Arnold Schoenberg - composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion ......
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles ñ the creation of the band, their musical influence......
From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This 2009 ......
As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic. Regarded by some as a collaborator, and by others as ......
No musical genre has had a more chequered critical history than the concerto and yet simultaneously retained as consistently prominent a place in the affecti......
This Companion provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Readers will gain an understanding ......
In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the......
Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it......
Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The re......
This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided ......
This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in the breadth of its coverage. It combines orchestral history and orchestral repertory with a prac......
This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and work......
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary mo......
John Cage (1912-1992) was without doubt one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century music. Pupil of Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Marc......
This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his úuvre. An international team of scholars explores the ......
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a......
What is a sonata? Literally translated, it simply means 'instrumental piece'. It is the epitome of instrumental music, and is certainly the oldest and most e......
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is chal......
This Companion is an accessible guide to BartÛk's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of th......
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount o......