Books of: Classical

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth ...

This is a revised second edition of Dr. Steblin's important work on key characteristics, first published in 1983 by UMI Research Press and re-issued by the University of Rochester Press in 1996. The revision has been limited to a thorough ...

All genres, styles, and instrumental combinations are included. The minor composers who labored industriously throughout Europe to supply the growing audiences with the latest in musical fashion are generously represented. For the geniuses of the period, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, ...

En esta antología, cuidadosamente seleccionada, el autor de "La música clásica" ha elegido setenta y seis obras representativas del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX, que constituyen una completa ilustración de los géneros, estilos y combinaciones instrumentales del periodo, de ...

Since time immemorial, the response of the living to death has been commemorate the life of the departed through ceremonies and rituals. For nearly two millennia, the Christian quest for eternal peace has been expressed in a poetic musical structure ...

Ensayo galardonado en 1972 con el National Award For Arts and Letters, este brillante ensayo no pretende ofrecer un compendio de la música durante un periodo histórico determinado, sino describir su lenguaje característico, en ruptura parcial con el anterior. "Haydn, ...

"El luthier de Delft" es una obra que analiza la música (aunque también el arte y la ciencia) del siglo XVII, especialmente centrada en la cultura neerlandesa. El libro gira en torno a tres personajes centrales, el pintor Jan Vermeer, ...

This is the first study of the musical activities of Empress Marie Therese, one of the most important patrons in the Vienna of Haydn and Beethoven. Building on extensive archival research, including many documents published here for the first time, ...

Alors que la dimension spatiale du social connaît un nouvel intérêt de la part des sciences humaines et sociales, les espaces et les lieux de concert ont jusqu’ici peu attiré l’attention des historiens et des musicologues. Leur étude est pourtant ...

New in Paperback Winner of the California Mission Studies Association's Edna Kimbro Award. Extensive companion website includes 150+ color facsimiles from primary sources and in doing so argues against deeply ingrained trend to narrate the history of California missions through ...