Art music, orchestral and formal music

This volume draws together a collection of Robin A.

This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America.

Music and War in the United States introduces students to the long and varied history of music's role in war.

18th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 18th century repertoire.

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century biography written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and later translated by Charles Sanford Terry.

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

This study reassesses Cage's multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

This practical reference remains the most comprehensive guide to the fundamental theories, techniques, and strategies used for battery operation and design.

Im Zentrum des Buches steht die europäische Musikgeschichte der sogenannten "Sattelzeit".

This anthology brings together representative examples of the most significant and engaging scholarly writing on Chopin by a wide range of authors.

David Kimbell sets Handel''s operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.

Autism and Asperger Syndrome reviews what is known about adults with autism in terms of their social functioning, educational and occupational status.

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past.

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works.

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles I, he was also a practising painter, a friend of Rubens, Van Dyck and many other artists of his time, and one of the very first great art collectors and connoisseurs.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century.

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive.

This collection of essays explores topics of relevance to understanding Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) and his music.

This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797.

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the nineteenth century:* Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.

Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture.

Investigating the reception of Schubert''s most daring harmonies, this book uses Schubert''s harmonic practice to critique canonical music theories.

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else.

Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Cohen traces a history of modernism in migration through the composer Stefan Wolpe, from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College.

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts.

The Romantic pianist - the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music - has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literary works, and films representing this performer's seductive allure.

A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

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

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

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers from Spain, the USA, the UK, France and Germany.

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity.

Examines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Bela Bartok (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero.

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914).

Casts new and valuable light on English musical history and on Enlightenment culture more generally.

A performer''s perspective on Reich''s compositions which explores the techniques developed by musicians to bring his compositions to life.

Discoveries from the Fortepiano uncovers eighteenth-century performance practices and philosophical beliefs, enabling modern performers to craft an authentic, historically influenced style.

In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading.

A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles I, he was also a practising painter, a friend of Rubens, Van Dyck and many other artists of his time, and one of the very first great art collectors and connoisseurs.

The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Ads has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the world of classical music today that is almost unmatched.

As the only encyclopedia of Richard Wagner available, this comprehensive reference work is an essential resource for enthusiasts and academics.

Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century.

Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed.

This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives.

From 1840-57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara Schumann, and Joachim.

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entree into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time.

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

In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat.

Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.