The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press. Each book is a collection of essays on the topic commissioned by the publisher. [1] The first was published in 1993, the Cambridge Companion to the Violin. Since then numerous volumes have been published nearly every year, covering a variety of instruments, composers, performers, compositions genres and traditions.
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Amy Beach | E. Douglas Bomberger, Marian Wilson Kimber, Robin Rausch, Bill F. Faucett, Kirsten Johnson, Katherine Kelton, R. Larry Todd, Douglas W. Shadle, Matthew Phelps, Nicole Powlison | 2023 | 978-1-108-96504-0 | [2] |
Arvo Pärt | Andrew Shenton, Immo Mihkelson, Jeffers Engelhardt, Leopold Brauneiss, Thomas Robinson, Marguerite Bostonia, Robert Sholl, Benjamin Skipp, Laura Dolp, Andreas Peer Kähler, Arvo Pärt | 2012 | 978-0-521-27910-9 | [3] |
Bach | Malcolm Boyd , Ulrich Siegele, Robin A. Leaver, John Butt , Stephen A. Crist, Werner Breig, Richard D. P. Jones, Laurence Dreyfus, Stephen Daw, George B. Stauffer, Martin Zenck | 1997 | 978-0-521-58780-8 | [4] |
Ballet | Ivor Guest, Marion Kant, Jennifer Nevile, Marina Nordera, Barbara Ravelhofer, Mark Franko, Dorion Weickmann, Sandra Noll Hammond, T. C. W. Blanning, Judith Chazin-Benahum, Inge Baxmann, Sarah Davis Cordova, Anne Middlebo Christensen, Marian E. Smith, Lynn Garafola, Thérèse Hurley, Lucia Ruprecht, Erik Näslund, Tim Scholl, Matilda Butkas, Juliet Bellow, Jennifer Fisher, Yangwen Zhen, Lester Tome | 2007 | 978-0-521-53986-9 | [5] |
Bartók | Amanda Bayley, Lynn Hooker, Stephen Erdely, David Cooper, Carl Leafstedt, Rachel Beckles Willson, Victoria Fischer, Susan Bradshaw, Nicky Losseff, Peter Laki, David E. Schneider, Malcolm Gillies, Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ivan F. Waldbauer, Vera Lampert | 2001 | 978-0-521-66958-0 | [6] |
The Beatles | Anthony DeCurtis, Kenneth Womack , Dave Laing, Jerry Zolten, Howard Kramer, James M. Decker, Russell Reising, Jim LeBlanc, Ian Inglis, Steve Hamelman, Bruce Spizer, Michael Frontani, Walter Everett, Sheila Whiteley, Gary Burns, John Kimsey | 2009 | 978-0-521-68976-2 | [7] |
Beethoven | Glenn Stanley, Barry Cooper, Elaine Sisman, Roger Kamien, Nicholas Marston, William Kinderman, Mark Kaplan, John Daverio, Leon Botstein, Amanda Glauert, Michael Tusa, Birgit Lodes, Margaret Notley, Alain Frogley, Scott Burnham, David Dennis | 2000 | 978-0-521-58934-5 | [8] |
Benjamin Britten | Mervyn Cooke, Christopher Mark, Paul Kildea, Philip Reed, Stephen Arthur Allen, Arnold Whittall, Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin, Clifford Hindley, Donald Mitchell, Philip Rupprecht, Ralph Woodward, Eric Roseberry, Judith LeGrove | 1999 | 978-0-521-57476-1 | [9] |
Berg | Christopher Hailey, Andrew Barker, Raymond Geuss, Anthony Pople, Kathryn Bailey, Derrick Puffett, Douglas Jarman, Patricia Hall, Neil Boynton, Judy Lochhead, Arnold Whittall | 1997 | 978-0-521-56489-2 | [10] |
Berlioz | Peter Bloom , Jacques Barzun, Janet Johnson, Julian Rushton, Jeffrey Langford, Diana Bickley, James Haar, Ralph Locke, Annegret Fauser, Pierre Citron, Katherine Kolb, Katharine Ellis, Joël-Marie Fauquet, D. Kern Holoman, Hugh Macdonald, David Cairns, Lesley Wright | 2000 | 978-0-521-59638-1 | [11] |
Brahms | Kurt Hofmann, Michael Musgrave, Leon Botstein, John Rink, David Brodbeck, Kofi Agawu, Malcolm MacDonald, Daniel Beller-McKenna, Roger Norrington, Robert Pascall, Hugh Wood | 1999 | 978-0-521-48581-4 | [12] |
Brass Instruments | Trevor Herbert, John Wallace, Margaret Sarkissian, Arnold Myers, Robert Barclay, Keith Polk, Bruce Dickey, Edward H. Tarr, Thomas Hiebert, Ralph T. Dudgeon, Clifford Bevan, Simon Wills, Phillip Eastop, Robert Evans, Roger T. Dean | 1997 | 978-0-521-56522-6 | [13] |
Bruckner | John Williamson, Andrea Harrandt, Paul Hawkshaw, A. Crawford Howie, Derek B. Scott, Benjamin Korstvedt , Julian Horton, Margaret Notley, Kevin Swinden, Christa Brüstle | 2004 | 978-0-521-00878-5 | [14] |
