Art music, orchestral and formal music

A new and popular biography that will appeal to all those who love the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and who would like to know more about his operas and the life he lived.

No matter how much you think you know about classical music, you'll find plenty of baffling questions and surprising answers inside - all carefully compiled by Richard Baker OBE.

This new biography is a fascinating account of the period in which Chopin lived, and the way in which the political scene helped shape his music.

Howard Gray.

This is a series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times.

A series of biographies of the great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times.

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times.

Mahler's life was a remarkably complex one, his success as a conductor continually overshadowed by his craving for recognition as a composer.

Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), who claimed that 'talking was not his speciality', emerges during a series of conversations with the music critic Tadeusz Kaczynski as a most lucid and articulate commentator, not only on his own compositions, but on every aspect of twentieth-century music and musicianship.

Many people will know something about the life of Lutoslawski , but few know anything about Lutoslawski the man.

Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound.

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "e;dean of American church musicians.

A classic in gender studies in music Marcia J.

Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse.

Belle epoque Paris adored dance.

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

Con este libro usted podra disfrutar de la interpretación de estas obras maestras de la música clásica.

Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools.

Serving Genius tells the life story of Carlo Maria Giulini, one of the most renowned and beloved conductors of the twentieth century.

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the "e;classical"e; music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal.

Vielseitige musikalische Aktivitäten prägten die eineinhalb Jahrhunderte ab 1600, die heute als "Barockzeit" gelten.

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination.

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the "e;classical"e; music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal.

This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory.

An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart's compositional style.