Art music, orchestral and formal music

This new edition of Mind Models reintroduces and renews a classic work on 20th century composition, one that has remained relevant for over a quarter century -- and should remain a central reading for decades to come.

Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying a wide range of subjects associated with the creation, performance and reception of 'opera' in varying social and historical contexts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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

British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing.

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond.

Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks.

A 'conservative radical' is William Alexander Eddie's description of the French virtuoso composer-pianist Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888).

The essays in this volume are concerned with song repertories and performance practice in 15th-century Europe.

The motet was unquestionably one of the most important vocal genres from its inception in late twelfth-century Paris through the Counter-Reformation and beyond.

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

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.

For decades the relationship between the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and National Socialist regime has been shrouded in mystery.

In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain.

This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music.

This volume is part of a series of 25 full-score volumes of 17th-century Italian sacred music, a repertoire that has largely been unavailable for study or performance.

This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture.

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice.

The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan.

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music.

Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources.

A comprehensive picture of Debussy with insights into his character, environment and music.

Max Reger (1873-1916) is perhaps best-known for his organ music.

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions.

Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich.

Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great.

Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music.

Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse.

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

For nearly two centuries Johann Sebastian Bach has been regarded as a cornerstone of Western musical culture.

Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation.

This book explores Juan de Anchieta's life and his music and, for the first time, presents a critical study of the life and works of a major Spanish composer from the time of Ferdinand and Isabel.

'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself.

Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer''s popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.

From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer Gyrgy Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Bla Bartk to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde.

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

This is Volume 18 of eighteen in a book series on Musicology.

The mass is an extraordinary musical form.

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates.

This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the composer lived and worked for many years throughout his career.

The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form.

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else.

How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?

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

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet.

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart.

The theme of this Research Companion is 'connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology'.

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Issac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being published in England and dedicated to royalist Henry Bennett, Duke of Arlington.