Nineteenth-century Music

Musical Notation in the West

James Grier | University of Western Ontario Over the last millennium, Musical notation has become a powerful system of symbolic, non-verbal communication among Musicians that permits the translation of Musical events into visual symbols. This book traces the historical development of the system in the western world, from its origins in the Carolingian Empire to the present. • Traces the historical development of individual features of Musical notation as well as addressing thematic elements for a broad view of its progression • Discusses the practical implications of historical developments in

Musical notation to assess how Musicians have adapted aspects of notation for everyday use • Investigates the topic of Musical as opposed to notational innovation comparing instances where Musical developments stimulated notational attributes, or notational innovations made practicable advances in Musical style

Cambridge Introductions to Music

284pp 2. 2021 9780521898164 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9780521726429 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139034821

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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy

Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry Blake Wilson | Dickinson College, Pennsylvania Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre), the dominant form of solo singing in Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century, and of the related oral practices of memory and improvisation. • Expands traditional views of Renaissance Musical and literary culture by highlighting the synergy between writing and orality • Proposes a new view of Italian Renaissance Musical and literary culture in which oral practices are detailed and presented as having inherent qualities • Brings together a wealth of documents and secondary sources unfamiliar to most scholars of Italian Renaissance culture

485pp 11 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108738415 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 11. 2019 9781108488075 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108768887 NEW IN PAPERBACK

The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)

Owen Rees | University of Oxford A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his Music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners. • The first detailed study of this well-loved work, exploring its genesis and impact, and placing it in the context of international repertories of

Requiem Masses of the period • Presents a detailed picture of the role of Music in Habsburg funeral rites in the early-modern period and allows for an interdisciplinary appreciation of these rituals • Includes online access to a new authoritative edition of the Requiem (1603)

Music in Context

276pp 7 b/w illus. 2 tables 10 Music examples 9. 2021 9781107676213 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781107054424 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107294301

Music (general)

A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations

Ambiguity as Opportunity Tristan McKay This Element considers intersections of ambiguity, authority, and identity in works with open notations, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators. Tristan McKay develops a semiotic approach to open notation analysis and demonstrates it with in-depth analyses of works by Earle Brown, Will Redman, and Leah Asher.

Elements in Music since 1945

75pp 4. 2021 9781108813327 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108884389

Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema

Performance Practice and Musical Style Donald Greig | University of Nottingham This Element gives a wide perspective of preexisting Music in narrative cinema, placing baroque Music in the context of its reception to explore its mobilisation in post-war cinema. Analyses of various films raise issues of baroque style and form to question why Eighteenth-century Music remains an exception to dominant film-Music discourses.

Elements in Music since 1945

75pp 3. 2021 9781108827867 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108900614

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Complicating Musical Community Samuel Horlor This Element addresses community in Chinese street Music as a quality rather than as an entity to which people belong, exploring its ebbs and flows as associations between people, other bodies and the wider street Music environment intersect with its various theoretical implications.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp 4. 2021 9781108822930 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913232

Film Music in concert

The Pioneering Role of the Boston Pops Orchestra Emilio Audissino | University of Southampton This Element offers a historical survey of the pioneering agency that the Boston Pops had under John Williams’s tenure in the legitimisation of film Music as a viable repertoire for concert programmes. The case study is complemented with more general discussions on the aesthetic of film Music in concert.

Elements in Music since 1945

75pp 10. 2021 9781009009096 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009006941

Reimagine to Revitalise

New Approaches to Performance Practices Across Cultures Charulatha Mani Focusing on vocal ornamentation found in the classical Music of South India and Monteverdi’s operas, the author highlights the longstanding hybridity and plurality of Musical cultures and implications for the decolonisation of Music performance and education.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp 8. 2021 9781108829731 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108903905

The Marks of a Maestro

Annotating MozArt’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony Raymond Holden This element examines the annotated scores of ten iconic conductors as didactic and interpretative tools and explores the ways in which the performance styles of these conductors are reflected in their annotated scores and marked orchestral pArts of MozArt’s Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (‘Jupiter’).

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp 3. 2021 9781108822442 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108902601

Music performance

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

Matt Brennan | University of Glasgow This is a first-of-its-kind text: a collaborative volume dedicated solely to scholarly consideration of the drum kit. It features an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the drum kit, with original contributions by emerging and established scholars and drummers. • Provides an overview and stArting point for understanding the emerging field of drum kit studies • Will appeal to students, instructors and performers in multiple areas within Music scholarship, popular Music studies and cultural studies • A valuable resource for entry-level readers and their teachers

Cambridge Companions to Music

320pp 6. 2021 9781108489836 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 6. 2021 9781108747653 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108779517

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music

Colin Lawson | Royal College of Music, London An accessible yet scholarly resource for students, teachers and performers, providing a vital reference tool for enabling the understanding and practice of period performance. This ground breaking Encyclopedia covers the development of style, technique and instruments, as well as the work of performers, scholars, composers and theorists. • This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and illuminating resource for information about the theory and practice of historical Musical performance • The book is valuable scholarly reference tool for performers, teachers, students and specialists • Covers topics including style, techniques, practices, and the development of instruments, and key figures including directors, performers, theorists, composers and editors

765pp 18 b/w illus. 5 tables 50 Music examples 2. 2021 9781107108080 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 175.00 2. 2021 9781107518476 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316257678

The Empire at the Opéra

Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris Mark Everist | University of Southampton During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra’s repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing theatre organisations.

Elements in Musical Theatre

75pp 1. 2021 9781108829380 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108909815