Early-music ensembles Sequentia, Altramar, Hilliard Ensemble, Anonymous 4, Tallis Scholars, La Chapelle Royale, and Les Arts Florissants. Singers Paul Hillier, Ellen Hargis, Emma Kirkby, Maria Callas, Christa Ludwig, Luciano Pavarotti, Dietrich...

Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafés and at the university. At the age of twenty- one, he moved to Vienna to study with Haydn, gaining renown as a master pianist and innovative...

Anthology of Twentieth-century Music

Medieval Music

A landmark biography by a noted Bach scholar provides a dramatic new study of the life and music of this key composer and musician of the Baroque era, exploring the intimate links between Bach's life and music and his innovations in musical...

Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony

Now with streaming audio for every track, this text provides everything students need for listening to, understanding, and loving jazz. Written by two master storytellers, the book combines a dynamic listening experience with vivid narrative history,...

Harmonic Practice In Tonal Music

Lomax's account of African American oral traditions provides information on such legendary bluesmen as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Son House.

Lexicon of Musical Invective

As a performer, songwriter, and actor, Will Oldham has carved a singular path through the worlds of indie folk and cinema. Now the critically acclaimed, enigmatic artist presents his life's work: the lyrics to more than two hundred songs spanning the...

New Approach to Ear Training

Sight Singing

Glenn Gould

To Stretch Our Ears

The Performer's Voice

Traces the story of Impulse Records and the pivotal contributions of avant-garde jazz musician John Coltrane in the 1960s and 1970s, explaining how the label was shaped by thirty-eight of his politically charged recordings.

Dido And Aeneas

Anthology of Renaissance Music

Reenacts the birth of the Civil Rights movement, documenting the sit-ins, freedom rides, and marches, as well as the violence with which its participants were often met

Stating that classical music in the United States is largely performance driven, a chronological history documents its rise at the end of the nineteenth century and decline after World War I, covering such topics as the quest for an American...

Explores ten major themes of physics--including the nature of reality, the uniformity of nature's building blocks, and the centrality of symmetry--and, through a series of variations, show how one simple idea can generate many interpretations

Describes the careers of Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, and Warren, looks at the movies made from their musicals

Provides an evocative celebration of singing and the creative spirit as its takes a close-up look at the world of amateur musicians and music and emphasizes the human need to play the 'invisible instrument' of human creativity. Reprint.

Harmonic Practice In Tonal Music

Anthology For the Musician's Guide To Theory And Analysis

Traces the background and contribution of Black composers, instrumentalists, and vocalists in America from Colonial times

An exploration of how political beliefs are reflected in today's country music cites the genre's role as demonstrative of a passionate debate between an increasingly conservative Republican South and the beliefs of patriotic opponents, in a volume...

Charles E. Ives

The Complete Plays of Gilbert And Sullivan

A collection of writings and illustrations on the American ballad considers it as an art form as well as an expressive reflection of history, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Paul Muldoon, John Rockwell, and Joyce Carol...

Classical Music

A panoramic study of American music details the historical events, personalities, and cultural influences that have played a significant role in the development of the various types of music in the United States

The New Grove Russian Masters, I

Explores the rise of the galant style in Europe during the eighteenth century and discusses musical developments in Naples, Venice, Dresden, Berlin, Mannheim, and Paris.

Music Kit

Discusses the music of the Renaissance and explores the social, political, and economic forces that combined to produce it.

Baroque Music

A richly illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song and the sacred music of early settlers to the innovative sound of contemporary rock and jazz as it documents a diverse...

Provides information on over 800 of Mozart's works, such as symphonies, concertos, and operas, and examines features in the pieces

A survey of the development of romantic music includes analyses of the careers of composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt

A portrait of the life, career, and milieu of the master composer describes the special challenges he faced as a gifted artist in the face of personal, historical, political, and cultural factors, in a volume that shares insight into his...

Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky

New Worlds of Dvorak