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Handel and the English Chapel Royal
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Handel’s English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his first anthem and the Utrecht Te Deum were composed soon after his arrival in London, and his last works nearly 40 years later. The repertory, which includes the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, forms one of the most impressive and engaging areas of Baroque church music. Most of it was stimulated by Handel’s creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre. This is the first full-length study of Handel’s English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel’s constant but changing relationship with the Hanoverian British royal family, and was affected by political and dynastic events. It also examines the circumstances of Handel’s performances, the building which (unlike his theatres) still survives in London today.
Parable Music I: The Canticles and Cantata misericordium
Authors: Elliott Graham 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Donald Mitchell makes clear in the passage from which the second of these quotations is taken that he considers the ‘parable’ method to be an important aspect of Britten’s complete œuvre. Such a view is wholly consistent with the generally accepted notion that Britten expresses his humanitarian concerns through his music, and it justifies the search for other, more deeply spiritual, sympathies in his music. The number of works which have a direct or indirect spiritual dimension is considerable, and forms a large proportion of Britten’s output. While other commentators may claim that Britten was heavily concerned with the creation of homosexual allegories or, to a lesser extent, political polemics, the sheer weight of the spiritually orientated music is convincing indication of Britten’s major concerns.
Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597–1641
Authors: Reardon Colleen 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Agostino Agazzari (c.1580-c.1642) has long been recognized as one of the most prominent theorists of the early Baroque. The enduring fame of his 1607 treatise on the basso continuo has, however, overshadowed his equally significant contributions as a composer. And for all his renown, relatively little has been written about his professional career in Siena. This book not only provides the first comprehensive study of his life and sacred works, it also opens a window on musical culture in Siena during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the use of archival materials, the author documents Agazzari’s long association with the Sienese Cathedral and furnishes valuable information on the personnel, repertory, and performance practices there. She argues for a reassessment of the influences that shaped the composer's style and challenges the generally held view that Sienese culture stagnated after the fall of the Republic in 1555. The book contributes significantly to our knowledge of musical life in the Tuscan ‘City of the Virgin’.
Horn Technique
Authors: Schuller Gunther 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The first edition of this book was published in 1962 and quickly established itself as the classic guide to all aspects of horn-playing, with chapters on tone-production, exercises, legato and staccato playing, and the art of practising. For this new edition the author has greatly enlarged the Repertoire List, which gives details of over 1,000 pieces from the solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoires which include one or more horns. The author draws attention to key works in each genre. There are also a number of corrections and up-datings throughout the text and a new preface outlining recent developments in the horn world.
Steffani’s Solo Cantatas
Authors: Timms Colin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this connection one should also mention Agostino Steffani [1654-1728], who likewise through his teacher Ercole Bernabei is to be counted with the Roman school and who, though his life, as is well known, extends far into the eighteenth century, nevertheless remains throughout a spiritual child of the seventeenth. Indeed, Steffani is perhaps the most distinguished name in the whole field of vocal chamber music. It must be adinitted, however, that the master figures so prominently as the specialist of the chamber duet that, by comparison, his few surviving solo cantatas hardly come into the reckoning. At this point in our account, therefore, he can receive little but a general mention, for the notable refinement that he achieved in melodic expression overall, which indirectly—i.e. through its influence on his contemporariesthen bore fruit in the form of the solo cantata too.
Gluck
Authors: Howard Patricia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of that century. Celebrated today for his historical significance, as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Gluck in his lifetime was both a controversial figure and a colourful one: the sources portray a man of enormous energy, relish for good food and good company, and passion for his art. The basis of the book is the body of letters to and from Gluck. There has been only one previous attempt to collect and translate the material into English, and apart from the fact that it was universally deemed inadequate at the time of publication (1962), it has been superceded by discoveries of new material, now incorporated in this study. Besides the letters, the book includes a wealth of factual documents and informal anecdotes, not easily accessible in the original German, French and Italian languages, almost none of which has ever been made available in English. The material has been arranged and translated with the aim of providing readers with a lively, continuous narrative of Gluck’s life, while at the same time indicating the major locations of the published and unpublished sources, in order that scholars can access the material in its original languages.
