Art music, orchestral and formal music

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

First published in 1988.

Nye presents a detailed and fascinating study of the influential eighteenth-century European theatrical form, the ''ballet d''action''.

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

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of a mainstream of vocal polyphony.

John Merbecke (c.

Sounding Authentic considers the intersecting influences of nationalism, modernism, and technological innovation on representations of ethnic and national identities in twentieth-century art music.

In the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, and their contemporaries, tenors have often been characterized as the primary shaping forces, prior in conception as well as in construction to the upper voices.

The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the ''Darmstadt School''.

Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master.

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art.

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception.

Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein, a musician of extraordinary talent who was legendary for his passionate love of life and many relationships.

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

Andras Schiff is one of the most important pianists of our time.

Richard Wagner: 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 composer and performer.

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium.

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

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Compiled by scholars with unrivalled knowledge of the sources, this dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714.

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as well as one of the most productive.

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century.

100 years after the Dada soirees rocked the art world, the author investigates the role that music played in the movement.

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.

Volume 8 of the PIANO MUSIC of the PARI S IAN VIRTUOSOS 1810-1860 series.

The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart's Turkish music in the composer's 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart's significance for 'Western' culture, and in today's (not entirely) post-colonial world.

In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own and claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations.

It is a truth widely acknowledged that, while part of a uniquely diverse and vibrant musical environment, the achievements of home-grown British instrumentalists in the nineteenth century gave little cause for national pride.

Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.

Now available in paperback!

In 1902 The Gramophone Company in London sent out recording experts on "e;expeditions"e; across the world to record voices from different cultures and backgrounds.

This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music.

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

Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.

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

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction.

This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi's attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him.

Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.

A new look at one of the most important composers of the twentith centuryStravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky.

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening.

The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume, balanced in age and gender and hailing from a diverse array of countries, share the goal of stimulating further development in the field of ethnomusicology.

Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "e;real"e; masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "e;alpha-male preacher"e;, the "e;effeminate choir director"e; and homo-antagonism, are all in play.

Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years.

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure.

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy.

This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.