Author: Vera Lambert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most comprehensive and up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.
New Grove Modern Masters
Author: Vera Lambert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most comprehensive and up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most comprehensive and up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.
From Madrigal to Modern Music
Author: Douglas Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.
A History of Song
Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.
Opera
Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113557801X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113557801X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
The New Grove Schubert
Author: Maurice John Edwin Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the life of Franz Schubert, describes the development of his muscial career, and discusses the composition of his major works.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the life of Franz Schubert, describes the development of his muscial career, and discusses the composition of his major works.
The New Grove Piano
Author: Edwin M. Ripin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305180
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305180
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
The New Grove Handel
Author: Winton Dean
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.
The New Grove Wagner
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books
The New Grove Haydn
Author: Jens Peter Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The New Grove Bach Family
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Traces the life and discusses the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and the other musician members of his family.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Traces the life and discusses the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and the other musician members of his family.