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...
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