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 John Lucas Thomas Beecham was one of Britain's greatest conductors of orchestral music and opera as well as an entrepreneur and impresario of exceptional energy and brilliant wit. This new life untangles the web of his personal and musical adventures and corrects the stories and myths, many of them Beecham's own making, that have grown up around this uniquely gifted and controversial figure. Includes a CD of Beecham rehearsals. |
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 Peter Dickinson This book offers a refreshingly new documentary approach to a unique personality - interviews with leading figures and contemporaries who knew Berners and his work, set into context and complemented with much further information. The interviewees include Frederick Ashton, the writers Lord David Cecil and Harold Acton, the composers Richard Rodney Bennett and Gavin Bryars, Diana Mosley and more. It is lavishly illustrated with colour plates and other illustrations. |
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 Minoru Miki Translated by Marty Regan Edited by Philip Flavin A practical orchestration/instrumentation manual with contextual and relevant historical information for composers who wish to learn how to compose for traditional Japanese instruments. Widely regarded as the authoritative text on the subject in Japan and China, it contains hundreds of musical examples, diagrams, photographs, and fingering charts, and comes complete with two accompanying compact discs of musical examples. More information |
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 Ian Woodfield In addition to radically new ideas about the conceptual genesis of Così, Woodfield also provides a full account of the work's compositional history, based on early Viennese and Bohemian copies. Four different versions are identified, including a significant revision in which Mozart removed the Act II finale canon. |
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 Adrian Wright This first extended biography of William Alwyn sets his works in full context and uses hitherto unpublished material to give a vivid account of his marriages, his operas and his relationship with Benjamin Britten. |
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 Edited by Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke and Donald Mitchell Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation. The fourth volume of this acclaimed edition of Britten's letters covers the composition of such key works as Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw and The Prince of the Pagodas; it also charts his growing stature in the European musical establishment; the world trip undertaken by Britten and Pears and the influence of the music and cultures of the Far East on Britten's compositional techniques. |
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 Stephanie D. Vial Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in eighteenth-century musical notation. |
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 Hugh Macdonald Macdonald, world-renowned authority on nineteenth-century music, here draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. |
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 Edited by Barbara L Kelly New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends during the Third Republic. |
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 Suzanne Cole A survey of the huge importance of Thomas Tallis, the `Father of Church Music', on Victorian musical life. This book examines in detail the reception of two works that lie at the stylistic extremes of his output: Spem in alium, revived in the 1830s, though generally not greatly admired, and the Responses, which were very popular. |
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Edited by Peter Bloom New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and other prominent experts. |
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 David Gramit (ed) The first English-language book on Czerny, and the broadest survey of his activity in any language. More information |
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 Leo Black Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra at Oxford in the 1950s, here presents a sympathetic full-scale study of his symphonic works (the first for some fifteen years). A succinct biographical sketch throws light on legends about the BBC and Rubbra, as well as the vexed question of Rubbra’s mysticism. There are full programme notes on each symphony, with shorter accounts of important non-symphonic works, in particular a 'triptych' of concertos from the 1950s and major liturgical pieces. More information |
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 Jack Douthett et al (eds) Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today. More information |
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 Lorenzo Candelaria The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches it as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the social history and rituals of an elite brotherhood. More information |
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  with illustrations by William Scott Hugh Wood Edited by Christopher Wintle with an Introduction by Bayan Northcott Ever since his early days, Hugh Wood has pursued a triple career as composer, teacher and writer. This selection of writings is in three parts and shows three aspects to his work. The first addresses his own experience; the second maps out the historical and cultural context for a number of orchestral and chamber works in a set of concert essays; and the third draws together several composer-vignettes from his recent reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. (Plumbago Books) Available simultaneously in hardcover and paperback |
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