Art music, orchestral and formal music

First Published in 2002.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

The National Library of Greece (Ethnike Bibliothike tes Ellados) is one of the richest depositories of Byzantine musical manuscripts and is surpassed by its holdings in Greece only by the multitude of manuscripts found in the monasteries of Mount Athos.

A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composerStephen Hough is one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings.

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer, engineer, and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design, The Reynolds Desert House.

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.

The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminating in his appointment as maestro of the Tesoro di S.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book is about how music "e;in a key"e; is composed.

This book contains the complete vocal score of "e;Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri"e;.

The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers and scholars, confirming the modern assessment of Charpentier (1643-1704) as one of the most important and inventive composers of the French Baroque.

This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ).

A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied.

This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America.

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.

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.

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture.

The first in-depth study of the ceremonial and music performed at British royal and state funerals over the past 400 years.

This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schonberger and Frits van der Waa.

Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century.

Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music; self-proclaimed leader of a 'new dispensation' between words and their musical expression; perhaps even 'Creator of Modern Music'.

First published in 1994.

Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery.

 The life and death, but also the creative work of famous musicians is closely linked to their personal medical histories.

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism.

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain.

For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings.

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

This bibliography is a subject bibliography and hence contains bibliographic descriptions of documents published about one subject, viz Fernando Sor (1778-1839).

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977).

A comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century.

Stephen Downes examines the work of Britten, Weill and Henze to explore the significance of Gustav Mahler for twentieth-century music.

This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ).

Since time immemorial, the response of the living to death has been to commemorate the life of the departed through ceremonies and rituals.

Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music.

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

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

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical History of both Major and Minor Worlds, in which music plays an important role in his system of neoplatonic correspondences: the harmony of the universe (macrocosm) as well as the harmony of man (microcosm).

Jochen Eisentraut''s book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works.

This is a complete edition with critical commentary of the Byzantine Communions in thirteenth-century manuscripts of the Asmatikon, all known sources being used.

By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers' practices, the contributors to this volume offer fresh viewpoints on the material, symbolic and cultural aspects of the female voice in the twentieth century.

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Under his real name, Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) wrote concert music and the scores for almost 50 feature films, including some of the most enduring British comedies of the twentieth century, amongst them a number in the series started by Doctor in the House and the first six Carry On films.

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire.

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music.

Music and War in the United States introduces students to the long and varied history of music's role in war.