Art music, orchestral and formal music

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b.

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.

In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E.

Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body.

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume III: Wellbeing explores the connections between singing and health, promoting the power of singing-in public policy and in practice-in confronting health challenges across the lifespan.

Kirill Kondrashin is regarded as one of the most brilliant Russian conductors of the 20th century and a great interpreter of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler.

Fryderyk Chopin's career is intricately entwined with the piano.

Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo Part's most famous music, which was created in dialogue with underground creative circles in the USSR.

In the London of Shakespeare and William Byrd, Thomas East was the premier, often exclusive, printer of music.

Before Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality.

This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to facilitating positive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia.

A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument.

Drawing on 30 years of teaching experience, author Timothy Cheek demonstrates how a university lyric diction class-traditionally specialized and Eurocentric-can become transformative, through engaging students with other languages and cultures, and promoting diversity, equity, inclusivity, and antiracism.

The Digital Musician, Third Edition is an introductory textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses.

Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme.

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century.

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity.

The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan.

It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities.

Jacob French, a student of William Billings, was one of the most talented postrevolutionary composers of Protestant sacred music in New England.

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily.

The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance.

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891 up until the present and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials.

Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op.

This work is a cantata for chorus and orchestra, with baritone solo, celebrating the pioneers who settled the American wilderness.

Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers.

What, exactly, is knowledge of music?

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

Following his much-acclaimed The Baroque Clarinet and The Clarinet in the Classical Period, Albert R.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("e;do- it- yourself"e;) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales.

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition.

This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.

Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history.

The classic work on the philosophy of musicnow available in English to a new generation of readersVladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?

International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader.

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in Music and Gender Studies courses.

The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers' bodies.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Georges Barr`ere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing.

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

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

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.

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

One of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs.

This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart's late opera seria La clemenza di Tito.

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992.