Western Classical Music

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 ...

Music and Cosmopolitanism is a musical portrait of a city-Rio de Janeiro. Award-winning author Cristina Magaldi takes readers on an auditory tour t...

The International Whos Who in Classical Music 2020 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composer...

Weil jede Note zählt: Dies ist das interpretatorische Credo, das Alfred Brendel in diesem Buch entwirft. Es ist eine Aufforderung, über den Umgang ...

Wovon »sprechen« Brahms Symphonien, was ist ihr musikalischer Gehalt? War Johannes Brahms ein formtreuer Klassizist oder ein »verkappter Programmmu...

Alfred Brendel und Peter Gülke pflegen die Kunst des Interpretierens auf einzigartige Weise: Brendel als weltberühmter Pianist, der auch Bücher übe...

Was bleibt? Johann Sebastian Bach gestaltete und verfeinerte sein reiches musikalisches Erbe sehr bewusst: Über Jahrzehnte hinweg trug er sorgfälti...

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from ...

With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the...

Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and s...

Johann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit Weihnachts-, Oster- und Himmelfahrtsoratorien sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen gipf...

Choral Conducting: Philosophy and Practice, Second Edition is an updated resource for conductors and singers alike, a college-level text for studen...

This study reassesses Cages multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual...

Equestrian ballets (balletti a cavallo), although little known today, emerged as valued dramatic entertainments in early modern Europe, capable of ...

Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his ...