Caribbean Music | Lester Monts, Nanette de Jong, Robin Moore, Frances R Aparicio, Angelina Tallaj, Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Michael Largey, Brenda F. Berrain, Florabelle Spielmann, Hélène Zamor, Apollinaire Anakesa Kululuka, David V Moskowitz, Felicity Laurence, Linda F. Williams, Julio Nazario | 2022 | 978-1-108-43306-8 | [15] |
the Cello | John Dilworth, Bernard Richardson, Margaret Campbell, Robin Stowell, David Wyn Jones, Peter Allsop, Valerie Walden, R. Caroline Bosanquet, Frances-Marie Uitti | 1999 | 978-0-521-62928-7 | [16] |
Chopin | Janet Ritterman, David Rowland, Simon Finlow, John Rink, Jim Samson , Jeffrey Kallberg, Adrian Thomas, Anatole Leikin, James Methuen-Campbell, Zofia Chechlinska, Derek Carew, Roy Howat | 1995 | 978-0-521-47752-9 | [17] |
Choral Music | John Rutter, André de Quadros, Andrew Parrott, Chester Alwes, Nick Strimple, Paul Hillier, Leo Samama, Patricia Abbott, Victoria Meredith, Matthew Mehaffey, Kathy Saltzman Romey, María Guinand, Jing Ling-Tam, Gene J. Cho, Aida Huseynova, Karen Grylls, Rudolf de Beer, Wilson Shitandi, Francisco J. Núñez, Mary Goetze, Cornelia Fales, Wolodymyr Smishkewych, Doreen Rao, Mike Brewer, Liz Garnett, Ann Howard Jones, Simon Carrington | 2012 | 978-0-521-12895-7 | [18] |
the Clarinet | Nicholas Shackleton, Basil Tschaikov, Georgina Dobrée, Michael Harris, Jo Rees-Davis, Pamela Weston, Antony Pay, Paul Harris, Colin Lawson , Nicholas Cox, Roger Heaton, John Robert Brown, Michael Bryant | 1996 | 978-0-521-47668-3 | [19] |
the Concerto | Simon P. Keefe , Tia DeNora, Michael Talbot, David Yearsley, Stephan D. Lindeman, R. Larry Todd, David E. Schneider, Arnold Whittall, Cliff Eisen, Robin Stowell, David Rowland, Timothy Day | 2005 | 978-0-521-54257-9 | [20] |
Conducting | Raymond Holden, Charles Barber, Michael Haas, Joseph Silverstein, Vance George, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Ripley, José Antonio Bowen, David Cairns, Michael Rose, David Mermelstein, Stephen Johnson, David Nice, Bramwell Tovey, Michelle Edwards, Bernard Sherman, Harold Faberman, Martyn Brabbins, Stephen Wright, Leon Botstein | 2003 | 978-0-521-52791-0 | [21] |
Debussy | Simon Trezise, Robert Orledge, Barbara L. Kelly, Deirdre Donnellon, David Grayson, Roger Nichols, Nigel Simeone, Julie McQuinn, Caroline Potter, Boyd Pomeroy, Mark DeVoto, Richard S. Parks, Charles Timbrell, Arnold Whittall | 2003 | 978-0-521-65478-4 | [22] |
Drum Kit | Joseph Michael Pignato, Daniel Akira Stadnicki, Matt Brennan, Paul Archibald, Steven Baur, Pedro Ojeda, Juan David Rubio Restrepo, Daniel Gohn, Ben Reimer, Scott Hanenberg, Paul Thompson, Brett Lashua, Bryden Stillie, Carlos Xavier Rodriguez, Patrick Hernly, Bill Bruford, Mandy Smith, Adam Patrick Bell, Cornel Hrisca-Munn, Vincent Andrisani, Margaret MacAulay, Nat Grant, Gareth Dylan Smith | 2021 | 978-1-108-74765-3 | [23] |
Duke Ellington | Edward Green, Evan Spring, John Howland, David Berger, Stephen D. James, J. Walker James, Brian Priestley, Olly W. Wilson, Trevor Weston, Jeffrey Magee, Andrew Berish, Anna Harwell Celenza, Anthony Brown, Dan Morgenstern, Benjamin Givan, Walter van de Leur, Bill Dobbins, Marcello Piras, Will Friedwald, Benjamin Bierman | 2015 | 978-0-521-70753-4 | [24] |
Eighteenth-Century Opera | Anthony R. DelDonna, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, James Webster, Caryl Clark, Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione, Gianni Cicali, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, John Spitzer, Alessandra Campana, David Charlton, Estelle Joubert, Michael Burden, Manuel Carlos de Brito, Louise Stein, José Máximo Leza | 2009 | 978-0-521-69538-1 | [25] |
Electronic Music | Nick Collins , Julio d'Escriván, Andrew Hugill, Margaret Schedel , Ge Wang, Sergi Jordà, Karlheinz Essl, Amy Alexander, Julian Rohrhuber, Stefania Serafin, Petri Toiviainen , Natasha Barrett | 2008 1st ed. 2017 2nd ed. | 978-0-521-68865-9 978-1-107-59002-1 | [26] |
Elgar | Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton , Jeremy Dibble, Robert Anderson, Christopher Kent, Diana McVeagh, Robin Holloway, Byron Adams, John Butt, Christopher Mark, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Timothy Day, Jenny Doctor, Aidan Thomson, Charles Edward McGuire | 2005 | 978-0-521-53363-8 | [27] |
the Eroica Symphony | Nancy November, Scott Burnham, Mark Ferraguto, Erica Burrman, Federica Rovelli, William Drabkin, Vasili Byros, Nicholas Marston, Elaine Sisman, Beate Angelika Kraus, Leon Botstein, Melanie Lowe | 2020 | 978-1-108-43557-4 | [28] |
Film music | Mervyn Cooke, Fiona Ford, James Buhler, Hannah Lewis, David Cooper, Ben Winters, Stephen Glynn, George Fenton, Guido Heldt, Kate Daubney, Peter Franklin, Miguel Mera, David Butler, Krin Gabbard, Stan Link, Robynn J. Stilwell, Caryl Flinn, Paul Wells, Sergio Miceli, Danae Stefanou, Annette Davison, Tim Koozin, Mekala Padmanabhan | 2016 | 978-1-107-47649-3 | [29] |
French Music | Simon Trezise, Alice V. Clark, Lawrence Earp, Fabrice Fitch, Peter Bennett, Georgia J. Cowart, Debra Nagy, Michael McClellan, Andy Fry, Jonathan Goldman, Jacqueline Waeber, Steven Huebner, Luc Charles-Dominique, David Loosely, John Haines, Andrew Tomasello, Jeanice Brooks, Katharine Ellis | 2015 | 978-0-521-70176-1 | [30] |
Gershwin | Michael Owen, Ellen Noonan, Susan Neimoyer, Jessica Getman, Kristen M. Turner, Todd Decker, Timothy Freeze, Mark Clague, Anna Harwell Celenza, Naomi André, Nathan Platte, Howard Pollack, Will Friedwald, Ryan Raul Bañagale, Nate Sloan, Michael Feinstein | 2019 | 978-1-108-43764-6 | [31] |
Gilbert and Sullivan | David Eden, Meinhard Saremba, William Parry, Benedict Taylor, Richard Silverman, Horst Dölvers, Laura Kasson Fiss, Michael Beckerman, James Brooks Kuykendall, Martin T. Yates, Mike Leigh, Ian Bradley, Stephanie Pitts, Raymond Knapp, Jana Polianovskaia, David Russell Hulme | 2009 | 978-0-521-71659-8 | [32] |
Grand Opera | David Charlton, Hervé Lacombe, Nicholas White, Simon Williams, James Parakilas, Marian Smith, Mary Ann Smart, David Pountney, Sarah Hibberd, Herbert Schneider, Matthias Brzoska, John H. Roberts, Diana R. Hallman, M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet, Steven Huebner, Thomas Grey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Jan Smaczny, Fiamma Nicolodi | 2003 | 978-0-521-64683-3 | [33] |
the Guitar | Victor Anand Coelho, Peter Manuel, Chris Smith, Banning Eyre, Graeme Boone, Jas Obrecht, Steve Waksman, Gordon Ross, Craig Russell, David Tanenbaum, Stewart Pollens | 2003 | 978-0-521-00040-6 | [34] |
Handel | Donald Burrows , John Butt, Carlo Vitali, William Weber, Judith Milhous, Robert D. Hume, H. Diack Johnstone, Lowell Lindgren, Ruth Smith, C. Steven LaRue, David Ross Hurley, Anthony Hicks, Graydon Beeks, Malcolm Boyd , Terence Best, Mark W. Stahura, Winton Dean | 1998 | 978-0-521-45613-5 | [35] |
the Harpsichord | John Koster, Pieter Dirksen, Andrew Woolley, Ton Koopman, Mark Kroll, Rebecca Cypess, João Pedro d'Alvarenga, Águeda Pedrero-Encabo, Marina Ritzarev, Anna Maria McElwain, Pedro Persone, Robert L. Marshal, Larry Palmer, Paul Poletti | 2019 | 978-1-316-60970-5 | [36] |
Haydn | Caryl Clark, Elaine Sisman, Rebecca Green, James Webster, David Wyn Jones, Scott Burnham, Matthew Head, David Schroeder, Mary Hunter, Michelle Fillion, James Dack, James Webster, Katalin Komlós, Tom Beghin, James Garrett, Lawrence Kramer, Melanie Lowe | 2005 | 978-0-521-54107-7 | [37] |
Hip-Hop | Justin A. Williams, Alice Price-Styles, Imani K. Johnson, Ivor Miller, Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen, Travis Gosa, Christina Zanfagna, Nicole Hodges Persley, Oliver Kautny, Kyle Adams, Chris Tabron, Anthony Kwame Harrison, Geoff Harkness, Regina Bradley, Chris Deis, Amanda Sewell, Adam Haupt, Noriko Manabe, Richard Bramwell, Sujatha Fernandes, Ali Coleen Neff, Mike D'Errico, Brenna Byrd, Loren Kajikawa, Michael Jeffries | 2015 | 978-1-107-64386-4 | [38] |
Jazz | Krin Gabbard, David Horn, Bruce Johnson, Jed Rasula, Robert Crease, Travis Jackson, Ingrid Monson, Pete Martin, Mervyn Cooke, Darius Brubeck, Jeff Pressing, Stuart Nicholson, David Ake, David Sagar, Thomas Owens, Robert Walser, Dave Laing | 2003 | 978-0-521-66388-5 | [39] |
Jewish Music | Joshua S. Walden, Philip Bohlman, Edwin Seroussi, Judah M. Cohen, Theodore W. Burgh, Mark Kligman, Susana Weich-Shahak, Joel Rubin, Joshua R. Jacobson, David Conway, James Loeffler, Tina Frühauf, Lily E. Hirsch, Mark Slobin, Jehoash Hirshberg, Amy Lynn Wlodarski | 2015 | 978-1-107-62375-0 | [40] |
John Cage | David Nicholls , Christopher Shultis, David W. Patterson, David W. Bernstein, Kathan Brown, William Brooks, Leta E. Miller, John Holzaepfel, Alastair Williams, Kyle Gann | 2002 | 978-0-521-78968-4 | [41] |
K-Pop | Suk-Young Kim, Roald Maliangkay, Hyunjoon Shin, Jung-Min Mina Lee, Hyewon Kim, Chuyun Oh, CedarBough T. Saeji, Stephanie Choi, So-Rim Lee, Kyung Hyun Kim, Youngdae Kim, Candace Epps-Robertson, Michelle Cho, Thomas Baudinette, Youjeong Oh | 2023 | 978-1-108-94003-0 | [42] |
Krautrock | Uwe Schütte, Ulrich Adelt, Detlef Siegfried, Alexander Simmeth, Jan-Peter Herbst, Heather Moore, Patrick Glen, Sean Nye, Michael Krikorian, David Stubbs, Alexander Henkle, David Pattie, Sascha Seiler, Pertti Grönholm, Ryan Iseppi, Jens Balzer, Jeff Hayton, Alexander Carpenter, Marcus Barnes, Alex Harden | 2022 | 978-1-009-00527-2 | [43] |
the Lied | James Parsons, Jane K. Brown, Amanda Glauert, Marie-Agnes Dittrich, Ruth O. Bingham, Jürgen Thym, James Deaville, Rena Charnin Mueller, Heather Platt, Susan Youens, Christopher H. Gibbs, James L. Zychowicz, David Gramit, Graham Johnson | 2004 | 978-0-521-80471-4 | [44] |
Liszt | Kenneth Hamilton , Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding, James Deaville, James M. Baker, Anna Celenza, Monika Hennemann, Reeves Shulstad, Dolores Pesce | 2005 | 978-0-521-64462-4 | [45] |
The Magic Flute | Jessica Waldoff | 2023 | 978-1-108-44684-6 | [46] |
Mahler | Jeremy Barham, Peter Franklin, Morten Solvik, Vera Micznik, Zoltan Roman, Peter Revers, Stephen E. Hefling, Christian Wildhagen, Jörg Rothkamm, Herta Blaukopf, David Pickett, Christoph Metzger, Reinhold Kubik, Stephen Downes, Lewis M. Smoley, John Williamson | 2007 | 978-0-521-54033-9 | [47] |
Medieval Music | Mark Everist , Susan Boynton, Michael McGrade, Sarah Fuller, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Peter Lefferts, Marco Gozzi, Nicolas Bell, Robert Curry, Sam Barrett, Ardis Butterfield, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Rebecca Baltzer, Dolores Pesce, Emma Dillon, Christopher Page, Lawrence Earp | 2011 | 978-0-521-60861-9 | [48] |
Mendelssohn | Peter Mercer-Taylor, Michael P. Steinberg, Marian Wilson-Kimber, James Garratt, Greg Vitercik, Douglass Seaton, Steve Lindeman, Thomas Schmidt-Beste, Glenn Stanley, R. Larry Todd, Susan Youens, Monika Hennemann, John Michael Cooper, Leon Botstein | 2004 | 978-0-521-53342-3 | [49] |
Metal Music | Jan-Peter Herbst, Andrew L. Cope, Mark Mynett, Niall Thomas, Hale Fulya Çelikel, Duncan Williams, Peter Pichler, Jeremy J. Swist, Imke von Helden, Paula Rowe, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Catherine Hoad, Karl Spracklen, Daniel Suer, Thomas Cardwell, Ross Hagen, Lewis F. Kennedy, Owen Coggins, Mark Marrington, Eric Smialek, Pierre Hecker, Jeremy Wallach, Edward Banchs, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Samuel Vallen | 2023 | 978-1-108-99398-2 | [50] |
Michael Tippett | Kenneth Gloag, Nicholas Jones, Jonathan Rees, Arnold Whittall, Christopher Mark, Suzanne Cole, Joanna Bullivant, Suzanne Robinson, Thomas Schuttenhelm, Iain Stannard, Edward Venn, Alastair Borthwick | 2013 | 978-1-107-60613-5 | [51] |
Monteverdi | John Whenham , Richard Wistreich, Anthony Pryer, Tim Carter, Geoffrey Chew, Roger Bowers, Paola Besutti, Massimo Ossi, Joachim Steinheuer, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Iain Fenlon, Ellen Rosand, Suzanne Cusick, Richard Wistreich | 2008 | 978-0-521-69798-9 | [52] |
