7 Classical
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Sort Desciption: A ‘hidden’ instrument in the classical music world,. the mandolin’s repertoire of original music remains. largely unknown. This book examines the lives and ...
Content Inside: 1 Order online at: www.oup.com | Email usyour order atbookorders.uk@oup.com | Orderbytelephone on +44(0) 1536 741727 7 Classical Recognition in Mozart’s Operas Jessica Waldoff, College ofthe Holy Cross Recognition in Mozart’s Operas uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart’s best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of ‘easier’ operas, many of Mozart’s works feature scenes of recognition - movements in which a protagonist has an important revelation that changes the course of the drama. 2006 | 320pages | 54musicexamples | OUPUSA 978-0-19-515197-8, HARDBACK £26.99/$45.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK The Classical Mandolin Paul Sparks, Freelance writerand performer A ‘hidden’ instrument in the classical music world, the mandolin’s repertoire of original music remains largely unknown. This book examines the lives and works of the mandolin’s greatest composers, and taken together with The Early Mandolin provides the first comprehensive survey of the instrument’s history. It also examines aspects of technique and looks at present-day orchestras and soloists. Early Music Series 2005 | 239 pages | 17 music examples | 27 halftones | OUP USA 978-0-19-517337-6, PAPERBACK £17.99/$29.95 978-0-19-816295-7, HARDBACK £60.00/$144.00 Crossing Confessional Boundaries The Patronage ofItalian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-CenturyDresden Mary Frandsen, University ofNotre Dame This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars. 2006 | 528pages | 61musicexamples | frontispiece | OUP USA 978-0-19-517831-9, HARDBACK £29.99/$49.95 Music in the Galant Style Rob ...
