Benedict Taylor 
Hensel: String Quartet in E flat [PDF ebook] 

First Published in 1995. This series comprises nearly 300 romances and melodies, most of which were composed during the 40 years that saw a blossoming of the romantic spirit in all the arts in France …

The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning ma …

From French Composer Saint Saens, Opera Samson and Delilah, Opus 47 for Easy Violin A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century. A …

’He plays the piano well, ’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talent but he’s not a genius, and I’m afraid he thinks h …

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in …

The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminati …

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music …

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection o …

Born in 1916, Henri Dutilleux is one of France‘s leading composers, enjoying an international reputation for his beautifully crafted works. This is the first translation into English of a series of i …