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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...
The Classical Music Map of Britain
Elliott & Thompson 2010; US$ 11.99The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and thoroughly interesting journey around our country from a classical music perspective. From Frith Street in Soho, where Mozart stayed and performed free street concerts during his only trip to England, to Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, where Joseph Parry was born and raised until he was 13, The... more...
The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967
University of California Press 2004; US$ 95.00This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer whose command of the subject is nothing short of virtuosic. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790s, the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture,... more...
The Classic FM Concise Hall of Fame
Elliott & Thompson 2011; US$ 9.99The Classic FM Concise Hall of Fame celebrates classical music's unique ability to stir the emotions of a listener?whether it's the haunting melodies of Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; the passionately charged opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; dramatic operas such as Puccini's La bohème; the moving sounds... more...
Seniorenliederbuch
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung Über dreißig beliebte Kirchenlieder, an die man sich erinnert: Im Großdruck und handlichen Format machen diese Texte das Mitsingen leicht. Wenn die Kräfte schwinden, auch die Sehkraft und vielleicht manche Erinnerung, sind es oft Melodien, die die Vergangenheit beschwören und die Gegenwart bereichern. Dann bedarf es vielleicht nur... 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...
What Makes Music European
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 79.99In What Makes Music European , Marcello Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What... more...
The Old Italian School of Singing
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 65.00This work describes in accessible language the technical foundations of the Old Italian School of Singing. It enables the reader to grasp the teachings of the old masters theoretically and practically. The research for this book used not only the old treatises from the 1700's onwards but also firsthand testimonies, biographies and recordings from... more...
The Reich's Orchestra
Souvenir Press 2010; US$ 21.86For decades the relationship between the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and National Socialist regime has been shrouded in mystery. In 1933, the world-renowned orchestra came under the control of Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels; the musicians became civil servants of the Reich and until the end of World War Two, the orchestra served as... more...
Frontier Figures
University of California Press 2012; US$ 34.95Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well... more...









