Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century

Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century

An authoritative, comprehensive volume by one of the world's most highly respected musicologists covers the whole history of music by genre, from its first recorded emergence in Sumer and Egypt to the death of Stravinsky

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: This volume brings together twelve essays, eleven of which have been published in various books and periodicals over the past two decades. "The Opera of Stanislaw Moniuszko" is published here for the first time. The other essays in this collection are: "Russian Song," "Czechoslovakian Song," "Polish Song," "The Operas of Serov," "Pskovityanka: The Original Version of Rimsky-Korsakov's First Opera," "Vladimir Stasov: Man and Critic," "Some Eighteenth-Century Polish Symphonies," "Satire and Symbolism in The Golden Cockerel," "Heine, Cui, and William Ratcliff," "Arab Melodies in Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin," and "The Early Development of Opera in Poland...read more

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Sibelius' creative genius, personality, style and achievements as a composer are considered in eight essays

Product Description: Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works. The great traditions of Russian music began in the mid-19th century with Mikhail Glinka—the father figure for the next generations of Russian composers...read more

Product Description: A concise summary of Nietzsche's life and thought, this book is considered by many as the ablest short summary of the subject.

Product Description: First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many useful respects. Glinka moves to the forefront via close study of both of his operas...read more