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This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music. Through……続きを見る

Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the fi……続きを見る

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massac……続きを見る

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, an internationally renowned Carnatic musician from the illustrious musical lineage of composer Saint Tyagaraja, wore many hats in his lifetime. Having made a stage d……続きを見る

"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas deserve, and all feminists should note." -Oprah Daily An incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the……続きを見る

The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by ……続きを見る

De Pékin à Paris, de Hong Kong à Los Angeles, le témoignage déchirant d'une femme broyée par la Révolution culturelle chinoise et sauvée par la musique. Pékin, 1969 : Zhu Xiao-Mei est un " être de m……続きを見る

This concerto was composed for my good friend Giovanni De Chiaro, and was commissioned by the Shreveport Summer Music Festival, where it premiered. The title "Concierto de Chiaro" is one with multip……続きを見る

Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the "greatest hits" of the Renaissance and Baroque lute repertoire arranged for pick acoustic, electric, or classical guitar. MacKillop has for……続きを見る

This second volume of The Classical Guitarist’s Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From “The Water Is Wide” and Christmas and patriotic favo……続きを見る

In the author’s words, this collection of 10 modern classical guitar pieces was composed to emulate the “elusive, graceful, fragile, subtle, elegant, stealthy qualities” of cats. Inspired by a rich ……続きを見る

Music hall was a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as……続きを見る

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the l……続きを見る

Great care has been taken to make all statements as clear as possible for the average student. The less experienced player will find stated here the fundamentals which he needs; and the more profici……続きを見る

Mr. Bates covers the known history of the oboe since its emergence in the late seventeenth century and its development from the shawm. He also makes comparisons with previously known double-reed ins……続きを見る

First published at Heidelberg in 1825 this is a study of moral purity in music, particularly church music. "The fact that this Essay was first published more than half a century ago, might seem, at ……続きを見る

"SINGERS, musicians of all kinds, are notoriously bad mannered. The storms of the Titan, Beethoven, the petty malevolences of Richard Wagner, the weak sulkiness of Chopin ("Chopin in displeasure was……続きを見る

When this book was first published, the author of this book was Russia's greatest living pianist and composer. ON the 18th of November, 1889, Russia celebrated the Jubilee of her greatest living pia……続きを見る

The Autobiography of Sidney Bechet. 1897-1959, Clarinetist, Saxophonist and Composer. Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten th……続きを見る

Relatively little has been written about how ballet teachers become teachers themselves and how each generation passes on its experience to the next. The teacher-dancer relationship within the conte……続きを見る

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several differe……続きを見る

A biography of the singer and educator, perhaps intended for young people. Hackley was African-American, and worked tirelessly to further young African-Americans in music careers. (The author indica……続きを見る

This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of ……続きを見る

Il volume si sviluppa su più piani diversamente inclinati e fortemente interconnessi. Si tratta di un lavoro analitico serrato che non cede mai al resoconto facile […] e che, nel contempo, non si ri……続きを見る

La Dante-Sonata è un esempio emblematico dello spirito creativo dell’autore: in essa si coniuga perfettamente l’opera poetica e letteraria e la composizione musicale in una grande architettura tripa……続きを見る

"Ved at grave dybt ned i fortidens folkelige sagnlitteratur fandt de tyske komponister vejen til den romantiske opera. Som genpart til den sungne romantik fremstår endelig den instrumentale romantis……続きを見る

Beginning with the key of C and using scales, intervals, modes, grounds, and chord progressions, The Improvising Lute Player is the first book ever to help you learn to improvise on the lute. The bo……続きを見る

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music. Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas ……続きを見る

Barbara Mayer präsentiert in diesem Buch – als weltweit erste tiefgehende Studie überhaupt – den einst für die Musikgeschichte Brasiliens richtungsweisenden, bisher von wissenschaftlicher Seite aber……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered… how the orchestra got its name? who wrote the longest-ever symphony? just how do we know when to clap – and when not to? From Bach to Beethoven, Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams, ……続きを見る