Western Classical Music

William Vacchiano (19122005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973, and taught at Juilliard, the Manhattan School ...

The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official...

The organ is one of the oldest instruments in Western music, and its sound has inspired many of the greatest composers from the past half a millenn...

Many scholars and music lovers hold that J.S. Bach is a modern figure, as his music seems to speak directly to the aesthetic, spiritual, or emotion...

Just what exactly is classical music ...and why should it be a part of everyone's life? Who are the big names behind the classical hits ...and whic...

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Offers a major new contribution to understanding Schubert's creative approach and the gothic imagination more generally. This book illuminates Fr...

A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to th...

Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and ...

Theory for Todays Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music w...

Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argue...

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Jewish music published to date. It is the ...

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author ...

The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Adès has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the world of classical music toda...

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from th...

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 investigates collaborations between French and American scholar...