Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans.
Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture.
In this first comprehensive examination of the music of the most prolific Bach son, David Schulenberg offers new perspectives on the career, style, and originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
The music of Alec Wilder (1907-1980) blends several American musical traditions, such as jazz and the American popular song, with classical European forms and techniques.
This compact introduction to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements.
The life and work of the greatest of all Italian composers, Giuseppe Verdi, including the much-loved anecdotes, which the author firmly believes reflect both historical and mythic truths about their subject.
This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.
Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers.
Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers.
Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics at the archbishopric of Salzburg, one of many jurisdictions that made up the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the 17th century.
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.
A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach's earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig.
The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world.
At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise.
In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p'ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Stravinsky in the Americas explores the ';pre-Craft' period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945.
At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise.
El título de esta obra está inspirado en las Erinias de la mitología griega –llamadas Furias por los romanos–, deidades femeninas de venganza o personificaciones sobrenaturales de la ira ante el parricidio y algunos otros crímenes.
Este libro recopila los comentarios que el autor escribió para los programas de mano correspondientes a las temporadas 2013, 2014 y 2015 de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, un período de gran efervescencia para el primer organismo sinfónico de la Argentina.
La música, cualquiera sea su género, ha tenido una presencia fundamental en todas las épocas y las culturas a través de los siglos, desde los comienzos de la humanidad.
An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
En música, las obras se refieren casi exclusivamente a otras obras, por lo que es necesario considerar el particular sentimiento histórico que caracteriza el desarrollo de este arte.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der italienischen Geigenbaukunst und entdecken Sie die Meisterwerke von Stradivari, Guarnieri und Amati, deren Instrumente seit Jahrhunderten Musiker und Sammler gleichermaßen verzaubern.
La cerimònia del Cant de la Sibil·la era celebrada, durant l'edat mitjana, amb variants més o menys locals i, sense dubte, amb diferències provinents de la tradició de cada lloc, des de Barcelona fins a l'Alguer, tot passant per Mallorca i Tarragona.
Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical scene and the conditions under which Bach and his player colleagues lived, wrote and worked.
La doble formación, filosófica y musical, de Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno tiñe de un color especial los muchos escritos que publicó sobre teoría y práctica de la música, entre ellos las magníficas monografías sobre Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler y Alban Berg.
