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…
"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.
A comprehensive chronological history of music with essays on nearly one hundred composers.
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…
'For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence of the work, the blink of an …
This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, …
"This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between Western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes,…