Western Classical Music

Ah, alas! The faithful shepherd Mirtillo's woeful sigh of unrequited love, delivered with outrageous musical dissonances, has rung through the ages...

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might make us cry, but the idea of finding out more ...

Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and opéra-comique...

As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the ...

Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-centurys greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain o...

Composer and broadcaster Jack Pepper introduces the world of classical music - and its colourful characters - as you've never seen it before... LET...

What happens when the elitist space of Western classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity ...

In the obituary that appeared soon after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach was described as the world-famous organist and the greatest organist...we...

The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-poin...

Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twen...