Boydell & Brewer 2015 Annual Music Catalogue

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2015Harry PartchLife and music of a hobo composer

Heinrich SchenkerLetters and diaries of the great theorist

Frederick DeliusThe man and his music

Charles MackerrasRemembered by performers, scholars and friends

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Cover image: Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers 1636, ravalement by Henri Hemsch 1763; Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, photo: Andy Johnson.

Accompanied Voices GREENING 15

Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England EGGINGT ON 4

After Wagner BERRY 10

Anton Heiller PL ANYAVSKY 11

Bach to Brahms BEACH / GOLDENBERG 4

Beyond Britten WIEGOLD / KENYON 8

Beyond the Notes T OMES 12

Britten KELLER / WINTLE / GARNHAM 8

CageTalk DICKINSON 6

Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister MURR AY 4

Charles Mackerras SIMEONE / T YRRELL 11

Child’s Introduction to Thorough Bass (1819) KILNER 14

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic FR ACKMAN / POWELL 6

Claude Vivier GILMORE 6

Conducting for a New Era ROXBURGH 12

Constant Lambert LLOYD 8

Conversations on Harmony (1855) FIT T ON 14

Crosscurrents MEYER / OJA / R ATHERT / SHREFFLER 7

David Matthews HYDE 9

Delius and his Music LEE-BROWNE / GUINERY 9

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist BL ACK 9

Essential Bach Choir PARROT T 13

European Music, 1520-1640 HAAR 3

Felix Aprahamian FOREMAN / FOREMAN 7

Friedelind Wagner REIGER / WALT ON 11

Gender in Chinese Music HARRIS / PEASE / TAN 15

Hamilton Harty DIBBLE 9

Harry Partch, Hobo Composer GR ANADE 7

Heinrich Schenker BENT / BRETHERT ON / DR ABKIN 13

Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe KROLL 5

Inside Conducting SEAMAN 11

Into the Groove HURLEY 15

Juvenile Pianist (1836) RODWELL 14

LaSalle Quartet SPRUY TENBURG / HOWE 12

Laughter between Two Revolutions IZZO 10

Lies and Epiphanies WALT ON 7

Liszt’s Final Decade PESCE 5

Ludvig Irgens-Jensen VOLLSNES / FOSTER 7

Marching to the Canon MESSING 4

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas SAVAGE 13

Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past THYM 5

Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome BRODY 8

Music behind Barbed Wire GÁL 7

Music in Elizabethan Court Politics BUTLER 3

Music in Independent Schools MORRIS / R AINB OW 14

Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach SCHULENBERG 5

Music of Herbert Howells C O OKE / MAW 9

Music Theatre in Britain HALL 10

Musical Foundations (1927; 2nd ed.1932) B ORL AND 14

Musical Grammar in Four Parts (1806; 3rd ed. 1817) CALC OT T 14

Musical Novel PETERMANN 15

Musician Divided T CHAIKOWSKY / BELINA-JOHNSON 12

Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s “Lulu” D OS SANT OS 8

Not Russian Enough? HELMERS 6

Out of Silence T OMES 12

Paradise of Priests SAUCIER 3

Pierre Cochereau HAMMOND 11

Plan for Teaching Music to a Child (1882) INMAN 14

Ralph Kirkpatrick KIRKPATRICK 12

Rameau Compendium SADLER 3

Richard Wagner’s Beethoven (1870) ALLEN 6

Scoring of Early Classical Concertos, 1750-1780 MAUNDER 5

Singing Book (1846) TURLE / TAYLOR 14

Sir George Dyson SPICER 10

Sleeping in Temples T OMES 12

Supernatural Voice R AVENS 13

Thomas Morley MURR AY 3

Three Hundred Years of Composers’ Instruments C OBBE / NOBBS 4

Vivaldi Compendium TALB OT 3

Wagner’s Ring in 1848 HAYMES 10

Wagner’s Visions SYER 11

William Walton LLOYD 8

Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century OMOJOL A 15

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Early MUSIC & BarOqUE

Early MUSIC & BarOqUE

European Music, 1520-1640Edited by JAMES HAAR Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz were just some of the great names of the Golden Age of Polyphony. Here is a comprehensive overview of the period, covering musical culture in individual European countries, genre studies and essays on intellectual and cultural developments.

A fine book ... This civilised volume is highly recommended [and] excellent in content. EARLY MUSIC REVIEW

A lively and scholarly account of the multiple complexities and paradoxes that characterise this period ... compelling reading with hitherto neglected areas at last gaining accessible recognition. EARLY MUSIC TODAY

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600pp, 23.4 x 15.6Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

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The Vivaldi CompendiumMICHAEL TALB OT

[T]here is nobody internationally as well-placed as Talbot to provide such a versatile and friendly guide to Vivaldi ... The Vivaldi Compendium will become an indispensable

companion. GRAMOPHONE

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Music in Elizabethan Court PoliticsKATHERINE BUTLER

Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what roles did music play in Elizabethan court politics? How did a musical image assist the Queen in projecting her royal authority?

What influence did her private performances have on her courtships, diplomatic affairs, and relationships with courtiers? This book unravels the connotations surrounding Elizabeth’s musical image and traces the political roles of music at the Elizabethan court. It reveals how music was simultaneously a tool of authority for the monarch and an instrument of persuasion for the nobility.KATHERINE BUTLER is a researcher and tutor at the University of Oxford.$90.00/£60.00(s) January 2015978 1 84383 981 1, Library e-book 978 1 78204 431 42 b/w illus.; 264pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBStudies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

A Paradise of PriestsSinging the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval LiègeCATHERINE SAUCIER

In the “priestly paradise” of medieval Liège, sacred music became a pervasive and versatile medium by which the clergy promoted the holy status of their city. While this hotbed of female piety and Eucharistic devotion is recognized as a center of liturgical innovation, the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals voiced in locally

composed plainchant and polyphony has remained overlooked. Musicologist Catherine Saucier forges new interdisciplinary connections to demonstrate how liégeois clerics constructed a civic sacred identity through sung rituals in conjunction with hagiographic writing and relic display.CATHERINE SAUCIER is Assistant Professor of Music History at Arizona State University.$75.00/£50.00(s) May 2014978 1 58046 480 2, Library e-book 978 1 58046 836 73 colour illus.; 2 b/w & 14 line illus.; 320pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

The Rameau CompendiumGRAHAM SADLER

The Rameau Compendium covers every significant area of Rameau’s life and creative activity. In particular, the dictionary and work-list provide a wealth of cross-referenced material, including entries on institutions, places, individuals, genres, instruments, technical terms, iconography, editions, specific

works and publications. Performers too are well served by the range of entries, many of which illuminate aspects of Rameau’s notation and performance practice that can prove puzzling to the non-specialist. The book counters the widespread perception of the composer as a dry, irascible, unsociable individual, revealing him in a far more sympathetic light by giving due weight to hitherto little-known information.

