Art music, orchestral and formal music

Known for his orchestral, operatic and choral works, James MacMillan (b.

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training.

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.

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.

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

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.

This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the composer lived and worked for many years throughout his career.

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The Tropologion is considered the earliest known extant chant book from the early Christian world which was in use until the twelfth century.

The "e;Beethoven Syndrome"e; is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self.

Nach dem Erfolg des ersten Bandes finden die Philharmonischen Begegnungen im zweiten Band ihre Fortsetzung.

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.

Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music.

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted.

Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays.

The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages.

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

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "e;religion of the cross.

Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word.

The sixth volume in the Bach Perspectives series opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite.

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan.

Penetrating, innovative analyses of numerous compositions by Chopin, integrating Schenkerian principles and a fresh perspective on harmony.

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies.

Acclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts--Tania Leon's achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music.

The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers'' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.

Winner of the 2022 Vincent H.

A major study sure to fascinate musicians, Brahms enthusiasts and those interested in the history of recorded music.

Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception.

In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling.

Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century.

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century.

Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century.

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.

Presenting recent studies of non-profit organizations involved in poverty relief services in New York City in comparison with programmes in existence across the US, Street Practice provides a front-line, ground-level perspective on innovative research practices designed to solve community problems.

"e;We do not understand music--it understands us.

In Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, Michael K.

Renaissance music, like its sister arts, was most often experienced collectively.

Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court examples.

Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

Wilhelm Furtw ler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record, but also expressed his views on musical issues of the moment in a number of outspoken essays and talks.

Carl Czerny, eine zentrale Figur der Musikgeschichte des 19.

Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement.