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Georg Philipp Telemann's significance within eighteenth-century musical culture is now well acknowledged, and his rich and varied output increasingly appreciated by students, scholars, and listeners. This volume of essays - the first of its kind in English - will provide the impetus for growing international engagement with Telemann's legacy.

Representing the latest research on Clara Schumann's social and musical contexts and her creative output, this book reconsiders the composer's songs and instrumental music, and her legacy as a pianist and teacher. It will be of interest to scholars and students of nineteenth-century music, cultural history and gender studies.

This benchmark collection of essays contain authoritative accounts of Thomas Ades's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. It will appeal not only to Ades specialists, but to those with an interest in contemporary music more broadly.

Showcases new research by leading scholars on the life and music of Gabriel Faure, contemporary of Monet and Mallarme and one of the most influential of all French composers. This book encompasses hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.

This volume opens up the music and conceptual world of Sir James MacMillan. In it an international team of scholars analyses a broad selection of MacMillan's works. It engages with central features of MacMillan's compositions, especially the intersections between religion, spirituality and compositional approaches.

This collection of essays on Vaughan Williams brings together leading British and American scholars and covers a wide range of topics and approaches, exploring musical language, cultural context, biography, manuscript sources and reception history.

Drawing on firsthand recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch's life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch's works and compositional practice, setting his output in its historical and cultural contexts.

This book explores the rich and influential career of one of jazz music's central figures, from his work as a composer to his cultural legacy in jazz, popular music and modern media. Leading authors offer clear, engaging, and scholarly insights into Duke Ellington's work and critical reception, from musical, historical, and international perspectives.

250 years after the composer's birth, Beethoven Studies 4 offers new perspectives on Beethoven and his music, from the aesthetic to the performative, the analytical to the historical. The stimulating original research will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, featuring analysis of previously unpublished material, the historical context for Boulez's music and a final section examining the reception of his music in the United Kingdom.

This volume comprises a series of essays on one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time, by internationally renowned Mozart scholars. Chapters explore the composer's life and reception and many of his most popular works, including The Marriage of Figaro and his chamber and orchestral music.

This collection of essays represents current research on the music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, reflecting the diversity of his music in terms of periods, genres, forms, techniques and related issues through a wide range of critical, theoretical and analytical interpretations and perspectives.

A team of distinguished international scholars presents fresh and lively interdisciplinary perspectives on the music of Maurice Ravel - one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century French music. Readers will gain new insight into Ravel's art through associations with literature, culture, history, and performance studies.

This book explores the rich and influential career of one of jazz music's central figures, from his work as a composer to his cultural legacy in jazz, popular music and modern media. Leading authors offer clear, engaging, and scholarly insights into Duke Ellington's work and critical reception, from musical, historical, and international perspectives.

Elliott Carter's extraordinarily long musical career has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth century. This collection of essays presents a diverse set of viewpoints on Carter's music, from the neo-classicism of the interwar period, through post-war modernism, to the reshaping of a modernist aesthetic in his late style.

Reflecting the recent transformation in Shostakovich studies, an international team of scholars sheds new light on Dmitri Shostakovich's life and work. Essays range from detailed documentary studies of his private diary and his lost opera Orango to historical accounts of what really happened behind the scenes of the Composers' Union.

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, featuring analysis of previously unpublished material, the historical context for Boulez's music and a final section examining the reception of his music in the United Kingdom.

Drawing on firsthand recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch's life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch's works and compositional practice, setting his output in its historical and cultural contexts.

This volume comprises a series of essays on one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time, by internationally renowned Mozart scholars. Chapters explore the composer's life and reception and many of his most popular works, including The Marriage of Figaro and his chamber and orchestral music.

This collection of essays represents current research on the music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, reflecting the diversity of his music in terms of periods, genres, forms, techniques and related issues through a wide range of critical, theoretical and analytical interpretations and perspectives.

Sibelius Studies, first published in 2001, contextualizes Sibelius's symphonies and tone poems in the larger development of European music, especially its transition from late romanticism to modernism. The relationship between Sibelius the man and his music, his personal life and creative work is explored, with revelations emerging from sketches, diaries and letters.

Michael Tippett (1905-98) was one of the major figures of British music in this century. This volume of essays provides the first substantial writing on the composer for over a decade and includes the work of established scholars as well as several new voices.

This is the first major book about the music of the Czech composer Leos Janacek, one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays cover a range of topics relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context, reception, and Janacek as music theorist and analyst.

Elliott Carter's extraordinarily long musical career has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth century. This collection of essays presents a diverse set of viewpoints on Carter's music, from the neo-classicism of the interwar period, through post-war modernism, to the reshaping of a modernist aesthetic in his late style.

This study represents a reflection on and celebration of the extensive musical achievements of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The book describes selected works from all periods of Davies's rich and diverse career, resulting in a portrait which reveals the essence of this remarkable composer and his music.

This collection of scholarly studies on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, one of the major figures of twentieth-century music, offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on his musical oeuvre from 1941 to 1992. The book will be of interest to scholars of music, art, literature and theology.

Our knowledge of Debussy's life and music has increased considerably during the last decade or so. In this volume topics include an examination of Debussy's working methods, his visual tastes and his response to literature, his reception in England, as well as aspects of his performance practice.

A team of distinguished international scholars presents fresh and lively interdisciplinary perspectives on the music of Maurice Ravel - one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century French music. Readers will gain new insight into Ravel's art through associations with literature, culture, history, and performance studies.