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19th-Century Chamber Music
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer beginning with Beethovena nd continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, to the end-of-the-century pre-modernists more...
20th Century Chamber Music
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95Twentieth Century Chamber Music combines a chronological overview of 20th-century chamber music and the major composers in the style, with information on a wide selection of chamber works. more...
Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
University of California Press 2010; US$ 27.95Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of ?absolute? instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive... more...
Adrian Willaert
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students. more...
Alan Bush
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95This present Source Book documents the works of Alan Bush and the many arrangements of his music by other composers. A wealth of detail is provided, including printed scores, CD recordings, bibliographical material and manuscript scores and their locations, the majority of which have been deposited recently in the British Library by the Bush family.... more...
Alban Berg and His World
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 82.50Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the... more...
All That False Instruction
Spinifex Press 2001; US$ 12.95This passionate, funny, and heartbreaking novel about a young woman?s turbulent coming of age was originally published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Riley. more...
Alun Hoddinott
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95Born in Bargoed, Glamorganshire, in August 1929, Alun Hoddinott started to play the violin and compose at an early age. His first major success was his Clarinet Concerto No.1, given by Gervaise de Peyer and the Halle Orchestra under John Barbirolli at the 1954 Cheltenham Music Festival. This Source Book lists all Hoddinott's compositions from 1946... more...
American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 44.00Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant,... more...
Analyzing Bach Cantatas
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 60.00Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. more...









