Art music, orchestral and formal music

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.

First published in 2002, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on extensive scholarship in the field.

An invaluable guide to the available historical source material on playing the violin and viola.

A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

Discusses performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Study of ''characteristic'' symphonies, discussing works by Beethoven, Haydn and Dittersdorf.

Considers the nature of nineteenth-century instrumental music through three sets of etudes by Liszt.

This challenging 2002 study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.

Explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina.

A detailed guide to one of Bach''s most popular keyboard works.

Beginning pianists and their teachers will love this compilation of immortal music by Frédéric Chopin.

A fresh, accessible guide to Mozart's life and worksOver a period of roughly twenty years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 finished pieces of music.

A fresh, accessible guide to Mozart's life and worksOver a period of roughly twenty years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 finished pieces of music.

Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250 - 1750) brings together nine chapters that investigate aspects of female music-making and musical experience in the medieval and early modern periods.

Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250 - 1750) brings together nine chapters that investigate aspects of female music-making and musical experience in the medieval and early modern periods.