"In The Score, the Orchestra and the Conductor, Gustav Meier demystifies the conductor's craft with explanations and illustrations of what the conductor must know to attain podium success. He provides useful information from the rudimentary to the sophisticated, and offers speci…
Julian Dodd offers an original approach to the controversial concept of authenticity in musical performance. He argues that the fundamental norm is not historical authenticity but interpretive authenticity: being faithful to the work by evincing a profound, far-reaching, or soph…
"Roger Scruton's book, The Aesthetics of Music, published in 1997, set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. Now, with these wide-ranging essays on all aspects of the theory and practice of music, Scruton fills in the picture outlined in the previo…
An exploration of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity, Multivocality focuses on transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, religious contexts, and found voices and lost ones.
This text contains theories of performance, which will make it appeal to students and scholars of the increasingly important area of musical and artistic performance. It contains several facsimiles of Adorno's handwritten musical notation.
