Wagner and Venice

John W Barker

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 59
• Richard Wagner had a longstanding love affair with the city of Venice. His sudden death there in 1883 also initiated a process through which Wagner an... Lees meer

Widor

John R Near

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 83
• Brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Wido... Lees meer

Bedrich Smetana

Kelly St Pierre

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 139
• Interpretations of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and his music have shifted as frequently as the political contexts in which they were written. This ... Lees meer

Wagner and Venice Fictionalized

John W Barker

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 89
• The first account of how Wagner's last years and his death in Venice have been mythologized in novels and other works of the creative imagination. The... Lees meer

Bernstein and Robbins

Sophie Redfern

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 173
• The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time. 2022 CHOICE O... Lees meer

Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 143
• Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky began corresponding in 1929 when Stravinsky sought someone to supervise the musical education of his younger son, ... Lees meer

The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister

Sterling E Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 107
• Today the classical style is defined by the music of a handful of composers, Haydn and Mozart being the most prominent. As a result, the accomplishmen... Lees meer

Beyond Fingal's Cave

James Porter

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 158
• Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1... Lees meer

Opera and Ideology in Prague

Brian Locke

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 39
• An overview of the history of the Prague musical community from 1900 until the end of democracy in 1938, with attention to polemics about "Czechness" ... Lees meer

Busoni as Pianist

Grigory Kogan

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 73
• Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and ... Lees meer

Reflections of an American Harpsichordist

Kirkpatrick Meredith

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 140
• This collection of unpublished writings by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick contains his memoirs for the period 1933-77 as wel... Lees meer

Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 2
• Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of We... Lees meer

The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss

Wayne Heisler Wayne Heisler Jr Phd

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 64
• A richly interdisciplinary study of Strauss's contributions to ballet, his collaboration with prominent dance artists of his time, and his exploration... Lees meer

French Art Song

Emily Kilpatrick

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 186
• A ground-breaking study of the musical and literary priorities, professional practices and creative interactions that shaped one of the most adventuro... Lees meer

The Musical Madhouse

Hector Berlioz

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 21
• This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a un... Lees meer

Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995

Elliott Carter, Jonathan W Bernard

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 7
• Elliott Carter [b.1908] is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- ... Lees meer

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night

John Michael Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 43
• 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 wo... Lees meer

Whistling Blackbird

Robert Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 80
• The Whistling Blackbird: Essays and Talks on New Music is the long-awaited book of essays from Robert Morris, the greatly admired composer and music t... Lees meer

Good Music for a Free People

Nancy Newman

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 81
• A transatlantic perspective that illuminates the Germania Musical Society's crucial role in introducing a "classical," predominantly German, repertory... Lees meer

Nadia Boulanger

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 166
• The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as composer, keyboard performer, conductor, impresario and pedagogue. H... Lees meer

Wanderjahre of a Revolutionist and Other Essays on American Music

Arthur Farwell, Thomas Stoner

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 4
• Selected autobiographical and critical essays by the important early 20c American composer/campaigner Arthur Farwell: a major narrative of American mu... Lees meer

The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello

Nicoleta Paraschivescu

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 184
• Reveals the brilliant musical and pedagogical thinking of the famed eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Neapolitan composer and teacher of royal ... Lees meer

The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

David Schulenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 114
• Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential... Lees meer

Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein

Rebecca Schmid

• Hardcover | Engels | Eastman Studies in Music | nr. 189
• The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein. Theodor Adorno famousl... Lees meer