Mark Everist reveals for the first time a repertory of operas destined for performance in various forms of domestic environment found in Paris during the Second Empire (1850s-60s). He examines the repertory, its creators, and consumers through the le...Lasīt vairāk
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been explor...Lasīt vairāk
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been...Lasīt vairāk
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
Musics Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening examines fundamental changes in concert-hall listening since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on changing assumptions about the very act of listening itself. Author Mark Evan Bonds...Lasīt vairāk
This study examines the life and work of Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833), famous for the operas Marie (1826), Zampa (1831) and Le Pré aux clercs (1832), as well as for the ballets La Somnambule (1827) and La Fille mal gardée (1828). In these work...Lasīt vairāk
This study examines the life and work of Franēois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834). He is famous for the operas Jean de Paris (1812) and especially La Dame blanche (1825). Working in Paris and St Petersburg, then returning to Paris, he, collaborating wi...Lasīt vairāk
Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fźted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars, from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporar...Lasīt vairāk
Why has Berliozs Requiem has come to be understood as a product of nineteenth-century Romanticism and how can listeners understand it beyond that context? This book offers a fascinating exploration of the Requiem within the cultural context of Frenc...Lasīt vairāk
Hector Berliozs Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts, 1837) remains a fixture in the repertoire of choirs and orchestras today. Since 2003, it has been performed in its entirety over one hundred times and has appeared on concert programs spannin...Lasīt vairāk
An impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts.What does it mean and how does it feel to grow up as a Black artist today? This exceptional book, written with a mothers love for her seven creative childre...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the middle of the eighteenth century and the start of the twentieth century. While explicit notational practices were increasingly the n...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781837652204)
Considers Boults interpretations of Elgars major works by drawing on Boults annotated scores, broadcast performances and commercial recordings, ranging from the composers last years to Boults final public appearances.Edward Elgar (18...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the middle of the eighteenth century and the start of the twentieth century. While explicit notational practices were increasingly the n...Lasīt vairāk
Daniel-Franēois-Esprit Aubers operas cover a significant period of French historyfrom the Restoration, through the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, to the Second Empire. With 38 libretti by his lifelong collaborator, the famous dramatist Euge...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful. In bringing together the various approaches and accounts of the different text...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. It is b...Lasīt vairāk
