Art music, orchestral and formal music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period.

Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it?

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to social reform.

Classics of seventeenth-century Italian sacred music set in modern notation, this second part of Vesper andCompline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Legrenzi, Natale Monferrato, Agostino Steffani, Lorenzo Penna, Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Giovanni Paolo Colonna.

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted.

This provocative addition to the Bach Perspectives series offers a counternarrative to the isolated genius status that J.

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts.

The first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer.

Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970-2020 offers a cultural history of popular Polish electronic music, from its beginning in the late 1960s/early 1970s up to the present day, in the context of Polish economic, social and political history, and the history of popular music in this country.

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions.

Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted.

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

The relationship between music and painting in the Early Modern period is the focus of this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished art historians and musicologists.

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia.

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies.

This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).

Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and siblings survive, yet they have remained virtually unknown.

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann''s famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

Synopsis of Vocal Musick, by the unidentified A.

Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century.

The career of Gabriel Faur's a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters.

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came into being (music iconography), and explore the binaries and similarities of the arts in this period.

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar.

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

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate.

"e;Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music.

This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics.

Historically Informed Performance, or HIP, has become an influential and exciting development for scholars, musicians, and audiences alike.

Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.

One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald.

Paul Hindemith: 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 musician and teacher.

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence.

This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries.

Described by Maurice Ravel as one of the most considerable talents in French music of his generation, Darius Milhaud remains a largely neglected composer.

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic.

One of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs.

"e;We do not understand music--it understands us.

Winner of the 2015 Ruth A.

First published in 2011.

Barcelonian Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving a vast and heterogeneous legacy.

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

The five countries that make up Northern Europe-Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland-have, over the course of the last several centuries, developed and unique and viable art music history that easily rivals that of their continental neighbors.

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance.

The 1990s work of six British composers forms the focus of this collection of essays, arising from a conference that took place at University of Surrey Roehampton in February 1999.

Volume II of The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music includes manuscripts associated with John Browne (Clerk of the Parliaments), Philip Falle (prebendary at Durham), Sir Gabriel Roberts, John St Barbe of Broadlands, the Withy family of Worcester and Oxford and an anonymous late-seventeenth century scribe.

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century?