Art music, orchestral and formal music

Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century.

Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed 'songe of fortie partes' by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio's forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music.

Wann wurde die Notenschrift erfunden, und warum ist die Musik, die wir heute im Konzertsaal hören, ohne sie nicht denkbar?

Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space.

Chou Wen-chung is one of the most influential musical figures of our time.

This book honors the classical guitarist Benjamin Verdery, Professor at the Yale School of Music.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

Traces Eisler's art songs through the political crises of the twentieth century, presenting them as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material.

The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women's participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present.

This study of the Bach Choir provides a much-needed overview of one of the major choral societies in London.

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry.

Edmund Rubbra's music has given him a reputation as a 'spiritual' composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Introducing the business models, organisational structures, and fundamentals of orchestras, this book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of orchestra management.

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time.

Festival culture is an area which has attracted increasing interest in the field of Renaissance studies in recent years.

Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism.

A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar.

Explores a range of topics that contextualize Strauss''s life and works, such as collaborators, influences, philosophy, and the profession.

Beethoven's works for solo piano - the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles - and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory.

Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas.

Ernst Krenek has been described as a "e;one-man history of twentieth-century music.

The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature.

Ignaz Franz von Beecke (1733–1803), von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter Pianist und Komponist, diente zeitlebens dem fürstlichen Haus Oettingen-Wallerstein.

This book offers the first English translation of a body of highly esoteric, mystical poetry and songs associated with the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect devoted to Tantrism.

Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary by one set of practisingartists on the work of another.

New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel.

David Damschroder''s new analytical perspective sheds fresh light on Beethoven''s harmonic structures.

Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s.

Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time.

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death.

A thorough and comprehensive study of the fifteenth century''s most influential composer and his cultural and spiritual world.

This work is a cantata for chorus and orchestra, with baritone solo, celebrating the pioneers who settled the American wilderness.

Liverpool-born composer and pianist, John McCabe, established himself as one of Britain's most recorded contemporary composers as well as a celebrated performer and recording artist.

Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain.

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Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers.

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

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced.

Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators can best engage with audiences, by addressing issues of diversity and identity that have played a vital role in the reception of new music, but have been little-considered to date.

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art?

Renowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books.

The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talma's finest compositions and those most frequently performed during her life.

Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world.

Offers an intimate view of a contemporary composer's creative world and how others may interpret it.

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

A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert''s incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.

John Harley's Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer's life and works.