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Indian Music and the West
This text examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of 200 years, ranging from Orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the …
Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers, and this major biography, the culmination of twenty years' work, is probably the most complete and perceptive study of …
A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos
The text here with an introduction by Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, draws the reader's attention to the virtues of the volume, it also examines the developments in Mozart …
Portrait of Walton
This is a corrected reissue, in Clarendon Paperbacks format with a new cover, of Michael Kennedy's classic study of William Walton's life and works. In this biography by one of …
The Medieval Expansion of Europe
Between the year 1000 and the middle of the fourteenth century a remarkable series of events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world, …
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life he produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church …
Discarding Images
For many centuries, the Western imagination has picture the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took Mankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with …
Stolen Time
The history of tempo rubato (`stolen time') is as old as music itself, composers and performers ever introducing expressive fluctuation of the tempo contrary to music's precise …
Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948
This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State …
A History of Bel Canto
Bel canto singing was a historical phenomenon which embraced Italian opera of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It required infinite variety of sound, in particular a …
Thomas Mann
T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's fiction and thought as is available in …
The Piano Quartet and Quintet
Designed as a companion volume to the author's earlier study The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their relatively modest …