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A Stanford University Press classic.
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Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. Surprisingly, heretofore there has been no truly extensive, broad-based treatment of the genre, and the best of the existing studies are now several decades old. In this five-volume series, A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. Synthesizing the enormous scholarly literature, Brown presents up-to-date overviews of the status of research, discusses any important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples...
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Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch verzeichnet mehr als 12.000 lebende professionelle Musikschaffende der E-Musik. Aufgenommen werden Komponistinnen und Komponisten, Dirigentinnen und Dirigenten, Instrumentalsolistinnen und -solisten, Sängerinnen und Sänger sowie Professorinnen und Professoren mit Schaffensschwerpunkt im deutschsprachigen Raum. Die einzelnen Einträge enthalten biographische Angaben, Kontaktadressen sowie Angaben zu Werdegang und künstlerischem Schaffen, zur Mitgliedschaft in Ensembles, zu Preisen und zu den wichtigsten Werken und/oder Einspielungen. Im Anhang sind rund 3.000 wichtige Adressen der Musikszene aufgeführt: Orchester und Ensembles, Agenturen und Verlage mit Ansprechpartner und Schwerpunkt, Festivals, Ausbildungsstätten sowie Wettbewerbe mit Teilnahmebedingungen und Preisgeld. Ein Berufsregister erleichtert die Suche.
Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.