The compendium is a monumental dissemination of scholarship transformed into an engaging and user-friendly handbook, and hopefully it can reignite interest in a broader revival of Rameau’s music. GRAMOPHONE

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Thomas MorleyElizabethan Music PublisherTESSA MURRAY

Thomas Morley (1557-1602), student of William Byrd, was an English composer and organist of the Renaissance and a significant member of the English Madrigal School. Morley was also a foremost music publisher inspired by an established music printing culture in continental Europe. This book looks at Morley’s

pioneering music publishing contribution. Morley’s entrepreneurial drive combined with an astute assessment of his market resulted in a successful and influential publishing business. Critical to Morley’s success was his identification of a sort of music, notably the lighter style of madrigal, that would appeal to amateur musicians. Surviving copies of the original prints show that this music continued to be used for several generations. TESSA MURRAY is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham.$99.00/£60.00(s) July 2014978 1 84383 960 6, Library e-book 978 1 78204 404 813 b/w & 4 line illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBMusic in Britain, 1600-2000

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Three Hundred Years of Composers’ InstrumentsThe Cobbe CollectionALEC COBBE & CHRISTOPHER NOBBS The Cobbe collection of keyboard instruments at Hatchlands contains a remarkable number of instruments associated with or owned by composers, from virginals which were in the care of Henry Purcell to Mahler’s grand piano with weighted hammers and Elgar’s surprisingly modest cottage piano. Each instrument is fully documented and illustrated in this lavishly-produced volume.More than simply a catalogue of a collection, this volume will fascinate anyone with an interest in keyboard music, as well as music historians, instrument makers and restorers, and those concerned with issues of ‘authentic’ performance. ALEC COBBE has collected musical instruments owned by composers for many years. He is also a distinguished designer, and specialises in the decor and hanging of pictures in stately homes; in early 2014 an exhibition of his work was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum.$115.00/£65.00(s) August 2014Price increase on November 1st 2014 to $165/£95 978 1 84383 957 6, Library e-book 978 1 78204 320 1200 colour illus.; 20 b/w illus.; 160pp, 28 x 21.5, HB

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The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient MusicTIM EGGINGTON Benjamin Cooke, the now little-known but central figure in the Enlightenment school of musical thought, helped to spearhead an Enlightenment-inspired reassessment of composition and thinking at the Academy of Ancient Music. Turning away from the showy, florid musical styles of the time, Cooke and other members of the Academy aspired to raise the status of music as an art of profound expression, rooted in science, nature and ancient ideals. Countering the current tendency to deride English music and composers of the eighteenth century as conservative and provincial, this book casts new and valuable light on our understanding of both English eighteenth-century music life and of Enlightenment culture more generally. $99.00/£60.00(s) October 2014978 1 84383 906 4, Library e-book 978 1 78204 406 214 b/w & 23 line illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBMusic in Britain, 1600-2000

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Bach to BrahmsEssays on Musical Design and StructureEdited by DAVID BEACH & YOSEF GOLDENBERGBach to Brahms presents current analytic views by established scholars of the traditional tonal repertoire of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. Divided into three groups of essays that focus primarily on the interaction of elements of musical design, voice leading, and the “motive” from different perspectives, the result is a volume of integrated studies on a body of music that remains at the core of modern concert and classroom repertoire. $95.00/£60.00(s) June 2015978 1 58046 515 127 b/w & 246 line illus.; 328pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

The Career of an Eighteenth-Century KapellmeisterThe Life and Music of Antonio RosettiSTERLING E. MURRAY

Today the classical style is defined by the music of a handful of composers, Haydn and Mozart being the most prominent. As a result, the accomplishments of these masters have all but eclipsed the music of most of their contemporaries. This study focuses on one of the most talented of this group: Antonio

Rosetti. Born and trained in Bohemia, Rosetti spent most of his creative life in Germany. Through a comprehensive discussion of Rosetti’s life and an in-depth evaluation of his music, Murray shows Rosetti to be a composer who produced many imaginative and highly creative works of great beauty.STERLING E. MURRAY is Professor Emeritus of the School of Music at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His thematic catalog of Antonio Rosetti’s music was published by Harmonie Park Press in 1997.$99.00/£65.00(s) February 2014978 1 58046 467 3, Library e-book 978 1 58046 826 817 b/w & 97 line illus.; 488pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Marching to the CanonThe Life of Schubert’s “Marche militaire”SCOT T MESSING

Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert’s Marche militaire no.1 from its beginnings as a piano duet published for domestic consumption in 1826 to its ubiquitous presence over a century later. Multiple performances by professionals and amateurs of its many arrangements made it

Schubert’s most recognizable and beloved instrumental work. Its reception made inroads into dance, literature, and film, and inspired quotations or allusions in other music. The work was creatively reused by a range of significant figures, including Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Walt Disney, and Igor Stravinsky.SCOTT MESSING is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College, and the author of two works available from the University of Rochester Press: Neoclassicism in Music and the two-volume Schubert in the European Imagination.$80.00/£55.00(s) September 2014978 1 58046 438 3, Library e-book 978 1 58046 858 98 b/w & 13 line illus.; 344pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music








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The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel BachDAVID SCHULENBERG

Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential both during and after his lifetime. This first full-length English-language study critically surveys his output, examining not only the famous keyboard sonatas and

concertos but also the songs (lieder), chamber music, and sacred works. The book also outlines the composer’s career from his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) to his nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick “the Great” and his last twenty years as cantor at Hamburg.DAVID SCHULENBERG is Professor of Music at Wagner College and teaches historical performance at the Juilliard School. He is the author of The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2010).$99.00/£65.00(s) September 2014978 1 58046 481 9, Library e-book 978 1 58046 846 659 line illus.; 440pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos, 1750-1780RICHARD MAUNDER

The period 1750-80 was a time when the concerto was evolving from the baroque version, typically played one-to-a part, towards the later, more ‘orchestral’ style. At the same time ideas about form were changing, as the Vivaldian ritornello pattern metamorphosed into the concerto-sonata form used by

Mozart and his contemporaries. This book is organized on geographical lines, and there is a detailed discussion of the music itself and of the original parts as evidence of the performance practice of the period.RICHARD MAUNDER is a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. His previous book, The Scoring of Baroque Concertos, was published by The Boydell Press in 2004. He has also published books on Mozart’s Requiem, Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-Century Vienna and numerous editions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music.$99.00/£60.00(s) March 2014978 1 84383 893 7, Library e-book 978 1 78204 239 61 b/w & 320 line illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical EuropeMARK KROLL This book explores how the son of middle-class, Jewish parents in Prague became one of the most important musicians of his era, achieving recognition as a virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer, a sought-after piano teacher, and a pioneer in the historical performance of early music. More than a biography, this book reveals new facets of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, placing Moscheles’ career in the context of the social, political and economic milieu of his time.MARK KROLL has earned worldwide recognition as a harpsichordist, scholar and educator during a career spanning more than forty years. Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Kroll has published scholarly editions of the music of Hummel, Geminiani, Charles Avison and Francesco Scarlatti, and is the author of Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician’s Life and World; Playing the Harpsichord Expressively; and The Beethoven Violin Sonatas. $70.00/£40.00(s) October 2014978 1 84383 935 4, e-reader 978 1 78204 391 1Library e-book 978 1 78204 390 422 b/w & 25 line illus.; 416pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Liszt’s Final DecadeD OLORES PESCE

