What does it take to make a great performance? It takes great music, a great performer and a great instrument. "Music: An Appreciation" includes some of the greatest music ever created. Roger Kamien's excellence as an interpreter of that music has made his program number one in the market used by ov...

For courses in Fashion Design, Pattern Making, Draping, Introduction to Fashion, and Fashion Promotion.Draping for Fashion Design, Fifth Edition, is thedefinitive basic instructional text for draping in numerous fashion design programs since its original publication. This book covers all of the fund...

한국의 시대정신과 호흡 한서양 연극 수용의 역사100년이 채 되지 않는 짧은 시간 동안 한국에는 약 25개국의 400여 명의 극작가와 1,000편 이상의 드라마가 소개되었다. 서양의 연극 역사가 2,500년인 것에 비해 숨가쁘게 달려온 셈이다. 그렇기에 한국 연극의 오늘을 이해하기 위해서는 19세기 말에서 20세기 후반까지 한...

한국의 안무가들이 말하는 ‘춤’이란?움직임의 철학이 책에서 소개하는 스물 네 명의 현대 안무가들은 한국을 기반으로 활발하게 활동하는 한국의 대표 현대 무용가들이다. 인터뷰와 자서전을 통해 각 안무가의 삶과 성장 과정, 작품에 많은 영향을 미친 배경을 바탕으로 작품 성향에 주안점을 두어 설명하고 있다. 안무가...

서구의 저항 정신을 수용해 한국만의 전위를 꽃피우다한국 현대 추상 미술의 형성새로운 움직임이나 창조는 기존의 것을 비판하며 나오곤 한다. 세계대전 후 현대 회화에서 미국과 유럽의 움직임이 그랬다. 지식과 기술이 눈부시게 발전했던 서구에서, 지극히 반이성적이고 비합리적인 세계 대전이 두 차례에 걸쳐 일어났고...

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evoluti...

The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a new, detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the c...

Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization ��� the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo ��� as the diatonic foundation of early music. Stefano Mengozzi challenges this view by examining a re...

Drawing on a range of contemporary performance documentation, including concert programmes, newspaper reviews and periodical reports, this book addresses what it refers to as the Philharmonic 'myth': the notion that London experienced a period of orchestral inactivity between the departure of Haydn ...

Decadence is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of European modernism. This book demonstrates how decadence as an idea, style or topic informs Central and Eastern European music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining close analysis with hermeneutic interpretation and c...

For over 200 years, Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest violin maker who ever lived, yet it is not widely known that he made virtually every kind of bowed- and plucked-string instrument popular in the Baroque period, including lutes, viols, mandolins, guitars, and harps....

Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons not only provide musicians and audiences with figureheads to revere but have also come to s...

Arnold Schoenberg ��� composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vi...

When Shostakovich Studies was published in 1995, archival research in the ex-Soviet Union was only just beginning. Since that time, research carried out in the Shostakovich Family Archive, founded by the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in 1975, and the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture ...

Arnold Schoenberg ��� composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vi...

While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this 2010 study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. CamPaperbackell examines signific...

One of Western music's great harmonists, Franz Schubert created a wondrous and treasured body of music that has retained its fascination to this day. His innovative harmonic practice has been a topic of lively discussion among analysts for generations. Harmony in Schubert, first published in 2010, p...

The musical writings of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch are extraordinarily rich, but also unusually dense, at times even cryptic. Bloch, a profoundly heterodox thinker, brilliantly wove cultural criticism into a larger project of what he termed 'revolutionary gnosis'. Listening for ...

This seminal 2010 study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so dear to its nationalist cause, was continual...