Art music, orchestral and formal music

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell''s music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men's behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a particular masculine performance, including those desired by potential female performers.

This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture.

Edvard Grieg's choral music has remained little known outside Scandinavia.

Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.

That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp.

Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century.

Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca.

Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period.

Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition, edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl.

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontes, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature.

'Sharply insightful and vividly imaginative.

A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.

Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York.

Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985.

Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.

This is a monograph on Western classical music written by a Chinese American.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNDiamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women - all describe Major Harry Larkyns.

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love.

Nothing in the history of recording approaches Decca s mammoth venture in producing Wagner s Ring complete for the first time.

Manual completo y didáctico de orquestación contemporánea.

Extrait : "Franz Schubert est né à Vienne, dans le faubourg de Lichtenthal, le 31 janvier 1797.

'Beguiling .

Ist klassische Musik heute noch zeitgemäß?

'The ideal interpreter of the Ring .

To the perennial question "e;which comes first, the music or the words?

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries.

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo P?

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo P?

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op.

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op.

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music.

Das seit 1904 kontinuierlich erscheinende Bach-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das angesehenste Publikationsorgan der internationalen Bach-Forschung.

Das seit 1904 kontinuierlich erscheinende Bach-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das angesehenste Publikationsorgan der internationalen Bach-Forschung.

Este libro es un clásico y uno de los fundamentales en la enseñanza de la teoría musical.

Flow Guitar ermöglicht Dir, das klassische Gitarren-Spiel im Selbststudium ohne Gitarrenlehrer zu erlernen.

Das seit 1904 kontinuierlich erscheinende Bach-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das angesehenste Publikationsorgan der internationalen Bach-Forschung.

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music.

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music.

From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Caf Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "e;Loves Me Like a Rock,"e; the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries.

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music.

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity.