Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner’s Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work’s lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material.
Dr Pippa Drummond argues that festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and empha..
The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and a..
In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by ..
This collection of essays explores the interrelationship of music and theology in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-..
William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs. Gordon Curtis places this w..
What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinities..
As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'. This book explores Schubert's stylistic traits ..
Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source ..
This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over tim..
This is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. An introduction exp..
While the musical culture of the British Isles in the 'long nineteenth century' has been reclaimed from obscurity by musicologists in the last thirty ..
This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in th..