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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment - Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #7), Johann Georg Sulzer, et al. 1995. ISBN 0521360358 (hardcover).
Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas are applied to concrete questions of musical pedagogy. This translation of the texts and study of the collaboration represents a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German enlightenment.

Mahler's Sixth Symphony - A Study in Musical Semiotics (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #6), Robert Samuels. 1996. ISBN 052148166X (hardcover).
This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical meaning is defined on several levels from structure, through questions of tradition and genre, to consideration of the symphony as a narrative alongside other contemporary nonmusical texts. Ideas from Eco, Barthes and Derrida are deployed within the context of close analysis of the score in order to unite specifically analytical insights with cultural hermeneutics.

Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song - A Study in Musical Semiotics (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #13), Lawrence Kramer. 1998. ISBN 0521582105 (hardcover).
This book shows how Schubert, responding to the great social changes of his era, discovered that songs could project a kaleidoscopic array of human and sexual types – some strange, some familiar, some appealing, some forbidding, but all eligible for a sympathetic response. The book combines close attention to both music and poetry to explain the social context of this process and show it at work in a lively, accessible style free of excessive jargon.

Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link. Theodor W. Adorno, Christopher Hailey & Juliane Brand (translators). 1994. ISBN 0521330165 (hardcover), 0521338840 (paperback).
This unique study of Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) is now a part of music history. It is a personal account by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), a preeminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition teacher. In addition to analyses of individual pieces, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. This classic study provides a key to understanding Adorno himself as well as offering an individual perspective on one of the major composers of this century.

America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. Andre J. Millard. 1995. ISBN 0521475449 (hardcover), 0521475562 (paperback).
Provides a history of sound recording, from Edison's invention of the high-tech digital studios of the 1990s. This volume examines the important technical developments, including acoustic, electronic and digital reproduction, cylinder, 78 rpm disc, 45 rpm microgroove single, and compact disc, while outlining the cultural impact of recorded music and film dialogue.

American Experimental Music, 1890-1940. David Nicholls. 1991. ISBN 052142464X (paperback).

Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation: Essays on Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Music. Craig Ayrey (Editor), Mark Everist (Editor). 1996. ISBN 0521462495 (hardcover).

Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms (Music in the Twentieth Century). Silvina Milstein. 1992. ISBN 0521390494 (hardcover).

Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Malcolm Boyd. 1993. ISBN 0521387132 (paperback).

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David A. Cooper. 1996. ISBN 0521480043 (hardcover), 0521485053 (paperback).

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), William Drabkin. 1991. ISBN 0521378311 (paperback).

Beethoven: Symphony Number 9 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Nicholas Cook. 1993. ISBN 0521399246 (paperback).

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Robin Stowell. 1998. ISBN 0521457750 (paperback).

Beethoven Studies Three. Alan Tyson. 1982. ISBN 0521241316 (hardcover).

Beethoven, Pastoral Symphony (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Wyn Jones. 1996. ISBN 0521456843 (paperback).

Benjamin Britten Billy Budd (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Mervyn Cooke, Philip Reed. 1993. ISBN 0521387507 (paperback).

Berg: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Anthony Pople. 1991. ISBN 0521399769 (paperback).

Berlioz: Roméo Et Juliette (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Julian Rushton. 1994. ISBN 0521377676 (paperback).

The Boulez-Cage Correspondence. Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Robert Samuels. 1995. ISBN 0521485584 (paperback).

Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies. Michael Musgrave (Photographer). 1987. ISBN 0521326060 (hardcover).

Brahms: A German Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Michael Musgrave. 1996. ISBN 0521409950 (paperback).

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Colin Lawson. 1998. ISBN 0521588316 (paperback).

Brahms: Symphony #1 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Lee Brodbeck. 1997. ISBN 0521474329 (hardcover).

Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Mervyn Cooke. 1997. ISBN 0521446333 (paperback).

Byrd Studies. Alan Brown, Richard Turbet (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521401291 (hardcover).