Liszt’s Final Decade explores the mind and music of one of the nineteenth century’s most intelligent, articulate, and talented musicians as he confronted both his mortality and his artistic legacy. Using Liszt’s own words to his confidantes Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein and Olga von Meyendorff, the book

reveals how the composer resolved his conflicted self-image as a celebrated performer but underappreciated composer. In addition, Liszt’s Final Decade challenges the idea of a single “late” Lisztian style and the notion that despair overwhelmed the composer in his final years.DOLORES PESCE is the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.$80.00/£55.00(s) July 2014978 1 58046 484 0, Library e-book 978 1 58046 848 024 b/w & 15 line illus.; 384pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the PastConstructing Historical LegaciesEdited by JÜRGEN THYM

The number of cultural icons of German nationalism that Felix Mendelssohn “discovered,” promoted, or was asked to promote (by way of commissions) in his compositions is striking: Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press, Dürer and Nuremberg, Luther and the Augsburg Confession as the

manifesto of Protestantism, Bach and the St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven and his claims to universal brotherhood. The essays in this volume shed light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer’s death.CONTRIBUTORS: Celia Applegate, John Michael Cooper, Hans Davidsson, Wm. A. Little, Peter Mercer-Taylor, Siegwart Reichwald, Glenn Stanley, Russell Stinson, Benedict Taylor, Nicholas Thistlewaite, Jürgen Thym, R. Larry Todd, Christoph Wolff$99.00/£65.00(s) December 2014978 1 58046 474 1, Library e-book 978 1 58046 870 111 b/w & 31 line illus.; 360pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music







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Not Russian Enough?Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century Russian OperaRUTGER HELMERS

It is often believed that the “Russianness” of Russian music is what makes it special, yet an exclusive focus on nationalism fails to capture the complex realities of nineteenth-century musical life. Not Russian Enough explores the many tensions that arose when the aspirations for a national tradition in

nineteenth-century Russia were applied to the cosmopolitan world of opera, examining in particular the influence of Italian and French opera, the use of foreign subjects, and the application of local color in four Russian operas. By considering the implications of these operas’ perceived “Russianness,” the book offers a fresh perspective on the function of nationalist thought in the world of opera.RUTGER HELMERS is Assistant Professor in Historical Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and lectures in literary and cultural studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.$85.00/£55.00(s) December 2014978 1 58046 500 7, Library e-book 978 1 58046 873 239 line illus.; 248pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Richard Wagner’s Beethoven (1870)A New TranslationRO GER ALLEN

Wagner’s book-length essay on Beethoven is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is generally regarded as the principal aesthetic statement of the composer’s later years and is an essential text in the teaching of not only Wagnerian thought but also late nineteenth-century musical aesthetics. Until now

the English reader has been obliged to work from two Victorian translations. This brand new edition provides for a new translation and comes along with a substantial introduction placing the essay in the wider political, historical and intellectual context of Wagner’s later thought.ROGER ALLEN is Fellow and Tutor in Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford. $95.00/£55.00(s) October 2014978 1 84383 958 3, Library e-book 978 1 78204 384 32 b/w illus.; 232pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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CageTalkDialogues with and about John CageEdited by PETER DICKINSON In CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, Peter Dickinson showcases a collection of vividly revealing and unpublished interviews given by John Cage in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. For this paperback edition, Dickinson presents a new preface noting developments in Cage criticism since the book’s publication in 2006, updated comments from several of the original interviewees, and a new interview with Christian Wolff.

Ideal introduction to Cage. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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A lively compilation of dialogues with and about Cage ... [opening with Dickinson’s] useful introductory overview ... [Cage’s] influence burns brighter than ever. THE SPECTATOR

Cage’s engaging manner radiates from these pages ... CageTalk is excellent, leaving one with feelings of affection toward its subject. CLASSICAL MUSIC

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Classical Music in the German Democratic RepublicProduction and ReceptionEdited by KYLE FRACKMAN & LARSON POWELL

Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support for the state, in the form of the so-called “bourgeois humanist inheritance.” This anthology approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective,

presenting the work of scholars in German Studies, Musicology, Aesthetics, and Film Studies. The volume offers a broad examination of classical music in the GDR, while also uncovering nonconformist tendencies and questioning the assumption that classical music in the GDR meant nothing but (socialist) respectability.CONTRIBUTORS: Tatjana Böhme-Mehner, Martin Brady, Lars Fischer, Kyle Frackman, Golan Gur, Peter Kupfer, Albrecht von Massow, Carola Nielinger-Vakil, Jessica Payette, Larson Powell, Juliane Schicker, Martha Sprigge, Matthias Tischer, Jonathan Yaeger, Johanna Frances Yunker$85.00/£55.00(s) May 2015978 1 57113 916 010 b/w illus.; 280pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Claude VivierA Composer’s LifeB OB GILMORE

Claude Vivier’s haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier’s archives and

interviews with Vivier’s family, teachers, friends, and colleagues, musicologist and biographer Bob Gilmore tells here the full story of Vivier’s fascinating life, from his abandonment as a child in a Montreal orphanage to his posthumous acclaim as one of the leading composers of his generation.BOB GILMORE is a musicologist and performer and teaches at Brunel University in London. He is the author of Harry Partch: A Biography.$34.95/£19.99 June 2014978 1 58046 485 7, Library e-book 978 1 58046 841 1e-reader 978 1 58046 842 8 25 b/w illus.; 332pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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CrosscurrentsAmerican and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000Edited by FELIX MEYER , CAROL J. OJA, WOLFGANG RATHERT & ANNE C. SHREFFLER

This volume, based on the papers presented at an international conference held at Harvard University and the University of Munich (2008/2009), explores how music and musicians – both Europeans and Americans – have moved across cultures, creating mutual benefit as well

as occasional misunderstanding. It includes contributions by leading historians, theorists, and scholars of American studies as well as interviews with two prominent “transatlantic” composers of today, Betsy Jolas and Steve Reich.$70.00/£40.00(s) February 2014978 1 84383 900 280 b/w illus.; 520pp, 26 x 19, HBPaul Sacher Foundation

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Felix AprahamianDiaries and Selected Writings on MusicEdited by LEWIS FOREMAN & SUSAN FOREMAN The music critic Felix Aprahamian (1914-2005) was a remarkable self-made man and bohemian whose enormous influence in musical circles was deeply founded in his practical experience of promoting music in London, notably by British and French composers. Being friends with leading French composers and musicians of the day, Aprahamian made his name as music critic on the Sunday Times, where from 1948 to 1989 he was required reading. The collection assembled here from his diaries, articles, reviews and broadcasts sheds new light on his life and work and evokes the almost vanished world of a music criticism both humane and strict, paying tribute to music’s spontaneous and absolute qualities.LEWIS FOREMAN is a writer on British music and the editor of The John Ireland Companion (Boydell, 2011) and author of Bax: A Composer and His Time. SUSAN FOREMAN is an author of various books on Whitehall, and together with Lewis Foreman, London. A Musical Gazetteer (2005).$80.00/£45.00(s) June 2015978 1 78327 013 264 b/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Harry Partch, Hobo ComposerS. ANDREW GRANADE

Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion

of the Fury, and his use of highly sophisticated instruments of his own creation, Partch is still regularly called a “hobo composer.” Exploring the impact of Partch’s time as a hobo, this study examines the composer and the cultural icon from many perspectives in order to discover how he responded to the hobo label and how others used it to define and contain him for over thirty years.S. ANDREW GRANADE is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri-Kansas City.$29.95/£19.99 October 2014978 1 58046 495 6, Library e-book 978 1 58046 865 7e-reader 978 1 58046 874 919 b/w & 1 line illus.; 368pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

Lies and EpiphaniesComposers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to BergCHRIS WALTON

Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of “inspiration” in five composers – Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their “epiphanies” played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler’s Second Symphony, for instance,

was supposedly inspired by a “lightning bolt” of inspiration at the funeral of Hans von Bülow. Chris Walton looks behind these lightning bolts to explore the composers’ dual roles as authors and self-commentators, revealing how the supposedly extrarational world of creative inspiration intersects with the highly rational world of money and politics.CHRIS WALTON teaches music history at the Basel University of Music in Switzerland. He is the author of Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works (University of Rochester Press, 2009) and Richard Wagner’s Zurich: The Muse of Place (Camden House, 2007).$49.95/£25.00 June 2014978 1 58046 477 2, Library e-book 978 1 58046 843 5e-reader 978 1 58046 844 211 b/w & 13 line illus.; 184pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

Ludvig Irgens-JensenThe Life and Music of a Norwegian ComposerARVID O. VOLLSNES Translated by BERYL FOSTER

The Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (1894-1969) was one of the towering creative figures of his native land, although his dignified and powerful music does not receive the attention its quality deserves, either at home or abroad. The success of his dramatic symphony Heimferd (Homecoming) in

1930 brought him national fame, but the post-War triumph of modernism, coupled with his personal modesty, pushed Irgens-Jensen’s tonal music into the shadows: its contrapuntally based textures and its modally tinged harmonies were seen as things of the past. But a growing number of recordings is revealing him as one of the most distinguished and distinctive voices in twentieth-century music, a figure of international importance who wrote music of striking nobility and strength of purpose – with some meltingly lovely melodic lines.A CD of extracts from Irgens-Jensen’s works has been prepared to accompany the English edition, providing readers with an introduction to his highly individual and immediately appealing sound-world. $80.00/£45.00(s) March 2014978 0 90768 973 7400pp, 24 x 16, HBToccata Press

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Music behind Barbed WireA Diary of Summer 1940HANS GÁL

The Austrian composer Hans Gál (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from Hitler’s Third Reich only to find themselves interned in prison camps in Britain as ‘enemy aliens’. The diary Gál kept during his captivity vividly describes the difficulties the internees had to overcome to live as normal a

life as possible. Gál’s contribution, of course, was music, and the CD with this book presents first recordings of the Huyton Suite, the satirical review What a Life! and the piano suite he drew from it. Introductory chapters by Gál’s daughter and by Richard Dove present a biographical survey of Gál’s life and career.$50.00/£29.95 October 2014978 0 90768 975 112 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBToccata Press








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Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in RomeEdited by MARTIN BRODY The American Academy in Rome launched its Rome Prize in Musical Composition in 1921. Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome tells the story of this prestigious fellowship. Combining cultural analysis with historical and personal accounts of a century of musical life at the American Academy in Rome, the book offers new perspectives on a wide range of critical topics: patronage and urban culture, institutions and professional networks, musical aesthetics, American cultural diplomacy, and the maturation of a concert music repertory in the United States during the twentieth century.CONTRIBUTORS: Martin Brody, Elliott Carter, John Harbison, Christina Huemer, Carol Oja, Andrew Olmstead, Vivian Perlis, Judith Tick, Richard Trythall$80.00/£55.00(s) November 2014978 1 58046 245 7, Library e-book 978 1 58046 866 418 b/w illus.; 328pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg’s “Lulu”SILVIO J. D OS SANTOS

This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Berg’s Lulu. While Berg modernized several aspects of the original plays by Frank Wedekind and adopted serial techniques of composition from Schoenberg, he never let go of the idealistic, Wagnerian perspectives of his

youth. Combining analyses of sketches, correspondence, and music structures with interpretive models from cultural studies and philosophy, this book elucidates the ways in which Berg grappled with his self-image as an “incorrigible romantic” late in his life.SILVIO J. DOS SANTOS is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Florida.$70.00/£45.00(s) June 2014978 1 58046 483 3, Library e-book 978 1 58046 849 718 b/w & 46 line illus.; 240pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Beyond BrittenThe Composer and the CommunityEdited by PETER WIEGOLD & GHISLAINE KENYON With his Aspen Award lecture (1964), Benjamin Britten expressed a unique commitment to community and place. This book revisits this seminal lecture, but then uses it as a starting point of reflection, inviting leading composers, producers and writers to consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain in the last fifty years. It will appeal to those interested in twentieth-century British music education and practice, as well as the role of music and the arts in the wider community and society.PETER WIEGOLD is a composer, conductor and Professor and Head of Music Research at Brunel University, and also director of the ‘Brunel Institute for Contemporary Middle-Eastern Music’ (BICMEM). GHISLAINE KENYON is an author, freelance arts education consultant and curator.$80.00/£45.00(s) May 2015978 1 84383 965 116 b/w & 20 line illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBAldeburgh Studies in Music


BrittenEssays, Letters and Opera GuidesHANS KELLER , Edited by CHRISTOPHER WINTLE & A.M. GARNHAM

The most important publishing event [of the Britten centenary

year] AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

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Constant LambertBeyond The Rio GrandeSTEPHEN LLOYD

This book is the most detailed biography of the composer, conductor and writer Constant Lambert (1905-1951) to date. Drawing on new archival evidence, private letters and personal reminiscences, it examines every aspect of the career and life of this extraordinary, multi-talented man. Extensive appendices,

including a discography and a unique iconography, chart his writings and compositions and throw further light on his work, personality and relationships.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

A model of meticulous scholarship, as authoritative as it is compendious ... The result is both majestic and moving. THE GUARDIAN