Mozart | Simon P. Keefe , Cliff Eisen, Dorothea Link, Ian Woodfield, David Schroeder, W. Dean Sutcliffe, Paul Corneilson, Edmund J. Goehring, Julian Rushton, David J. Buch, John Daverio, Jan Smaczny, William Stafford, Katalin Komlós, Robert D. Levin | 2003 | 978-0-521-00192-2 | [53] |
Musical | William Everett, Paul R. Laird, Katherine K. Preston, John Koegel, Orly Leah Krasner, John Graziano, Geoffrey Block, John Snelson, Ann Sears, Thomas L. Riis, Bruce D. Mcclung, Jim Lovensheimer, Scott Warfield, Paul Prece, Judith Sebesta, Bud Coleman, Graham Wood, Jessica Sternfeld | 2008 1st ed. 2015 2nd ed. 2017 3rd ed. | 978-0-521-86238-7 978-0-521-68084-4 978-1-107-53529-9 | [54] |
Music and Romanticism | Benedict Taylor, Keith Chapin, Miranda Stanyon, Thomas Peattie, Matthew Gelbart, Katherine Hambridge, John Tresch, Francesca Brittan, James Garratt, Tomás McAuley, Alexander Wilfing, Holly Watkins, Karen Leistra-Jones, Julian Horton, Steven Vande Moortele, Lisa Feurzeig, Sarah Hibberd, Dana Gooley, Nicole Grimes, Sebastian Wedler | 2021 | 978-1-108-46687-5 | [55] |
Music in Digital Culture | Nicholas Cook , Monique M. Ingalls, David Trippett, Lee Marshall, Martin Scherzinger, Ingrid Monson, K. E. Goldschmitt, Nick Seaver, Ben Sinclair, Stéphan-Eloïse Gras, Sumanth S. Gopinath, Jason Stanyek, Adam Harper, Peter McMurray, Mariana Lopez, Graham St John, Alan Blackwell, Sam Aaron, Alex McLean, Paul Sanden, Andrew McPherson, Steve Savage, Julio d'Escriván, Stephen Baysted, Isabella van Elferen, Frances Dyson, Shzr Ee Tan | 2019 | 978-1-316-61407-5 | [56] |
Operetta | Anastasia Belina, Derek B. Scott, John Kendrick, Lisa Feurzeig, Bruno Bower, Lynn Hooker, Jan Smaczy, Stefan Frey, Christopher Webber, Raymond Knapp, Pentti Paavolainen, Avra Xepapadakou, Micaela Baranello, Tobias Becker, Valeria De Lucca, Matthias Kauffmann | 2019 | 978-1-316-63334-2 | [57] |
Opera Studies | Nicholas Till, Thomas Ertman, Nicholas Payne, Christopher Morris, Susan Rutherford, Simon Williams, Nicholas Ridout, Laurel E. Zeiss, Alessandra Campana, Heather Hadlock, Suzanne Aspden | 2012 | 978-0-521-67169-9 | [58] |
the Orchestra | Tim Carter, Erik Levi, Robert Barclay, Peter Laki, Richard Rastall, Julian Rushton, Jeremy Siepman, Jon Tolanski, Colin Lawson , John Rushby-Smith, Simon Channing, Clive Gillinson, Jonathan Vaughan, Robert Philip, Robert Saxton, Sue Knussen, Stephen Cottrell | 2003 | 978-0-521-00132-8 | [59] |
the Organ | Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Stephen Bicknell, John Mainstone, Christopher Kent, Kimberly Marshall, Edward Higginbottom, Christopher Stembridge, James Dalton, Geoffrey Cox, Patrick Russill, Geoffrey Webber, David Yearsley, Graham Barber, Gerard Brooks, Andrew McCrea, Douglas Reed | 1999 | 978-0-521-57584-3 | [60] |
Percussion | Russell Hartenberger, William L. Cahn, William Moersch, Garry Kvistad, Rick Mattingly, Thomas Brett, Adam Sliwinski, Colin Currie, Aiyun Huang, Steven Schick, Bob Becker, Jason Treuting, Steve Reich, Peter Erskine, Steven F. Pond, Jeff Packman, B. Michael Williams, Michael B. Bakan, Michael Schutz, John R. Iversen | 2016 | 978-1-107-47243-3 | [61] |
the Piano | David Rowland, Kenneth Hamilton, Robert Philip, Bernard Richardson, Dorothy de Val, Cyril Ehrlich, J. Barrie Jones, Mervyn Cooke, Brian Priestley | 1998 | 978-0-521-47986-8 | [62] |
Pop and Rock | Simon Frith, Paul Théberge, Will Straw, Keir Keightley, Russel A. Potter, Jocelyne Guilbault, Richard Middleton, Sara Cohen, John Street, Barry Shank, Jan Fairley | 2001 | 978-0-521-55660-6 | [63] |
Ravel | Deborah Mawer, Barbara L. Kelly, Robert Orledge, Roy Howat, Mark DeVoto, Michael Russ, Peter Kaminsky, Richard Langham Smith, Ronald Woodley, Roger Nichols | 2000 | 978-0-521-64856-1 | [64] |
Recorded Music | Nicholas Cook , Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, John Rink, Susan Tomes, Peter Hill, Donald Greig, Mike Howlett, Steve Savage, Andrew Blake, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Michael Haas, Albin Zak, Martyn Ware, Richard Witts, Louise Meintjes, Tully Potter, Arild Bergh, Tia DeNora, Martin Elste, David Patmore, Lewis Foreman, George Brock-Nannestad, Roger Beardsley, Nigel Simeone, Simon Trezise, Ted Kendall, Nick Mason, Roger Heaton, Colin Lawson, Simon Frith, Chris Watson, Georgina Born | 2009 | 978-0-521-68461-3 | [65] |
