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An Introduction to Music Studies
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 22.00Why study music? An introduction to the main aspects of the subject, outlining the many benefits of a music degree. more...
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 184.00The 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...
Virtuosity and the Musical Work
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 46.00This book considers the nature of nineteenth-century instrumental music by investigating three sets of etudes by Liszt. It explores central concerns such as a composer-performer culture, the concept of virtuosity, the significance of recomposition, music and the poetic, and the consolidation of a musical work-concept. more...
Chopin: The Four Ballades
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 23.00Chopin's four ballades are widely regarded as being amongst the most significant extended works for solo piano of the nineteenth century. In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works. He begins by investigating the social and musical background... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 33.00Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars provide a uniquely comprehensive guide to the composer and his music. more...
Music and Displacement
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 52.99The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond... more...
The New (Ethno)musicologies
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 46.99This collection of essays addresses and critically examines key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume explores ethnomusicology's shifting disciplinary relationships and plots a range of potential developments for its future. more...
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