Stephen Downes 
After Mahler [EPUB ebook] 
Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

How has the history of rock ‘n’ roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Who have been the genre’s primary historians? What common fram …

The Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music is the most comprehensive index of music written for orchestra with chorus in print today.Offering performance information about choral works by more than 900 …

The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg »s works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half …

Dr Foster traces the eventful history of the Church of England from shortly after its establishment in Elizabeth I »s reign down to 1640, when it was on the verge of destruction. As well as analysing …

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically a …

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun …

From famous American Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin, for Easy Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth …

Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of  »protest » music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment  »serio …

John Adams »s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners » and scholars » ap …