Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume On - A Biography of the Works through Mavra

This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Ta...

Shakey

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now. Shakey is the wh...

Scott Walker

Scott Walker's initial fame came in the 1960s as a member of the balladeering Walker Brothers, a group that rivaled the Beatles and the Stones in popularity in Britain. But Walker had much more to off...

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Opera

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics a...

Arcana VIII - Musicians on Music

Nietzsche Und Die Musik

Fur Friedrich Nietzsche war die Musik reinster Ausdruck der asthetischen Rechtfertigung der Welt. Sein Verhaltnis zum eigenen Werk wie zu anderen Komponisten war an der Hoffnung auf eine dionysische Z...

Metamorphosis in Music

From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer Gyoergy Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Bela Bartok to his own ind...

Moments

Chopin: Pianist and Teacher

The first English paperback edition of the unique collection of documents which reveal Chopin as teacher and interpreter of his own music. From the accounts of his pupils, acquaintances and contempora...