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Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is a collection of essays studying choral music making as a cultural phenomenon, one that had an impact on multiple parts of society. Rather than merely offering a collection of raw descriptions of works, the contributors focus their discussions o…
Featuring analytical discussions or descriptions of about 150 different pieces of electro acoustic music by women composers in the United States, this book attempts to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s. It has a b…
Developing a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism, this work explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, s…
What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E.T…
Focussing on three different epochs (1700, 1800 and 1900), this book explores the history of music in Vienna, allowing the very different relationships between music and society that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished
A history of electronic music technology. Recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time
A richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, this is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and …
Provides a survey of the history of televised music videos around the globe.