Musicians, singers, bands and groups

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

Die erweiterte Neuausgabe des großen Kompendiums.

Ephemeral by nature, the concert setlist is a rich, if underexplored, text for scholarly research.

The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world.

With his setting of Stefan George's portentous poetic text Ich fuhle Luft von anderem Planeten (I feel the air of another planet) in the Second String Quartet, Op.

This book reveals Czech composer Bedrich Smetana as a dynamic figure whose mythology has been rewritten time and again to suit shifting political perspectives.

Als am 22.

Up-close and personal views, by the renowned music critic and orchestra administrator, of musical luminaries from Alfred Brendel to Jessye Norman and beyond.

Michael Bubl is currently the biggest male solo artist in the world.

Cesar Franck (18221890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century.

FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history.

Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers.

When Bela Bartk died in September of 1945, he left a partially completed viola concerto commissioned by the virtuoso violist William Primrose.

Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.

A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.

Saxophonist Carlos Garnett, despite being blind in his later years, was an integral part of Miles Davis' nonet.

Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer''s popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.

Bruce Springsteen ist ein Star, zu dem Fans eine besondere und persönlich geprägte Beziehung empfinden.

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music.

This study offers a fresh approach to reception historical studies of New Testament texts, guided by a methodology introduced by ancient historians who study Graeco-Roman educational texts.

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written.

In this book, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Durufle's works and put together the first book to discuss in detail all of Durufle's music.

First Published in 2007.

When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to the tensions within the family.

So können Musiker gut und gesund ein Leben lang spielenErfahrene Musiker kennen die Warnzeichen ihres Körpers: Ein leichter Spannungskopfschmerz, Schwindel oder Gelenkschmerzen sind ein sicheres Zeichen, dass ihnen die Musik in letzter Zeit wichtiger war als die eigene Gesundheit.

Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future?

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade' DAILY MAIL'One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year' INDEPENDENT___________________________________________Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London.

Bei bisher über 4`000 Auftritten in 19 Ländern erlebte der preisgekrönte Schweizer Boogie- und Bluespianist Nico Brina den Zauber der improvisierten Musik, wie sie auf Menschen wirkt, was sie auslöst in ihren Seelen.

The first biography of Richard D'Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Montreal, wo er 1934 geboren wurde, sei der einzige Ort, an dem er sich je zu Hause gefühlt habe.

While interpretation of musical scores is amongst the most frequent of musical activities, it is also, strangely, one of the least researched.

John Lennons Weg zum Superstar ist gespickt mit Andeutungen auf einen faustischen Pakt.

Examines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

The symphony orchestra as an organizational form models how 21st century societies and business enterprises could operate.

A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the moviegoing public to modern musical styles.

Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars.

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

What do Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Elvis Costello, Rush and Chumbawamba have in common?

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.