Art music, orchestral and formal music

In einer Zeit politischer Umwälzungen und kultureller Blüte begegneten sich zwei außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten: der tschechische Klaviervirtuose und Komponist Jan Ladislas Dussek und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, ein leidenschaftlicher Musiker und Förderer der Künste.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections provides students with a resource for delving into the meaning of "e;world music"e; across a broad array of community contexts and develops the multiple meanings of community relative to teaching and learning music of global and local cultures.

Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music.

"e;Masterworks of 20th-Century Music"e; introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory.

The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory.

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor.

Eine kurze Geschichte der Wiener PhilharmonikerWas wäre Wien ohne Musik und ohne die Philharmoniker?

The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has been an area of scholarly neglect.

Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera.

Written late in his life, J.

In 1714, the 29 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to the position of concertmaster at the ducal court of Weimar.

Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through an investigation of exchanges and collaborations between musicians and dancers from the two major national musical traditions in the early years of the century.

The study of sacred music under Louis XIII (r.

On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television.

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.

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

Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music explores the nature, production, and evolution of timpani tone and provides insights into how to interpret the music of J.

Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces.

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music.

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs.

How and why is pre-existing music used in films?

Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "e;real"e; masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "e;alpha-male preacher"e;, the "e;effeminate choir director"e; and homo-antagonism, are all in play.

Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-century, it has been almost totally overlooked by music historians.

1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music.

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media.

This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J.

David Conway examines how Jews developed a significant presence in early nineteenth-century Western music.

What is experimental music today?

Antonio Gardano's publications are among the most important sources of 16th-century music.

This Element provides a unique perspective on the seminal composers in the history of music: Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti.

Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal.

Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture in Leipzig before and during J.

Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.

An authoritative, accessible reference work that brings together current knowledge and new interpretive insights into Haydn''s music and cultural influence.

This comprehensive study of Bloch''s life and works draws on recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer.

Sunday Times Best Reads of 2016How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works?

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

Sir Thomas Beecham is often described as having 'championed' the music of Frederick Delius, and this is no exaggeration.

With more than three hundred recordings to his name and multiple GRAMMY nominations, Jose Serebrier is one of the busiest and most successful conductors around.

Reflections, the Yearbook of the Music Performance Research Centre, is published as an issue within the international journal Musical Performance series.

First Published in 1995.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

This is a companion volume to the Italian catalogue, La Voce del Padrone, already published by Greenwood Press.

Als Zeitgenosse Beethovens galt der heute fast in Vergessenheit geratene Fesca unter seinen Kollegen und dem fachkundigen Publikum als begabter, handwerklich grundsolider und fleißiger Komponist.

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students.

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.

This book is the first extensive guide to the life, music, and writings of Carlos Ch vez (1899-1978), Mexico's most influential musician of the 20th century.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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.