Art music, orchestral and formal music

A reader-friendly, comprehensive, and innovative single volume introduction to Schoenberg''s life, works, and ongoing legacy.

The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.

Summarizing the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Strauss, this volume focuses on genres, social context, and perennially controversial topics.

A reader-friendly, comprehensive, and innovative single volume introduction to Schoenberg''s life, works, and ongoing legacy.

From Please Please Me to Abbey Road – the fascinating story of the Fab Four''s creation, works, and enduring musical legacy.

Leading specialists explore a wide range of topics and issues surrounding the influential and controversial figure Richard Wagner.

A collection of essays investigating the life and work of the complex, important and iconic composer Shostakovich.

An introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn.

Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

This book presents an accessible introduction to the life and music of Edward Elgar.

A 2004 collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire.

Celebrates the richness and diversity of Cage''s achievements, providing a rounded portrait of an influential composer.

An accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, temperament, style and his œuvre.

Takes the reader through the essentials from locating and defining jazz to jazz in performance.

Leading specialists explore a wide range of topics and issues surrounding the influential and controversial figure Richard Wagner.

Presents an authoritative overview and up-to-date Liszt scholarship in an accessible fashion.

A comprehensive Companion to Britten''s music and life.

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg''s twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer''s ''musical idea'' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.

Zoë Alexis Lang explores constructions of twentieth-century Austrian identity through an examination of commentary on Johann Strauss, Jr''s waltzes.

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

Thomas Schuttenhelm''s book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett''s creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.

This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.

Jochen Eisentraut''s book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.

This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.

Jochen Eisentraut''s book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.

Thomas McGeary''s book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel.

Political Beethoven explores Beethoven''s music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day.

Based upon newly uncovered archival evidence, this book establishes urban musical traditions of over twenty cities in late medieval France.

Heather Wiebe''s book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

Heather Wiebe''s book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

Based upon newly uncovered archival evidence, this book establishes urban musical traditions of over twenty cities in late medieval France.

A new theory of musical modernism, which brings contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation.

Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.

Range presents an in-depth study of the music within the ceremonial at British coronations from 1603 to the present.

A new theory of musical modernism, which brings contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation.

Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.

Range presents an in-depth study of the music within the ceremonial at British coronations from 1603 to the present.

A fresh evaluation of Mozart''s Requiem which focuses on historical and current understandings in fiction, drama, film, criticism and performance.

An international team of scholars presents historic, philosophic, philological and theoretical perspectives on Carter''s extensive musical repertoire.

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

A fresh evaluation of Mozart''s Requiem which focuses on historical and current understandings in fiction, drama, film, criticism and performance.

An international team of scholars presents historic, philosophic, philological and theoretical perspectives on Carter''s extensive musical repertoire.

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

Steege explores Helmholtz''s significance within a historical shift in the theory and practice of listening in nineteenth-century European culture.

Steege explores Helmholtz''s significance within a historical shift in the theory and practice of listening in nineteenth-century European culture.

The first study to connect the exponential growth in amateur choral singing to the culture of public celebrations and festivals.

Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

The first study to connect the exponential growth in amateur choral singing to the culture of public celebrations and festivals.