Riccardo Muti 
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“Exhilarating“ – Sunday Times “Funny and moving“ – Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as …

This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamic …

This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ‚texts.‘ These broadly defined texts—primarily musical scores—facilitate the integration of score study and music t …

The Live Music Business: Management and Production of Concerts and Festivals, Third Edition, shines a light on the enigmatic live music business, offering a wealth of inside advice and trade secrets …

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Mu …

Franz Liszt is well known for his early years as “super-star“ pianist who excited audiences throughout Europe, but his later life is also of great interest. In his final 25 years he sought to …

This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare“s plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it. David Lindley sets the musical scene of …

This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female …

Armed only with turntables, a mixer and a pile of records, hip-hop DJs and turntable musicians have changed the face of music. However, whilst hip-hop has long been recognised as an influential …

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated, pejoratively, with the cheerful vulgarity …