This magisterial book is the best possible case for a Lambert revival. No Lambert enthusiast should miss it. GRAMOPHONE

[A] monumental new biography ... a superb resource, thoroughly researched and rich in appendices. DANCING TIMES

Fascinating. ... This is a very detailed account of a working life ... Stephen Lloyd gives us a satisfying number of letters both to and from Lambert, allowing us a sense of his enchanting voice. THE SPECTATOR

BB C MUSIC MAGAZINE

As close to definitive as a biography can be. Mr Lloyd gets absolutely everything right. ... Far more important, Mr. Lloyd makes a compelling case for Mr. Lambert’s continuing significance. ... I hope it soon finds its way into the hands of a smart orchestral conductor looking for an underappreciated composer to champion. WALL STREET JOURNAL

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David MatthewsEssays, Tributes and CriticismEdited by THOMAS HYDE

David Matthews has established an international reputation as a leading symphonist of our time. This collection, the first on his work, includes lively contributions from a host of distinguished musicians and writers. Matthews has supplemented his freelance career by writing extensively

and personally on music, and the first part of the book includes all his important essays and reviews to date. These survey the present scene, discuss symphonists (notably Mahler and Sibelius) and focus on individual composers (notably Britten and Tippett). By including extracts from his journal and letters, Thomas Hyde’s substantial editorial notes sketch out an accompanying biography. This is supplemented in the second part by extended memoirs and in the third part by a critical forum on Matthews’s music.THOMAS HYDE has lectured at the City University (London) and Worcester College, Oxford. His compositions include a one-man opera That Man Stephen Ward (2007), a string quartet (2010) and a violin sonata (2012). Hardback: $80.00/£45.00(s) June 2014978 0 95660 076 9Paperback: $26.95/£15.99 June 2014978 0 95660 078 3320pp, 24.4 x 16.5Plumbago Books

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Delius and his MusicMARTIN LEE-BROWNE & PAUL GUINERY Foreword by SIR MARK ELDER

There are many biographies and articles about Frederick Delius’s life (1862-1934), but there has never been a comprehensive book about his music until now. Everything he wrote, from his earliest compositions right up to his final works, is analysed here; the history and background of

each work and its critical reception are all examined, set against events in Delius’s life and the wider musical world. The book contains numerous music examples and quotations from many contemporary newspapers and journals. A complete list of all of Delius’s works, with catalogue numbers, and a select bibliography are also provided.MARTIN LEE-BROWNE is the Chairman of The Delius Society, a former Chairman of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, and author of The Life & Times of Frederic Austin (1996). PAUL GUINERY is a pianist and associate of the Royal College of Music, as well as a former broadcaster for BBC Radio 3 and co-author (with Lyndon Jenkins) of Delius and Fenby, A Photographic Journey (The Delius Society, 2004).$50.00/£30.00 October 2014978 1 84383 959 0, Library e-book 978 1 78204 378 2e-reader 978 1 78204 379 938 b/w & 250 line illus.; 560pp, 23.04 x 15.6, HB


Edmund Rubbra: SymphonistLEO BLACK

The music of Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) has been unjustly neglected – arguably because its wide-ranging nature makes it difficult to categorise. He is perhaps best known as a symphonist. Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra at Oxford in the 1950s, here presents a sympathetic full-scale study of these works (the first for some

twenty years). A succinct biographical sketch throws light on legends about the BBC and Rubbra; there are full programme notes on each symphony, with shorter accounts of important non-symphonic works, in particular a ‘triptych’ of concertos from the 1950s and major liturgical pieces composed around the time of the Second Vatican Council, after Rubbra’s conversion to Catholicism. He also deals with the vexed question of Rubbra’s mysticism.$34.95/£19.99 July 2014978 1 84383 933 0, Library e-book 978 1 84615 631 11 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB

Hamilton HartyMusical PolymathJEREMY DIBBLE

Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is best known as the conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, who arguably made Manchester the most important focus for music in Britain in his day. This book chronicles and analyses Harty’s illustrious career, from his establishment as London’s premiere accompanist in 1901 to his

years as a conductor between 1910 and 1933, first with the LSO and then with the Hallé, to his American tours of the 1930s. Tragically, Harty died from cancer in 1941 at the age of only 61.

This is a valuable work of scholarship, meticulously researched from a wide range of sources, and an engaging read. GRAMOPHONE

Here, at last, is a full appreciation of [this] remarkable musician. Most engaging ... Deeply moving. BB C MUSIC MAGAZINE

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The Music of Herbert HowellsEdited by PHILLIP A. CO OKE & DAVID MAW

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was a prodigiously gifted musician and the favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Throughout his long life, he was one of the country’s most prominent composers, writing extensively in all genres except the symphony and opera. Yet today

he is known mostly for his church music, and there is as yet relatively little serious study of his work. This book is the first large-scale study of Howells’s music, affording both detailed consideration of individual works and a broad survey of general characteristics and issues.CONTRIBUTORS: Byron Adams, Paul Andrews, Graham Barber, Jonathan Clinch, Phillip A. Cooke, Jeremy Dibble, Lewis Foreman, Fabian Huss, David Maw, Diane Nolan Cooke, Lionel Pike, Paul Spicer, Jonathan White. Foreword by John Rutter.

The first large-scale and in-depth survey of his music ... Phillip A. Cooke and David Maw have curated and contributed to an excellent resource for anyone who wants to understand fully Howells’s contribution to his musical landscape. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Music Theatre in Britain, 1960-1975MICHAEL HALL Based on Michael Hall’s many interviews with leading British composers of the genre, this book looks at the heyday of the British Music Theatre in the 1960s and 70s, a period when the author as a BBC radio producer was actively involved with the contemporary music scene. Hall’s book presents an account of the context for the activity of Birtwistle, Goehr and Maxwell Davies; it uncovers details of little-known early works by other major figures such as Cardew and Tavener; and it recognises the highly distinctive contributions of composers whose works are less well known. Music Theatre in Britain also throws new light upon the reaction of British composers to the economic and social upheavals of ‘the Sixties’. It will be of interest to all those working in the field of late twentieth-century British music, to students of composition, and to composers, performers and producers of Music Theatre.MICHAEL HALL, who died in August of 2012, had a long career as a conductor, founder of Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC producer and broadcaster, university lecturer and writer on music.$99.00/£60.00(s) June 2015978 1 78327 012 511 b/w & 29 line illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Sir George DysonHis Life and MusicPAUL SPICER

George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In this comprehensive and detailed study, based not only on

Dyson’s own writings but on unpublished papers, personal correspondence, and interviews with his family and friends, Paul Spicer brings this remarkable man and his lyrical, passionate and engaging music to life once more.PAUL SPICER was a composition student of Herbert Howells, whose biography he wrote in 1998. He is well-known as a choral conductor especially of British Music of the twentieth century onwards, a writer, composer, teacher, and producer.

