Art music, orchestral and formal music

The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict zones across the African continent.

This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood.

Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century.

Piano Concerto No.

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday interactions of African American families is limited.

Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons.

A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey.

Ben Earle''s study explores twentieth-century music and politics in two of their most extreme forms: modernism and fascism.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond.

This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison.

This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works.

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework.

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.

Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife.

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century.

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday interactions of African American families is limited.

In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Ba?

Jazz in Socialist Ha Noi: Improvisations between Worlds examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule-perceived as the "e;music of the enemy"e; and "e;ideologically decadent"e;-in the Vietnamese capital of Ha Noi.

This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike-in all its facets-in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history.

Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin''s Soviet Union.

An essential guide to more than 1,000 years of classical musicLose yourself in the fascinating story of classical music in The Complete Classical Music Guide.

Puerto Rican born Jesus Maria Sanroma (1902-1984) was one of the leading pianists in the United States.

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom provides college music history instructors with a concise guide on how to create an accessible and inclusive classroom environment.

The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

Since 1978, the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's death, there has been an explosion of serious writing about his music, life and times.

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years.

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of a mainstream of vocal polyphony.

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson.

As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French music.

First Published in 1994.

In-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre, which engage with notions of Englishness and the idea of a 'musical renaissance'Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre.

'He plays the piano well,' wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927.

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.

Now updated and expanded with four new chapters, this book explores the history, theory, creation and analysis of electronic music.

How and why is pre-existing music used in films?

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

In May 1967, during a discussion about his yet-to-be-released film Eat the Document, Bob Dylan cryptically remarked, 'The film is finished.

First Published in 1996.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

Dance music at the courts of seventeenth-century Germany is a genre that is still largely unknown.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions.

A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.

The genre of melodrame A grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions.

Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "e;purity of blood"e;) determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta.

In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music.

Known for his orchestral, operatic and choral works, James MacMillan (b.