Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Classical

Without doubt the most influential American composer of the last half century, John Cage has had an enormous impact not only on music but on art, literature, the performing arts, and aesthetic thought in general. His insistent exploration of "nonintention" and his fruitful merging of Western and Eastern traditions have made him a powerful force in the world of the avant-garde.

There have never been lectures like these: delivered at Harvard in 1988-89 as the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, they were more like performances, as the audience heard them. Cage calls them "mesostics," a...

Staehelins Studie widmet sich der Frage nach der Echtheit der sogenannten Mozartschen Blaserkonzertante. Diese im Nachlass des Mozart-Biografen Jahn gefundene Komposition wird immer wieder mit dem Werk identifiziert, das Mozart 1778 in Paris komponierte und das seitdem verschollen ist. Die Untersuchung zieht neue Quellen heran und analysiert die stilistischen Seltsamkeiten des Werks, um zu zeigen, dass es sich keineswegs um ein Werk Mozarts handelt.

Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This colorful past is reflected in the arsenal of instruments a classical trumpeter employs during a performance, sometimes using no fewer than five in different keys and configurations to accurately reproduce music from the past. With the rise in historically inspired performances comes the necessity for trumpeters to know more about their instrument's heritage,...

Drawing on original manuscript and print sources, A Heinrich Schutz Reader...

This Awareness of Beauty is the first book to consider the orchestral and wind band music of Canadian composer Healey Willan, who was known primarily for his choral work. A succinct biography accompanies historical, analytical, and critical investigations of Willan's instrumental music, asserting Willan's seminal place in Canadian music and the significance of his orchestral and wind band music both nationally and internationally.

Each composition is investigated in chronological order to illustrate the composer's evolution as a creator of instrumental music from his early...