The Cambridge Music Guide is for all those who love music and wish to know more about its colourful history, development and theory. Superbly illustrated, the Guide is a comprehensive tour of every aspect of the new musical world, expertly edited by Stanley Sadie, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music.
This exhaustive volume on Wagner features contributions from renowned authorities from around the world, a synopses and expert appreciation of the operas, and an Index for easy reference. of photos.
First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a full synopsis of the plot, a cast list, a note on the singers in the original production, and ...
Classical music finally has the reference it deserves: Authoritative, expertly written, and all-inclusive, "The Billboard Encyclopedia of Classical Music" is a comprehensive, affordable companion to a timeless genre.
This work is a concise and comprehensive guide to the repertoire of opera. It contains synopses of 83 major operas by 41 composers from Monteverdi and Purcell through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Janacek to Alban Berg, Tippett and Britten.
The New Grove name is one of the most prestigious imprints of music reference books in the world. Already the publisher of The New Grove Book of Operas, St. Martin's is now making these exhaustive volumes on Mozart and Puccini and their operas available in two beautiful packages at an affordable price. The books have been written by renowned ...
Renowned music historian Stanley Sadie discusses all aspects of the composer's life and music, relating them to the social, economic, cultural, and musical environments in which he worked.
This concise dictionary has been updated. Based on the 20 volume "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", it is designed to meet the needs of a wide readership, from the musical novice requiring a quick and clear explanation of terminology to the musical expert in need of more detailed information. There are 10,000 entries, which include ...
Verdi and his Operas is derived from the prestigious New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the world's leading reference work on opera. Verdi and his Operas brings together in one affordable volume the story of Giuseppe Verdi's life and career, and synopses and authoritative appreciations of all his operas from Aida to Les Vjpres siciliennes ('The ...
Across Europe, more than three hundred houses and museums commemorate the composers that lived and worked in them. In Calling on the Composer, two distinguished musicologists guide the reader and the musically curious traveller to these sites and provide essential information on their content and significance. Whether lakeside hut or moated castle ...
A child prodigy who performed throughout Europe in his early years, Mozart excelled in every medium of his time, including chamber music for strings, the piano and concerto and opera. Along with his contemporaries Haydn and Beethoven, he is one of the composers who brought the Viennese Classical style to its height. His mature music, distinguished ...
THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, edited by Stanley Sadie, in three volumes, is devoted entirely to the study of musical instruments and is a definitive guide to the history, construction and performing practice of over 12,000 instruments from every culture, past and present--including 10,000 non-Western and folk instruments.
Beautifully illustrated and richly detailed, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera examines the history and development of opera, from its roots in the theatrical choral dances of Ancient Greece, through the sublime compositions of Handel and Mozart and on to the groundbreaking works of Verdi, Wagner and beyond.
Incorporating a decade of musicological research, the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality, with contributions from over 1,300 of the world's leading critics and scholars. A remarkable 11,000 articles, all fully cross-referenced, create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference. Indeed, every aspect of this ...
The most distinguished reference work in its field is now available in a concise, attractive, one-volume edition. The 9,000 entries include: 4,500 composers; 2,000 terms; 1,100 performers; 1,000 works; and 150 work-lists. Drawings.
This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and ...
The New Grove name is one of the most prestigious imprints of music reference books in the world. Already the publisher of The New Grove Book of Operas, St. Martin's is now making these exhaustive volumes on Mozart and Puccini and their operas available in two beautiful packages at an affordable price. The books have been written by renowned ...
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