style of Palestrina.

This volume assembles leading scholars to provide a comprehensive study of representation in music from the nineteenth century to today.

Henri Dutilleux (born 1916) is one of France's leading composers, though until recently his music received more attention in the United States than in Europe.

After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the 'Barracks King', the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick the Great.

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic.

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.

Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal.

Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

This book is the first extensive guide to the life, music, and writings of Carlos Ch vez (1899-1978), Mexico's most influential musician of the 20th century.

Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched.

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times.

The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders.

For over three decades now, David Byrne has been a leading light in American culture - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art, and writing.

Theory for Today's Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student.

A Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear teaches how to leverage music dictation in the modern music industry.

By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.

First Published in 1998.

Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century.

This volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language.

Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word.

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain.

Ouvrage unique en son genre, Le chant des oyseaulx relate cette rencontre artistique entre oiseaux et humains, au confluent de l’ornithologie, de l’écologie, de la musicologie et de la création musicale, en un propos à la fois simple et riche, sérieux et ludique, rigoureux et audacieux, toujours émerveillé, voire enchanté !

A comprehensive Companion to Britten''s music and life.

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.

This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages.

The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in "e;pre-modern"e; tonal traditions.

Barocke Musik – geistliche wie weltliche – wurde im Zuge der Kolonialisierung von Europäern nach Südamerika gebracht und verbreitete sich dort in verschiedenen Kontexten.

Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music.

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted.

Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument.

Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) revolutionierte die Welt der klassischen Musik und stellte den Kontrabass in ein neues Licht.

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was one of the most versatile, wide-ranging, and prolific German composers of the seventeenth century.

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music.

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference.

Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events.

This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience, balancing the listening experience with what lies beyond the notes.

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain.

Follow a multi-faceted journey by an improviser and a musicosopher, Eric Antoni, from the cobbled streets of Paris to the Far East.

John Taverner's lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England.

This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd.

David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman''s graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.

Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995) was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and the United States.

The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety.

Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protege of Brahms and Mahler.

By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers' practices, the contributors to this volume offer fresh viewpoints on the material, symbolic and cultural aspects of the female voice in the twentieth century.