This volume uses the historic staging and legacy of the 1903 production of Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, directed and conducted by Gustav Mahler, to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary issues in the history of the opera, performance, an...Loe edasi...
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Loe edasi...
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Loe edasi...
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of...Loe edasi...
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often...Loe edasi...
David Baker chronicles the extraordinary life and achievements of John Varley Roberts (1841-1920), a working-class Yorkshireman who became a popular composer and one of Victorian Englands most celebrated choral trainers as well as Organist of Mag...Loe edasi...
Illuminates Bantocks experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, while offering new notions of the modern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music....Loe edasi...
Opera in Transnational Contexts sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios, and others moving from one locale to anoth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108834278)
Reappraises the Schumanns artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book will appeal to students and educators in musicology, womens studies, and cultural studies, as we...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer’s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater...Loe edasi...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T...Loe edasi...
This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagners Götterdämmerung....Loe edasi...
This book brings together a significant part of the Derek B. Scotts diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it...Loe edasi...
Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention: A Teachers Guide offers instructors a toolkit with which to productively confront the canon, directly engaging in the difficult conversations this repertoire can prompt....Loe edasi...
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by both amateurs and virtuosos. Thanks to the flutes popularity, countless instruments, flute compositions, and flute methods were produced...Loe edasi...
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been explor...Loe edasi...
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been...Loe edasi...
Introduces students, performers, and conductors to the musical world of Louise Farrenc (18041875), a composer, pianist, and teacher who wrote chamber music and symphonies in an era when few women did. Explains how and why the Nonet is an exceptional...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009415453)
Introduces students, performers, and conductors to the musical world of Louise Farrenc (18041875), a composer, pianist, and teacher who wrote chamber music and symphonies in an era when few women did. Explains how and why the Nonet is an exceptional...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197790908)
The Classical and Early Romantic Flute is about the flute, flutists, music, and musical performance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readers learn about the complex development of the design of the flute, how the differ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197683965)
This book is the definitive resource for Joachim Andersens life and music, bringing together his story--including accounts of the founding of the Berlin Philharmonic and the development of musical life in Denmark at the turn of the twentieth century...Loe edasi...
The German Lied in the period preceding Mozart is less well-known than that of the florescence under Schubert, Schumann and Wolf. But in Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany (originally published in 1985) Margaret Stolj...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197806371)
Musics Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening examines fundamental changes in concert-hall listening since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on changing assumptions about the very act of listening itself. Author Mark Evan Bonds...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197695180)
Mark Everist reveals for the first time a repertory of operas destined for performance in various forms of domestic environment found in Paris during the Second Empire (1850s-60s). He examines the repertory, its creators, and consumers through the le...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works...Loe edasi...
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrumen...Loe edasi...
This volume uses the historic staging and legacy of the 1903 production of Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, directed and conducted by Gustav Mahler, to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary issues in the history of the opera, performance, an...Loe edasi...
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Loe edasi...
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Loe edasi...
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of...Loe edasi...
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often...Loe edasi...
David Baker chronicles the extraordinary life and achievements of John Varley Roberts (1841-1920), a working-class Yorkshireman who became a popular composer and one of Victorian Englands most celebrated choral trainers as well as Organist of Mag...Loe edasi...
Illuminates Bantocks experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, while offering new notions of the modern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music....Loe edasi...
Opera in Transnational Contexts sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios, and others moving from one locale to anoth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108834278)
Reappraises the Schumanns artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book will appeal to students and educators in musicology, womens studies, and cultural studies, as we...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer’s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater...Loe edasi...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T...Loe edasi...
This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagners Götterdämmerung....Loe edasi...
This book brings together a significant part of the Derek B. Scotts diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it...Loe edasi...
Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention: A Teachers Guide offers instructors a toolkit with which to productively confront the canon, directly engaging in the difficult conversations this repertoire can prompt....Loe edasi...
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by both amateurs and virtuosos. Thanks to the flutes popularity, countless instruments, flute compositions, and flute methods were produced...Loe edasi...
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been explor...Loe edasi...
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been...Loe edasi...
Introduces students, performers, and conductors to the musical world of Louise Farrenc (18041875), a composer, pianist, and teacher who wrote chamber music and symphonies in an era when few women did. Explains how and why the Nonet is an exceptional...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009415453)
Introduces students, performers, and conductors to the musical world of Louise Farrenc (18041875), a composer, pianist, and teacher who wrote chamber music and symphonies in an era when few women did. Explains how and why the Nonet is an exceptional...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197790908)
The Classical and Early Romantic Flute is about the flute, flutists, music, and musical performance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readers learn about the complex development of the design of the flute, how the differ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197683965)
This book is the definitive resource for Joachim Andersens life and music, bringing together his story--including accounts of the founding of the Berlin Philharmonic and the development of musical life in Denmark at the turn of the twentieth century...Loe edasi...
The German Lied in the period preceding Mozart is less well-known than that of the florescence under Schubert, Schumann and Wolf. But in Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany (originally published in 1985) Margaret Stolj...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197790939)
The Classical and Early Romantic Flute is about the flute, flutists, music, and musical performance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readers learn about the complex development of the design of the flute, how the differ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197806371)
Musics Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening examines fundamental changes in concert-hall listening since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on changing assumptions about the very act of listening itself. Author Mark Evan Bonds...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197695180)
Mark Everist reveals for the first time a repertory of operas destined for performance in various forms of domestic environment found in Paris during the Second Empire (1850s-60s). He examines the repertory, its creators, and consumers through the le...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works...Loe edasi...
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrumen...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Loe edasi...
This study examines the life and work of Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833), famous for the operas Marie (1826), Zampa (1831) and Le Pré aux clercs (1832), as well as for the ballets La Somnambule (1827) and La Fille mal gardée (1828). In these work...Loe edasi...
This study examines the life and work of François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834). He is famous for the operas Jean de Paris (1812) and especially La Dame blanche (1825). Working in Paris and St Petersburg, then returning to Paris, he, collaborating wi...Loe edasi...
Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars, from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197688809)
Why has Berliozs Requiem has come to be understood as a product of nineteenth-century Romanticism and how can listeners understand it beyond that context? This book offers a fascinating exploration of the Requiem within the cultural context of Frenc...Loe edasi...
Hector Berliozs Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts, 1837) remains a fixture in the repertoire of choirs and orchestras today. Since 2003, it has been performed in its entirety over one hundred times and has appeared on concert programs spannin...Loe edasi...
An impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts.What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today? ‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seven creative childre...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the middle of the eighteenth century and the start of the twentieth century. While explicit notational practices were increasingly the n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781837652204)
Considers Boults interpretations of Elgars major works by drawing on Boults annotated scores, broadcast performances and commercial recordings, ranging from the composers last years to Boults final public appearances.Edward Elgar (18...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197581612)
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the middle of the eighteenth century and the start of the twentieth century. While explicit notational practices were increasingly the n...Loe edasi...
Daniel-François-Esprit Aubers operas cover a significant period of French historyfrom the Restoration, through the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, to the Second Empire. With 38 libretti by his lifelong collaborator, the famous dramatist Euge...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful. In bringing together the various approaches and accounts of the different text...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer’s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. It is b...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater...Loe edasi...
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often...Loe edasi...
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Loe edasi...
