History & Criticism
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Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: The Eglantine Table [Hardback]
Michael Fleming(Editor); Christopher Page(Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9781783274215
Published by : Boydell Press
The reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) has often been regarded as the Golden Age of English music. Many works of high quality, both vocal and instrumental, were composed and performed by native and immigrant musicians, while balladry and minstrelsy ... .... Learn More -
Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century [Hardback]
John Ling(Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9781783276165
Published by : Boydell Press
Throughout the nineteenth century a fierce debate about the future of English music was raging in Britain. Just as English music was appearing to advance in quality, the impact of Richard Wagner altered the course of the debate. Alarmed at the Wag... .... Learn More -
Portuguese Cinema (1960-2010): Consumption, Circulation and Commerce [Hardback]
André Rui Graça(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781855663435
Published by : Tamesis Books
Series: Monografías A
Volume: 395
This book traces the evolution of Portuguese cinema between the beginning of the New Cinema movement in 1960 and the height of the economic crisis in 2010 from a socio-cultural and economic perspective. It aims to explain why this vibrant and crea... .... Learn More -
A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets [Paperback]
Jared C. Hartt(Editor); Alice V. Clark(Contributor); Anna Zayaruznaya(Contributor); Catherine Bradley(Contributor); Dolores Pesce(Contributor); Jared C. Hartt(Contributor); Elizabeth Eva Leach(Contributor)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783276080
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Volume: 17
Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume - the first to be devotedexclusively to me... .... Learn More -
Medieval English Theatre 42: Religious Drama and Community [Paperback]
Elisabeth Dutton(Editor); Olivia Robinson(Editor); Aurélie Blanc(Contributor); Camille Marshall(Contributor); E. Lucy Deacon(Contributor); Elisabeth Dutton(Contributor); Olivia Robinson(Contributor); George Gandy(Contributor)
$60.00ISBN: 9781843845942
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Medieval English Theatre
Volume: 42
Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses an... .... Learn More -
Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis: The Shepherd's Melody in Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde [Hardback]
Jean-Jacques Nattiez(Author); Joan Huguet(Author); Joan Campbell Huguet(Editor)
$150.00ISBN: 9781580469999
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 180
The field of musicology has in recent decades branched out to incorporate methods from a wide range of other fields. But, when scholars examine a musical work, to what extent should they emphasize immanent (purely internal) features, and to what e... .... Learn More -
Arnold Schoenberg and Egon Wellesz: A Fraught Relationship [Paperback]
Bojan Bujic(Author); Christopher Wintle(Author); Christopher Wintle(Editor)
$24.95ISBN: 9780993198380
Published by : Plumbago Books
Egon Wellesz studied music only briefly with Arnold Schoenberg but remained forever captivated by his personality. Yet, unlike Alban Berg or Anton Webern, he never wholly succumbed to his master but developed his own style: in the1920s he emerged ... .... Learn More -
Arnold Schoenberg and Egon Wellesz: A Fraught Relationship [Hardback]
Bojan Bujic(Author); Christopher Wintle(Author); Christopher Wintle(Editor)
$65.00ISBN: 9780993198373
Published by : Plumbago Books
Egon Wellesz studied music only briefly with Arnold Schoenberg but remained forever captivated by his personality. Yet, unlike Alban Berg or Anton Webern, he never wholly succumbed to his master but developed his own style: in the1920s he emerged ... .... Learn More -
Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press: Lully to Wagner [Hardback]
William Weber(Author); Beverly Wilcox(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781648250163
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 177
This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": t... .... Learn More -
The Event of Music History [Paperback]
J.P.E. Harper-Scott(Author); J. P. E. Harper-Scott(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783275991
Published by : Boydell Press
This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl... .... Learn More
