Music-History & Criticism

“Carnaval”, Op. 9, is one of Robert Schumann's most celebrated piano cycles. Composed in 1834-1835, this collection of 21 short pieces represents a masked ball during Carnival, with each piece portraying a different character, mood, or event. The work is renowned for its vivid...

Intermedia art--an avant-garde multimedia practice that combines sound and moving images--took root in Japan alongside other places in the 1960s. In Transpacific Experiments, Miki Kaneda analyzes intermedia as a practice that gives form to errant possibilities, unfolding in spaces of the everyday, to offer...

This book embraces the multiplicity of forms of writing inspired by rock and roll. Exploring a diverse range of formats including rock autobiography and gender, race and class in American rock journalism, rock obituaries, rock literature and spirituality, rock writing and promotion/packaging, and more,...

✨ Iconic Albums - Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection ✨The Untold Story of Elton John's Most Timeless MasterpieceLong before the stadium tours, diamond-studded sunglasses, and global superstardom, Elton John and Bernie Taupin crafted an album that quietly became one of the most beloved and enduring...

Willem Mengelberg is undeniably the greatest conductor in Dutch music history. In his biography, Frits Zwart carefully examines a musical life lived. Mengelberg was not only one of the world's greatest, he had an excellent reputation as a trainer of orchestral ensembles, responsible for...

Francis Planté (1839-1934) was a celebrated French pianist renowned for his technical prowess and deeply expressive style. He displayed prodigious musical talent from an early age, studying under esteemed musicians like Antoine Marmontel and performing in public by the age of 10. His playing...

During the one and a quarter centuries since recording began, entirely new kinds of music have been invented and within those genres, different variations have been explored. At the beginning of the twentieth century, jazz, the blues, and country had barely started. Rock music...

The genesis of Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, is something of a legend. He had first considered the subject in 1837 when Scribe presented him with two new drafts, intended to clinch the triumphant successes of Robert le Diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836). The...

The ICTM Study Group Music and Minorities was founded officially in 1997 and is thus one of the youngest Study Groups within the ICTM. The volume Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities is a collection of the papers of the second Study Group...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This eleven volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime unrivalled by any of his contemporaries. This eleven volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in his...

Meyerbeer's third Italian opera, Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) was premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 26 June 1819 only three months after Semiramide had appeared at Turin, and scored a success that far surpassed that of both of its...

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three...

Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2020, the Who are one of the most popular and enduring bands in the history of rock. The legendary debut album My Generation and a string of hit singles paved the way for Live At Leeds,...

The Rolling Stones. Still going strong and defying the doubters, over 55 years since their formation, they possess a longevity almost unheard of in popular music - especially with three of the five original members still present. The majority of people, however, would surely...

There is a paucity of material regarding how choral music specifically was performed in the 1800s. The Historically Informed Performance (HIP) movement has made remarkable advancements in choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, with modest forays into the music of Beethoven,...

This volume unites eleven essays in four languages, selected among papers first presented at the International Symposia in Late Medieval and Renaissance Music held at Kloster Neustift/Novacella, South Tyrol, in 1997 and 2000. Their common thread is the exploration of borders and borderline areas...

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc043.htmAuthor: Marie Louise GöllnerISBN-10: 1595514651ISBN-13: 9781595514653Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 264Format: Hardcover

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc034.htmAuthor: Murray C. BradshawISBN-10: 1595512713ISBN-13: 9781595512710Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1978Pages: 216Format: Hardcover

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc028.htmAuthor: Murray C. BradshawISBN-10: 1595512659ISBN-13: 9781595512659Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1972Pages: 144Format: Hardcover

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc027.htmAuthor: Andrew HughesISBN-10: 1595512640ISBN-13: 9781595512642Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1972Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.50w x 0.70d

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc025.htmAuthor: Carol MacClintockISBN-10: 1595512624ISBN-13: 9781595512628Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1971Pages: 112Format: Hardcover

This volume brings together scholars and artist-researchers to explore the nature and function of musical instruments in creative practices, and their role in musical culture. Through historical, theoretical, critical, practical-artistic perspectives and case studies, the contributors here examine identities and affordances of acoustical, electronic...

