Art music, orchestral and formal music

Peter Williams revisits Bach''s biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer''s interests and priorities.

This long-awaited autobiography is a must-read for classical musical enthusiasts and those fascinated by some of the twentieth century's star performers.

Available in English for the first time, Prosdocimo's Tractatus plane musice (1412) and Tractatus musice speculative (1425) are exemplary texts for understanding the high sophistication of music theory in the early fifteenth century.

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time.

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy.

Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse.

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States.

This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten.

Takes the reader through the essentials from locating and defining jazz to jazz in performance.

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music.

The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials.

First published in 1910, "e;Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties"e; is a vintage collection of traditional sailing songs, collected and published in this volume by W.

As a distinctive and attractive musical repertory, the hundred-odd English carols of the fifteenth century have always had a ready audience.

First Published in 2004.

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound.

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

Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years.

This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music.

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live.

This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C.

In this new edition of the classic text on the evolution of electronic music, Peter Manning extends the definitive account of the medium from its birth to include key developments from the dawn of the 21st century to the present day.

Written late in his life, J.

Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India.

Richard Wagner has arguably the greatest and most long-term influence on wider European culture of all nineteenth-century composers.

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

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States.

For the greater part of the twentieth century, Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store.

Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music, and also highly esteemed in England, Flanders and Poland.

This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison.

Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination.

This book shows the influence of medieval musical manuscripts on the articulation of national identity in Enlightenment Spain.

Challenges current accounts of the French ars nova, a musical art that was both criticised and heralded for its modernity.

Renaissance music, like its sister arts, was most often experienced collectively.

Despite the much vaunted 'end of religion' and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own 'spiritualities of life'.

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.

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period.

Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews.

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

Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'.

The music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout the last twenty years.

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

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) was a German baroque composer.

Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

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Sigismund von Neukomm war weit mehr als nur ein Schüler von Joseph Haydn – er war ein musikalischer Weltbürger, dessen Kompositionen von Europa bis Südamerika reichten und Kulturen miteinander verbanden.

First Published in 1996.

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.

How does one go about writing the history of musical composition in the late twentieth century when, on the one hand, so much of it seems impossibly fractured and disassociated, and, on the other, there has been so little certainty about what the notion of 'music history' might entail under the critiques of post-modernism?