the Recorder | John Mansfield Thomson , Daniël Brüggen, Howard Mayer Brown, Anthony Rowland-Jones, Adrienne Simpson, David Lasocki, Eve O'Kelly, Clifford Bartlett | 1995 | 978-0-521-35816-3 | [66] |
Rossini | Emanuele Senici, Richard Osborne, Benjamin Walton, Charles S. Brauner, Paolo Fabbri, Philip Gossett, Marco Beghelli, Damien Colas, Heather Hadlock, Janet Johnson, Cormac Newark, Leonella Grasso Caprioli, Mercedes Viale Ferrero, Patricia B. Brauner | 2004 | 978-0-521-00195-3 | [67] |
Rhythm | Russell Hartenberger, Ryan McClelland, Daniel Cameron, Jessica Grahn, Alan Dodson, Steven Schick, David Robertson, Harald Krebs, Gretchen Horlacher, Adam Sliwinski, Matthew W. Butterfield, Trevor de Clercq, Mitchell Ohriner, David Locke, James Kippen, Leslie Tilley, Peter Manuel, Kristina F. Nielsen, Nick Collins | 2020 | 978-1-108-73012-9 | [68] |
the Saxophone | Richard Ingham, Thomas Liley, Don Ashton, Thomas Dryer-Beers, Kyle Horch, David Roach, Nick Turner, Stephen Trier, Gordon Lewin, Chris 'Snake' Davis, John Helliwell, Claude Delangle, Jean-Denis Michat | 1999 | 978-0-521-59666-4 | [69] |
Serialism | Martin Iddon, Catherine Nolans, Marcus Zagorski, Arnold Whittall, Jack Boss, Silvio Dos Santos, Sebastian Wedler, Andrew Mead, Catherine Losada, Imke Misch, Angela Ida de Benedictis, Veniero Rizzardi, Maureen Carr, Mark Delaere, Emily Abrams Ansari, Iwona Lindstedt, Peter J. Schmelz, Björn Heile, Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Peter O'Hagan, Charles Wilson, Jennifer Iverson | 2023 | 978-1-108-71686-4 | [70] |
Seventeenth-Century Opera | Barbara Russano Hanning, Tim Carter, Sara Elisa Stangalino, Margaret Murata, Beth L. Glixon, Colleen Reardon, Christine Jeanneret, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Roger Savage, Laura Naudeix, Jacqueline Waeber, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Michael Maul, Louise K. Stein | 2022 | 978-0-521-53046-0 | [71] |
Schoenberg | Jennifer Shaw, Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch, Michael Cherlin, Robert P. Morgan, Craig De Wilde, Elizabeth Keathley, Ethan Haimo, Julian Johnson, Richard Kurth, Joy H. Calico, Peter Tregear, Steven J. Cahn, Severine Neff, Walter B. Bailey, Sabine Feisst, Richard Toop | 2010 | 978-0-521-69086-7 | [72] |
Schubert | Christopher Gibbs, Leon Botstein, David Gramit, Charles Rosen, Susan Youens, Kristina Muxfeldt, Margaret Notley, William Kinderman, Martin Chusid, L. Michael Griffel, Glenn Stanley, Thomas A. Denny, John Reed, Xavier Hascher, David Montgomery | 1997 | 978-0-521-48424-4 | [73] |
Schubert's Winterreise | Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig, Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Kristina Muxfeldt, Rufus Hallmark, David Romand, Blake Howe, George S. Williamson, James William Sobaskie, Susan Wollenberg, Xavier Hascher, Deborah Stein, Benjamin Binder, Laura Tunbridge | 2021 | 978-1-108-96580-4 | [74] |
Schumann | Beate Perry, Ulrich Tadday, Nicholas Marston, John Daverio, Laura Tunbridge, Jonathan Dunsby, Linda Roesner, Scott Burnham, Joseph Kerman, Elizabeth Paley, Reinhard Kapp, Jörn Peter Hiekel | 2007 | 978-0-521-78950-9 | [75] |
Shostakovich | Pauline Fairclough, David Fanning , Eric Roseberry, Judy Kuhn, David Haas, Malcolm MacDonald, Gerard McBurney, Rosamund Bartlett, Marina Ilichova, John Riley, Francis Maes, Erik Levi, Esti Sheinberg | 2008 | 978-0-521-60315-7 | [76] |
Sibelius | Daniel Grimley, David M. Grimley, Matti Huttunen, Glenda Dawn Goss, Stephen Downes, Jukka Tiilikainen, Arnold Whittall, James Hepokoski, Jeffrey Kallberg, Veijo Murtomäki, Ilkka Oramo, Tomi Mäkelä, Peter Franklin, Julian Anderson, Bethany Lowe, Sir Colin Davis, Osmo Vänskä | 2004 | 978-0-521-89460-9 | [77] |
