This is the first book to investigate systematically the diverse aspects and compositional approaches of Greek musical modernism. It will interest not only musicians, musicologists, and music theorists, but also cultural historians and other scholar...Daugiau...
Weida Wang explores how Western classical music has become increasingly popular in China, framing the industry as a complex entity embedded within Chinas political landscape, cultural economy, and cultural industries. The study delves into the mecha...Daugiau...
Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on this popular American composer and conductor. It includes annotations on Bernsteins writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary...Daugiau...
This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: Jécris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols translation, capturin...Daugiau...
In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. This Companion provides an authoritative overview of research in this area and highlights the innovative work of the...Daugiau...
The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhards work and comprise the first full length scholarly work on this composer. Among the themes presented is the way Gerhards work was shaped by his Catalan heritage and his education und...Daugiau...
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of womens participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present....Daugiau...
Britten Experienced is a response to two recent studies of the composer, and offers alternative critical readings of some of his major works. The author frames his proposals with episodes of musicological autobiography that attempt to illustrate how...Daugiau...
This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial. Works include those by Frank Bridge, Ferruccio Busoni, Mikalojus Konstantinas iurlionis, Rebecca Clarke, and more. ...Daugiau...
The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of Stravinskys music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Works such as The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (191723), the Symphony of Psalms (1930),...Daugiau...
This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music....Daugiau...
Musical Topics and Musical Performance focuses on the interface of theory and practice, investigating how an appreciation of topical presence in a work may prompt interpretative thoughts for a potential performer as well as how performers have respo...Daugiau...
This book documents easy listenings connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. which will fascinate scholars, h...Daugiau...
Edmund Rubbras music has given him a reputation as a spiritual composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism....Daugiau...
This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, per...Daugiau...
Teaching Music History with Cases introduces a pedagogical approach to music history instruction in university coursework. This book guides instructors through the process of designing a curriculum based on case studies, finding and writing case stu...Daugiau...
This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men, interrogating how each sheds light on the other, and how women have appropriated, res...Daugiau...
This book studies Crumbs Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumbs output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions...Daugiau...
The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 70s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and inde...Daugiau...
Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror their socio-cultural context....Daugiau...
