The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world.

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers.

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century.

A study of American popular music, focusing on genre and cultural contexts. Individual chapters treat particular artists and the different genres and styles that they exemplify. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Detailed discussion of performance styles draws on current recordings, and two analytical chapters trace the growth of ideas through the work.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music.

A work-by-work commentary on the Bach cantatas by the world's most famous Bach scholar, now available in English and in paperback for the first time.

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The play of concepts and conceptual structures typical of music theory is thus not something remote from our appreciation of music, but is instead basic to it."--Jacket.