Abbott Helen Abbott 
Parisian Intersections [PDF ebook] 
Baudelaire’s Legacy to Composers

This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs. …

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 …

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional development of music teachers in the Nordic and Baltic …

This title was first published in 2000: Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies – both musical and documentary. Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish C …

First Published in 1999, Hermine Weigel Williams’ study draws on more than thirty years of research to fill this noticeable lacuna , and presents here the first full scale life and works of the compo …

In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni M …

Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness, and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical …

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 …

Shostakovich”s music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by ”energy” in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael R …

Synopsis of Vocal Musick, by the unidentified A.B., was published in London in 1680 and appears to have only ever had one edition. Its relatively short shelf-life belies its importance to the history …