Western “classical” music

This Companion provides an accessible introduction to Verdi's life and music.. ..More

The author addresses the full range of the concerto repertory, treating both the general and the particular. His commentary on individual works - with illustrative performances on the accompanying CD - is alive with intimations and insights into the spiri. ..More

Looking at four different opera houses, this book tells the tales of the eccentric talents that made them immortal. By examining the opera houses in Milan, Vienna, the New York Met and Covent Garden - it illuminates developments in opera both musically and in terms of stage interpretation.. ..More

This text offers a media package that includes Web-based listing guides for all 68 works in the "concise" recordings, online review materials and electronic quizzes on the music and text. It contains illustrations, timelines, maps and references to help students locate selections on the CDs.. ..More

This collection of essays explores the lasting success of the opera by analyzing specific operas, mainly by Verdi, in terms of historical context, musical organization and dramatic conventions. The text explores stylistic models and Verdi's compositional processes.. ..More

This work provides a guide to the achievements of the Western musical tradition. Terms are defined, composers' dates are given and a glossary is included. More detailed analyses are availabled in the accompanying two-volume "Norton Anthology of Western Music".. ..More

Presents the story of one of the most high-profile and enduring institutions in British cultural life: the Proms. This book describes the Proms history by focusing on how changes in society have influenced its development, and how the Proms itself has been responsible for shaping the tastes and listening habits of a whole nation.. ..More

Using Haydns (composer) original letters and notebooks, and accounts by contemporaries, this book shows how Haydn is taken up by London society, travels into the country, plays for the royal family and writes some of his most famous music.. ..More

The archive of the renowned Casa Ricordi music publisher opens its vaults for this opulent survey of opera history.. ..More

Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. ..More

By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - "The Marriage of Figaro", "Cosi fan tutte" and "Don Giovanni". This is a biography of a character and a portrait of four cities.. ..More