Art music, orchestral and formal music

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn.

The transition from the valveless natural horn to the modern valved horn in 19th-century Paris was different from similar transitions in other countries.

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature' - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.

Comprehensive coverage of Hector Berlioz as composer, author, and conductor in the society and culture of his time.

Eric Coates (1886-1957) is perhaps the most familiar name associated with British light music.

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes.

Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work.

Offers new perspectives on the nineteenth-century composer Johannes Brahms - from his childhood and personal matters to his compositional legacy.

Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches.

Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries.

First Published in 1997.

By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business enterprise undertaken by a new breed of Victorian entrepreneur.

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

This book reveals the importance of sung refrains in the musical lives of religious communities in medieval Europe.

One of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs.

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.

The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry.

For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E.

Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music explores the nature, production, and evolution of timpani tone and provides insights into how to interpret the music of J.

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music.

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz.

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, from pieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartok to works by Arvo Part, Thomas Ades, and Kaija Saariaho.

In 1862, a group of undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania put the University's colors of red and blue in their buttonholes and gave the first performance of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club.

Throughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music.

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written.

Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century.

Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.

Julie Brown reconsiders Schoenberg''s step into atonality as a response to Wagner''s charges concerning the Jewish influence on German music.

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death.

The classic work on the philosophy of musicnow available in English to a new generation of readersVladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to social reform.

Thomas Peattie considers the theatrical dimension of Mahler''s reinvention of the symphony at the turn of the twentieth century.

Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century.

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Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire.

The first English translation of Bizet's letters and journals from his stay in Italy, with explanatory texts from one of the leading authorities on the composer's life and music.

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

On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnnyi (18771960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good.

Reflections, the Yearbook of the Music Performance Research Centre, is published as an issue within the international journal Musical Performance series.

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition.

A new picture of music at the basilica of St.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity.

First published in 2001, this work provides detailed information taken from the 'Programmes-as-Broadcast' daily log of output held at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham.

The first comprehensive study in book form of Liszt's visits to England, replete with copious illustrations, appendix, and fascinating details of several previously unknown Liszt compositions.

Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, this thoroughly researched study of the Classical composer deeply examines his life and work.

Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars.