Art music, orchestral and formal music

The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence.

David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman''s graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians.

Calling Back the Spirit describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi are defending their local spirit through music and dance.

This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early recording cultures.

Georgi Wassiljewitsch Swiridow gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten der Sowjetunion und Meister der russischen Musik des 20.

Artists today are at a crossroads.

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.

In this book, Julian Hellaby presents a detailed study of English piano playing and career management as it was in the middle years of the twentieth century.

Eleven international scholars analyse key works by Sir James MacMillan, and contextualise his unique musical-theological approach.

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II.

A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces.

Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiana XIX, 164-167 (FlorBN Magl.

'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation.

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.

Trans people are increasingly stepping out of the shadow of pathologization and secretiveness to tell their life stories, share information and to connect with like-minded others, using YouTube as a platform.

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.

This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art.

Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events.

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B.

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period.

The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions.

The first detailed contextual study of Beethoven''s middle-period quartets, encompassing reception history, early performance practices, aesthetic contexts and theatrical impetus.

A fresh look at Stravinsky''s musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles.

Throughout history, Russia's geo-political and cultural position between the East and West has shaped its national identity.

This volume is a guide to the resources and materials of Bach scholarship, both for the non specialist wondering where to begin in the enormous literature on J.

Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles.

Obwohl die Blütezeit des Virtuosentums längst vergangen ist, erfreut die Etüde sich auch heute noch bei Musikern und Komponisten großer Beliebtheit.

Alfred Brendel und Peter Gülke pflegen die Kunst des Interpretierens auf einzigartige Weise: Brendel als weltberühmter Pianist, der auch Bücher über Musik publiziert, Peter Gülke als mehrfach für seine Sprach-Kunst des Interpretierens ausgezeichneter Autor, der auch Dirigent ist.

Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein, a musician of extraordinary talent who was legendary for his passionate love of life and many relationships.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Nachkommen des musikalischen Genies Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the 'Barracks King', the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick the Great.

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon.

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

The Variations for keyboard on a step by Ernst Christoph Dressler WoO 63 by Ludwig van Beethoven were composed in 1782.

Ein Orchester ist die Summe seiner Musiker.

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) was an unusual legend in his own lifetime: a Parsi composer and critic living in England whose compositions are of such length and difficulty that he felt compelled to ban public performances of them.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788), was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

First published in 2011, this text provides citations to the core Holst literature.

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else.

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound.

Salomon Jadassohn war weit mehr als ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist und Theoretiker des 19.

Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources.

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Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn.