From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory affronta uno dei temi aperti più ampi e sfuggenti della storia della musica: il passaggio dai modi rinascimentali alle tonalità maggiori e minori dell'a...
Eine kompakte, leicht verständliche Einführung in die Musikgeschichte des Mittelalters. Angeblich 'dunkel', teils vertraut, teils fremd, auf jeden Fall aber faszinierend: das Mittelalter. Die Mystik H...
Arnold Schönberg war als Komponist und Künstlerpersönlichkeit gleichermaßen einflussreich und umstritten. Sein musikalisches Œuvre, seine Unterrichtstätigkeit und sein theoretisches Werk begründeten m...
Vorliegendes Buch zeichnet die Musikgeschichte der böhmischen Länder von ihren Anfängen bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert im Detail nach. Es handelt sich um die bis heute mit Abstand kompetenteste und pro...
Vermutlich jeder, der sich intensiver mit zeitgenössischer Musik beschäftigt, hat mehr als einmal die Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik konsultiert. Die seit 1958 erscheinenden Bände trugen ohne Fr...
Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music is a twice-yearly Peer-Reviewed musicological Journal, one of the most prestigious international scholarly achievement...
Die italienische Kantate im Kontext aristokratischer Musikpatronage Als 'Stiefkind' der Musikforschung erfuhr die italienische Kantate erst in den vergangenen Jahren eine stärkere Kontextualisierung i...
Classical music was revolutionised after 1900. This new art music, hailed as the most important new development in musical history, also provoked hatred and scandal. Composers such as Schönberg and St...
To Alice Cooper, the outlaw quality of rock 'n' roll is little more than theater. Just because I cut the heads off dolls, doesn't mean I hate babies, he once said. But others have lived by the crimina...
Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded some of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. After his high school...
First published in 1589, this classic treatise remains today the most detailed and valuable, and one of the most delightful documents we possess on 16th century dances and dance music. It is written i...
This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon t...
Drawn from the well-known musicologist's celebrated Essays in Musical Analysis, this volume contains nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertoire, from Bach's concerto for two violins to Wal...
Professional and amateur musicians will appreciate this clear, readable guide to the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, and other Baroque composers. Author Victor Rangel-Ribeiro draws upon the...
The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler is a fascinating and accessible guide that considers the development of the symphony from a number of different perspectives: analytical, historical, and critical...
What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century ex...
'We haven't even made it to breakfast!' was a phrase often used by composer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) to shorthand her critical and partial approach to knowledge production across the vast artistic...
How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In Sounding Jewish...
One of the best-known and most celebrated new music ensembles, Bang on a Can has presented sold-out marathon concerts of experimental music and captured a new public for music. And where other institu...
Examining the experiences of musicians, industry personnel, and audiences, World Music and the Black Atlantic offers a nuanced view of a global industry informed and marked by diverse transnational pe...
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 reveals for the first time how the sounds and rhythms of the natural world were listened to, interpreted and used amid the press...
There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundb...
In Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters, renowned Bach scholar Russell Stinson examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Mendelssohn, Schuma...
Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awa...
Between 1780 and 1850, the growing prominence of female singers in Britain's professional and amateur spheres opened a fraught discourse about women's engagement with musical culture. Protestant evang...
Musics of the World offers a rich and inviting introduction to music from around the globe, exploring a diverse array of traditions and genres in depth while helping students develop skills for approa...
Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in...
With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically-defined notions of '...
Coping with trauma and the losses of World War I was a central concern for French musicians in the interwar period. Almost all of them were deeply affected by the war as they fought in the trenches, w...
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twe...
At Home in Our Sounds examines the ways Black artists reacted to the heightened visibility of racial difference in interwar Paris, illustrating the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challen...
The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction...
Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of l...
In Pick a Pocket Or Two, acclaimed author Ethan Mordden brings his wit and wisdom to bear in telling the full history of the British musical, from The Beggar's Opera (1728) to the present, with an int...
Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop shows how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined-and sometimes defied-ideas about what it meant to be a young woman in t...
Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form offers readers a comprehensive new perspective on a musical scheme shared by broadside ballads and experimental rock...
Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music maki...
Over the course of the 19th century, ballads proliferated in German-speaking Europe in a truly remarkable range of contexts. Audiences were of course likely encounter balladry in the volumes of Goethe...
The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's 'New Wave' as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtr...
In medieval Occitania (southern France), troubadours and monastic creators fostered a vibrant musical culture. In response to the early Crusade campaigns of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Chris...
Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission. After the Revolution, music was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from...
In this first-ever book on the solfeggio tradition, one of the pillars of eighteenth-century music education, author Nicholas Baragwanath illuminates how performers and composers developed their excep...
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