A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economis......more

Polish-born, Soviet-domiciled composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-96) is the 21st century’s most remarkable rediscovery i......more

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording aco......more

Develops a new theory of space and register which will be essential reading for the music analyst, while offering radica......more

For many months after the pandemic struck in 2020, Winston Webber, second violinist in the National Arts Centre Orchestr......more

’You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn’t put it down’ - Joanna Lum......more

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The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist’s sensuality and rigor came together to form the ......more

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When you attend a live classical music concert, have you noticed that the players are both younger and older musicians? ......more

Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition......more

History’s first named bagpiper is a man playing a pipe "with a bag tucked under his armpit" in the first century CE. He ......more

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Right Back Where I Started is a musical odyssey of the heart, mind, and spirit, a journey from the innocent Pacific Nort......more

The BBC Proms is the world’s biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for......more

A detailed investigation, based on extensive study of press reports and early recordings, of the popular Hungarian bands......more

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Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the......more

The Dies Irae is a melody that composers of film music have employed in hundreds of films, ranging from Metropolis to Th......more

When her father dies, music historian and trombonist Dr Emily MacGregor finds that music has become too much. Listening,......more

An absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly renowne......more

From Community Roots to National Acclaim--A Century of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. A Century of the Madison Symphony......more

A Companion not only to the historic, path-breaking ballet production by Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Roerich and Stravinsky tha......more

A Companion not only to the historic, path-breaking ballet production by Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Roerich and Stravinsky tha......more

A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. In the years af......more

Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of......more

Symphonic music of the early twentieth century reflects the complex, cosmopolitan world it inhabited. In a time of wanin......more

A groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de Fra......more

Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of......more

This long-awaited book situates the symphonies in their biographical context, offers text-critical investigations, prese......more

Ground breaking and comprehensive reference volume covering an extensive range of Purcell studies, including his life an......more

Scoring Italian Cinema: Patterns of Collaboration redefines what it means to write music for the cinema. In eight richly......more

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CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023 A new and wide-ranging col......more

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Polish Pronunciation Guide for Singers, written by Laura Kafka-Price and Maksymilian Krzak, offers approachable and cons......more

Welsh Vocal Music: A Guide to Lyric Diction and Repertoire introduces readers to the vast vocal repertoire of Wales and ......more

Julius Korngold, critic at the highly influential newspaper Neue Freie Presse, was close to and supportive of Gustav Mah......more

This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatr......more

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-mak......more

New readings of the ten Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin, embracing both the performer’s interpretation and the an......more

An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers ......more

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more

The Concert Composer’s Business Handbook is written for composers of original music--mostly or completely within the wor......more

Concept Collections are limited-edition volumes of music for piano. Each collection focusses on a specific concept that ......more

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The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and rec......more

AUTHOR’S NOTE INTRODUCTION EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES BEETHOVEN’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS SYMPHONY NO. 1 - SELECTED WRITINGS Al......more

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The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and rec......more

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The INTERNATIONAL WHO’S WHO IN CLASSICAL MUSIC 2025 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical informat......more

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About the Book A CANDID MEMOIR AND A WIDE-RANGING LOOK AT MUSICAL PRACTICE BY A LIVING LEGEND OF CARNATIC MUSIC. ’Thinki......more

The dual meaning of this title embodies the aggressive, powerful nature of the music while also recognizing the critical......more

Resolute and highly spirited, To Sail the Majestic Seas vividly portrays humankind’s valorous endeavors to traverse the ......more

(BH Piano). Commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orch......more

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a combination of hybrid working and cultural consumption, alongside shifting audie......more

This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the mi......more

Considers Boult’s interpretations of Elgar’s major works by drawing on their correspondence, Boult’s annotated scores, b......more

When he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Doniz......more

Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with th......more

Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier forms part of the series American Bach Society Guides for the introduction of Johann Sebast......more

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