Boydell Brewer: 336 books
A Tanner's Worth of Tune
Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A Tanner's Worth of Tune is the first book to be written on the post-war British musical, and the first major assessment of the British musical for a quarter of a century, reviving interest in a vast archive of musicals that have been dismissed to the footnotes of theatrical history. This timely reappraisal...
by Marina Frolova-Walker, Jonathan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The October Revolution of 1917 tore the fabric of Russian musical life: institutions collapsed, and leading composers emigrated or fell into silence. But in 1932, at the outset of the "socialist realist" period, a new Stalinist music culture was emerging. Between these two dates lies a turbulent...
Out of Silence
A Pianist's Yearbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Out of Silence is a diary of a year in Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in the world, and I think it all over in my own way', it aims to show how a working musician mulls over and draws energy from the events...
Music Education in Crisis
The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe reductions in government funding, with more planned. This book, containing the first...
The Three Choirs Festival: A History
New and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable, unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in 2015. Rotating each summer between the English cathedral cities of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, the...
by Christopher Dyment
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
During the 1930s Arturo Toscanini conducted many concerts broadcast by the BBC from London's Queen's Hall, where he also made some unsurpassed recordings. Drawing on newly researched material in British and American archives, Christopher Dyment reveals how the most renowned and influential conductor...
Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott
Song of Pain and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This dual biography of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott tells the dramatic story of two geniuses who met at the Royal College of Music in 1911 and formed an unlikely partnership that illuminated and enriched the musical and literary worlds in which they moved. Gurney's poetry and songs have taken their...
Erik Satie
A Parisian Composer and his World
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Erik Satie's (1866-1925) music appeals to wide audiences and has influenced both experimental artists and pop musicians. Little about Satie was conventional, and he resists classification under easy headings such as "classical music". Instead of pursuing the path of a professional composer,...
by David Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by...
Music in Vienna
1700, 1800, 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehár, Schoenberg and Webern. Today,...
by Edwin Roxburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors...
Music in the West Country
Social and Cultural History across an English Region
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Music in the West Country is the first regional history of music in England. Ranging over seven hundred years, from the minstrels, waits, and cathedral choristers of the fourteenth century to the Bristol Sound of the late twentieth, the book explores the region's soundscape, from its gateway cities...
The Other Classical Musics
Fifteen Great Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015 There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The Economist What is classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted,...
Balfour's World
Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) was born toward the beginning of Queen Victoria's long reign. At her death in 1901, he was a year away from becoming the first prime minister of the Edwardian era. In the quarter century after his entry into political life in the 1870s, Britain experienced material...