C.W. Von Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice. Patricia Howard. 1981. ISBN 0521296641 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge Companions to Music), John Butt (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521587808 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Berg (Cambridge Companions to Music), Anthony Pople (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521564891 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments (Cambridge Companions to Music), Trevor Herbert (Editor), John Wallace (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521565227 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. Jim Samson (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521477522 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music), Donald Burrows (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521456134 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (Cambridge Companions to Music), Christopher H. Gibbs (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521484243 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (Cambridge Companions to Music), Colin Lawson (Editor). 1996. ISBN 0521476682 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder (Cambridge Companions to Music), John Mansfield Thomson, Anthony Rowland-Jones. 1995. ISBN 0521358167 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to the Violin. Robin Stowell (Editor). 1993. ISBN 0521399238 (paperback).

Chopin: The Four Ballades (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Jim Samson. 1992. ISBN 0521386152 (paperback).

Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), John Rink. 1998. ISBN 0521446600 (paperback).

Chopin Studies 2. John Rink (Editor), Jim Samson (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521416477 (hardcover).

Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo. John Whenham (Editor). 1986. ISBN 0521284775 (paperback).

The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice. James Grier. 1996. ISBN 0521558638 (paperback).

Czech Opera (National Traditions of Opera). John Tyrrell. 1988. ISBN 0521235316 (hardcover).

Debussy: LA Mer (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Simon Trezise. 1995. ISBN 0521446562 (paperback).

An Early Music Dictionary: Musical Terms from British Sources, 1500-1740 (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Graham Strahle. 1995. ISBN 0521416884 (hardcover).

The Early Pianoforte (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Stewart Pollens. 1995. ISBN 0521417295 (hardcover).

Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950. Robert Philip. 1992. ISBN 0521235286 (hardcover).

Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism), Leslie C. Dunn (Editor), Nancy A. Jones (Editor). 1997. ISBN 052158583X (paperback).

Essays on Music. Hans Keller, Christopher Wintle (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521462169 (hardcover).

Essays on the Philosophy of Music. Ernest Bloch, et al. 1985. ISBN 0521312132 (paperback).

The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music. Peter Kivy. 1993. ISBN 0521435986 (paperback).

Form and Design. R. Bennett. 1981. ISBN 0521298121 (paperback).

Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life. Jean-Michel Nectoux, et al. 1991. ISBN 0521235243 (hardcover).

Georges Bizet, Carmen. Susan McClary. 1992. ISBN 0521398975 (paperback).

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Schiff. 1997. ISBN 0521559537 (paperback).

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), James Hepokoski. 1987. ISBN 0521258855 (hardcover).

Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff. James A. Hepokoski. 1984. ISBN 0521280168 (paperback).

Gustav Mahler: An Introduction to His Music. Deryck Cooke. 1988. ISBN 0521368634 (paperback).

Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought. Ruth Smith. 1995. ISBN 0521402654 (hardcover).

Handel, Messiah. Donald Burrows. 1991. ISBN 0521376203 (paperback).

Haydn: The Creation (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Nicholas Temperley. 1991. ISBN 0521378656 (paperback).

Henry Purcell: The Origins and Development of His Musical Style. Martin Adams. 1992. ISBN 052143159X (hardcover).

A History of Pianoforte Pedalling (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), David Rowland. 1994. ISBN 0521402662 (hardcover).

The History of the English Organ. Stephen Bicknell. 1996. ISBN 0521550262 (hardcover).

Holst: The Planets (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Richard Greene. 1995. ISBN 0521456339 (paperback).

Igor Stravinsky: the Rake's Progress. Paul Griffiths. 1982. ISBN 0521281997 (paperback).

Introduction to the Art of Singing (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Johann Friedrich Agricola, Julianne C. Baird (Translator). 1995. ISBN 052145428X (hardcover).

Italian Opera (National Tradition of Opera). David Kimbell. 1994. ISBN 0521466431 (paperback).

J.S. Bach and the German Motet. Daniel R. Melamed. 1995. ISBN 052141864X (hardcover).

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Paul Wingfield. 1992. ISBN 0521389011 (paperback).

The Life of Bellini (Musical Lives). John Roselli, John Rosselli. 1997. ISBN 0521467810 (paperback).

The Life of Bellini (Musical Lives). John Rosselli. 1997. ISBN 0521462274 (hardcover).

The Life of Mahler (Musical Lives). Peter Franklin. 1997. ISBN 0521461995 (hardcover), 0521467616 (paperback).
Reconfronts the myth of Mahler-the-misunderstood-hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the legends. His illuminating biography shows Mahler to be a profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, a dictatorial conductor and husband, an iconoclast and paradoxically, a traditionalist.

