Western Classical Music

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many dis...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, th...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening ...

In narrative, photographs, and documents, Bringing the World to Mississippi: The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, 1919-2010 d...

The first in-depth study in almost half a century of Robert Schumann's multi-movement Leipzig chamber works, this book offers novel and diverse enc...

False relations remain one of the great enigmas of English Renaissance musical culture. Contemporary theoretical treatises explicitly discouraged t...

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of...

Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in s...

When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm...

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution ...

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bachs music and the reasons for his borrowing, an...

Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical scene and the conditions under ...