Search Results in Performing Arts

Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book considers key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers

Following the author's biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, this work examines Beethoven's relations with the multitude of persons who formed his circle: relatives, friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and

The fundamental changes resulting in the development of the Baroque style around the turn of the 17th century had a profound effect on music theory. This work explores the metamorphosis in England

Offers an overall view of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003, and includes a study to deal with the rediscovered Messe solennelle.

This study on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying programme based on Hardy's

In this study of the composition, reception, extramusical implications, and stylistic eclecticism of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, a staple of the 19th-century musical canon, Cooper devotes extensive attention to the differences between the

The revised edition of Southeast Asia provides a grounded account of how people in the region are responding to - and being affected by - the changes sweeping through the region.

Explores the nature of postmodernism, providing an introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard, and examines the impact of this thinking on the contemporary theory