Art music, orchestral and formal music

This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.

The term 'Popular Music' has traditionally denoted different things in France and Britain.

Brings into focus the vibrant musical, cultural and historical currents of eighteenth-century Europe and how they shaped Mozart''s career.

The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century.

In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance.

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world.

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama.

The Musical Repertories of the Liturgy of Southern Italy and Beneventan Sources, Alleluia Melodies after 1100, and the change in transmission of instrumental music in Fifteenth-Century Europe are provided.

The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict zones across the African continent.

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music.

The concept of stylus phantasticus (orfantastic style ) as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of this book.

Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "e;long nineteenth century,"e; giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas of Richard Strauss and JanA!

Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer.

The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term 'nature': the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical world (landscape, climate, environment), inspire and condition creativity here.

Composing for Voice: Exploring Voice, Language and Music, Second Edition, elucidates how language and music function together from the perspectives of composers, singers and actors, providing an understanding of the complex functions of the voice pedagogically, musicologically and dramatically.

Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music analysis.

"e;Masterworks of 20th-Century Music"e; introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory.

In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46.

American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century.

Cohen traces a history of modernism in migration through the composer Stefan Wolpe, from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College.

Throughout early modern Europe, patronage became a means for the dominant classes to highlight their wealth, intellectual finesse, and cultural and political agendas, particularly within the court and religious institutions.

An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly.

Investigating the reception of Schubert''s most daring harmonies, this book uses Schubert''s harmonic practice to critique canonical music theories.

This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b.

The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing.

Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries.

Offers a thematic examination of Britten''s operas, focusing particularly on the way that ideology is presented on stage.

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.

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c.

This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

Known primarily as the composer of The Nutcracker Suite and other legendary pieces, Tchaikovsky was also a noted musical dramatist.

Susan Burney (1755-1800) was the third daughter of the music historian Charles Burney and the younger sister of the novelist Frances (Fanny) Burney.

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music.

'An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth.

The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists.

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More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization.

Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated.

This is Volume 18 of eighteen in a book series on Musicology.

In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great.

When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "e;the most enthusiastic mimomaniac"e; ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements.

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume.

Peter Gülke widmet sich in 54 Essays dem großen Thema Tod und Abschied in der Musik, aber auch in der Literatur.