Art music, orchestral and formal music

In 1759, the court of the Italian Duchy of Parma adopted the inspiration of cultural creators who recommended a reform of Italian opera along French lines.

Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems and Prose of William Blake by Donald Fitch offers an extensive and meticulously compiled reference work detailing the musical interpretations of William Blake's poetry.

Explore the rich tapestry of music history and theory in this comprehensive course, The Evolution of Music.

Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures.

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observd.

John Cage has been described as the most important composer of our time.

John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis.

John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis.

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.

Food for Apollo by Dorothy Potter, describes and evaluates the growth and scope of cultivated music in Philadelphia, from the early eighteenth-century to the advent of the Civil War.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.

To speak of Gerard Schwarz - musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts - is to tell an exemplary American story.

Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music.

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire.

Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history.

The life and music of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) span what was arguably the most turbulent period in human history, encompassing the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, and two world wars.

Everyone loves to laugh, to wonder, and to be amazed.

Lauded by Verdi, Debussy, and other music legends, the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini raised the standards of orchestral and operatic performance over an astonishing 69 years on the podium.

With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers.

More than 500 people are involved in the creation of just one of the world's greatest pianos, the Steinway.

In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music.

Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences.

The Artist as Citizen is a compilation of Joseph W.

An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist.

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.

Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world.

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

Bach's Operas of the Soul is the first introduction to Bach's sacred cantatas for the general music lover.

"e;Life of Beethoven"e; is a 1840 biography of Beethoven written by his friend Anton Schindler.

A wonderful collection of 100 Latvian folk songs in German and Latvian.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was an extraordinarily prolific and seminal composer during the Classical era.

The Andante favori was written between 1803 and 1804, and published in 1805.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788), was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) was a German baroque composer.

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) was a German baroque composer.

In questa tomba oscura, WoO133, is the result of a musical challenge issued in 1807-1808, when composers were invited to set the poem by Giuseppe Carpani (1752-1825), an Italian poet resident in Vienna.

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Beethoven's Six variations on a Swiss song was composed between 1790 and 1792 amd published in 1798.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period.

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First published in 1910, "e;Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties"e; is a vintage collection of traditional sailing songs, collected and published in this volume by W.

First published in 1912, this book contains the original musical notation for Charles V.

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music.

This vintage book contains Charles V.