This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is …
Overzicht van de geschiedenis van de luit in Nederland gedurende de Gouden Eeuw
Overzicht van de geschiedenis van de luit in Nederland gedurende de Gouden Eeuw.
Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of the instrument's role in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Jan W.J. Burgers explores how it functioned as the universal means o…
Studies over de Duitse componist (1809-1847)
Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social …
Provides legal information on handling the business of one's band, covering such topics as agents, managers, record companies, legal agreements, on-line sales, and copyright issues, and includes sample forms on CD-ROM.
In this account, Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocrati…
