History & Criticism
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Self-Quotation in Schubert: "Ave Maria," the Second Piano Trio, and Other Works [Hardback]
Scott Messing(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9781580469654
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 165
Enthusiasts and experts have long relished Schubert's quotations of his own music. This study centers on a previously unidentified pairing: "Ave Maria," one of his most beloved songs, and the Piano Trio no. 2, a masterpiece that holds a ... .... Learn More -
Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America [Hardback]
Bonny H. Miller(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9781580469722
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 164
Augusta Browne's five-decade career in music and letters reveals a gifted composer and author. Hailed as "one of the most prolific women composers in the USA before 1870," Augusta Browne Garrett (c. 1820-1882) was also a dedicated music ... .... Learn More -
British Music after Britten [Hardback]
Arnold Whittall(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783274970
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 14
This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018 surveys a cross-section of contemporary classical composition in the UK. The governing perspective is the impact of the life and work of Benj... .... Learn More -
From Silence to Sound: Beethoven's Beginnings [Hardback]
Jeremy Yudkin(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783274796
Published by : Boydell Press
"No classical composer put more drama or originality into his opening ideas than Beethoven, so this first special study of these musical beginnings is particularly welcome." LEWIS LOCKWOOD
This book discusses the myriad ways in ... .... Learn More -
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts [Hardback]
Tina Frühauf(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781783274963
Published by : Boydell Press
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts covers topics from classical to popular and neo-traditional musics to concerns of the disciplines of musicology. These provide insights how the progression of time and history can be conceptually understood aft... .... Learn More -
Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC: Works, Politics, Performances [Hardback]
Daniel Abraham(Editor); Alicia Kopfstein-Penk(Editor); Andrew H. Weaver(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781580469739
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: Volume 167
Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the US capital was the site of some of the most important moments in his l... .... Learn More -
Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England: The work of Gray & Davison, 1772-1890 [Hardback]
Nicholas Thistlethwaite(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274673
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Volume: Volume 24
Established for the building of keyboard instruments, by the mid-1790s the workshop of brothers Robert and William Gray had become one of the leading organ-makers in London, with instruments in St Paul's, Covent Garden and St Martin-in-the-Fields.... .... Learn More -
The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins II: Volume Two: The Fantasia-Suites [Hardback]
Andrew Ashbee(Author)
$59.00ISBN: 9780907689478
Published by : Toccata Press
John Jenkins (1592-1678) was both the most prolific and the most esteemed of English composers in the fifty years or so between the death of William Byrd and the rise of Henry Purcell. After his apprenticeship Jenkins became renowned as a skilled ... .... Learn More -
Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks [Hardback]
David Cairns(Author)
$59.00ISBN: 9780907689584
Published by : Toccata Press
Series: Musicians on Music
Volume: Volume 12
For the past half-century and more David Cairns has been one of the world's pre-eminent Berlioz scholars, translating Berlioz's freewheeling memoirs and writing a monumental biography of the composer that earned a procession of awards. But many of... .... Learn More -
The Segovia Manuscript: A European Musical Repertory in Spain, c.1500 [Hardback]
Wolfgang Fuhrmann(Editor); Cristina Urchueguía(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274635
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Volume: Volume 20
The Segovia Manuscript (Cathedral of Segovia, Archivo Capitular) has puzzled musicologists ever since its rediscovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is unique: no other manuscript of the period transmits a comparable blend of late f... .... Learn More