Product Description: As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music...read more

Product Description: The five composers represented in this series collectively capture the abundant variety of late eighteenth-century musical life. C.P.E. Bach and J.C. Bach, once regarded primarily as successors to their father J. S. Bach and as 'pre-classical' forerunners to Haydn and Mozart, are now central figures in their own right; Gluck continues to be considered a pivotal contributor to the history of opera; Haydn, the beneficiary of an extraordinary increase in scholarly interest in the last half century or so, now occupies a place in classical music's elite; and Mozart, never out of the public eye since his death, remains a touchstone of musical greatness...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the birthday cantata Dank-Hymne der Freundschaft (Hymn of Thanks for Friendship; H 824e), and includes an English translation of the text.

Product Description: Looking for a new way to tell the Christmas story? This collection includes six plays with music to be performed by children or adults. Contents: Mary, Servant of the Lord God is With Us God's Christmas Gift A Christmas Trope In the Beginning was the Word Jesus in the Temple

Product Description: Ludwig Fischer (1745–1825) was one of the most famous basses of his day, and he created numerous roles, including Osmin in Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (1782). Around 1792 he wrote an autobiography with anecdotes about his singing teacher Anton Raaff, his travels through Europe, and some of the operas he performed in...read more

Product Description: It is hard to imagine two composers more different in talent and temperament than the French, mostly self-taught Hector Berlioz and German, highly cultivated Felix Mendelssohn. The two were an "odd couple": Berlioz grew up in provincial France, the son of a country doctor; he moved to Paris to study medicine but gravitated toward music in his early twenties...read more