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Philosophy of music has flourished in the last thirty years, with great advances made in...

This study sets out to place the remarkable cultural events of the early Renaissance in...

Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think...

In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the...

What is meant by an 'independent' television and press, and what affirmative role should any...

David Hopkins analyses the extensive network of shared concerns and images in the work of...

There are more curious beliefs about the violin than any other instrument. Physicists have now...

Following on from the volume on the King's Theatre, Haymarket (published by OUP in 1995),...

This is a corrected reissue, in Clarendon Paperbacks format with a new cover, of Michael...

Schroeder here sets out to challenge the widely held view of Haydn as an inspired...

Lutoslawski Studies presents for the first time an overview of the great twentieth-century composer Witold...

The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how sacred and secular music was...

Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with...

This is the first book of its kind on Schubert. It appears at a time...

Fifteenth-century Italy produced the earliest known treatises on the dance. Guglielmo Ebreo, an eminent Jewish...

The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of...

This apparently haphazard collection of essays on the interpretation of more unusual concert pieces was...

This is the final book in the magnificent series of advice on conducting the repertoire...

While understanding the concept of all-sung opera, seventeenth-century English impresarios and their audiences also understood...

As Nicholas Kenyon says, quoting Ralph Vaughan Williams in the introduction to this volume, 'We...

This book gives an account of the individual works of one of the greatest composers....

The first edition of this book is the classic study of one of the most...

This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical'...

This is a work of reference in two parts: part 1 is an itemized list...

This, the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters yet to appear in any language, makes every...

Jane Manning, a leading singer of 20th century music, has chosen over 70 songs to...

Many books have been written about Beethoven but it is rare to find one which...

The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for...

The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but,...

Published to complement Mozart Studies (published in 1991), Mozart Studies 2 offers a forum for...

Over the centuries of its history the Piano Trio has gained a repertoire of exceptional...

Although Francesco Geminiani is a relatively well-known composer whose name is frequently cited in studies...

Although the mandolin is now regarded as a marginal instrument in the classical world, a...

The Oxford History of English Music, Volume 2 takes the story of English Music from...

Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by...

The contribution of the British Isles to the history of the violin family has been...

This book is the first comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to...

This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of...

Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707) was the greatest figure in the history of German music between...

This uniquely complete and up-to-date collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music will...

Engraved gems were used by the Greeks as seals and amulets, but were primarily valued...

A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official...