Art music, orchestral and formal music

Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war.

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro?

Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period.

This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history.

It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe.

This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted.

In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era.

Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life.

In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance.

In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century.

In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A.

This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times.

Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated.

Offers a new perspective from which to study the relationship between soul, body and music in Plato''s philosophy.

Offers a new perspective from which to study the relationship between soul, body and music in Plato''s philosophy.

This book offers an insight into Beethoven''s career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.

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

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

This book offers an insight into Beethoven''s career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the twentieth century:Claude Debussy's La MerDmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.

This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

This book examines the innovative ways in which Richard Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself using every means available.

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

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors in the twentieth century, lived a fascinating life in difficult times.

In this book, ten leading scholars of music explore the nature of musical communication in the eighteenth century.

Traces how music analysis evolved from responses of musicians to music written in 1800–1850.

This study contains essays by leading scholars on Franz Joseph Haydn.

This is the first major book about the music of the Czech composer Leos Janácek.

This book covers all of Tippett''s style-periods and many of the key genres within his oeuvre.

A study tracing the origins and implications of the categories ''folk music'' and ''art music''.

A study of the music of the internationally known contemporary Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen.

Schoenberg''s Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg''s music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas.

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A study of the musical activities of Adémar de Chabannes, the eleventh-century monk.

Throughout this 2004 book, Goehring''s argument is sustained by close readings of primary sources and is richly illustrated with musical examples.

An important 2004 study of Bruckner''s symphonies from a comparative, inter-disciplinary perspective.

In a wide-ranging 2004 discussion, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music.

An essential reference work which provides comprehensive coverage of Mozart''s life and works.

A classic study of Bach''s organ works, fully revised in 2003 to take account of recent scholarship.

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

Looks at Polish music since 1937 and its interaction with political and cultural turmoil.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Examines Britten''s fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.

This book explores the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880–1917.

Develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music.

This study focuses on the day-to-day lives and careers of musicians in Britain from 1750–1850.

A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.

Provides both a translation and detailed commentary on Berlioz''s own practice as an orchestrator.