Art music, orchestral and formal music

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century?

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England.

World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day.

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "e;last card,"e; explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany.

This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience, balancing the listening experience with what lies beyond the notes.

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments.

What does music have to say about modernity?

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored.

Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts.

In the London of Shakespeare and William Byrd, Thomas East was the premier, often exclusive, printer of music.

Drawing upon anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives, this volume provides a unique insight into women's domestic consumption.

In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men's behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a particular masculine performance, including those desired by potential female performers.

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883.

Despite recent interest in music-making in the so-called 'provinces', the idea still lingers that music-making outside London was small in scale, second-rate and behind the times.

Hamish MacCunn's career unfolded amidst the restructuring of British musical culture and the rewriting of the Western European political landscape.

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

What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s?

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Stephen Downes examines the work of Britten, Weill and Henze to explore the significance of Gustav Mahler for twentieth-century music.

Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond.

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

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

Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages.

This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought.

The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence.

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in Music and Gender Studies courses.

In Roma Music and Emotion, author Filippo Bonini Baraldi forges a much-needed theory of music, emotion, and empathy from an anthropological perspective, addressing the failure of the prevailing psychological theories on music and emotion to account for non-western musical cultures.

On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "e;Marines' Hymn"e; instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band.

The last - and largest - of Cage''s most important formative exchanges of letters, discussing music criticism and questions of aesthetics.

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States.

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism.

Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy models effective practices for researchers and instructors striving either to reform music history curricula at large or update individual topics within their classes to be more inclusive.

The Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies provides students and researchers with the means to think about how the performance, recording, and publishing of music could be if we do things differently.

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.

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

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance.

Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why?

During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland.

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

Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was not performed publicly until 1961.

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

This revised, updated, and expanded edition of the definitive catalogue of works by Sir William Walton (1902-83) follows the completion of the William Walton Edition.

Fryderyk Chopin's career is intricately entwined with the piano.

First Published in 1996.

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War.

The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland.

This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents.

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a great musical dramatist in his own right.