Art music, orchestral and formal music

This book examines the role of music and music-making in the medical, spiritual and civic management of plague in the Renaissance.

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the nineteenth century:* Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production.

This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games.

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

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b.

Canadian music has come of age in the twentieth century.

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market.

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.

Considers the nature of nineteenth-century instrumental music through three sets of etudes by Liszt.

Music as Dream: Essays on Giacinto Scelsi showcases recent scholarly criticism on the music and philosophy of the brilliantly original composer Giacinto Scelsi.

This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people's growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult.

Edvard Grieg's choral music has remained little known outside Scandinavia.

Water Music is an ideal read for those who frequent summer music festivals the world over.

Revealing much about the workings of the musical world, these conversations will not only be essential reading for composers and composition students, but also contemporary music lovers more generallyJulian Anderson is renowned internationally as one of the leading composers of his generation.

One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c.

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.

Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars.

Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s.

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or schools.

Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth 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.

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

For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians' imaginations.

Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the "e;composer's singer.

Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can.

This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings.

Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer.

Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era.

The first book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era.

Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.

How did Renaissance composers write their music?

Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres.

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy.

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis.

Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century.

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research.

This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar.

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.

Despite the incredible diversity in Brahms's scherzo-type movements, there has been no comprehensive consideration of this aspect of his oeuvre.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Generalbasses – dem unverzichtbaren harmonischen Fundament der Barockmusik.

Louis Andriessen is one of the foremost composers in the world today.

Amid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical music performance training for current and future students.

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated.

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

Who were the first owners of the music published in England in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?