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The Musical Madhouse
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination …
Building the Operatic Museum
The pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critics, and composers. Focusing on the …
Rethinking Hanslick
An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical …
Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night
The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust and other works. This paperback edition of …
Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann
A record of a ten-year personal friendship, with letters, and insights on other contemporaries. Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand …
The Pleasure of Modernist Music
An exploration of the meaning and reception of "modernist" music. The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Strauss's Elektra and Webern's Symphony …
The Music of American Folk Song
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they …
Historical Musicology
Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, …
Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century
One of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar music explores this little-known but richly rewarding repertoire. In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used …
Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945
Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding …
Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting
The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, …