Western Classical Music

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece. Too often, Anthony Hopkins ...

The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from...

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Nemat Khan Sadarang and Feroze Khan Adarang. It argues that decipherin...

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into China, and how these instruments...

Musical scores like literature, poetry, and technical manuals are documents. The central tenet of this book is that musical composition in the di...

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist, a very fine pianist, and a t...

The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same namethe definitive resource on the study of orchestr...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

First published in 1998, this broad survey includes a large number of musical illustrations and provides an indispensable guide for both students a...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

First published in 1998, this broad survey includes a large number of musical illustrations and provides an indispensable guide for both students a...

First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the authors writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th centu...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the authors work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music...

First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the authors writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th centu...