Eric Ball
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Marco Spada, an opéra-comique from the famed partnership of Auber and Scribe, a bandit chief’s daughter is torn between loyalty to her father and love for her beloved. The music features a celebrated overture, gracious melodies, and noble pathos.
Explore Daniel Auber’s forgotten opera, *Les Chaperons blancs*, a work of political conspiracy written between two of his greatest hits. This essential volume provides the complete vocal/piano score, preceded by a rich analysis of its music, history, and dramaturgy.
A collection of perspectives on the interplay between words and music, from opera librettos and Broadway to rap lyrics and video game soundtracks. Topics include translation challenges, censorship, and cultural analyses of contemporary song lyrics.
Sound Musicianship
Sound Musicianship explores musicianship as a craft. It examines 21st-century trends like digital media, neurology, and cultural plurality, offering insights from leading researchers to help you advance your own music learning or that of others.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, a leading 19th-century French composer, lived through four revolutions. His opera *L’Enfant prodigue*, written with librettist Eugène Scribe, retells the famous biblical parable with elegant, restrained art and subtle orchestral charm.
Reappraising the Seicento
Reappraising the Seicento offers new perspectives from emerging scholars. Five essays examine compositional procedure in Italy and the assimilation of Italian music by English composers in the seventeenth century, placing it in a larger historical context.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
By one of the 19th century’s most successful opera composers, Le Domino noir is a masterpiece of wit and melodic grace. A noblewoman, destined for the convent, falls for a stranger at a masked ball in a tale of love, duty, and feminine independence.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This long-overdue study illuminates the work of Jōji Yuasa, a great Japanese composer. His captivating music is an encounter between a Western avant-garde aesthetic and the productive thought of Japanese Zen, linked to deep, native roots often opaque to Western ears.
An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
Manifold Identities
“Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities” is a collection of essays on the music of minorities worldwide. Chapters cover groups from the Roma to the Masai and the Andes, alongside theoretical articles on minority identity and its relation to music.
The World of South African Music
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
Music Research
This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from the conference “Music Research: new directions for a new century.” Papers explore four main themes: Research through Performance, Music and Society, Music and Technology, and Structure and Context.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber & Scribe’s opéra-féerique Le Cheval de bronze is one of the composer’s best achievements. Its witty, exotic plot involves a magical horse that transports men to Venus and its sirens. A forgotten gem brimming with invention, fantasy, and comedy.
Future Prospects for Music Education
Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
Rockin’ the Borders
This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock’s role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Romualdo Marenco
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.