"e;Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,"e; writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers.
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life.
Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored.
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention.
The spangled insanity, the stubborn reinforcement of crude national stereotypes, the scoreboard shamelessly corrupted by cross-border friendship and hatred.
The foremost American musician of the eighteenth century, William Billings wrote more than three hundred compositions and six musical collections at a time when Americans were singing almost nothing but British music.
In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends.
This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture.
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.
Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history.
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.
Although, according to the author, much sound research, has been done in the Dufay era in recent years,"e; Charles Hamm's book marks the first time an attempt has been made at a comprehensive chronology of the works of this composer.
Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine.
KnackDrums for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises in musical notation.
KnackDrums for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises in musical notation.
Liedsammlungen aus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern stellen eine einzigartige Quelle dar, deren (musik-)historische Bedeutung noch unzureichend erschlossen ist.
El adolescente Horowitz ve como su piano es arrojado desde la ventana; el pequeño Cherkassky oye el silbido de una bala rozando su cabeza e impactando en la pared de su casa; el principito Magaloff huye en trineo con su familia: tres flashes de una revolución que hace un siglo convulsionó al mundo y también las vidas de muchos músicos.
"Yo soy la cumbia" es una obra coral que explora la historia y el impacto cultural de la cumbia desde sus orígenes hasta su expansión en Latinoamérica y el mundo.
Das vielgelobte Standardwerk auf dem neuesten StandDer Beitrag des Saxophonisten John Coltrane zur Entwicklung des Jazz war der bislang letzte Riesenschritt in der Jazzgeschichte – die (Über-)Dehnung der Funktionsharmonik und deren Überwindung.
Die vielgelobte Autobiographie des Deutschrock-StarsHeinz Rudolf Kunze erinnert sich an sein Leben und seine Musik, an seine Familie und seine Weggefahrten.
