Western Classical Music

Battles was written for the restoration of the epic 1927 silent film The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, and was commissioned by the Briti...

Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, a...

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated. Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical cul...

This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music fro...

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation. The medieval songbook known va...

The first guide to research on Telemann in any language. This book is the first guide to research on the composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-176...

The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissa...

In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (18741951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the futur...

Opera, for its inherent multimedia nature (text, music, scenography, ballet, representation), lends itself to interdisciplinary, including those th...