In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions.
Ligeti's Laments provides a critical analysis of the composer's works, considering both the compositions themselves and the larger cultural implicatio..
Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After setting out a broad conceptual fram..
Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the fir..
An international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this volume to investigate different ways..
Conferences, workshops and curricula are for the first time beginning to develop around the theme of 'world music theory', as students, teachers and r..
Writing the history of musical composition in the late twentieth century might be seen as problematic. A productive way forward is to pursue case stu..
Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in ..
It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. It is thus surprising that the subject of ethics is o..
Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance req..
An important element in unlocking the key to Michael Nyman's success lies in his writings about music. Much of what transformed and defined his musica..
Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music ..