Carl Van Vechten 
Caruso’s Mustache Off: and Other Writings about Music and Musicians [EPUB ebook] 

The Music of Hugh Wood provides the first ever in-depth study of this well-known, yet only briefly documented composer. Over the years, Wood (b. 1932) has produced a sizeable oeuvre that explores the …

By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or individual scholars, but a business enterprise undertaken by a new breed of Victorian …

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach»s music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called »the English Bach revival», but that is a mi …

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) was an unusual legend in his own lifetime: a Parsi composer and critic living in England whose compositions are of such length and difficulty that he felt compe …

Ever since Peter Gabriel fronted progressive rock band Genesis, from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s, journalists and academics alike have noted the importance of Gabriel»s contribution to popula …

When Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Fran�s d�Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and believed that this monumental work would be his final compositi …

This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes availabl …

This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarm mission to »re-possess» music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poe …

Madonna is perhaps one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The recent release of two critically acclaimed and best-selling …

The massive and complex process of change in East Asia over recent decades has brought about a transformation in the nature of law and legal institutions in the region. Whilst the process of change h …