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Cambridge University Press An Early Music Dictionary Musical Terms from British Sources 15001740 Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Henry Purcell The Origins and Development of his Musical Style
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Cambridge University Press Arnold Schoenberg Notes Sets Forms Music in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Schuberts Dramatic Lieder
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Cambridge University Press Gustav Mahler and Guido Adler Records of a Friendship
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Cambridge University Press Lutoslawski and His Music
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Cambridge University Press Edward Elgar Modernist 20 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvres The Changing Identity of Medieval Music Musical Performance and Reception
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Cambridge University Press Schoenbergs Musical Imagination 24 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Studies 3
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass Medieval Context to Modern Revival
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Cambridge University Press Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Musica Asiatica Volume 5
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Cambridge University Press The Allemande and the Tanz 1 The Allemande and the Tanz 2 Volume Paperback Set
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Cambridge University Press Operas Orbit
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain 17701840 Virtue and Virtuosity 82 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 82
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Cambridge University Press Liszt as Transcriber
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven the Pianist Musical Performance and Reception
Book SynopsisPresenting a picture of Beethoven's formative years and early career, this study shows how the composer was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments. Skowroneck pays special attention to Beethoven's trills and legato, and thoroughly revises the idea that Beethoven treated his pianos roughly and with impatience throughout his career.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for anyone who wants the latest research on Beethoven's piano playing, plus a comprehensive collection of all the significant documentation relating to this subject. There should be a copy in every major library and on the bookshelves of all pianists who wish to play Beethoven's music in the way he envisaged.' Barry Cooper, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Beethoven, his Playing and his Instruments: 1. Beethoven's early training; 2. Beethoven the pianist; 3. Beethoven's first decade in Vienna; 4. The 1803 Érard Grand Piano; Part II. Sound Ideal and Performance: 5. The builder's influence; 6. The player's influence; Part III. Sound Ideal, Notation and Stylistic Change: 7. Common touch and legato; 8. The performance of Beethoven's trills; Epilogue; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Monteverdis Unruly Women
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Cambridge University Press CPE Bach Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
Book SynopsisC. P. E. Bach Studies collects together nine wide-ranging essays by leading scholars of eighteenth-century music. Offering fresh perspectives on one of the towering figures of the period, the authors explore Bach's music in its cultural contexts, and show in diverse and complementary ways the reciprocal relationship between Bach's work and contemporary literary, theological, and aesthetic debates. Topics include Bach's relation to theories of sensibility and the sublime; the free fantasy and concepts of self and being; and Bach's engagement with music history and the legacy of his predecessors. Wider questions of C. P. E. Bach reception also play an important part in the book, which explores not only the interpretation of Bach's music in his time, but also its reception over the two centuries since his death.Trade Review"A must for music historians and students of 18th-century culture. Essential." -- Choice"The volume achieves its goal of returning C.P.E. Bach to a central place in the landscape of eighteenth-century music." --German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Diderot's Paradoxe and C. P. E. Bach's Empfindungen Richard Kramer; 2. Dark fantasies and the dawn of the self: Gerstenberg's monologues for C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Fantasia Tobias Plebuch; 3. Sources of C. P. E. Bach's solo keyboard works in the Sing-Akademie archives Darrell M. Berg; 4. Reason and revelation in C. P. E. Bach's Resurrection Oratorio Richard Will; 5. C. P. E. Bach and C. C. Sturm: sacred song, public church service, and private devotion Ulrich Leisinger; 6. An enduring moment: C. P. E. Bach and the musical sublime Annette Richards; 7. C. P. E. Bach and the living traditions of learned counterpoint David Yearsley; 8. Plates for sale: C. P. E. Bach and the story of Die Kunst der Fuge David Ferris; 10. 'Our old great favourite': Burney, Bach and the Bachists Christopher Hogwood.
