Art music, orchestral and formal music

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers.

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

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times.

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

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar (Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies, published in the Variorum series in 2013), the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman's work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music.

Die Habsburger waren nicht nur eine der mächtigsten Dynastien Europas, sondern auch die maßgeblichen Förderer der klassischen Musik.

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.

Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years.

Die Trauer um Friedrich den Großen hallte weit über die Grenzen Preußens hinaus und inspirierte den begnadeten Komponisten Johann Friedrich Reichardt zu einem Werk von außergewöhnlicher Tiefe und Ausdruckskraft: der Trauer-Kantate auf den Tod des preußischen Königs.

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century.

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, ein Name, der in den Salons Europas einst glanzvoll widerhallte, steht heute im Schatten der großen Wiener Klassik.

Tauchen Sie ein in das faszinierende Leben von Jacopo Peri, dem visionären Musiker und Komponisten, der als „Vater der Oper“ in die Geschichte einging.

Sheds new light on Schubert''s close engagement with the piano in composition and performance, and its role in early nineteenth-century Vienna.

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.

Georges Bizet – ein Name, der untrennbar mit der legendären Oper Carmen verbunden ist.

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Das Cello – ein Instrument, das durch seine Tiefe und Wärme die Herzen von Musikliebhabern weltweit berührt.

Known primarily as the composer of The Nutcracker Suite and other legendary pieces, Tchaikovsky was also a noted musical dramatist.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer's biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language.

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a pianist and composer of unparalleled brilliance, whose intricate compositions and extraordinary skill at the keyboard earned him the admiration of contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin.

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

Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going.

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction.

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times.

Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of duree, revealing his "e;revolution"e; in musical time.

Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years.

Performer and researcher Peter O'Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulez's later output.

Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century.