Art music, orchestral and formal music

The 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op.

First published in 1988.

The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history.

A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.

The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, the primordial Titan who defied the Olympian gods by stealing fire from the heavens as a gift for humanity, enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Romantic era.

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974).

Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music is the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter.

John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work.

With its unique blend of eastern and western traditions of music and poetry, the world of Russian vocal music is rich in spirituality, intimacy, and passion for singers and their audience.

Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.

Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars.

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain.

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong.

The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves.

Few people these days would question Mozart's rating as the most popular of all classical composers.

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-"e;interpreting music"e; in both senses of the term.

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times.

Schubert Studies comprises eleven essays by renowned Schubert scholars and performers.

Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice.

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic.

Burt Korall is widely recognized as the most authoritative writer on jazz drumming.

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

Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher's Guide serves as a guide to the professor tasked with teaching music to undergraduates, with a focus on gender.

Ephemeral by nature, the concert setlist is a rich, if underexplored, text for scholarly research.

Music in the Baroque World: History, Culture, Performance offers an interdisciplinary study of the music of Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.

'Idiosyncratic, humorous, enlightening and written by one of the finest conductors alive .

Highly acclaimed author Susan Tomes takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what 'interpretation' really means, what effect daily practice has on the character, whether playing from memory is a burden or a liberation, and why the piano is the right tool for the job.

If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists.

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.

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.

Explores how Gershwin''s iconic music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests as well as technological advances.

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers.

Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical BiographyThe musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman.

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire.

A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

Volume 4 of the SELECTED WORKS OF Louis Spohr 1784-1859- Die Letzten Dinge.

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment.

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America's "e;sonic weapon"e; to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America.

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The music of the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years.

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.

This wonderful piece "e;Moonlight Sonata"e; by Ludwig van Beethoven contains a score for solo piano.

"e;The Craft of Modal Counterpoint"e; is the companion book to Benjamin's "e;The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint,"e; recently republished in a second edition by Routledge.

This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples.

This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated in musical scholarship.

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