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Cambridge University Press Making Words Sing Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Song
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Cambridge University Press Schumanns Late Style
Book SynopsisSchumann's Late Style is devoted to the study of Robert Schumann's little-known music from the 1850s. The reason most often given for these works having been considered lesser achievements than the earlier song and piano cycles is that Schumann's mental illness had a detrimental effect on his compositions. However, this study demonstrates that there were several other, still more complex, reasons why the music from the 1850s sounded different. Schumann had started to compose 'in a new manner', depending more on preliminary sketches; he also began to write for larger forces (orchestra and chorus), which required a more 'public' style of music, as is also apparent in his works on nationalist themes, and in his more commercial pieces for children. This book thus attempts to disentangle assumptions about Schumann's late style from biographical interpretations, and to consider it in broader artistic, social and cultural contexts.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This thought-provoking book, including dozens of musical examples, is superbly produced.' Classical Music'Laura Tunbridge pursues her subject with consistently perceptive critical acumen, exploring the late style in all its variety … [Her] approach … is certainly welcome, not only in helping to pry the late styles from the clutches of biography, but also because it resonates with Schumann's literary and artistic inclinations.' Kenneth Stilwell, Nineteenth-Century Music ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Raising Schumann; 1. Songs of farewell; 2. The sound of legend; 3. Collecting thoughts; 4. Hearing voices; 5. On a cracked bell; 6. In search of Diotima; Appendix: chronology of Schumann's compositions, 1850–6; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Brahmss Song Collections
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Cambridge University Press Edward Elgar and the Nostalgic Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Schoenbergs Transformation of Musical Language 22 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 22
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Cambridge University Press The Musical World of a Medieval Monk Admar de Chabannes in Eleventhcentury Aquitaine
Book SynopsisJames Grier documents the musical activities of AdÃmar de Chabannes, eleventh-century monk, historian, homilist and tireless polemicist for the apostolic status of Saint Martial, patron saint of the abbey that bore his name in Limoges. AdÃmar left behind some 451 folios of music with notation in his autograph hand, a musical resource without equal before the seventeenth century. He introduced, at strategic moments, pieces familiar from the standard liturgy for an apostle and items of his own composition. These reveal AdÃmar to be a supremely able designer of liturgies and a highly original composer. This study analyses his accomplishments as a musical scribe, compiler of liturgies, editor of existing musical works and composer; it also offers a speculative consideration of his abilities as a singer; and finally, it places AdÃmar's musical activities in the context of liturgical, musical and political developments at the abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'To have identified a substantial body of music composed by and copied in the hand of this eleventh-century monk represents a breathtaking synthesis of research that few medievalists would have deemed possible several decades ago. To be able to date much of the music and its copying to a six-month period in the year 1029 is simply stunning. And to have such a musical œuvre accessible from someone in the first half of the eleventh century is unprecedented. If anyone doubts that real history can be as captivating as the best fiction, come meet Adémar and read this book.' Journal of the American Musicological SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Adémar de Chabannes and Saint Martial de Limoges; Music scribe; Compiler; Editor; Composer; Singer; Conclusion. The success of the Apostolic Campaign; Appendix A. Manuscripts with Adémar's music hand; Appendix B. Adémar's original compositions; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Great Transformation of Musical Taste Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms
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Cambridge University Press The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Gretry and the Growth of OperaComique
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Cambridge University Press Messiaen Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Thinking about Harmony
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Cambridge University Press Peter Maxwell Davies Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Music Introductions to Chinese Culture
Book SynopsisUnique and complex in style, traditional Chinese music forms a fascinating part of China's cultural heritage. This accessible, illustrated introduction to Chinese music takes the reader through the 8000-year history of China's musical instruments, the diversity of Chinese folk music, the development of China's famous operas and the modern Chinese music industry. From classical to contemporary styles, Jin Jie explores the influence that Chinese music has had around the world.Table of Contents1. The evolution of Chinese music; 2. The connotation of ancient music of China; 3. Varieties of Chinese musical instruments; 4. Chinese folk songs; 5. Singing and dancing of ethnic groups; 6. Quyi music of China; 7. Chinese music today; 8. The Sino-foreign exchange of music; Appendix: chronological table of the Chinese dynasties.
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Cambridge University Press Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Peking Opera Introductions to Chinese Culture
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Cambridge University Press Brittens Unquiet Pasts Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction Music since 1900
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Cambridge University Press Histories of Heinrich Schütz
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Mozarts Requiem Reception Work Completion Music in Context
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Cambridge University Press Bachs Feet The Organ Pedals in European Culture Musical Performance and Reception
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Cambridge University Press Berliozs Orchestration Treatise A Translation and Commentary Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Mozart and Beethoven Storia de La Musica Series
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Cambridge University Press Music and the Reformation in England 15491660 Cambridge Studies in Music
Book SynopsisIn the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments in great detail, drawing on many contemporary sources to illuminate the music and its social and religious background.Table of Contents1. Music and the English Reformation; 2. The Elizabethan Settlement; 3. The Chapel Royal; 4. Some Performance Problems; 5. Trends and Influences; 6. '… the order of Common Prayer as it is to be sung in Churches'; 7. Edwardian and Early Elizabethan Church Music; 8. The Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: William Byrd and his Contemporaries; 9. Thomas Tomkins and his Contemporaries; 10. William Child, his Contemporaries and the Stile Ntiovo in England; 11. Published '… for the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke'.
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Cambridge University Press Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch 7 Music Theory and Analysis Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet
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Cambridge University Press Bach Interpretation Articulation Marks in Primary Sources of J S Bach Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Music and Society The Politics of Composition Performance and Reception
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