the Singer-Songwriter | Katherine Williams, Justin A. Williams, David R. Shumway, Natasha Loges, Katy Hamilton, Mark Finch, Allan F. Moore, Simon Barber, Christa Bentley, Michael Borshuk, Tōru Mitsui, Josep Pedro, Jada Watson, Phil Allcock, Joshua S. Duchan, Timothy Koozin, Lori Burns, Alyssa Woods, Marc Lafrance, Madison Moore, Sarah Suhdolnik, Jo Collinson-Scott, Kevin Fellezs, Jennifer Taylor, Chris McDonald, Megan Berry, Sarah Boak, Mark Marrington, Marcus Aldredge, Rupert Till, Nick Braae, Franco Fabbri, Ioannis Tsioulakis, Lucy Bennett | 2016 | 978-1-107-68091-3 | [78] |
Singing | John Potter, John Schaefer, Richard Middleton, David Toop, Stephen Banfield, John Rosselli, Stephen Varcoe, Timothy Day, Neely Bruce, Heikki Liimola, Joseph Dyer, Richard Wistreich, Linda Hirst, David Wright, David Mason, Felicity Laurence, Johan Sundberg | 2000 | 978-0-521-62709-2 | [79] |
Richard Strauss | Charles Youmans, James Deaville, Walter Werbeck, Wayne Heisler, David Larkin, James Hepokoski, Morten Kristiansen, Bryan Gilliam, Philip Graydon, Susan Youens, Jürgen May, Alex Ross, Günter Brosche, Michael Walter, Scott Warfield, Raymond Holden | 2010 | 978-0-521-72815-7 | [80] |
Stravinsky | Rosamund Bartlett, Christopher Butler, Arnold Whittall, Anthony Pople, Kenneth Gloag, Martha Hyde, Jonathan Cross, Joseph N. Straus, Nicholas Cook, Max Paddison, Craig Ayrey, Stuart Campbell, Louis Andriessen, Richard Taruskin | 2003 | 978-0-521-66377-9 | [81] |
the String Quartet | Christina Bashford, Robin Stowell, Tully Potter, David Waterman, Simon Standage, David Wyn Jones, W. Dean Sutcliffe, Stephen E. Hefling, Jan Smaczny, Kenneth Gloag, Colin Lawson | 2003 | 978-0-521-00042-0 | [82] |
the Symphony | Julian Horton, John Irving, Mary Sue Morrow, David Brodbeck, David Fanning, Michael Spitzer, Simon P. Keefe, Mark Anson-Cartwright, Steven Vande Moortele, Daniel M. Grimley, Richard Will, Mark Evan Bonds, John Williamson, Pauline Fairclough, Alain Frogley, Alan Street | 2013 | 978-0-521-71195-1 | [83] |
The Rolling Stones | John Covach, Bill Janovitz, Victor Coelho, Paul Harris, Ralph Maier, Daniel Beller-Mckenna, Brita Renée Heimarck, Michael Brendan Baker, Philippe Puicouyoul | 2019 | 978-1-107-65111-1 | [84] |
Twentieth-Century Opera | Nigel Simeone, Arnold Whittall, John Deathridge, Virgilio Bernardoni, Caroline Harvey, Philip Weller, Alan Street, Christopher Walton, Nigel Simeone, Guido Heldt, Rachel Beckles Willson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Elise K. Kirk, Christopher Mark, Robert Adlington, Arved Ashby, Mervyn Cooke, Stephen Banfield, Nicholas Payne, Tom Sutcliffe | 2006 | 978-0-521-78393-4 | [85] |
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Video Game Music | Lydia Andrew, Melanie Fritsch, Tim Summers, James Newman, Kenneth B. McAlpine, Lyman Gamberton, Guy Michelmore, Richard Stevens, K.J. Donnelly, Rob Bridgett, Ben Babbitt, Michael Austin, Michiel Kamp, Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Steven Reale, Iain Hart, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Dana Plank, Duncan Williams, Chris Tonelli, James Cook, William Gibbons, Hillegonda C. Rietveld, Andrew Lemon, Andra Ivănescu, Ryan Thompson, Thomas Böcker | 2021 | 978-1-108-46089-7 | [88] |
the Violin | John Dilworth, Bernard Richardson, Simon McVeigh, Robin Stowell, Eric Wen, Adrian Eales, Paul Zukofsky, Peter Allsop, Peter Cooke, Max Harrison | 1993 | 978-0-521-39923-4 | [89] |
Wagner | Thomas S. Grey, John Deathridge, Mitchell Cohen, Stewart Spencer, Barry Millington, John Daverio, Stephen McClatchie, Glenn Stanley, James Treadwell, Dieter Borchmeyer, Annegret Fauser, Pamela Potter, Mike Ashman, Arnold Whittall | 2008 | 978-0-521-64439-6 | [90] |
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen | Mark Berry, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Jason Geary, Stefan Arvidsson, Arnold Whittall, J. P. Harper-Scott, Christian Thorau, Roger Allen, Anthony Arblaster, Thomas Grey, Chris Walton, Barbara Eichner, David Trippett, Tash Siddiqui, Adrian Daub, Barry Millington | 2020 | 978-1-107-51947-3 | [91] |
