Chamber category: 46 books
Joseph Holbrooke
Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This is the first scholarly work to document the musical life of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most prolific and controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Holbrooke was outspoken on many issues, including the maligned fortunes of British composers, which he believed...
Inherit the Truth 1939-1945
The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period...
by Mark Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can...
Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews
Notes from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
’He plays the piano well,’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talent but he’s not a genius, and I’m afraid he thinks he is.’ Intelligent though the lady was, she got this one spectacularly wrong. Poulenc has...
by Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions...
by Pwyll ap Siôn
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade...
by Iacopo Del Panta
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A chat about music between the serious (little) and the facetious (much more) in search of the perfect form in the expression of feeling "In this book I talk about my vision of music and musical aesthetic, starting with the explanation of my main compositions, and going through the story of my...
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works....
The Philadelphia Orchestra
An Annotated Discography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The Philadelphia Orchestra is the most-recorded orchestra in the United States. This discography contains a chronological list of recordings, detailing works performed, conductors, soloists, dates, venues, producers, and matrix information for 78-rpm recordings. Each entry lists all issues of the...
by Keith Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces, closely associated with...
The Chinese Zheng Zither
Contemporary Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The zheng zither is one of the most popular instruments in contemporary China. It is commonly regarded as a solo instrument with a continuous tradition dating back to ancient times. But in fact, much of its contemporary solo repertory is derived from several different regional folk ensemble repertories...
by Lisa Feurzeig
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic...
by Margaret E. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas...
Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox
Straight Lines in Broken Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European...