автор: Ralph P. Locke

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In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense …

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023 A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and …

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian i …

The first study focusing on the composition of new plainchant in northern-French confraternities for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers Starting in the fourteenth ce …

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time. 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Leonard Bernste …

A guide, linked to an online suite of video examples, to how historical instruments influenced the composers of keyboard music, and a way to look at their scores with fresh eyes and ears. Today’s pia …

Guides modern performers and scholars through the intricacies of German Baroque metric theory, via analyses of treatises and organ music by J.S. Bach and other leading composers, such as Buxtehude, B …

A bold application of the concept of ‘canonical’ works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This long-awaited book by a leading historian …

Offers unique perspectives on the clarinet’s historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles, from jazz and ethnic traditions to classical chamber music, concertos, opera, and symphony orche …

With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet’s historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on clar …

Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez’s widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. The …

Essays highlight the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; …