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 Winton Dean & John Merrill Knapp One of the great monuments of musical scholarship of
our day - a mine of information lucidly delved, sharply stimulating...a
pleasure to read for its crisply expressed, infinitely discerning and
above all loving responses to the works themselves. |
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 John Lucas The life of enigmatic Wagner conductor, Reginald Goodall, by the author of the acclaimed Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music, newly available in paperback. |
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 Edited by Evan Jones Intimate Voices takes us on a kaleidoscopic ride
through a century of string quartets. Players, historians, and theorists
alike will appreciate the deeply musical commitment of twenty major
writers exploring this medium, from Debussy to modern American, with
composers such as Bartók and Scelsi in the same optic, through evidence
based music analysis in a social context. It is a Herculean project,
superbly executed by editor Evan Jones. |
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 Chris Walton "Chris Walton narrates the tale of this important Swiss composer with a light touch, yet also with ample authority, backed by complete command of all the documentary sources. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the contexts and forces-including modernism and resistance to it, and the complex cultural politics of the Nazi era-that affected art music during the first half of the twentieth century." |
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 Ian Rumbold With Peter Wright A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its owner, sheds light on many aspects of contemporary culture. |
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 Edited by Lucy Walker An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration. |
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 Bálint András Varga Kurtág is a very shy volcano. He is either silent or
he erupts. We have been seeing each other for fifty years, privately or
professionally, but it is thanks to this book that I have come to know
him properly. He never or hardly ever gives interviews. What Bálint
András Varga has brought off here is a veritable miracle. No one else
could have done it. This book is proof of Kurtág's trust in and
appreciation of him. |
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 Sterling Lambert In recent years, a renewed interest in the relationship between Goethe and Schubert has demonstrated that the two men had more in common than has historically been supposed. A specific bond between them lies in Goethe's recognition that his poems could be read in more than one way. Re-reading Poetry uncovers an important shared outlook between composer and poet. |
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 Derek Katz Derek Katz's fine book is must reading for anyone with
a serious interest in the operas of Janácek and his place in the
development of European operatic and musical traditions. Katz
trenchantly deconstructs and reassesses all the oft-repeated
generalizations about Janácek's obsession with speech melodies and his
role as an "old avant-gardist," folkorist, or iconoclastic modernist.
The result is a more complex understanding of Janácek's compositions as
products of a dynamic mix of musical, dramatic, and textual imperatives
created with a keen awareness of Czech and international operatic and
compositional traditions. |
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 Sylvia Kahan [Polignac's] life and octa-tonic explorations might
serve as exemplars for an examination of music in Second-Empire France
and the place that interest in new and `alternative' scales occupied in
that particular cultural moment. . . . Kahan's book will become a
permanent point of reference for future studies of post-Romantic and
twentieth-century composition. |
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 Lee A. Rothfarb
August Halm was a central musical figure in Germany in
the first three decades of the twentieth century, a musician
exceptionally influential in his own time, but less well known today.
Lee Rothfarb portrays Halm as a creative thinker who championed ideas
that have turned out to be of critical importance in our own day, from
analysis-based music theory to the humanistic concerns of contemporary
musicology. Halm's life, which took place mostly in villages and smaller
cities, offers a valuable window into the German musical life of the
time. |
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 Wayne Heisler Jr. A richly interdisciplinary study of Strauss's contributions to ballet, his collaboration with prominent dance artists of his time, and his explorations of musical modernism. |
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 Daniel Albright The key phrase comes toward the end of this zestful
and stimulating collection: "I think of music, of all music, as a
teasing of the linguistic areas of the brain." Much of Albright's
writing springs from, around, out of, into, behind, and beyond this
beautiful and illuminating thought, which he carries with him through
encounters with works by Berlioz, Wagner, Schoenberg, Stravinsky,
Carter, and others. And "teasing"--in the senses of gently mocking, of
pulling out, and indeed of titillating--is also his modus operandi. |
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 Gillian Opstad Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their involvement with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, illustrating the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. |
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 Sylvia Kahan New in paperback. “Superb new biography...The list of her achievements - music dedicated to her, works commissioned by her, artists supported by her - are all scrupulously recorded here...a dazzling and inspiring array...In Sylvia Kahan Winnaretta [Singer-Polignac] has a biographer able to explain her special mixture of arrogance, intelligence and bravery.” The Times |
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 John Purser The first full length biography of composer, conductor, pianist and lecturer Erik Chisholm. The book examines his time in Singapore and South Africa and his friendships with Bartok, Hindemith, Sorabji, Bax and many others. |
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 Edited by Andrew Palmer The English composer William Alwyn was a gifted writer, and Composing in Words presents the autobiographical essay Winged Chariot; the diary, Ariel to Miranda, in which he chronicled the composition of his Third Symphony; an extract from Early Closing, Alwyn's reminiscences of his Northampton childhood; and essays on film music, and on other composers. |
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 Ian Rumbold with Peter Wright This volume presents an in-depth study of Pötzlinger's manuscript and the professional networks and academic culture within which it was compiled; its context as part of one of the largest surviving personal libraries of its time is also explored. |
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 Emma Hornby How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are addressed here through a case study of the second-mode tracts which were created in the papal choir of Rome before the mid-eighth century. |
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 Edited by Bernarr Rainbow Bernarr Rainbow’s detailed introductions to his Classic Texts in Music Education series are collected in this volume and put into context by Gordon Cox. They offer insights into and analysis of those who taught music in different times and places and the methods they employed. |
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 John Koegel Nineteenth-century New York was the third largest German-populated city in the world. German-language musical plays and light operas held an important niche in the lives of German immigrants and their families and this new book tells, for the first time, the engrossing story of these theatre works, and the many musical numbers from them that became popular as separate songs. |
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