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Kenneth Hamilton. 1996. ISBN 0521469635 (paperback).

Ludwig Van Beethoven Fidelio (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Paul Robinson. 1996. ISBN 0521458528 (paperback).

Mahler: Symphony #3 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Peter Franklin. 1991. ISBN 0521379474 (paperback).

The Making of the Victorian Organ (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Nicholas Thistlethwaite. 1991. ISBN 0521343453 (hardcover).

The Masterwork in Music Vol. 1 (1925) (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, #5), Heinrich Schenker, et al. 1994. ISBN 0521455413 (hardcover).


The Masterwork in Music Vol. 2 (1926) (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, #8), Heinrich Schenker, et al. 1996. ISBN 0521455421 (hardcover).


The Masterwork in Music Vol. 3 (1930) (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #10), Heinrich Schenker, et al. 1997. ISBN 052145543X (hardcover).
Comprises the main writings from the mid-1920s to 1930 of the eminent Austrian theorist and music-philosopher, Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) that range from detailed analyses of individual works to discussions of music theory in a historical/cultural context to general thoughts about music, art and culture. Volume 1 includes analyses of keyboard works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven and Handel and solo violin music by Bach, as well as more general essays on aspects of Schenkerian theory. Volume 2 contains a major essay on Mozart's Symphony #40 in G minor and other studies of Bach keyboard and solo cello works, Haydn and Reger, as well as writings on sonata form and fugue and Schenkerian theory. The third and final volume is dominated by the most detailed and, for many, the most celebrated of all of Schenker's studies of single works: the analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. All four movements are discussed and graphed in painstaking detail. Translated by Ian Bent, Richard Kramer, John Rothgeb, Heidi Siegel, Derrick Puffet, Alfred Clayton, and William Drabkin.

Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards. Gerhard Von Breuning, Maynard Solomon (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521484898 (paperback).

Mendelssohn Studies. R. Larry Todd (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521417767 (hardcover).

Mendelssohn, the Hebrides and Other Overtures: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, the Hebrides (Fingal's Cave). R. Larry Todd. 1993. ISBN 0521407648 (paperback).

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations. Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani. 1994. ISBN 0521361931 (hardcover).

Mozart: Clairnet Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Colin Lawson. 1996. ISBN 0521479290 (paperback).

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Colin Lawson. 1996. ISBN 0521473845 (hardcover).

Mozart: The "Jupiter" Symphony: #41 in C Major, K. 551 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Elaine R. Sisman. 1993. ISBN 0521409241 (paperback).

Mozart, the 'Haydn' Quartets: The 'Haydn' Quartets (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), John Irving. 1998. ISBN 0521585619 (paperback).

Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. Richard Leppert. 1993. ISBN 0521448549 (paperback).

Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, No 3). Bryan Gilliam (Editor), Cspp Gilliam. 1994. ISBN 0521420121 (hardcover).

Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception. Susan McClary (Editor), Richard D. Leppert. 1989. ISBN 0521379776 (paperback).

Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts. John Kmetz (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521440459 (hardcover).

Music in the Seventeenth Century. Lorenzo Bianconi. 1987. ISBN 0521269156 (paperback).

The Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques. Arnold Whittall. 1990. ISBN 0521386683 (paperback).

The Music of John Cage (Music in the Twentieth Century). James Pritchett. 1993. ISBN 0521416213 (hardcover).

The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Music in the Twentieth Century). Joseph N. Straus. 1995. ISBN 0521416469 (hardcover).

Music of the Middle Ages. Giulio Cattin, F. Alberto. Gallo. 1985. ISBN 0521284899 (paperback).

The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace. Michael Musgrave. 1995. ISBN 0521375622 (hardcover).

Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Hermeneutic Approaches (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) Vol 2. Ian Bent (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521461839 (hardcover).

Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism). Downing A. Thomas. 1995. ISBN 0521473071 (hardcover).

Music Dictionary. Roy Bennett. 1995. ISBN 0521569303 (paperback).

Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria. David Wyn Jones (Editor), David Wyn Jones. 1996. ISBN 0521453496 (hardcover).

The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (Music in the Twentieth Century). Kyle Gann. 1995. ISBN 0521465346 (hardcover).

The Music of John Cage ( Music in the Twentieth Century). James Pritchett. 1996. ISBN 0521565448 (paperback).

Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Michael Russ. 1992. ISBN 0521386071 (paperback).

The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera As Politics and Politicized Art. Jane F. Fulcher. 1987. ISBN 0521327741 (hardcover).

New Musical Resources. Henry Cowell, David Nicholls. 1996. ISBN 0521499747 (paperback).

New Musical Resources: With Notes and an Accompanying Essay. Henry Cowell, David Nicholls. 1996. ISBN 0521496519 (hardcover).

Nielsen - Symphony #5 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Fanning. 1997. ISBN 0521446325 (paperback).

On Mozart (Woodrow Wilson Center Press Series), James M. Morris (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521476615 (paperback).

Opera. Roy Bennett. 1995. ISBN 0521569443 (audio cassette), 0521569354 (paperback).

Opera and the Enlightenment. Thomas Bauman, Marita Petzoldt McClymonds (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521461723 (hardcover).

The Organ in Western Culture, 750-1250 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music), Peter Williams. 1993. ISBN 0521418437 (hardcover).

Performing Beethoven (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, No 4). Robin Stowell (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521416442 (hardcover).

Purcell Studies. Curtis Alexander Price (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521441749 (hardcover).

Richard Strauss: Arabella (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Kenneth Birkin. 1989. ISBN 0521335779 (paperback).

Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), John Warrack. 1994. ISBN 0521448956 (paperback).

Russians on Russian Music, 1830-1880: An Anthology. Stuart Campbell (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521402670 (hardcover).

Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #9), Leslie David Blasius. 1996. ISBN 0521550858 (hardcover).
Heinrich Schenker's theoretical and analytical method occupies an important and controversial position in modern musical studies. His writings claim to resubstantiate the unique artistic presence of the canonic work, and reject those disciplines, such as psychoacoustics and systematic musicology, which derive from the natural sciences. This book rereads Schenker's project as an attempt to reconstruct music theory as a discipline against the background of the new empirical musical sciences of the later nineteenth century, such as the psychological and historical investigations of music.

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Jonathan Dunsby. 1992. ISBN 0521387159 (paperback).

Schubert's Dramatic Lieder. Marjorie Wing Hirsch. 1993. ISBN 0521418208 (hardcover).

Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder. Susan Youens. 1996. ISBN 0521552575 (hardcover).

Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Nicholas Marston. 1992. ISBN 0521398924 (paperback).

Sibelius: Symphony #5 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), James A. Hepokoski. 1993. ISBN 0521409586 (paperback).

Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession. John Rosselli. 1992. ISBN 0521416833 (hardcover).

Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession. John Rosselli. 1995. ISBN 0521426979 (paperback).

Songsters and Saints. Paul Oliver. 1984. ISBN 0521269423 (paperback).

Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), John Williamson. 1993. ISBN 0521409357 (paperback).

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Stephen Walsh. 1993. ISBN 0521404312 (hardcover).

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Stephen Walsh. 1993. ISBN 0521407788 (paperback).

Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning by Jean Denis (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Vincent J. Panetta. 1987. ISBN 052131402X (paperback).

Verdi, Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Rosen. 1995. ISBN 0521397677 (paperback).

The Virtuoso Flute-Player (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Johann George Tromlitz. 1991. ISBN 0521390672 (paperback).

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Other Concertos, Op. 8 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Paul Everett. 1996. ISBN 0521404991 (hardcover).

Vivaldi the Four Seasons and Other Concertos Op. 8 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Paul Everett. 1996. ISBN 0521406927 (paperback).

W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Peter Branscombe. 1991. ISBN 0521319161 (paperback).

W.A. Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Tim Carter. 1988. ISBN 0521316065 (hardcover).

W.A. Mozart, Cosí Fan Tutte (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Bruce Alan Brown. 1996. ISBN 0521431344 (hardcover).

W.A. Mozart, Cosí Fan Tutte (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Bruce Alan Brown. 1996. ISBN 0521437350 (paperback).

Wagner and Beethoven: Richard Wagner's Reception of Beethoven. Klaus Kropfinger. 1991. ISBN 0521342015 (hardcover).

Wagner and Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature). Rosamund Bartlett. 1995. ISBN 0521440718 (hardcover).

Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism). Thomas S. Grey. 1995. ISBN 0521417384 (hardcover).

Wolfgang Amade Mozart. Georg Knepler, J. Bradford Robinson (Translator). 1994. ISBN 0521419727 (hardcover).

Adorno's Aesthetics of Music. Max Paddison. 1993. ISBN 0521433215 (hardcover), 0521626080 (paperback).

The Age of Mozart and Beethoven. Paperback. 1984. ISBN 0521241499 (paperback).

The Age of Mozart and Beethoven. Giorgio Pestelli. 1984. ISBN 0521284791 (paperback).

American Experimental Music, 1890-1940. David Nicholls. 1991. ISBN 0521345782 (hardcover).

Bach Interpretation: Articulation Marks in Primary Sources of J.S. Bach (Cambridge Musicial Texts and Monographs), John Butt. 1990. ISBN 0521372399 (hardcover).

Bayreuth: the Early Years: an Account of the Wagner Festival, 1876-1914 As Seen by Celebrated Visitors and Participants. Robert Hartford (Photographer). 1981. ISBN 0521238226 (hardcover).

Brahms: Symphony #1 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), David Brodbeck. 1997. ISBN 0521479592 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. Paperback. 1994. ISBN 0521404908 (paperback).

Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1982. ISBN 0521244528 (hardcover).

Claude Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Roger Nichols, Richard Langham Smith. 1989. ISBN 0521314461 (paperback).

Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn. Simon McVeigh. 1993. ISBN 0521413532 (hardcover).

Cori Spezzati: An Anthology of Sacred Polychoral Music Vol 2. Anthony F. Carver (Editor). 1989. ISBN 0521303990 (hardcover).

The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice. James Grier. 1996. ISBN 0521551900 (hardcover).

The Developmental Psychology of Music. David Hargreaves. 1987. ISBN 0521314151 (paperback).

E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings: Kreisleriana, the Poet and the Composer, Music Criticism. David Charlton (Editor), Martyn Clarke (Translator). 1989. ISBN 0521235200 (hardcover).

Early Music History Vol 13. Hardcover. 1994. ISBN 9994833472 (hardcover).

Early Music History Vol 12. Hardcover. 1993. ISBN 9992450975 (hardcover).

Early Music History Vol 11. Hardcover. 1992. ISBN 999221614X (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 11. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521419573 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 12. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1993. ISBN 0521451809 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 10. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1991. ISBN 0521403545 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 8. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1989. ISBN 999832114X (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 4. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1985. ISBN 9994269798 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music Vol 9. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1990. ISBN 0521390516 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Vol 14. Ed by Iain Fenlon. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music) Vol 14. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521558433 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Vol 16) Vol 16. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1997. ISBN 9996149900 (hardcover).

Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Vol 17) Vol 17. Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1998. ISBN 9998166853 (hardcover).

Embodied Voices; Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture. Nancy A. Jones, Leslie C. Dunn. 1994. ISBN 0521460123 (hardcover).

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #2), Ernst Kurth, Lee A. Rothfarb (Translator). 1991. ISBN 0521355222 (hardcover).
Provides extensive annotated translations from the writings of the music theorist Ernst Kurth (1886-1946), who wrote pioneering studies on the music of J.S. Bach, Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. An extensive introductory essay discusses the intellectual andsocio-cultural background required for understanding Kurth's work.

Essays on the Philosophy of Music. Ernst Bloch, Peter Palmer (Translator). 1985. ISBN 0521248736 (hardcover).

Esthetics of Music. Carl Dahlhaus. 1982. ISBN 0521235081 (hardcover), 0521280079 (paperback).

The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music. Peter Kivy. 1993. ISBN 0521434629 (hardcover).

Foundations of Music History. Paperback. 1983. ISBN 0521232813 (paperback).

Foundations of Music History. Carl Dahlhaus. 1983. ISBN 0521298903 (paperback).

Gender and the Musical Canon. Paperback. 1993. ISBN 0521392926 (paperback).

Gender and the Musical Canon. Marcia J. Citron. 1993. ISBN 052144974X (paperback).

Giacomo Puccini: LA Boheme (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Arthur Groos, Roger. Parker. 1986. ISBN 0521319137 (paperback).

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), James A. Hepokoski. 1987. ISBN 0521277493 (paperback).

