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Cultivating String Quartets In Beethoven' S Vienna Hardcover

The Music Of Simon Holt Hardcover

Sergei Prokofiev' S Alexander Nevsky Hardcover

Arvo Part' S Tabula Rasa Hardcover

Metamorphosis In Music - The Compositions Of Gyorgy Ligeti In The 1950s And 1960s Hardcover

The Cambridge Companion To Electronic Music Hardcover 2nd Revised Edition

The Life Of Haydn Paperback

Olivier Messiaen' S Catalogue D' Oiseaux - From Conception To Performance Hardcover

Performing Propaganda: Musical Life And Culture In Paris During The First World War Hardcover

Arvo Part' S Resonant Texts - Choral And Organ Music 1956-2015 Hardcover

Music As Creative Practice Hardcover

The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and

Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original sources.

Some of the most popular works of nineteenth-century music were labeled either "Hungarian" or "Gypsy" in style, including many of the best-known and least-respected of Liszt's compositions. In the early twentieth century,

Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers

David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to

Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies--one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field. He explores a range of topics in