Art music, orchestral and formal music

Demonstrates the cultivation and interest in instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court.

Beethoven's piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio.

Ruth Tatlow employs theoretical evidence and practical demonstrations to explain how and why Bach used numbers in his published compositions.

Thomas Schuttenhelm''s book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett''s creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.

Australia offers tremendous scope for understanding the relationship between music, spirituality and landscape.

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical History of both Major and Minor Worlds, in which music plays an important role in his system of neoplatonic correspondences: the harmony of the universe (macrocosm) as well as the harmony of man (microcosm).

Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvor'ak so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond.

Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of virtuosity in western art music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition.

Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated.

The first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language.

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

A key figure in establishing an identifiable French musical style in the nineteenth century, this annotated biliography catalogs the studies of Saint-Saens' life and works as well as examining the composer's own correspondence and essays.

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.

German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied.

This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape.

Chopin's twenty-four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published.

As a distinctive and attractive musical repertory, the hundred-odd English carols of the fifteenth century have always had a ready audience.

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change in the seventeenth century, when the consorts or families of instruments developed during the Renaissance were replaced by the new models of the Baroque period.

Ernst Krenek has been described as a "e;one-man history of twentieth-century music.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates.

Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century.

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "e;dean of American church musicians.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

This book vibrantly demonstrates how the study of music allows for identification and interpretation of the forces that form Taiwanese society, from politics and policy to reactions to and assertions of such policies.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, as well as the first major Soviet composer.

A bold re-examination of the religious and political history of Ottonian Germany through its musical and liturgical books.

The first study to explore the music of St Martin''s cult and its influence upon medieval religion, art and politics.

Published to coincide with Rostropovich's 80th birthday celebrationsMstislav Rostropovich, internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, has always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists.

Music in Wales has long been a neglected area.

The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Th?

Examines Britten''s fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis.

Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "e;I bless you.

Exercise, Health and Mental Health provides an introduction to this emerging field and a platform for future research and practice.

This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century.

"e;Music triggered a healing process from within me.

In the World War II era, big bands and swing music reached the heights of popularity with soldiers as well as friends and loved ones back home.

Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era provides new dimensions to the discussion of the immense corpus of polyphonic motets produced and performed in the decades following the end of the Council of Trent in 1563.

Beethoven's Adelaide, Op.

Setting the stage for a most intriguing journey into the world of minimalism, Robert Carl's Terry Riley's In C argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to "e;classical"e; music.

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.

Thomas Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and throughout the compositional process associated with Michael Tippett's Fifth String Quartet and a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet.

Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.

Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the 'musicologies' have become increasingly blurred.

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation.

Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light.

Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protege of Brahms and Mahler.