Product Description: The Moldenhauer Archives, gathered during nearly 40 years and spanning the history of Western music from Gregorian chant to the present, represent the most comprehensive collection of manuscripts and other sources for the study of music undertaken by an individual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study addresses the powerful influence of Handel's orchestral designs on the development of instrumental music. Mann examines Handel's methods in general, and shows the implications of his analysis for performance practice. The concertos and suites of George Frideric Handel hold a dominant position in the history of the orchestra, as well as in the development of Handel's own compositional technique, but are often neglected and overshadowed by such works as "Messiah"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this ground-breaking book, musicologist Alfred Mann weaves documentary evidence of six great composers as students and teachers into a convincing study that reveals a basic incongruity between traditional musical theory and actual musical practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Essays in honor of Ruth Watanabe who was librarian of the Eastman School o Music Library for nearly four decades.

James longs for the day he is old enough to be a shepherd like his father, and when Christmas comes, almost a year later, he receives a very special present (view table of contents)

Discusses the traditional theories of harmony and counterpoint, describes the teachings of Bach, Handel, Hadyn, and Mozart, and looks at the education of Schubert and Beethoven

Product Description: 1983 AMERICAN CHORAL FOUNDATION SOFTCOVER

Classic study comprises two parts. The first is a comprehensive historical survey of writings on the fugue from the beginning of fugal teaching (c. 1350) to the present. Part Two explores in depth four 18th-century studies which are its classical presentations: Steps to Parnassus, J. J. Fux (1725), A Treatise on Fugue, F. W. Marpurg (1753–54), Fundamental and Practical Essay on Fugal Counterpoint, Padre Martini (1775), A Manual of the Fundamental Principles of Composition, J. A. Albrechtsberger (1790). Translations of texts, introductions and critical commentary, and many musical examples. Index. Bibliography.