Art music, orchestral and formal music

Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America.

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light.

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.

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On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "e;Great Eighteen"e; organ chorales, among the most celebrated works for organ, and a milestone in the history of the chorale.

George Gershwin is one of the giants of American music, unique in that he was both a brilliant writer of popular songs and of more serious music.

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.

From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music.

Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians.

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works.

Sebastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today.

Sebastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today.

Artists today are at a crossroads.

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.

Those who choose to make the orchestra enterprise their life's work face a host of challenges that have beset orchestra managers since the very beginning of the art form, alongside new challenges that continue to arise in the twenty-first century.

Those who choose to make the orchestra enterprise their life's work face a host of challenges that have beset orchestra managers since the very beginning of the art form, alongside new challenges that continue to arise in the twenty-first century.

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music.

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music.

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.

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.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Ades has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the world of classical music today that is almost unmatched.

Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond.

Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond.

Ethnomusicologists face complex and challenging professional landscapes for which graduate studies in the field do not fully prepare them.

Ethnomusicologists face complex and challenging professional landscapes for which graduate studies in the field do not fully prepare them.

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice.

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice.

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably.

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably.

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

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

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

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

The liturgical chant sung in the churches of Southern Italy between the ninth and thirteenth centuries reflects the multiculturalism of a territory in which Romans, Franks, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Jews, and Muslims were all present with various titles and political roles.

The liturgical chant sung in the churches of Southern Italy between the ninth and thirteenth centuries reflects the multiculturalism of a territory in which Romans, Franks, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Jews, and Muslims were all present with various titles and political roles.

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways?

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways?

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission.

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission.

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures.

From the end of the Second World War through the U.

From the end of the Second World War through the U.

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.

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.

The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region.

The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region.