I cannot imagine any Dyson enthusiast or lover of British music wanting to be without this fine volume. THE CLASSICAL REVIEWER

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After WagnerHistories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to NonoMARK BERRY This book offers histories of music drama after Richard Wagner, concentrating upon works which fall not only chronologically but also in some sense harmoniously and antagonistically within a Wagnerian tradition. Beginning with Parsifal, in which Wagner himself reckoned with, extended, and questioned his achievements in previous works, this book proceeds to treat with the æsthetics, politics, and works of five subsequent composers: Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono, and Hans Werner Henze. Finally, Wagner’s legacy is considered in terms of operatic staging: Regietheater, which Wagner in many ways, theoretical and practical, may be understood to have initiated.MARK BERRY is Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.$95.00/£55.00(s) October 2014978 1 84383 968 2, Library e-book 978 1 78204 407 912 line illus.; 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

Laughter between Two RevolutionsOpera Buffa in Italy, 1831-1848FRANCESCO IZZO

Laughter between Two Revolutions tells the story of opera buffa in Italy between 1831 and 1848. Challenging the notion that this genre faded after Rossini’s early retirement from the operatic arena, the book explores a diverse body of comic operas by Gaetano Donizetti, Luigi Ricci, Lauro Rossi, Giuseppe Verdi, and

others. Focusing on their creation and dissemination, their reception, and the remarkable literary, esthetical, political, and cultural ramifications of this neglected repertory, this pathbreaking study argues that comedy was not an anachronistic intruder, but a significant and vital cultural presence.FRANCESCO IZZO is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton.$90.00/£60.00(s) December 2013978 1 58046 293 8, Library e-book 978 1 58046 839 810 b/w & 15 line illus.; 320pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music


Wagner’s Ring in 1848New Translations of The Nibelung Myth and Siegfried’s DeathEDWARD R . HAYMES

In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of his career, the Ring of the Nibelung. In preparation, he composed an overview of the Nibelung myth; he then composed the verse “libretto” Siegfried’s Death. Although he abandoned the idea of a single opera on Siegfried as the huge Ring cycle

developed out of it, he did include the two early documents in his collected works. The present volume provides modern, reliable, facing-page translations of the two Wagner texts, which are otherwise not available in English, as well as an overview of the German scholarship on the Nibelungs that was available to Wagner and a bibliography of further reading.

A gem of a book ... The introduction convincingly answers crucial questions Ring enthusiasts are forever asking ... Excellent English translation. WAGNER NOTES

Excellent scholarship is evident, yet the book is accessible and interesting to the general reader. ... Haymes’s footnotes provide a superb bibliography for studies of the Ring. Recommended. CHOICE

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Wagner’s VisionsPoetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas through “Die Walküre”KATHERINE R . SYER

The psychological dimension of Richard Wagner’s operas has long been associated with the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer, yet Wagner had begun absorbing elements of contemporary psychological and political thought into his stage works as early as the 1830s. In Wagner’s Visions, Syer offers a detailed examination of

Die Feen, as well as new analytical insights into Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin,and the four Ring dramas. Her study of the ways Wagner probed the inner experiences of his protagonists explores the impact of neglected yet crucial artistic influences, including the fables of the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi, the Iphigenia operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the legacy of the martyr Theodor Körner.KATHERINE R. SYER is Associate Professor of Musicology and Theater at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.$80.00/£55.00(s) September 2014978 1 58046 482 6, Library e-book 978 1 58046 869 58 col., 3 b/w & 18 line illus.; 276pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music


Friedelind WagnerRichard Wagner’s Rebellious GranddaughterEVA REIGER , Translated by CHRIS WALTON

A loving, illuminating tribute to this unusual, bighearted woman who was all too often written

off as a silly eccentric and traitor after the war. BLO OMBERG NEWS

A scrupulously researched book ... Photographs are handsomely presented, as indeed is the book as a whole. MUSIC & LET TERS

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Anton HeillerOrganist, Composer, ConductorPETER PLANYAVSKY Translated by CHRISTA RUMSEY Anton Heiller is one of the twentieth century’s most renowned and influential organists. Anton Heiller: Organist, Composer, Conductor provides an assessment of Heiller’s works and teaching, while also examining his complex personality, one torn between strong religious devotion and the world of artistry. Underlying this story here is also the story of church music and organ playing in central Europe in the decades after World War II, and of the then unique crossroads of organ cultures in mid-twentieth-century Europe.Peter Planyavsky was Anton Heiller’s successor as an organ professor in Vienna, and Organist of St. Stephan’s Cathedral in Vienna from 1969 through 2004. He is also a prolific composer, improviser, and conductor. The book is translated from the original German by Christa Rumsey, also a former student of Heiller.$90.00/£60.00(s) November 2014978 1 58046 497 0, Library e-book 978 1 58046 860 218 b/w & 21 line illus.; 368pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music


Pierre CochereauOrganist of Notre-DameANTHONY HAMMOND

A compelling read for all organists and, especially today, for the new breed of improvisers ... A fine tribute to one of the 20th century’s true musical geniuses – and a great

read. THE AMERICAN ORGANIST

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Charles MackerrasEdited by NIGEL SIMEONE & JOHN T YRRELL

By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 84, Sir Charles Mackerras had achieved widespread recognition, recorded extensively and developed into a conductor of major international significance. The last thirty years, focused on in this account, were particularly momentous in the coming to

fruition of so many cherished projects. The book provides for a narrative account of his life by Nigel Simeone as well as chapters written by performers and scholars who worked closely with him: Alfred Brendel, Dame Janet Baker, David Lloyd-Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Nicholas Hytner, John Tyrrell and Jiri Zahradka. There are also chapters based on interviews with his family. The book includes an up-to-date discography, listings of all the performances of Janacek operas Sir Charles conducted, and of all his concerts in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. This book celebrates and epitomizes an exceptional life.CONTRIBUTORS: Janet Baker, Alfred Brendel, Ales Brezina, Rosenna East, Anne Evans, Nicholas Hytner, Simon Keenlyside, David Lloyd-Jones, David Mackie, Chi-chi Nwanoku, Antonio Pappano, Nigel Simeone, John Stein, Heinz Stolba, Patrick Summers, John Tyrrell, Malcolm Walker, David Whelton, Jiri Zahradka$45.00/£25.00 April 2015978 1 84383 966 844 b/w illus.; 320pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB


Inside ConductingCHRISTOPHER SEAMAN

Engaging, uncomplicated overview of the conductor’s role ... Very readable, with some good jokes, hoary anecdotes and nice analogies.

