Art music, orchestral and formal music

Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Titel und Widmungen Bachscher Werke als musikpädagogische und musikästhetische Dokumente" verfügbar.

The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan.

Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries.

An authoritative guide to the multi-faceted compositional approach that underpinned twentieth-century art music from Schoenberg to Babbitt and beyond.

Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe.

The mention of the term "e;melodrama"e; is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous.

First Published in 1998.

The chance discovery in 1854 of a prehistoric lake village on Lake Zurich triggered what we now call the 'lake-dwelling phenomenon'.

Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements, and performances of Kola San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verde's Festas Juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Verde.

"e;Music triggered a healing process from within me.

British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing.

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

John Taverner was the leading composer of church music under Henry VIII.

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.

Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew.

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work.

At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise.

First published in 1991.

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

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory.

An invaluable guide to the available historical source material on playing the violin and viola.

Before Antonin Dvo%rak's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality.

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

This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora.

Late nineteenth-century France was a nation undergoing an identity crisis: the uncertain infancy of the Third Republic and shifting alliances in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War forced France to interrogate the fundamental values and characteristics at the heart of its own national identity.

Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustn Lara (1897-1970).

Perfect for students of this key topic, this Companion is a practical guide to the music of the Middle Ages.

Since its composition and first performance in 1724, Bach's St.

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.

Originally published in 1977.

The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques.

Georges Barrre (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing.

The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation.

Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre.

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

In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how music can help forge a nation.

In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians and local governments waged an early modern "e;war on Christmas,"e; discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of more personal and internalized expressions of piety.

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky may have been the greatest as well.

Mai's experience as a physician and psychiatrist serves as a basis for his analysis.

Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest.

Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of chapters by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and which promotes new ideas and voices in the discipline.

Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century.

Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations.

Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.

The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history.

Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

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.

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