Women in Music since 1900 | Laura Hamer, Sophie Fuller, Rhiannon Mathias, Elaine Kelly, Astrid Kvalbein, Francesca Placanica, Elizabeth Hoffman, Tammy L. Kernodle, Jacqueline Warwick, Katherine Williams, Michael Brocken, Kristin J. Lieb, Virginia Kettle, Louis Niebur, Margaret Schedel, Flannery Cunningham, Manuella Blackburn, Robert Legg, Clare K. Duffin, Steph Power, Victoria Armstrong | 2021 | 978-1-108-45578-7 | [92] |
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments:
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era. It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 until 1837.
Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts.
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the Romantic era.
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include the art songs "Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); the Symphony No. 9 in C major (Great); the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor ; the String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus for solo piano; the last three piano sonatas; the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands; the opera Fierrabras; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde; and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang.
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orchestration is the assignment of different instruments to play the different parts of a musical work. For example, a work for solo piano could be adapted and orchestrated so that an orchestra could perform the piece, or a concert band piece could be orchestrated for a symphony orchestra.
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist. The double bass is almost never used in the ensemble mainly because it would sound too loud and heavy.
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto, the String Octet, and the melody used in the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them," and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time".
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
The basset horn is a member of the clarinet family of musical instruments.
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010).
Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music. Since his lifetime, when he was "universally accepted as the greatest living composer", Beethoven's music has remained among the most performed, discussed and reviewed in the Western world. Scholarly journals are devoted to analysis of his life and work. He has been the subject of numerous biographies and monographs, and his music was the driving force behind the development of Schenkerian analysis. He is widely considered among the most important composers, and along with Bach and Mozart, his music is the most frequently recorded.
Franz Schubert's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in 1828 and completed just two months before the composer's death. The first public performance of the piece did not occur until 1850, and publication occurred three years later in 1853. Schubert's only full-fledged string quintet, it has been praised as "sublime" or "extraordinary" and as possessing "bottomless pathos," and is generally regarded as Schubert's finest chamber work as well as one of the greatest compositions in all chamber music.
Walter Johannes Damrosch was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history.
The contrabass trombone is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. While modern instruments are pitched in 12 ft F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared in the mid-19th century built in 18′ B♭ an octave below the tenor trombone with a double slide. German opera composer Richard Wagner notably called for this instrument in his Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle in the 1870s, and contrabass trombone has since appeared occasionally in large orchestral works without becoming a permanent member of the modern orchestra.
Christopher Fifield is an English conductor and classical music historian and musicologist based in London.