Art music, orchestral and formal music

Die Tage autoritärer Alphatiere am Dirigentenpult sind gezählt, denn: Wer heutzutage Leistung will, muss Sinn stiften, motivieren und das Ensemble zur Realisierung eigener, glaubhafter Visionen führen.

Bernadeta Czapraga gibt in diesem Buch einen Überblick über den Wandel der Interpretationen im Zeitraum zwischen 1965 und 2005, indem sie sechs in dieser Zeit entstandene Videoaufnahmen (Yehudi Menuhin, Roberto Michelucci, Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos und Anne-Sophie Mutter) zu Aufführungen von Mozarts A-Dur-Violinkonzert zugrunde legt.

In his first album, Frank Zappa already formulated his ambition to become an important composer.

Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.

The first full-length study of the English composer's complex interaction with his physical environment, and its new relevance in the 21st century.

The first full-length study of the English composer's complex interaction with his physical environment, and its new relevance in the 21st century.

Baba Allauddin Khan's daughter, Pandit Ravi Shankar's first wife, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's sister, representative of Maihar-Senia gharana - Annapurna Devi has an illustrious lineage.

An Introduction to Hindustani Classical Music: A Guidebook for Beginners is Vijay Singha's comprehensive guide to savour and appreciate classical music.

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well.

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well.

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia.

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia.

How relevant is classical music today?

How relevant is classical music today?

A comprehensive introduction to medieval vocal and choral music, with their rich variety of genres and regional and linguistic traditions.

Aunque no sea necesario poseer conocimientos musicales para escuchar y sentir una sonata, un concierto, una sinfonía, un cuarteto de cuerdas o una ópera, adquirirlos ayudará sin duda al oyente a gozar más a fondo de su interpretación, tanto en vivo como grabada.

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Manual completo y didáctico de orquestación contemporánea.

A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century.

This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J.

Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "e;one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer,"e; Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation.

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883.

Music played an important role in the social life of nineteenth-century Europe, and music in the home provided a convenient way to entertain and communicate among friends and colleagues.

There is more to sound recording than just recording sound.

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists.

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known.

In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E.

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

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.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the principal authorities on eighteenth-century harpsichord music.

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music.

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

The life, times, and music of Franz SchubertDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas.

Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted.

This third edition is a basic textbook on the development of pipe organ composition in geographically diverse schools.

Harper aims to provide readers with a deeper, more accurate understanding of Falla's creative process by drawing from a complete array of rare, authentic sources including Falla's own personal library, valuable sketch material, and the more than 20,000 pieces of correspondence maintained in Granada, Spain by the Manuel de Falla Archive.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

A new look at one of the most important composers of the twentith centuryStravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky.

A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.

It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities.

A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich—and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity.

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar.

Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces.

An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area.

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work.

Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music.