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Conducting for a New EraEDWIN ROXBURGH

Beginning with a look at the development of the art of conducting in the first half of the twentieth century, this book goes on to discuss the technical resources required to negotiate the rhythmic complexity of so much music composed since 1950. The changing role of the conductor in the twenty-first century is assessed through

interviews with distinguished soloists, orchestral musicians, conductors and composers, and the technique and artistry of the progressive repertoire is discussed through detailed analysis of specific scores. This book will be of interest not only to advanced students of conducting but also to the music enthusiast who might wish to know ‘how it is done’. It includes a DVD with conducting examples.EDWIN ROXBURGH is a composer, conductor and oboist and visiting tutor and researcher at the BCU Birmingham Conservatoire. As a conductor he has premiered a vast number of works, originally with the Twentieth Century Ensemble of London, which he founded, and later with several of the principle orchestras of the UK.$45.00/£25.00 October 2014978 1 84383 802 9 , Library e-book 978 1 78204 377 5e-reader 978 1 78204 309 619 b/w & 27 line illus.; 240pp, 24.4 x 17.2, HB

The LaSalle QuartetConversations with Walter LevinROBERT SPRUY TENBURG Translated by RICHARD HOWE

The result of extensive interviews with Walter Levin, founder and leader of the Quartet, this book is in equal measure autobiography, history of the Quartet and its membership over the years, reminiscences of the contemporary composers who figured so prominently in its career, and penetrating

commentary on the LaSalle’s wide-ranging repertory, all artfully woven into a uniquely valuable, informative, and entertaining document of musical life in the twentieth century.

Charming, revealing and compelling ... an essential addition to the literature on 20th-Century music, one that should be on the reading list of all string players who aspire to a professional career. Warmly recommended. CLASSICAL MUSIC

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A Musician DividedAndré Tchaikowsky in his Own WordsANDRÉ TCHAIKOWSKY Edited by ANASTASIA BELINA-JOHNSON

André Tchaikowsky was only 46 when he died, internationally renowned as a pianist – and he made the headlines after his death when he left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in performances of Hamlet. Yet for all his facility at the keyboard Tchaikowsky’s real passion was composition. The

internal conflict between pianist and composer compounded an already complex character. A Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, Tchaikowsky was also a homosexual. The diaries he kept between 1974 and his death chronicle the struggles that ran through his life.

A valuable book in rediscovering a vital talent undeservedly overlooked for too long. CLASSICAL MUSIC

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Ralph KirkpatrickLetters of the American Harpsichordist and ScholarRALPH KIRKPATRICK Edited by MEREDITH KIRKPATRICK

This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s. The volume includes letters to his family from Europe as well as

correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers. Two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword.MEREDITH KIRKPATRICK is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick. $60.00/£40.00(s) November 2014978 1 58046 501 4, Library e-book 978 1 58046 861 919 b/w illus.; 224pp, 9 x 6, HBEastman Studies in Music

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Sleeping in TemplesSUSAN TOMES

In several decades as a distinguished classical pianist, Susan Tomes has found that there are some issues which never go away. Here she takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what ‘interpretation’ really means, what effect daily practice has on the character, whether

playing from memory is a burden or a liberation, and why the piano is the right tool for the job. She pays homage to the influence of remarkable teachers, asks what it takes for long-term chamber groups to survive the strains of professional life, and explores the link between music and health. She also describes some of the challenges facing classical musicians in today’s society, and considers why this kind of long-form music means so much to those who love it.SUSAN TOMES has won a number of international awards as a performer and recording artist, and in 2013 was awarded the Cobbett Medal for distinguished services to chamber music. For fifteen years she was the pianist of Domus, and for seventeen years she was the pianist of the Florestan Trio, one of the world’s leading piano trios. She is the author of three previous books: Beyond the Notes (2004) and Out of Silence (2010), both published by Boydell, and A Musician’s Alphabet (2006). She gives masterclasses, writes and presents radio programmes on music, and sits on international competition juries. Her blog on www.susantomes.com has a loyal following.$34.95/£19.99 October 2014978 1 84383 975 0, Library e-book 978 1 78204 424 6e-reader 978 1 78204 453 6264pp, 21.6 x 13.8, HB

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Beyond the NotesJourneys with Chamber MusicWe knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she’s a superb writer too. INDEPENDENT

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Out of SilenceA Pianist’s YearbookTomes joins that small band of musicians whose literary skill runs parallel to their musical talent ... [she] extracts on almost every page a life lesson for the rest of us, whether or not we are musicians.

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The Supernatural VoiceA History of High Male SingingSIMON RAVENS

Many accounts of high-male singing have been based on the premise that the falsettist and the counter-tenor have always been synonymous. The Supernatural Voice, on the other hand, suggests that until very recently, falsettists and counter-tenors have been distinct vocal genres. Tracing the origins, influences and

development of falsetto singing in Western music, Simon Ravens offers a revisionist history which embraces not just singers of counter-tenor and alto parts up to and including our own time but the castrati of the Ancient world, the male sopranists of late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the dual-register tenors of the Baroque and Classical periods. Ravens illuminates his chronological survey by exploring topics as diverse as human physiology, the stereotyping of national characters, gender identity, and the changing of boys’ voices. The result is a complex and fascinating history.SIMON RAVENS is a performer, writer, and director of Musica Contexta, with whom he has performed in Britain and Europe, regularly broadcast, and made numerous acclaimed recordings. Ravens had previously founded and directed Australasia’s foremost early music choir, the Tudor Consort. Between 2002 and 2007 his regular monthly column Ravens View appeared in the Early Music Review, to which he still regularly contributes.$80.00/£45.00(s) September 2014978 1 84383 962 0, Library e-book 978 1 78204 355 3e-reader 978 1 78204 356 03 b/w & 14 line illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB


The Essential Bach ChoirANDREW PARROT T

Highly recommended for anyone interested in Bach’s vocal works. MUSICAL TIMES

This utterly fascinating and ultimately convincing book can

only do his cause good in the best of all possible years. INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

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Masques, Mayings and Music-DramasVaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century StageRO GER SAVAGE Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographic focal point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of this book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism, Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque, and the May festival, Mummers’ play and pageant play, among others. This book not only illustrates the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice.ROGER SAVAGE is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.

[A] rewarding glimpse of formative times, one that leaves you wanting more. BB C MUSIC MAGAZINE

$99.00/£60.00(s) August 2014978 1 84383 919 4, Library e-book 978 1 78204 366 919 b/w & 8 line illus.; 408pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Heinrich SchenkerSelected CorrespondenceEdited by IAN BENT, DAVID BRETHERTON & WILLIAM DRABKIN

Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) ranks as the leading twentieth-century theorist and analyst of tonal music. His ideas have shaped higher education in music and influenced music theorists throughout the world. Living and working in Vienna, Schenker maintained a vigorous correspondence with a wide circle of professional

musicians, writers, music critics, institutions, administrators, patrons, friends and pupils. This book offers the full text of some 450 letters in English translation, organized into sections devoted to various aspects of his professional life. Each section is prefaced by an introduction, and all the letters are fully annotated.IAN BENT is Emeritus Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, and lives in the United Kingdom. DAVID BRETHERTON is Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton. WILLIAM DRABKIN is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2014978 1 84383 964 4, Library e-book 978 1 78204 382 943 b/w & 46 line illus.; 584pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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Music in Independent SchoolsEdited by ANDREW MORRIS & BERNARR RAINB OW Introduction by PETER DICKINSON This is the first serious study of music in independent schools. The high standard of musical work in such schools has long been known but now Andrew Morris and contributors have provided up-to-date information. There are reports from seven individual schools – Bedford, Dulwich, Eton, Gresham’s, St. Paul’s, Uppingham and Worksop – as well as chapters about Girls’ Schools, Preparatory Schools, Choir Schools and Specialist Schools. The book also includes material from Bernarr Rainbow’s study, Music in the English Public School (1990) and brings it up to date.CONTRIBUTORS: Catherine Beddison, Elizabeth Blackford, Timothy Daniell, Richard Mayo, James Peschek, Alastair Sampson, Graham Smallbone, Jonathan Varcoe, Myfanwy Walters, Nathan Waring, Robert Weaver, Hilary Webster.$80.00/£45.00(s) August 2014978 1 84383 967 5, Library e-book 978 1 78204 367 616 b/w illus.; 416pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HBClassic Texts in Music Education

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The Child’s Introduction to Thorough Bass (1819)D OROTHY KILNER Subtitled ‘Conversations of a Fortnight’ Kilner’s book is addressed to ‘A Mother and her Daughter’ and claims to be the first English treatise on the subject addressed to children, in this case precocious young pianists.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1819, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 983 5120pp, 22.6 x 18, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

Conversations on Harmony (1855)SARAH MARY FIT TON The author’s approach follows the conventional conversation treatment, usually between mother and daughter but this time with a boy, perhaps reflecting an increased acceptance of music as not just for women. Rainbow sees these chapters as the equivalent of effective lesson notes for a student teacher.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1855, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 986 6312pp, 21.3 x 13.5, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

The Juvenile Pianist (1836)A. RODWELL Anne Rodwell’s book, subtitled ‘A Mirror of Music for Infant Minds’, is presented in the form of conversations between mother and daughter, a typical format for the period as the engravings portray. The idea was to amuse as well as teach the child and reduce ‘the fatigue of imparting instruction’. $34.95/£19.99(s) 1836, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 984 2200pp, 13.5 x 10.5, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

Musical Foundations (1927; 2nd ed.1932)J. E . B ORLAND Borland discusses the teaching of notation; song repertoire; listening to music; percussion bands; the use of the piano and pianola; and concerts for children. He brings matters up to date in terms of technology in the 1920s by considering the gramophone and radio broadcasts as teaching aids.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1927, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 988 0136pp, 19 x 14.2, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

A Musical Grammar in Four Parts (1806; 3rd ed. 1817)J.W. CALCOT T John Wall Calcott (1766-1821) was one of a small number of English musicians who compiled influential treatises from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. He consulted existing treatises in six languages and his copious music examples concentrate on Handel but also range widely from Gibbons to Beethoven. His catches and glees as well as his Musical Grammar caused his celebrity to endure into the nineteenth century.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1806, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 982 8384pp, 19.2 x 11, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

Plan for Teaching Music to a Child (1882)FREDERICK INMAN Mary Elizabeth Inman’s book was designed as a preparation for the study of harmony and Rainbow found its factual content overwhelming and some of its demands extreme. But there is also common sense in urging piano pupils to continue singing; to get access to a good quality instrument; and providing information.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1882, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 987 3112pp, 13.5 x 21.17, PBClassic Texts in Music Education

The Singing Book (1846)The Art of Singing at Sight, taught by progressive ExercisesJAMES TURLE & EDWARD TAYLOR Subtitled the ‘The Art of Singing at Sight taught by Progressive Exercises’, this book’s aim was to equip middle-class families, studying at home, to savour the delights of part-singing. The authors use musical notation, rather than the many versions of sol-fa, derived from German models where ‘every child is taught to sing from notes’.$34.95/£19.99(s) 1846, reissued October 2014978 1 84383 985 9272pp, 16.8 x 12.6, PBClassic Texts in Music Education











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Into the GroovePopular Music and Contemporary German FictionANDREW WRIGHT HURLEY Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s there was an unprecedented “confusion of the spheres” of German literature and popular music. Popular musicians “crossed over” into the literary field, editors and writers called for literature to emulate popular music, writers borrowed structural aspects from pop music, paid new attention to it at the thematic level, or sought to raise their profiles by using performance models taken from it. This book sets out to make sense of this situation, arguing for more inclusive and detailed attention to what it calls “musico-centric fiction.”ANDREW W. HURLEY is Senior Lecturer in German and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.$85.00/£55.00(s) February 2015978 1 57113 918 4, Library e-book 978 1 78204 430 77 b/w illus.; 288pp, 9 x 6, HBStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth CenturyIdentity, Agency, and Performance PracticeB ODE OMOJOLA Explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music towards individual creativity within a larger social network.

Very detailed, reflecting the author’s two decades of research ... Omojola’s writing style is clear, concise, and thoroughly engaging ... Highly recommended. CHOICE

A unique and refreshing take on the study of Yorùbá music, grounding a wide range of Yorùbá musical genres in Nigerian history as well as in the experiences of specific ensembles and artists ... The sheer scope and goals of this project make it exciting. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN

$39.95/£19.99 June 2014978 1 58046 493 2, e-reader 978 1 58046 862 6296pp, 9 x 6, PBEastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology


Gender in Chinese MusicEdited by RACHEL HARRIS, ROWAN PEASE & SHZR EE TANThis book’s insights and broad perspectives make it valuable to those interested in ethnomusicology, cultural studies,

and Chinese studies in general. Recommended. CHOICE.

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Accompanied VoicesPoets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo PärtEdited by JOHN GREENING Poets have been inspired by music for centuries, but with the arrival of recordings and the possibility of repeated listening there was an extraordinary upsurge in verse about specific pieces, particular composers. There followed a century of pithy, perceptive responses, fascinating to the poetry lover, delightful to the music lover, and irresistible to those who are both. John Greening’s new anthology draws especially on this exciting hoard of forgotten material.JOHN GREENING is a poet and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008. He is also a Hawthornden Fellow and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published studies of the Poets of the First World War, Yeats, Hardy, Edward Thomas and Elizabethan Love Poets.$34.95/£18.99 August 2015978 1 78327 015 6256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

The Musical NovelImitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary FictionEMILY PETERMANN

What is a “musical novel”? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but rather its form. The musical novel takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible aspects of music (such as rhythm and timbre) to

more structural elements. Building upon theories of intermediality and semiotics, Emily Petermann analyzes two groups of musical novels. The first group – the jazz novel – imitates an entire musical genre. The second group of novels imitates a single piece of music: J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.EMILY PETERMANN is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.$85.00/£55.00(s) May 2014978 1 57113 592 6, Library e-book 978 1 57113 891 04 line illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6, HBEuropean Studies in North American Literature and Culture

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