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Playing with History
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 28.00In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of historically informed musical performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. more...
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 72.00This is a book both by and about Berlioz, providing not only a new translation but also an extensive commentary on his text, dealing with the instruments of Berlioz's time and comparing his instruction with his practice. more...
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 35.00James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany, focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics, historians, performers and composers. Of relevance to scholars, students and devotees of nineteenth-century music, and those interested in nineteenth-century culture, art, architecture, literature and aesthetics,... more...
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvère music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. more...
Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00This present edition of Johann Adam Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation, originally published in Germany in 1780, is translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken and makes this important manual on vocal technique and performance available for the first time in English. more...
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