â ~Ethnicâ (TM) piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. Having come to prominence in the first part of the twentieth century, they encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume...

Jennifer Higdon is an esteemed American composer known internationally, and the recipient of many awards in various musical genres. Though best known for her instrumental works and operas, she is a prolific writer of choral music that is fascinating, varied in style, profound, and...

In his lifetime, the opera composer Fromental HalÃ(c)vy was considered the leader of the French school; his admirers included Wagner, Berlioz, and later Mahler. Today, he is chiefly remembered for his grand tragic opera La Juive (1835). HalÃ(c)vy, a native of Paris, was active...

Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier,Nicholas Lester FullerISBN-10: 1527566579ISBN-13: 9781527566576Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2021Pages: 684Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.70d

This book examines the impact of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/SociÃ(c)tÃ(c) Radio Canada (CBC/SRC) on the development of art music in Canada during the broadcasterâ (TM)s first fifty years (1936-1986). In so doing, it investigates the achievement of one man: John Peter Lee Roberts. Born...

This book focuses on two main topics related to the essence of music, the first of which problematizes the ontological unity of music, philosophy and mathematics. The second concern of the text is the direction of social ontology or the existence of music in...

Author: T. Michael MboyaISBN-10: 1527526747ISBN-13: 9781527526747Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2019Pages: 163Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.60d

The use of music in therapeutic practice in Turkey and the surrounding geographical regions is not a new phenomenon. Until recently, however, the music therapy profession, as it is known in the modern world, had not been institutionalized as a scientific discipline in Turkey....

Author: Richard GloverISBN-10: 152751398XISBN-13: 9781527513983Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.70d

This volume brings together practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art. Contributions explore a wide range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices and art-making that...

Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN-10: 1527511324ISBN-13: 9781527511323Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2018Pages: 437Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume,...

The transitions that occurred in everyday life after the new â oeAmerica⠝ was created after the Revolutionary War are reflected in the type of wind music local amateur groups were performing. New composers began writing original works, always trying to wean themselves from...

This book is concerned with the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area in general and more specifically the karakteristike (characteristic) or â ~distinctiveâ (TM) song associated with Korçë city, Albania. The first half of the 20th century marked the...

Author: Michaël AbecassisISBN-10: 1527503542ISBN-13: 9781527503540Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2017Pages: 688Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.80d

As Timothy McGee says in his introduction, 'It is not an exaggeration to say that John Beckwith has been the single most important influence on Canadian music over the past forty years.' Beckwith's career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter...

An expansive study of the first 100 years of film music, this book listens composer by composer, film by film, to scoring trends, innovation, and technological developments that have helped to shape film music over the decades. Focusing predominantly on English language, live-action films...

Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opera from the tragedie lyrique of Lully, Rameau, Gluck and Spontini. The libretto by Eugene Scribe and Germain Delavigne was derived from...

Marronnage is a stance, an attitude, a mentality or even a style. This book gives a large span of declensions of marronnage and shows how the quest for freedom during Slavery has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. Thus, identity approaches and expressions very...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically gifted, he initially chose commerce as a career, but soon realized that his future...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergere Chateleine (1820), written at the age...

While many teachers of music composition have influenced both the aesthetic and eventual success of their students, few have equaled the contributions of Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger in the twentieth-century. A larger volume of a more comprehensive collection including all music composition teachers...

This book is an addition to the British music culture as it traces the history, growth and environmental, social and musical conditions of the Brass Band Movement during the Victorian era, and the influences of the Romantic Period.Author: Dennis TaylorISBN-10: 1443826413ISBN-13: 9781443826419Publisher: Cambridge Scholars...