Art music, orchestral and formal music

Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of duree, revealing his "e;revolution"e; in musical time.

Alec Wilder wrote songs and lyrics of unsurpassed beauty and originality, and his work won the respect and admiration of such important musical figures as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Mitch Miller, Gunther Schuller, and many others.

Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched.

Hans Christian Andersen was the most prominent Danish author of the nineteenth century.

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them.

The leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills.

Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers.

To speak of Gerard Schwarz - musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts - is to tell an exemplary American story.

Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History unfolds the cultural itineraries of modern Jewish and Israeli art music.

Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going.

Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician expands the Today's Musician family of textbooks to encompass the essential elements of musicianship and aural skills training.

Our image of Beethoven has been transformed by the research generated by a succession of scholars and theorists who blazed new trails from the 1960s onwards.

For decades, ethnomusicologists across the world have considered how to affect positive change for the communities they work with.

In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration.

First published in 2011.

First Published in 1996.

The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture.

World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day.

Year of Wonder is an absolute treatthe most enlightening way to be guided through the year.

Edvard Grieg's choral music has remained little known outside Scandinavia.

Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive.

Sunday Times Best Reads of 2016How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works?

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation.

In this second edition of Orchestral "e;Pops"e; Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music.

The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries.

Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century.

Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in late-nineteenth-century Vienna.

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms.

Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music.

The Politics of Appropriation uncovers a largely forgotten chapter in music history by considering the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany.

Singing has long been an integral component of Wales's culture, identity, and international reputation; alongside the deep traditions of Welsh folksong, the country's composers have produced a rich body of art music.

'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading .

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony's demise.

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times.

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry.

Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B.

Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life.

Tracing the evolution of the organ back to the Restoration and setting Burney''s remarks on it in their historical context.

Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house.

Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going.

Franz Liszt: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

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 1994.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

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