Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain unexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recently. Author Anna Bull contri…
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"Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain unexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recently. Author Anna Bull contr…
Presents a guide to classical music explaining how readers can become expert listeners, exploring more than one thousand years of music by master composers, and considers the contributions of top classic performers.
Presents a guide to classical music explaining how readers can become expert listeners, exploring more than one thousand years of music by master composers, and considers the contributions of top classic performers.
Music theorist Eric Wen presents in-depth analyses of seven masterworks from the common-practice period of Western art music. Wen employs the analytic approach developed by Heinrich Schenker, a method that uses musical notation to clarify and illuminate a work's structural hiera…
Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music. Its key argument is that the familiar 'authenticity debate' about the performance of such works has tended to focus on a side issue. While…
An ethnographic history and critique of the emergence of South Indian carnatic music as a "classical" music in the 20th century.
While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial moder…
"Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan, " and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this volume apply recent theoretical approaches ranging from the "Mozart Effect" i…
