Classical category: 3244 books
Berlioz on Music
Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
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 all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has...
Andreas Werckmeister’s Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse
A Well-Tempered Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Andreas Werckmeister (1645 – 1706), a late seventeenth-century German Lutheran organist, composer, and music theorist, is the last great advocate and defender of the Great Tradition in music, with its assumptions that music is a divine gift to humanity, spiritually charged yet rationally accessible,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks...
Counterpoint
The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This classic introductory text focuses on the polyphonic vocal style perfected by Palestrina. Unlike many other texts, it maintains a careful balance between theoretical and practical problems, between historical and systematic methodology. The result is an exceptionally useful resource, ideal for...
Distant Cycles
Schubert and the Conceiving of Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1994
Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre. But as Richard Kramer argues in this book, Schubert envisioned many other songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By carefully studying Schubert's original manuscripts,...
Frauenliebe und Leben
Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. Hallmark...
A Sociable Moment
Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind, Colleen Reardon opens a window...
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
F. Chopin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer. As one of Chopin's friends, Liszt created a unique biography that allows the reader to experience the world of Chopin through the memories of one of his most adamant supporters. This translation...
Ligeti's Stylistic Crisis
Transformation in His Musical Style, 1974-1985
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
The Hungarian composer Gysrgy Ligeti (1923-2006) was one of the most innovative and influential composers of the last 50 years. He was one of a number of Central and East European composers, including Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Penderecki, who have created musical languages that combine elements...
Experiencing Beethoven
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman’s terms a highly representative body of about two dozen Beethoven instrumental and vocal works, offering listeners who know him well, or are just discovering him, an opportunity to grasp the breadth and depth of his musical...
Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates
Defending the Philosophical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Plato’s Apology of Socrates we see a philosopher in collision with his society—a society he nonetheless claims to have benefited through his philosophic activity. It has often been asked why democratic Athens condemned a philosopher of Socrates' character to death. This anthology examines the...
by Carol Belanger Grafton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Mozart's beloved comic romp, reprinted from a late (C. F. Peters, 1941) but beautifully engraved and highly regarded edition, which preserves Mozart's autograph manuscript and early translations of the libretto and includes passages that are often cut in other editions.
by Karen Khanagov
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The three books are all...
Camerata
A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Camerata: A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses distinguishes itself from all other works on choral conducting by starting at the very beginning—the conception and purpose of an ensemble—and continuing through all other aspects of rehearsing and organizing a chorus to performance...