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Medieval Polyphony and Song
What characterises medieval polyphony and song? Who composed this music, sang it, and wrote it down? Where and when did the different genres originate, and under what circumstances …
A Concise History of Western Music
Engaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music - of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what …
Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music
The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last …
Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann
The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin …
The Virtuoso Liszt
The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of …
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
An informative and wide ranging guide which places Musorgsky's original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life.
Schubert's String Quartets
Franz Schubert's music has long been celebrated for its lyrical melodies, 'heavenly length' and daring harmonic language. In this new study of Schubert's complete string quartets, …
The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential, prolific, and enduring Rock and Roll Bands in the history of music. This groundbreaking, specifically commissioned collection of …
Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to …
The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, …
Monteverdi and the Marvellous
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, …