983円 The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories and transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir For the first time, Gareth reveals everything he has learned from working with so many groups of memorable people, including the record-breaking Military Wives an...

211円 This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme. Tracing the development of the American avant-garde, Ross examines the cruci...

7,604円 In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates the roots of modern ballet in the works of M...

3,332円 Anyone interested in the history and development of Western music will welcome this collection of outstanding musical examples illustrating the general course of musical style from the early Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. Included are 50 carefully selected compositions of great histor...

2,664円 The piano sonatas of Franz Schubert are characterized by the supremely lyrical greatness that distinguishes all of this composer's work. The unfailing melody, the fresh modulations, and the emotional range ー from blissful contentment to pensive melancholy ー of these works place them firmly amon...

4,486円 Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the roles of representation in the composition, performance and reception of Western music. In recent years, there has been increasing academic interest in questions of musical interpretation and meaning and in music's interactions w...

1,041円 Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions f...

360円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) VOLUME I. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. PROEM. POLAND AND THE POLES. CHAPTER I. ... CHAPTER XIX. VOLUME II. CHAPTER XX. ... CHAPTER XXXII. EPILOGUE. APPENDICES.

2,664円 The present volume reproduces ー directly from an authoritative Russian edition ー the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement, representing the maturation of his style over a period of decades. The Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) consis...

1,282円 Many people will know something about the life of Lutosławski , but few know anything about Lutosławski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Balint Andras Varga fills out the picture of the Polish composer - his life and career, his compositi...

7,343円 Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.

509円 Do you enjoy listening to classical music? Are you familiar with well-known composers and the music they created? Can you tell the difference between Boccherini and Birtwistle, or maybe you would like to be able to? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are certain to enjoy The Classi...