Greek Musical Writings Vol. 1: The Musician and His Art (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music), Andrew Barker (Editor). 1989. ISBN 0521235936 (hardcover), 0521389119 (paperback).

Greek Musical Writings Vol. 2: Harmonic and Acoustic Theory (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music), Andrew Barker (Editor). 1990. ISBN 052130220X (hardcover).

Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 50 (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), W. Dean Sutcliffe. 1992. ISBN 0521399955 (paperback).

Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style - Through-composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #1), James Webster. 1991. ISBN 0521385202 (hardcover).
A new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music that argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are "through-composed" in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. Webster challenges the concept of "classical style" which, he argues, has distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of his stature as Beethoven's equal.

Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town. Ruth Finnegan. 1989. ISBN 0521360668 (hardcover).

Instruments of the Orchestra. Roy Bennett. 1982. ISBN 0521298148 (paperback).

Ives: Piano Sonata #2 ('Concord, Mass., 1840-1860') (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Geoffrey Block. 1997. ISBN 052149821X (paperback).

Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence. Timothy Martin. 1991. ISBN 0521394872 (hardcover).

Language, Music, and the Sign: A Study in Aesthetics, Poetics and Poetic Practice from Collins to Coleridge. Kevin Barry. 1987. ISBN 0521341752 (hardcover).

Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Fugue, Form and Style (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) Vol 1. Ian Bent (Editor). 1994. ISBN 052125969X (hardcover).

Music and Conceptualization. Mark Debellis. 1995. ISBN 0521403316 (hardcover).

Music and Image. Paperback. 1993. ISBN 0521360293 (paperback).

Music and Patronage in Sixteenth Century Mantua II. Iain Fenlon. 1982. ISBN 0521286034 (paperback).

Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua Vol 2. Iain Fenlon. 1982. ISBN 0521235871 (hardcover).

Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua Vol 1. Iain. Fenlon. 1981. ISBN 0521229057 (hardcover).

Music and Society. Paperback. 1989. ISBN 0521327806 (paperback).

Music and Text: Critical Inquiries. Steven Paul Scher (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521401585 (hardcover).

Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: LA Revue Et Gazette Musicale De Paris, 1834-80. Katharine Ellis. 1995. ISBN 0521454433 (hardcover).

Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), John Butt. 1994. ISBN 0521433274 (hardcover).

Music in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge Readings the Literature of Music). James McKinnon (Editor). 1989. ISBN 0521376246 (paperback).

Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century. Malcolm Boyd (Editor), Juan José Carreras Lopez (Editor). 1998. ISBN 0521481392 (hardcover).

Music in the Primary School. Paperback. 1993. ISBN 052138754X (paperback).

Music in the Primary School. J. Mills. 1993. ISBN 0521448255 (paperback).

Music in the Seventeenth Century. Lorenzo Bianconi. 1988. ISBN 0521262909 (hardcover).

Music of the Middle Ages I. Paperback. 1985. ISBN 0521241618 (paperback).

Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism. Ian Bent (Editor). 1996. ISBN 0521551021 (hardcover).

Music, Gender, Education. Lucy Green. 1997. ISBN 0521555175 (hardcover), 0521555221 (paperback).

The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola: A Treatise on Musical Instruments, 1529 and 1545 (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Martin Agricola, William E. Hettrick (Translator). 1994. ISBN 0521366402 (hardcover).

The Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, #3), Johann Friedrich Daube, Susan Snook-Luther (Translator). 1992. ISBN 0521365643 (hardcover).
First English translation of Johann Friedrich Daube's Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition (Vienna, 1773), written as a practical, comprehensive guide for aristocratic dilettantes wishing to compose instrumental chamber music for their social entertainment.

Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven - Selected Writings on Theory and Method (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #12), Adolf Bernhard Marx, Scott G. Burnham (Editor). 1997. ISBN 0521452740 (hardcover).
This volume offers a selection of the most salient of A. B. Marx, one of the most important German music theorists of his time, including oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Music), Alice Hanson. 1985. ISBN 0521257999 (hardcover).

New Mattheson Studies. George Buelow, Hans J. Marx (Editor). 1984. ISBN 052125115X (hardcover).
A collection of essays bringing together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. Essays explore Mattheson as a composer; his relationship to contemporaries; his influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics; and the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime.

