The Oxford Handbook : of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, contributors consider the fascinating and unexpected ways that nineteenth-century writing on music contributed to debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture.

Vocal Virtuosity: : The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reaction to cascades of coloratura with climaxing high notes is strong.Coloratura-agile, rapid-fire singing-was originally essential for all singers, but its function changed greatly when it became the specialty of particular sopranos over the course of the nineteenth century. The central argument ofVocal Virtuosity challenges the historical commonplace that coloratura became an anachronism in nineteenth-century opera. Instead, the book demonstrates that melismas at mid-century were made modern.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century : Volume 1 - Works Written Before 2000

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This first of the two-volume set covers works composed prior to the year 2000.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century : Volume 2 - Works Written Before 2000

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This first of the two-volume set covers works composed prior to the year 2000.

Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music : in Analysis and Performance

Performing Knowledge explores the relationship between musical performance and analysis through a unique collaboration between a music theorist and a cast of internationally renowned performers, investigating major musical works of the twentieth century--Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartok, Schnittke, Milhaud, Messiaen, Babbitt, Carter, and Morris. The book is a brave crossing of disciplinary divides between scholarship and practice, a theory text enlivened by the voices of performers who create, interpret, and articulate structure.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century : Volume 2 - Works Written From 2000 Onwards

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This second of the two-volume set covers works composed after the year 2000.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century : Volume 2 - Works Written From 2000 Onwards

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This second of the two-volume set covers works composed after the year 2000.

Genealogies of Music and Memory : Gluck in the 19th-Century Parisian Imagination

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. This book asks how thestage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide rangeof musical and literary environments.

Choreographies of 21st Century Wars

Choreographies of 21st Century Wars

Keyboard Instruments In Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Musical Composition In The Twentieth Century

Visions Of Jazz The First Century

Music Theory In Seventeenth-Century England

College Music Curricula for a New Century

Religious Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century : Hardback

The Eighteenth-Century French Cantata : 2Nd Edition

College Music Curricula for a New Century

Print Culture & Music In 16Th-Century Venice

Coventry Carol

An arrangement of a sixteenth-century tune for SATB and organ

Promising Practices : in 21st Century Music Teacher Education

Promising Practices in 21st Century Music : Teacher Education

Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century : An Introduction

Music in the Galant Style

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti.

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