Art music, orchestral and formal music

Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.

Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.

This Element explores the vital contribution of multi-talented Polish composer and violinist Graźyna Bacewicz to the musical canon.

The Emperor Napoléon III brought the Paris Opéra under the control of a handful of his most trusted politicians.

Film analyses raise issues of baroque style and form asking why 18th c.

The Emperor Napoléon III brought the Paris Opéra under the control of a handful of his most trusted politicians.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

A de-idealised picture of musical community in Chinese street music.

The circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures.

A de-idealised picture of musical community in Chinese street music.

Sheds light on Western musical performance by exploring shared vocal techniques of South Indian classical music and Monteverdi''s operas.

This Element explores the vital contribution of multi-talented Polish composer and violinist Graźyna Bacewicz to the musical canon.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

Film analyses raise issues of baroque style and form asking why 18th c.

New perspectives on the life, works and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, that epitomise the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music.

New perspectives on the life, works and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, that epitomise the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music.

This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience, balancing the listening experience with what lies beyond the notes.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

Case studies of music and conflict transformation in Australia and Canada.

How Herbert Eimert''s understanding of music history has been adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

Case studies of music and conflict transformation in Australia and Canada.

How Herbert Eimert''s understanding of music history has been adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe.

An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

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

Eleven international scholars analyse key works by Sir James MacMillan, and contextualise his unique musical-theological approach.

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

Complements the ongoing revival of Mieczysław Weinberg''s music and explains its unique blend of Polish and Soviet Russian influences.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Reveals the rich liturgical ecology of medieval Britain and Ireland and the religious and lay communities who shaped it.

Reveals the rich liturgical ecology of medieval Britain and Ireland and the religious and lay communities who shaped it.

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms.

An overview of women''s work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

An overview of women''s work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin''s Soviet Union.

Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin''s Soviet Union.

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms.