Classical Music (1750-1830)

The north-east of England in the Eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in church. Drawing ..

The north-east of England in the Eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in church. Drawing ..

From c.1750 to c.1810 the paths of music history and the history of painting converged with lasting consequences. The publication of Newton's Opticks at the start of the eighteenth century gave a 'scientific' basis to the analogy between sight and sound, allowing music and the visual arts to be defi..

From c.1750 to c.1810 the paths of music history and the history of painting converged with lasting consequences. The publication of Newton's Opticks at the start of the eighteenth century gave a 'scientific' basis to the analogy between sight and sound, allowing music and the visual arts to be defi..

The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Romantic era. An international coterie of writers engaged with the legend, while composers such as Beethoven, Reichardt, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt, Halévy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Parry, Goldmark and Bargiel based works of div..

The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Romantic era. An international coterie of writers engaged with the legend, while composers such as Beethoven, Reichardt, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt, Halévy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Parry, Goldmark and Bargiel based works of div..

This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western Music. Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, focusing primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits a..

Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this monograph, Salomon's introduction of the composer to the London musical scene owed as much to luck ..

This collection offers an overview of Schubertian reception, interpretation and analysis. The previously published journal articles represent the best of scholarship in this field and survey the issue of Schubert’s alterity, his interpretative strategies and hermeneutic positions, his handling of ha..

Schubert Studies comprises eleven essays by renowned Schubert scholars and performers. Each of the essays here charts new and existing evidence to provide fresh perspectives on aspects of Schubert’s life and music, making this volume an indispensable tool for scholars concerned with his work...

Bringing together two burgeoning concerns in Schubert studies, this volume of essays discusses issues of performance practice that have absorbed both practitioners and commentators in the last quarter century, together with the demythologising of Schubert as man and composer...

Bringing together two burgeoning concerns in Schubert studies, this volume of essays discusses issues of performance practice that have absorbed both practitioners and commentators in the last quarter century, together with the demythologising of Schubert as man and composer...