- Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
- Allen Shawn
- Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of linked essays--"soundings"--that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived.
- Paperback 2003
- Bach
- Christoph Wolff
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Bach and the Patterns of Invention
- Laurence Dreyfus
- In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2004
- Bach's Continuo Group
- Laurence Dreyfus
- Paperback 1990
- Beethoven
- Lewis Lockwood
- Hardcover 1992
- Beethoven Essays
- Maynard Solomon
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Beethoven Essays
- Edited by Lewis Lockwood
- Edited by Phyllis Benjamin
- Hardcover 1984
- Berlioz
- D. Kern Holoman
- For three decades, beginning with the Symphonie fantastique composed in 1830, Berlioz and his music embodied the élan and exuberance of the Romantic era. This captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography is not only a complete account of Berlioz's life, but an acute analysis of his compositions and description of his work as conductor and critic, as well as a vivid picture of his musical world. D. Kern Holoman paints a full-length portrait of Berlioz: his personal and family life, his intellectual development and pursuits, his methods of composing (Berlioz at his work table, so to speak), the aim and style of his music criticism and travel writing, his innovations in staging and conducting performances, and his interaction with other composers.
- Hardcover 1989
- Brahms and the German Spirit
- Daniel Beller-McKenna
- Beller-McKenna counters music historians's reluctance to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications. He gives an account of the intertwining of nationalism, politics, and religion that underlies major works, and enriches both our understanding of his art and German culture.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Century of Bach & Mozart
- Edited by Thomas Forrest Kelly
- Edited by Sean Gallagher
- Contributions by David Blackbourn
- Contributions by Thomas Christensen
- Contributions by Hermann Danuser
- Contributions by Elaine R. Sisman
- Contributions by John Butt
- Contributions by Eric Chafe
- Contributions by Sergio Durante
- Contributions by Daniel R. Melamed
- Contributions by Hans-Joachim Schulze
- Contributions by Peter Wollny
- Contributions by Neal Zaslaw
- Contributions by Ulrich Konrad
- Contributions by Reinhard Strohm
- Contributions by James Webster
- Contributions by Gretchen Wheelock
- Contributions by Christopher Hogwood
- Contributions by Ton Koopman
- Contributions by Robert Levin
- For many today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the field offers a variety of new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular.
- Hardcover 2008
- Chopin at the Boundaries
- Jeffrey Kallberg
- The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century
- Joel Lester
- Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century is the most comprehensive account ever given of the theory behind the music of Baroque and Classical composers, from Bach to Beethoven. While giving preeminent theorists their due in this panoramic survey of musical thought, Joel Lester also examines the works of more than one hundred seventeenth- and eighteenth century writers to show how prominent theories were received and applied in actual teaching situations. Beginning with the influence of Zarlino and seventeenth-century theorists, Lester then focuses on central traditions emerging from definitive works in the early eighteenth century. Lester's historic overview is leavened throughout with accounts of individual composers grappling with theoretical issues.
- Paperback
- Handel as Orpheus
- Ellen T. Harris
- Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty. This work brings greater understanding of Handel's development as a composer and new insight into the role of sexuality in artistic expression.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Haydn and the Classical Variation
- Elaine R. Sisman
- Hardcover
- I-VI
- John Cage
- Mixed 1990 / Mixed
- Inside Beethoven's Quartets
- Lewis Lockwood
- Joel Smirnoff
- Ronald Copes
- Samuel Rhodes
- Joel Krosnick
- The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a renowned Beethoven scholar and the Julliand Quartet as your guides.
- Mixed 2008
- Keyboard Music from the Andreas Bach Book and the Möller Manuscript
- Edited by Robert Hill
- Foreword by Christoph Wolff
- Paperback 1991
- Late Idyll
- Reinhold Brinkmann
- Translated by Peter Palmer
- In this elegant book, premier musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann guides us through Brahms's "Second Symphony," examining musical ideas in all their compositional facets and placing them in the context of major trends in the intellectual history of late nineteenth-century Europe.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff, 1871-1886
- Franz Liszt
- Translated by William R. Tyler
- Introduction and notes by Edward N. Waters
- Hardcover 1979
- Motives for Allusion
- Christopher Alan Reynolds
- When a critic pointed out to Brahms that the finale theme in his First Symphony was remarkably similar to the Ode to Joy theme in Beethoven's Ninth, he is said to have replied: "Yes indeed, and what's really remarkable is that every jackass notices this at once." Not every musical borrowing is quite so obvious; but the listener who does perceive one is always left wondering: what does the similarity mean? In this illuminating book Christopher Reynolds gives us answers to that complex question. He identifies specific borrowings or allusions in a wide range of nineteenth-century music and shows the kinds of things composers do with borrowed musical ideas.
- Hardcover 2003
- Mozart
- Alan Tyson
- The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. This book assembles his major articles, previously scattered through magazines, journals, and festschrifts, plus two unpublished pieces, into a treasure trove for musicologists and music lovers. Tyson's style is clear and elegant, and the originality of his work and the soundness of his inferences make this book a pleasure.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- Music Manuscripts at Harvard
- Barbara Wolff
- A catalogue of music manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Includes descriptions of works by Bach, Liszt, Mahler, Mozart, Purcell, Schoenberg, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and many others.
- Paperback 2005
- Music and Imagination
- Aaron Copland
- Hardcover 1952 / Paperback
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume IX, La Statira
- Alessandro Scarlatti, By (composer) Composer of music
- Edited by William C. Holmes
- Paperback 1985
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume V, Massimo Puppieno
- Alessandro Scarlatti, By (composer) Composer of music
- Edited by Colin Slim
- Paperback 1979
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume VI, La Caduta dé Decemviri
- Alessandro Scarlatti, By (composer) Composer of music
- Edited by Hermine Weigel Williams
- Paperback 1980
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume VII, Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante
- Alessandro Scarlatti, By (composer) Composer of music
- Edited by Frank A. D'Accone
- Paperback 1982
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume VIII, Tigrane
- Alessandro Scarlatti, By (composer) Composer of music
- Edited by Michael Collins
- Paperback 1983
- Orientations
- Pierre Boulez
- Edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez
- Translated by Martin Cooper
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1990
- Pierre Boulez
- Dominiqu Jameux
- Translated by Susan Bradshaw
- Hardcover
- Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
- Igor Stravinsky
- Hardcover 1970 / Paperback 1993
- Pyramids at the Louvre
- Glenn Watkins
- Hardcover
- Robert Schumann
- Jon W. Finson
- Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than merely by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann's music.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Romantic Generation
- Charles Rosen
- What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this highly praised volume does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
- Christoph Wolff
- Hardcover 1981
- Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini
- Newell Jenkins
- Bathia Churgin
- Hardcover 1976
- Wagner Handbook
- Edited by Ulrich Muller
- Edited by Peter Wapnewski
- John Deathridge, Translation Editor
- Hardcover