Western Music Styles (Early & Classical) Products

Edited by Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormahlen

Hardback – 2018-12-15 
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Routledge Music Companions

Edited by Roe-Min Kok

This collection is a compilation of many of the paths taken by scholars in their pursuit of knowledge about Schumann over the last half-century. Selected for their topical breadth and quality, the writings showcase different points of departure as well as their authors’ allegiance to diverse…

Hardback – 2018-12-13 
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The Early Romantic Composers

By George Biddlecombe

First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts to understand the circumstances influencing the development of English nineteenth-century opera, its characteristic features, and the reasons why these traits held sway. This title will…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By Deirdre O'Grady

First published in 1991. At once poet, dramatist, adaptor and translator, the operatic librettist in turn expresses and mocks social convention. Deirdre O'Grady's study of the Italian operatic librettist identifies opera as a mirror of literary climates, popular taste and political aspirations. The…

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Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by James R. Heintze

First published in 1994. This study covers a wide cross-section of topics, individuals, groups, and musical practices representing various regions and cities. The subjects discussed reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality of the American musical experience as well as the impact on…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By Simon Maguire

First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by David Tunley

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
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By J. Knowles

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
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Musicology

By Laura K.T. Stokes

Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide provides scholars in Hensel studies a resource for navigating the research surrounding the composer’s over 450 musical works. New research in the 1980s and '90s was part of the larger blossoming of women’s music history and promoted an awareness of…

Hardback – 2018-11-15 
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Routledge Music Bibliographies

By Jonathan Impett

Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century. His music has found a…

Hardback – 2018-10-05 
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By Alastair Mitchell

This title was first published in 2001. This work provides detailed information taken from the ’Programmes-as-Broadcast’ daily log of output held at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham. Arranged in chronological order, entries are given for broadcasts of first performances of musical works…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By David Milsom

This title was first published in 2003. With most of western art music, it can be argued that music-making requires performers to interpret a composer's original, notated ideas. Often, an informed and perceptive reading of the score needs to be combined with the inspiration to convey the feelings…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals