Art music, orchestral and formal music

Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality.

"Der zurzeit aufregendste Operndirigent"(Münchner Merkur)René Jacobs gehört zu den renommiertesten Dirigenten der Oper zwischen Monteverdi und Mozart – Werken, die er sowohl an den zentralen Opernhäusern in Europa realisiert als auch auf dem CD-Markt in Referenzeinspielungen präsentiert.

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States.

As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French music.

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the "e;classical"e; music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal.

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century.

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs.

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s.

Extending the critical discussion which has focused on the hymns of Isaac Watts as an influence on Emily Dickinson's poetry, this study brings to bear the hymnody of Dickinson's female forbears and contemporaries and considers Isaac Watts's position as a Dissenter for a fuller understanding of Dickinson's engagement with hymn culture.

This collection addresses questions of gender and sexuality as they relate to music from the middle ages to the early seventeenth century.

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.

Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen.

This special twelve-book bundle is a classical and choral music lover's delight!

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Cornelius Cardew is an enigma.

Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven's symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest and most original composers of the nineteenth century.

When Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it always elicited ecstatic responses from the listeners.

Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound shines a long-overdue light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers.

Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

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

This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera conductors of the twentieth century.

Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of duree, revealing his "e;revolution"e; in musical time.

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.

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema.

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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives.

Weida Wang explores how Western classical music (WCM) has become increasingly popular in China, framing the industry as a complex entity intricately embedded within China's political landscape, cultural economy, and cultural industries.

In this first comprehensive examination of the music of the most prolific Bach son, David Schulenberg offers new perspectives on the career, style, and originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

First Published in 1996.

Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing.

Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines selected works by Nono in the historical context of Italy and Germany after 1945.

In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before.

Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'.

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage.

Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors.

An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world's most revered musical legends Bob Marley's music defined a movement and forever changed a nation.

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers.

Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe.

Unlike previous anthologizing examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers.

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar.

It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening.

Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal.

Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco.