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A renowned neuroscientist with no musical talent investigates what it takes to make music On the eve of his fortieth birthday, renowned cognitive scientist Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dr …

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 Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook highlights individual musical ex …

In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. H …

”A boy sings…a beautiful thing” (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys” singing that sh …

First published in 2005. By far the most stimulating and complete introduction to the styles and schools of Western music, this work is certain to remain a classic. Beginning with the music of the ea …

Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire. It is only in the late 1970s and …

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars wh …

After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the ”Barracks King”, the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin under Frederick the Great. Even before his coronation in 1740, the c …

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain”s leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly r …