Art music, orchestral and formal music

An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert''s haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.

Tracing the evolution of the organ back to the Restoration and setting Burney''s remarks on it in their historical context.

Reveals the importance of arrangements of Beethoven''s works for nineteenth-century domestic music-making to the history of the classical symphony.

Reveals the importance of arrangements of Beethoven''s works for nineteenth-century domestic music-making to the history of the classical symphony.

Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.

This Element explores the vital contribution of multi-talented Polish composer and violinist Graźyna Bacewicz to the musical canon.

The Emperor Napoléon III brought the Paris Opéra under the control of a handful of his most trusted politicians.

Film analyses raise issues of baroque style and form asking why 18th c.

The Emperor Napoléon III brought the Paris Opéra under the control of a handful of his most trusted politicians.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

A de-idealised picture of musical community in Chinese street music.

The circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures.

A de-idealised picture of musical community in Chinese street music.

Sheds light on Western musical performance by exploring shared vocal techniques of South Indian classical music and Monteverdi''s operas.

This Element explores the vital contribution of multi-talented Polish composer and violinist Graźyna Bacewicz to the musical canon.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

Film analyses raise issues of baroque style and form asking why 18th c.

New perspectives on the life, works and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, that epitomise the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music.

New perspectives on the life, works and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, that epitomise the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music.

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

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

Case studies of music and conflict transformation in Australia and Canada.

How Herbert Eimert''s understanding of music history has been adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

Case studies of music and conflict transformation in Australia and Canada.

How Herbert Eimert''s understanding of music history has been adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe.

Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.

Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.

An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Demonstrates the cultivation and interest in instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court.

Demonstrates the cultivation and interest in instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court.

An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

Interprets an eighteenth-century musical repertoire in sociable terms, both technically (specific musical patterns) and affectively (predominant emotional registers of the music).

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.