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Music in the Nineteenth Century
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 34.99The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles,... more...
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 34.99The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles,... more...
Enchanted Evenings
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 20.99This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with... more...
The Italian Traditions and Puccini
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 41.95In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking... more...
Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 159.99Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature,... more...
The Flower of Paradise
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 34.99There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres-one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular-both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms-Marian... more...
Art and Ideology in European Opera
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00This collection is a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovative studies of Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz, among many others. Colleagues, associates and former students pay tribute to his work with essays highlighting the interplay between opera, art and... more...
Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
University of California Press 2012; US$ 60.00In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states?desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions... more...
Music of the Middle Ages: Volume 1
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 42.00A unique history of the vast repertory of monophonic music of the Middle Ages. more...
The Age of Mozart and Beethoven
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 34.00An examination of one of the crucial periods of musical history, viewed against the social and political background of the time. more...









