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  • Cambridge University Press Brahms Symphony No 1 Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Bartk Concerto for Orchestra Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Vaughan Williams Studies Cambridge Composer Studies

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  • Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Schubert Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press Gerard Von Breuning Memories of Beethoven From the House of the BlackRobed Spaniards Canto original series

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  • Cambridge University Press Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press The Life of Musorgsky Musical Lives

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  • Cambridge University Press The BoulezCage Correspondence

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Brahms Cambridge Companions to Music

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    This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833â97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains three chapters on Brahms's early life in Hamburg and on the middle and later years in Vienna. The central section considers the musical works in all genres, while the last part of the book offers personal accounts and responses from a conductor (Roger Norrington), a composer (Hugh Wood), and an editor of Brahms's original manuscripts (Robert Pascall). The volume as a whole is an important addition to Brahms scholarship and provides indispensable information for all students and enthusiasts of Brahms's music.

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  • Cambridge University Press Mozarts Piano Sonatas Contexts Sources Style

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  • Cambridge University Press Ives Concord Sonata

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  • Cambridge University Press Ives Concord Sonata Piano Sonata No 2 Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Wagners Ring Cycle and the Greeks Cambridge Studies in Opera

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    Book SynopsisWagner's Ring cycle, argues Foster, follows an evolutionary model of Greek poetry and politics adapted from Hegel. Providing a thorough analysis of three of the most important poetic genres – epic, lyric, and drama – this book interrogates the ways in which Wagner uses Greek aesthetics to further his own ideological goals.Trade Review'A highly recommended addition to any Wagnerite's library' Classical Music'This is a book full of stimulus for classicists, historians and musicologists alike.' Teresa Morgan, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I. Epic: 1. Introduction: what is epic?; 2. Retrospective narrative and the epic process; 3. The orchestral narrator and elementary epic; 4. Spiritual and factual realities in epic; Part II. Lyric: 5. Introduction: what is lyric?; 6. Orpheus and lyric liberation; 7. First-person opera and lyric identity; 8. Lyric and the rebirth of tragedy; Part III. Drama: 9. Introduction: what is drama?; 10. Opera and tragedy; 11. Opera and comedy; 12. Resolution and ambiguity in comedy and tragedy; Epilogue: Time, the Ring, and performance studies; Appendices: Wagner's primary and secondary sources: Introduction; Appendix A. Wagner's primary sources; Appendix B. secondary scholarship by authors Wagner knew personally; Appendix C. Secondary scholarship by authors Wagner knew by reputation or by reading; Bibliography.

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  • Cambridge University Press Verdi and the Germans From Unification to the Third Reich New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 26

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  • Cambridge University Press Handel on the Stage

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    Book SynopsisFor thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of Handel's creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring the librettos and the music, and how the operas were performed.Trade Review'Not only do the carefully selected examples superbly articulate the points Kimbell wishes to make, but readers are also provided with a range of additional elements to help them follow the argument or fill potential gaps in background knowledge. … This well-written study is an essential read for anyone with an interest in Handel's operas.' Matthew Gardner, Early MusicTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Handel and opera – a biographical survey of the circumstances; 2. The libretto (1) – argument – dramatis personae; 3. The libretto (2) – words for music; 4. The music (1) – mastering the medium; 5. The music (2) – its role in the drama; 6. Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and in ours; Appendix: an overview of the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn Cambridge Companions to Music

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    Book SynopsisThe Companion to Mendelssohn, is written by leading scholars in the field. In fourteen chapters they explore the life, work, and reception of a composer-performer once thought uniquely untroubled in life and art alike, but who is now broadly understood as one of the nineteenth century's most deeply problematic musical figures. The first section of the volume considers issues of biography, with chapters dedicated to Mendelssohn's role in the emergence of Europe's modern musical institutions, to the persistent tensions of his German-Jewish identity, and to his close but enigmatic relationship with his gifted older sister, Fanny. The following nine essays survey Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output, marked as it was by successes in almost every contemporary musical genre outside of opera. The volume's two closing essays confront, in turn, the turbulent course of Mendelssohn's posthumous reception and some of the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performTrade Review'This is the book that I would recommend to anyone who is keen to look more closely at any of the musical or contextual issues that are sure to be raised by the forthcoming festival.' Classical MusicTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mendelssohn as border-dweller Peter Mercer-Taylor; Part I. Issues in Biography: 1. Mendelssohn and the institution(s) of German art music Peter Mercer-Taylor; 2. Mendelssohn and Judaism Michael P. Steinberg; 3. Felix and Fanny: gender, biography, and history Marian Wilson-Kimber; Part II. Situating the Compositions: 4. Mendelssohn and the rise of musical historicism James Garratt; 5. Mendelssohn as progressive Greg Vitercik; Part III. Profiles of the Music: 6. Symphony and Overture Douglass Seaton; 7. The works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra Steve Lindeman; 8. Mendelssohn's chamber music Thomas Schmidt-Beste; 9. The music for keyboard Glenn Stanley; 10. On Mendelssohn's sacred music, real and imaginary R. Larry Todd; 11. Mendelssohn's songs Susan Youens; 12. Felix Mendelssohn's dramatic compositions: from Liederspiel to Lorelei Monika Hennemann; Part IV. Reception and Performance: 13. Mendelssohn received John Michael Cooper; 14. Wagner as Mendelssohn: reversing habits and reclaiming meaning in the performance of Mendelssohn's music for orchestra and chorus Leon Botstein.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press Franz Schubert

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  • Cambridge University Press E. T. A. Hoffmanns Musical Writings

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  • Cambridge University Press Faure and French Musical Aesthetics 13 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 13

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  • Cambridge University Press Handel Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger 6 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 6

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  • Cambridge University Press Schoenberg and Redemption

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  • Cambridge University Press Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press The Life of Beethoven Musical Lives

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  • Cambridge University Press Schubert Mller and Die schne Mllerin

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Berg Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Berg Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press The Music of John Cage 5 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 5

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  • Cambridge University Press thelifeofbeethoven

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  • Cambridge University Press Jancek Studies Cambridge Composer Studies

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  • Cambridge University Press Haydn Studies Cambridge Composer Studies

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press Brahms Clarinet Quintet Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Dowland Lachrimae 1604 Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Hollnder Der Fliegende Hollander Cambridge Opera Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Mozart The Haydn Quartets Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Mozart The Haydn Quartets Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander Cambridge Opera Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Bach

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  • Cambridge University Press Wolfgang Amade Mozart

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  • Cambridge University Press Dowland Lachrimae 1604 Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Brahms Clarinet Quintet Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven Cambridge Companions to Music

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  • Cambridge University Press The Life of Charles Ives Musical Lives

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  • Cambridge University Press Beethoven The Moonlight and other Sonatas Op 27 and Op 31 Cambridge Music Handbooks

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  • Cambridge University Press Tippett Studies Cambridge Composer Studies

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