Western Classical Music

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891...

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600. The five-movement polypho...

Richard Wagners Werke erleben seit ihren Uraufführungen eine unentwegte Bühnenpräsenz. An ihnen messen sich Sänger und Sängerinnen, Instrumentalist...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the ...

Dieses Buch zum Phänomen Mozart zeigt und erschließt den genialen Komponisten von vielen Seiten. Es ist eine fakten- und analysebasierte Synthese, ...

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development. This book is a pr...

Demonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart's creative imagination. Much recent...

The launch CD of Huddersfield label, Pennine Records, dedicated to historically interesting new recordings. A disc experimenting with modern instru...

This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 18301870. The Romantic ballet had ...

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the...