Organ Music of J.S. Bach: A Background (Csm, vol. 3) Vol 3. Peter Williams. 1989. ISBN 0521379784 (paperback).

Perspectives on Mozart Performance. R. Larry Todd. 1991. ISBN 0521400724 (hardcover).

Pied-Piper: Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills. John Bean, Amelia Oldfield. 1991. ISBN 0521378494 (paperback).

The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation. John Rink (Editor). 1995. ISBN 0521453747 (hardcover).

Principles of the Harpsichord. Rebecca Harris-Warrick. 1984. ISBN 0521272696 (paperback).

Proust As Musician. Jean Jacques Nattiez. 1989. ISBN 0521363497 (hardcover).

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #4), Thomas Christensen. 1993. ISBN 0521420407 (hardcover).
The first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, who synthesized the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Explores Rameau's accomplishments in the light of speculative and practical considerations of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment.

Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music. Paperback. 1985. ISBN 0521261155 (paperback).

Richard Strauss, Salome (Cambridge Opera Handbooks ), Derrick Puffett. 1989. ISBN 0521359708 (paperback).

Richard Wagner's Music Dramas. Carl Dahlhaus. 1992. ISBN 0521428998 (paperback).

Richard Wagner's Music Dramas. Paperback. 1992. ISBN 0521223970 (paperback).

The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Reinhard Strohm. 1993. ISBN 0521417457 (hardcover).

Roger North's the Musicall Grammarian 1728 (Cambridge Studies in Music), Mary Chan, Jamie C. Kassler (Editor). 1990. ISBN 0521331315 (hardcover).

The Romantic Age (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) Vol 1. Hardcover. 1999. ISBN 0521247764 (paperback).

The Romantic Age (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) Vol 2. Hardcover. 1999. ISBN 052126006X (paperback).

Ruckers: A Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Grant O'Brien. 1990. ISBN 0521365651 (hardcover).

Satie the Composer. Robert Orledge. 1990. ISBN 0521350379 (hardcover).

Schenker's Interpretive Practice (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis #11), Robert Snarrenberg. 1997. ISBN 0521497264 (hardcover).
Comprehensive study of the influential music theorist, Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935). Without compromising the highly technical side of Schenker's theory that has chiefly preoccupied earlier writers, the author reveals the humanist side of Schenker's approach to understanding European music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including how metaphor and imagery are interwoven with technical analysis in Schenker's attempts to portray the richness of musical experience and the complexity of the composer's mind.

Schoenberg and the New Music. Paperback. 1989. ISBN 0521332516 (paperback).

Schoenberg and the New Music. Carl Dahlhaus, Derrick Puffett & Alfred Clayton (translators). 1989. ISBN 0521337836 (paperback).
Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential and controversial composers of the twentieth century. This collection of essays examines the works of composer in the context of the "New Music" that was the historical and cultural movement of his time. In these essays, Schoenberg's work is subjected to historical, technical and theoretical analysis. Studies of other "New Music" composers such as Webern, Schreker and Scriabin are also provided. The collection includes essays of broader cultural-historical and sociological import that should interest those involved with twentieth-century music and theory.

Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Susan Youens. 1992. ISBN 0521422795 (paperback).

Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm. Roger Fiske. 1983. ISBN 0521247721 (hardcover).

Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century Vol 1. Stephen Banfield. 1989. ISBN 052137944X (paperback).

A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed Before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Valeri Rumbold, Iain Fenlon (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521415357 (hardcover).

Sound, Space and Music. Forsyth. 1992. ISBN 0521404681 (hardcover), 0521406110 (paperback).

The Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Christopher Page (Editor). 1991. ISBN 0521404207 (hardcover).

Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music. Anthony Pople (Editor). 1994. ISBN 0521452368 (hardcover).

Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music. Deryck Cooke. 1982. ISBN 0521289475 (paperback).

The Virtuoso Flute-Player (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Johann George Tromlitz, Ardal Powell (Editor). 1991. ISBN 0521399777 (paperback).

W.A. Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series), Thomas Bauman. 1988. ISBN 0521310601 (hardcover).

W.A. Mozart: Idomeneo (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Julian Rushton. 1993. ISBN 0521437415 (paperback).

Women in Music. Ann Pugh. 1992. ISBN 0521346770 (paperback).

