Western Classical Music

The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in fr...

These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of G...

These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of G...

The way rhythm is taught in Western classrooms and music lessons is rooted in a centuries-old European approach that favors metric levels within a ...

Discover the enchanting world of Yiruma with the official easy piano sheet music from his best-selling recorded album, SOLO. Released in 2021 to ce...

Discover the enchanting world of Yiruma with the official piano sheet music from his best-selling recorded album, SOLO. Released in 2021 to celebra...

'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the YearIn November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her tw...

From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Björk   Songs can b...

A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958) was one of the mo...

An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise...

The International Whos Who in Classical Music 2019 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composer...

How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative analysis of the re...