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Arnold Schoenberg's Journey: Allen Shawn; Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of linked essays--"soundings"--that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived.; Paperback 2003

Beethoven Essays: Edited by Lewis Lockwood; Edited by Phyllis Benjamin; Hardcover 1984

Berlioz: D. Kern Holoman; For three decades, beginning with the Symphonie fantastique composed in 1830, Berlioz and his music embodied the élan and exuberance of the Romantic era. This captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography is not only a complete account of Berlioz's life, but an acute analysis of his compositions and description of his work as conductor and critic, as well as a vivid picture of his musical world. D. Kern Holoman paints a full-length portrait of Berlioz: his personal and family life, his intellectual development and pursuits, his methods of composing (Berlioz at his work table, so to speak), the aim and style of his music criticism and travel writing, his innovations in staging and conducting performances, and his interaction with other composers.; Hardcover 1989

Chopin at the Boundaries: Jeffrey Kallberg; The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music: Edited by Don Michael Randel; An incomparable guide to 5500, figures in the history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today.; Hardcover 1996

The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Edited by Don Michael Randel; This compact guide to the history and performance of music is an authoritative reference work, offering definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides clearly written information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff, 1871-1886: Franz Liszt; Translated by William R. Tyler; Introduction and notes by Edward N. Waters; Hardcover 1979