This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Lasīt vairāk
From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of live and studio performances of orchestral and operatic repertoire conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras...Lasīt vairāk
This book, the first to look at Avisons music in depth, examines the influences on Avison and the circumstances around the composition of his music. It draws heavily upon his important treatise, An Essay on Musical Expression, and other writings, to...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach are...Lasīt vairāk
Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by the musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives....Lasīt vairāk
Introducing the business models, organisational structures, fundamentals of orchestras, this book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of orchestra management....Lasīt vairāk
This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Miltons Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England....Lasīt vairāk
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English musics connections with the picturesque. This book explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee...Lasīt vairāk
Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has alr...Lasīt vairāk
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, demonstrating how...Lasīt vairāk
The present volume, devoted solely to the composers operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameaus operas....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic experiences outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
Schuberts Workshop offers a fresh study of the composers compositional technique and its development, rooted in the authors experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schuberts unfinished works....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
Beethovens Dedications challenges the idea of what exactly can be termed as a dedication, a concept which extends far beyond the dedication of musical works....Lasīt vairāk
This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozarts late opera seria La clemenza di Tito....Lasīt vairāk
This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musica...Lasīt vairāk
