Art music, orchestral and formal music

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach's music and the reasons for his 'borrowing', and adaptation within his oeuvre.

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

The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars.

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

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Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated.

Foster explores how Wagner''s political stance and his theories on Greek poetry and politics were combined to create the Ring.

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time.

Samuel Babcock was an active Boston-area composer who made a significant contribution to the repertory of American psalmody.

Probing analyses, from the renowned music theorist, of Schubert's great, yet still little-studied piano-solo, chamber, and symphonic masterpieces.

An examination of cyclic form in Mendelssohn''s instrumental music and its implications for conceptions of musical time, memory and history.

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature' - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity?

By the late-sixteenth century, Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire, boasting an active musical life involving the contributions of musicians like Jacobus de Kerle, Hans Leo Hassler, and Gregor Aichinger.

Gertrude Stein and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead were unlikely friends who spent most of their mature lives in exile: Stein in France and Whitehead in the United States.

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.

Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century.

First published in 2005.

Choral Conducting: Philosophy and Practice, Second Edition is an updated resource for conductors and singers alike, a college-level text for students of choral conducting that considers conducting and singing from a holistic perspective.

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development.

In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into women's experiences of clubbing.

In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "e;Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field .

'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Against the background of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, shedding new light on the rhetorical forces behind body anxieties and extreme methods of weight loss and beautification.

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

D,at de S,rac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music.

For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners.

How does structural economic change look and feel?

Michael Haydn, oft im Schatten seines berühmten Bruders Joseph Haydn stehend, war ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist, dessen Werk und Leben bisher zu wenig gewürdigt wurden.

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

Although unjustly neglected by modern writers, William Bathe's contributions to music pedagogy in late sixteenth-century England were profound.

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Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honored American composers of the twentieth century.

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music.

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the WeekLina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang.

For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians.

Tatjana Goldberg reveals the extent to which gender and socially constructed identity influenced female violinists' 'separate but unequal' status in a great male-dominated virtuoso lineage by focussing on the few that stood out: the American Maud Powell (1867-1920), Australian-born Alma Moodie (1898-1943), and the British Marie Hall (1884-1956).

This book introduces every important aspect of the Elizabethan music world.

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history.

Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows.

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich.

This book includes biographical information on Carlos Prieto, his contributions to music, as well as a detailed catalog of 72 pieces commissioned and/or dedicated to him.

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia BjA rken-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period.

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author's work on medieval polyphony.

Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world's richest and most influential musical cultures.

Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers.

This book is the first full-length study of the courtly love songs of the trouvere to address the central musical problems of the repertoire as a whole, embracing source studies, interpretation, historiography, and analysis.