Polyphony in Medieval Paris

Catherine A Bradley

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoret... Lees meer

The Monstrous New Art

Anna Zayaruznaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the mu... Lees meer

Manuscripts and Medieval Song

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of 'songbook' easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place so... Lees meer

Brahms's Elegies

Nicole Grimes

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical music... Lees meer

Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark

Annika Forkert

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• The composer Elisabeth Lutyens and her second husband, the conductor and music programmer Edward Clark, were innovators in composition, conducting, pr... Lees meer

Music behind the Iron Curtain

Daniel Elphick

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg left his family behind and fled his native Poland in September 1939. He reached the Soviet Union, where he become one of the most ... Lees meer

The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)

Owen Rees

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', repres... Lees meer

The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism

J P E Harper-Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forc... Lees meer

The Monstrous New Art

Anna Zayaruznaya

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the mu... Lees meer

Music and the Making of Medieval Venice

Jamie L Reuland

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set... Lees meer

The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism

J P E Harper-Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forc... Lees meer

Delius and the Sound of Place

Daniel M Grimley

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, ... Lees meer

Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux

Roderick Chadwick, Peter Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial c... Lees meer

Mozart's Requiem

Simon P Keefe

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the... Lees meer

Monteverdi and the Marvellous

Roseen Giles

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric... Lees meer

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

Jane D Hatter

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a mil... Lees meer

Manuscripts and Medieval Song

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of 'songbook' easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place so... Lees meer

Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets

Nancy November

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contex... Lees meer

Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination

Emily MacGregor

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphon... Lees meer

Music behind the Iron Curtain

Daniel Elphick

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg left his family behind and fled his native Poland in September 1939. He reached the Soviet Union, where he become one of the most ... Lees meer

Polyphony in Medieval Paris

Catherine A Bradley

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoret... Lees meer

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

Jane D Hatter

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a mil... Lees meer

Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets

Nancy November

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contex... Lees meer

The Songs of Clara Schumann

Stephen Rodgers

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Focusing on Clara Schumann's central contributions to the genre of the Lied (or German art song), this is the first book-length critical study of her ... Lees meer