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Music in Ancient Greece and Romeby John Landels
Routledge 1998; US$ 40.95Music in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trahan, presented in concise and user-friendly chapters, with suggestions for further reading. more...
A Schnittke Readerby Alfred Schnittke; Alexander Ivashkin
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries. more...
Hearing Filmby Anahid Kassabian
Routledge 2001; US$ 38.95Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. more...
Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Operaby Stephen C. Meyer
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 31.95Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der Freischütz and Euryanthe, and contemporary discourse on both the "Germany of the imagination" and the new nation itself. In so doing, he presents excerpts from a wide range of philosophical, political, and musical writings, many of which are little known and otherwise unavailable in English. Individual chapters trace the multidimensional concept of German and "foreign" opera through the 19th century. Meyer's study of Der Freischütz places the work within the context of emerging German nationalism, and a chapter on Euryanthe addresses the ... more...
Operatic Stateby Ruth Bereson
Routledge 2002; US$ 120.00Bereson investigates the elite and privileged status of the closed-world of opera, and the way states have financed and supported it since its beginnings. more...
Operettaby Richard Traubner
Routledge 2003; US$ 44.95Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon. more...
Early Musical Borrowingby Honey Meconi
Routledge 2004; US$ 105.00This collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music. more...
Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalinby Neil Edmunds
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 39.95This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. more...
Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century Londonby Ian Woodfield; Arthur Groos
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 62.00This book explores the cultural life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first time, Ian Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and the role of women in opera management. more...
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Musicby Jim Samson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 177.00The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. more...