Western Classical Music

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the ...

Dieses Buch zum Phänomen Mozart zeigt und erschließt den genialen Komponisten von vielen Seiten. Es ist eine fakten- und analysebasierte Synthese, ...

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development. This book is a pr...

Demonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart's creative imagination. Much recent...

The launch CD of Huddersfield label, Pennine Records, dedicated to historically interesting new recordings. A disc experimenting with modern instru...

This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 18301870. The Romantic ballet had ...

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the...

Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, ho...

From electronic beeps to orchestral scores, video game music has truly arrived. Rapidly growing in popularity around the world, it looks set to pla...

William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-cen...

Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even ...

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the i...

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to...

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted ...