Art music, orchestral and formal music

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another.

Born into the famous family of piano makers, Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) became one of the chief collectors and scholars of the first English folk music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Compiled by scholars with unrivalled knowledge of the sources, this dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body.

Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century.

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner and Jon Michael Spencer.

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his works.

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist.

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission.

The Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music is the most comprehensive index of music written for orchestra with chorus in print today.

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

Today's higher education music faculty and administrators are faced with extraordinary pressure to adapt, innovate, and change.

Carbonic Anhydrase: Its Inhibitors and Activators provides a state-of-the-art overview of the latest developments and challenges in carbonic anhydrase research.

Joachim Raff (1822–1882) war ein Komponist, der zu Lebzeiten große Anerkennung genoss, aber im Laufe der Zeit in Vergessenheit geriet.

When Bela Bartk died in September of 1945, he left a partially completed viola concerto commissioned by the virtuoso violist William Primrose.

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling.

Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space.

This edited volume of case studies presents a selective history of French music and culture, but one with a dynamic difference.

This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic.

"Der zurzeit aufregendste Operndirigent"(Münchner Merkur)René Jacobs gehört zu den renommiertesten Dirigenten der Oper zwischen Monteverdi und Mozart – Werken, die er sowohl an den zentralen Opernhäusern in Europa realisiert als auch auf dem CD-Markt in Referenzeinspielungen präsentiert.

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.

What is music, and why does it move us?

Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra: Stories and Photographs of Musicians and Maestros presents a rich and intimate perspective of the orchestra as it evolved in prominence and international expanse throughout the past nine decades.

Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer''s popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.

Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("e;do- it- yourself"e;) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales.

This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material - both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century.

Johann Joseph Fux's reputation as a theorist and the long-term influence of his theoretical and pedagogical work have ensured that his name is widely known in music circles in the West.

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.

A fresh, accessible guide to Mozart's life and worksOver a period of roughly twenty years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 finished pieces of music.

What does it mean to play "e;someone else's music"e;?

Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding of the structure and performance of music than today's performers.

No-one doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press.

This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available to prospective researchers and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry into the life and music of this Czech composer.

Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance.

First Published in 1987.

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art?

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.

The magisterial portrait of Chopin, the man and his music, that you've been waiting for.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.