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This standard work is an introduction to the interpretation of keyboard music from the fourteenth...

This comprehensive but concise guide for the student of orchestration is also an excellent book...

The guitar occupies a unique position in the history of Western music. It has always...

Lucie Manén presents the findings of her extensive investigation into the original Italian art of...

An instructive book for students at all levels and abilities Musical composition is becoming a...

For this second edition of his guide to the more adventurous evolutions of music since...

Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is...

This introductory text for students covers all the most important aspects of serial composition, including...

Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have...

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world...

The man whom W.H. Auden called `perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived' has inspired...

In addition to his great prowess as a composer, Vaughan Williams was a man of...

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard...

Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes...

A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the...

Based on extensive documentary and archival research,Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise...

Passionate and intense in one moment, ironic or brash in the next, Mahler's music speaks...

The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it...

Known internationally for his work as a teacher of conducting, Gustav Meier's influence in the...

A comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music, The Foundations of Rock goes...

A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone...

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual...

Six decades after the defeat of National Socialism, commemoration and mourning are ongoing, open-ended projects...

Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in...

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly...

Informed by the criticism of iconic filmmaker Pier Pasolini, The Cinema of Poetry offers spirited...

Topics are musical signs that rely on associations with different genres, styles, and types of...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and...

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while...

The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors is the essential A to Z guide...

This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one...

Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions....

Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form,...

Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919...

Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, A Guide to Composition Pedagogies presents...

Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history...

Anthony F. Jahn, MD, internationally acclaimed otolaryngologist and Director of Medical Services at the Metropolitan...

The Age of New Waves examines the origins of the concept of the "new wave"...

The foremost composer under the reign of Elizabeth I and James I, William Byrd (c....

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in...

There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John...

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of...

Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s is an interdisciplinary study of the influence...