Beethoven's Critics: Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime. Robin Wallace. 1990. ISBN 0521386349 (paperback).

Chambers Pocket Guide to Music Forms and Styles. Wendy Munro. 1988. ISBN 0550180338 (paperback).

Cori Spezzati Vol. 2: An Anthology of Sacred Polychoral Music. Anthony F. Carver. 1989. ISBN 0521361729 (paperback).
Deals with polychoral church music from its beginnings in the early 1500s to its climax in the work of Gabrieli and Schutz. The title comes from a tradition of polychoral music where the singers, and sometimes instrumentalists, were split into two or more groups engaged in lively musical dialogue and joined in majestic tutti climaxes. This volume draws on contemporary descriptions of the idiom, especially from the writings of Vicentino and Zarlino, but concentrates mainly on musical analysis, showing how antiphonal chanting, dialogue, and canon influenced the phenomenon. Polychoral music, but with impressive pomp. Carver's study shows that it was cultivated by many composers outside Venice - in Rome, all over Northern Italy, in Germany, Spain, and the New World. Also included is music by several major composers about whom there is little literature available are treated in depth: the Gabrielis, Lasso, Palestrina, Victoria, and some German masters. A companion volume anthologizes seventeen complete pieces of music, most of which are analyzed in the text of Volume 1.

The Developmental Psychology of Music. Published 1987. ISBN 0521306655 (paperback).

The Early History of the Viol (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs), Ian Woodfield. 1988. ISBN 0521357438 (paperback).

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony. John Hajdu Heyer (Editor). 1989. ISBN 0521352630 (paperback).

Listen! Music and Nature. Geoffrey. Brace. 1976. ISBN 0521207061 (paperback).

Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries. Published 1981. ISBN 0521359015 (paperback).

Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries. Lehuray. 1981. ISBN 0521234263 (paperback).

Music and Language: The Rise of Western Music As Exemplified in Settings of the Mass. Thrasybulos Georgiades. 1983. ISBN 0521299020 (paperback).

Music and Language: The Rise of Western Music As Exemplified in Settings of the Mass. Thrasybulos Georgos Georgiades. 1983. ISBN 0521233097 (paperback).

Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (Cambridge Studies in Music), John E. Stevens. 1979. ISBN 0521294177 (paperback).

Music and the French Revolution. Malcolm Boyd (Editor). 1992. ISBN 0521402875 (paperback).

Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples. Allan W. Atlas. 1985. ISBN 0521248280 (paperback).

Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth. Christopher Hogwood, Richard Luckett. 1982. ISBN 0521235251 (paperback).

Music in European Thought, 1851-1912 (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music). Bojan Bujic. 1988. ISBN 0521230500 (paperback).

Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage Sources, and Texts. Iain Fenlon. 1981. ISBN 0521233283 (paperback).

Music of the Middle Ages II. Published 1985. ISBN 052128483X (paperback).

Music of the Middle Ages II. F. Alberto Gallo. 1985. ISBN 0521230497 (paperback).

The Organ Music of J.S. Bach: Works Based on Chorales (Cambridge Studies in Music) Vol 2. Peter Williams. 1985. ISBN 0521317002 (paperback).

Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance. David C. Price. 1981. ISBN 0521228069 (paperback).

Paul Valery and Music: Study of Techniques of Composition in Valery's Poetry. Brian Stimpson. 1985. ISBN 0521256089 (paperback).

Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music. Carl Dahlhaus. 1985. ISBN 0521278414 (paperback).

Schenker Studies. Hedi Siegel (Editor). 1990. ISBN 0521360382 (paperback).

Song, dance and poetry of the court of Scotland under King James VI; musical illustrations of court-song. Helena Mennie Shire. ISBN 052107181X (paperback).

The Tabla of Lucknow: A Cultural Analysis of a Musical Tradition/Audio Cassette (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology). James Kippen. 1988. ISBN 0521335299 (paperback).

Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries. Robin Stowell. 1990. ISBN 0521397448 (paperback).

Words and Music in the Middle Ages. Published 1986. ISBN 0521339049 (paperback).

Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama 1050-1350. John E. Stevens. 1986. ISBN 0521245079 (paperback).

Writings on Music. John Warrack (Editor). 1982. ISBN 0521228921 (paperback).
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