An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
A new analysis of Mahler’s symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing t......more
Elgar’s The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation. Followi......more
A case study of a pioneering musician and an interdisciplinary appraisal of the larger social role of the artist. Dame E......more
Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his Europe......more
A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of deve......more
"The joy of the book is to hear artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds...rhapsodizing about their relatio......more
Offers a unique perspective in to what it takes to perform Richard Wagner’s operas. Performing Wagner studies each of th......more
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording clas......more
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording clas......more
From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-mak......more
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with th......more
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the mi......more
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the mi......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
Michael Cherlin is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Minnesota. He is the author o......more
The essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient and rigorous c......more
What happens when the elitist space of ’Western’ classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effe......more
This book provides the first detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Aria mit 30 Veränderun......more
Explores Liszt’s compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer’s interactions with a la......more
In exhilarating, transformative prose, the poet Patrick Mackie reveals a musician in dialogue with culture at its most s......more
Featuring 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United Stat......more
The memoirs of cello prodigy Beatrice Harrison, the woman who brought the music of the nightingale to millions worldwide......more
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing--or who have pr......more
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing--or who have pr......more
Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captur......more
Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captur......more
Stravinsky’s influence on Debussy in 1910-13, rarely discussed, is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of......more
’I couldn’t put it down’ - Joanne Lumley At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captu......more
A delightful collection of well-loved solos by Schubert, Bruckner, Strauss and Brahms; arranged - with equal difficulty ......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of three suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wr......more
This collection of four suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wri......more
This collection of four suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wri......more
This collection of four suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wri......more
This collection of four suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wri......more
This collection of four suites of flexible quartets, playable on any four instruments, have been arranged from works wri......more
In 2019, Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and conductor Lucas Cantor Santiago was asked by the Chinese technology c......more
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) has been called Finland’s most notable musical export after Sibelius. His prolific out......more
Ricardo Averbach places Heitor Villa-Lobos as the top exponent of Cultural Cannibalism in music, an aesthetic movement t......more
Bruno Maderna was one of the most influential composers in the twentieth century. He was the eldest of the group of Ital......more
Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford’s career as composer, conductor and teacher,......more
J.S. Bach adapted several works by Vivaldi-this particular transcription was originally for solo violin and string orche......more
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered i......more
The INTERNATIONAL WHO’S WHO IN CLASSICAL MUSIC 2024 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical informat......more
A revealing insight into Rachmaninoff’s intense and often melodramatic life The musical child of Russia’s golden age, Se......more
This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ’file card’ works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spil......more
Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez’s early works as well as the role surrealism and French......more
"From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to ca......more
Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is ’classical music’ all about class? Related questio......more
Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchest......more
Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchest......more
Like the original, this highly playable arrangement of Bedrich Smetana’s masterwork The Moldau starts simply and builds ......more
Embark on a musical journey like no other as you immerse yourself in this hauntingly beautiful arrangement of Bach’s Pre......more
A grand opening or closing piece for your next concert, Gravitas is a powerful work celebrating strength, beauty, and th......more
A grand opening or closing piece for your next concert, Gravitas is a powerful work celebrating strength, beauty, and th......more
Like the original, this highly playable arrangement of Bedrich Smetana’s masterwork The Moldau starts simply and builds ......more
This haunting arrangement of the ghostly English folk song My Lady’s Coach weaves together elements of suspense, tension......more
Inspired by falcons soaring high above the ground, Where Falcons Fly embarks on an adventurous journey through wind, sto......more
A grand opening or closing piece for your next concert, Gravitas is a powerful work celebrating strength, beauty, and th......more
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In his views on the music of othe......more
Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language ......more
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, ......more
Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven’s symphonies, reconstructing their cr......more
Brings to life the day-to-day details of staging the premiere of one of the most iconic works of Western classical music......more
This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of......more
"Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of syste......more
"Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of syste......more
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording clas......more
Nigel Kennedy is one of the world’s foremost violinists. His achievements have been met with great acclaim, not least hi......more
Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto Concentric Paths, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin co......more
Experience the paranormal in this spine-tingling work by Timothy Loest that includes spooky sound effects, unexplained n......more
Experience the paranormal in this spine-tingling work by Timothy Loest that includes spooky sound effects, unexplained n......more
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces inno......more
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces inno......more
By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transfor......more
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the ’first great ......more
Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested a......more
This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the co......more
Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror th......more
This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European p......more
Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live. ’O......more
The Piano Player: Uplifting Classics presents 20 of the most famous pieces of classical music, ideal to lift the spirits......more
Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century demonstrates current approaches to Byrd studies in the twenty-first century and......more