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Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic by James H. Donelan 9780521130165
RRP: £37.99£31.31James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer - Hoelderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven - developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural... -
The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century: Sources and Interpretation by Iain Fenlon 9780521126090
RRP: £44.99£38.54This 1988 book examines the genesis and dissemination of the Italian madrigal in its formative stages. Iain Fenlon and James Haar have analysed this vast repertoire as it is found in manuscript and print offer information concerning the date and... -
The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval Context to Modern Revival by Professor Andrew Kirkman 9780521114127
RRP: £105.00£87.35The 'cyclic' polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages, spawning some of the most impressive and engrossing musical edifices of the period. Modern study of these compositions has greatly enhanced our... -
Henry Purcell and the London Stage by C.A. Price 9780521105156
RRP: £44.99£38.54This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104463
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104425
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104401
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104357
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music by John Haines 9780521108140
RRP: £39.99£33.26This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of... -
Lutoslawski and His Music by Steven Stucky 9780521107402
RRP: £39.99£33.26The composer Witold Lutostawski (born 1913) is one of the outstanding musical personalities of the twentieth century. In this critical biography Steven Stucky traces Lutostawski's development from the Stravinsky-influenced music of his student days to... -
Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts by Iain Fenlon 9780521107389
RRP: £42.99£36.59This volume consists of original papers first read at King's College, Cambridge, in 1979 at an international conference on medieval and Renaissance music. The contributors are distinguished in a wide variety of musicological interests but all are... -
Schubert's Dramatic Lieder by Marjorie Wing Hirsch 9780521107198
RRP: £30.99£28.28This book explores the way in which Schubert revolutionised the Lied, transforming folk song into art song through the mixture of dramatic and lyrical vocal genres. By introducing dramatic poetry and musical traits within solo song settings, he turned... -
Cori Spezzati: Volume 2 by Anthony F. Carver 9780521106351
RRP: £37.99£31.31Cori Spezzati deals with polychoral church music from its beginnings in the first few decades of the sixteenth century to its climax in the work of Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schiitz. In polychoral music the singers, sometimes with instrumentalists... -
Cori Spezzati: Volume 1: The Development of Sacred Polychoral Music to the Time of Schutz by Anthony F. Carver 9780521106320
RRP: £37.99£31.31Cori Spezzati deals with polychoral church music from its beginnings in the first few decades of the sixteenth century to its climax in the work of Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schutz. In polychoral music the singers, sometimes with instrumentalists... -
Schoenberg's Musical Imagination by Michael Cherlin 9780521108348
RRP: £44.99£38.54No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104456
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104449
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104432
RRP: £28.99£26.92Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104418
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104395
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104388
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104371
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104364
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104340
RRP: £28.99£26.52Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104333
RRP: £30.99£28.28Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104326
RRP: £30.99£28.28Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon 9780521104302
RRP: £30.99£28.28Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives... -
Perspectives on Mozart Performance by R. Larry Todd 9780521024068
RRP: £50.99£43.02Perspectives on Mozart Performance, published during the Mozart bicentennial year, is the first volume in a new series. It includes essays by distinguished musicologists and performers, each exploring a different aspect of Mozart's music in performance... -
Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism by Ian Bent 9780521020084
RRP: £39.99£33.26Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and commentators from 1800 to 1875. In doing so, they wield new... -
Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England by Diane Kelsey McColley 9780521036290
RRP: £37.99£31.31This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. The seventeenth century was the... -
Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works by Anne Walters Robertson 9780521036085
RRP: £50.99£43.42Guillaume de Machaut, renowned fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late... -
Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt by Jim Samson 9780521036047
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes etudes (1837), and their reworking as Douzes etudes d'execution transcendante (1851). At the same time it is a book about... -
New Mattheson Studies by George J. Buelow 9780521033312
RRP: £49.99£42.44This 1984 collection of essays brings together the research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's... -
Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts by Thomas S. Grey 9780521033190
RRP: £51.99£44.39This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's... -
Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe by Mark Carroll 9780521031134
RRP: £40.99£34.23This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It pursues two general and intersecting lines of inquiry. The first details the stances towards musical conservatism and... -
Music and Text: Critical Inquiries by Steven Paul Scher 9780521031028
RRP: £39.99£33.26Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted musicologists and literary critics explore diverse topics... -
Haydn Studies by W. Dean Sutcliffe 9780521028356
RRP: £43.99£37.16The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is perennially fresh, concentrating principally on matters... -
Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources by Robert Shay 9780521028110
RRP: £44.99£38.54Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert... -
Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance by Amanda Glauert 9780521028080
RRP: £37.99£31.31Wolf has been regarded as a composer who followed the style and aesthetics of Wagnerian music drama without question, while writing in a genre often seen as less challenging than the symphony or opera. This 1999 book re-examines the evidence concerning... -
Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts by John Kmetz 9780521027373
RRP: £37.99£31.31This 1994 collection of fourteen essays, written by an eminent group of scholars, explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c.1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of...