Gorecki
Authors: Thomas Adrian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Polish composer Henryk Górecki (born 1933) achieved world-wide renown in 1992 when his Third Symphony, written in 1976, was recorded on CD and became an international bestseller. It is now one of the best known musical compositions of recent years, yet Górecki's other music is still relatively little known. This study, by a leading enthusiast of Górecki's music, is the first detailed account of his works in any language, and provides biographical information as background to the music. Adrian Thomas discusses Górecki's position as leader of the Polish avant-garde in the late 1950s, and his subsequent discovery of the folk and church music of Old Poland, notably that of the Podhale region in southern Poland. He describes Górecki's unmistakable musical world, from the large orchestral scores (Sconti, Refrain, the Symphonies) and the choral works (Beatus Vir, commissioned by and dedicated to Pope John Paul II), to the more modest church songs and folk-song arrangements. There is a complete list of works since 1955 with details of instrumentation and recordings, and a select bibliography.
SONGS OF JOY AND RHYTHM
Authors: Thomas Adrian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
BOLESl’:AW SzABELSKI was a man of few words, but his role as Gorecki’s composition mentor and as a figure in loco parentis was crucial. His taciturnity was complemented by Gorecki’s enthusiasm, and they shared a profound admiration for the music of Szymanowski, who had been Szabelski’s teacher in Warsaw in the late 1920s. They seem to have talked rarely about compositional technique or even Szabelski’s own music.1 Instead, Szabelski encouraged his pupil’s growing confidence and independence by giving him considerable space in which to develop his own ideas and projects. Several of the first pieces Gorecki wrote in 1955-6 were straightforward examples of the type of neo-classicism written in the post-war decade by older Polish composers such as Grazyna Bacewicz (1909--69), Kazimierz Serocki (1922-81), and Tadeusz Baird (1928-81). Characteristic of the style are the twists and turns introduced into fairly four-square rhythmic and metric patterns, uncomplicated formal structures, the frequent use in the fast movements of a broad melody set against a pulsating background, and a harmonic language that seeks consistency less in the diatonic triad than in perfect intervals, tritones, and chro¬ matic ostinatos.
Mensural Intertextuality in the Sacred Music of Antoine Busnoys
Authors: Wegman Rob C 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
One can say many things about Johannes Tinctoris, but not that he was afraid to hold unpopular views on music theory. His treatises show an unwavering adherence to ‘truth’ and ‘reason’, even in cases where no other compositions than his own (which modesty forbade him to mention)2 exemplified those criteria. Faced with almost universal contrary practice on several of his teachings (including in the works of Antoine Busnoys), Tinctoris was fighting a losing battle, it seems, yet battling on nevertheless.
Busnoys and ‘Caron’ in Documents from Brussels
Authors: Haggh Barbara 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Avisitor to Brussels today can hardly imagine what the city must have been like when the court of Burgundy resided there. With the exception of the newly restored St Michael’s Cathedral (formerly the collegiate church of St Gudula), only a few black and encrusted churches remain, traffic swirls around the Coudenberg where the palace once stood, and part of the church of St Jan1cs, which was visited by the court on solemn occasions, now houses a bank.
Busnoys and Italy: The Evidence of Two Songs
Authors: Rifkin Joshua 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Cholarship loves a vacuum; and the life of Antoine Busnoys provides an irresistible one. Between 17 April 1483, when he last appears in the household records of Maximilian of Austria, and 6 November 1492, when a notice from the church of Saint-Sauveur at Bruges records his presumably recent death, Busnoys drops completely out of sight. As with Shakespeare, more than a few scholars - myself hardly excluded - have felt inclined to wonder if he didn’t spend at least some of the missing years in Italy.
Celestial Sirens
Authors: Kendrick Robert L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women’s devotional life. The two centuries’ worth of battles over nuns’ singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns’ musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.
Joseph Haydn
Authors: Komlós Katalin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
As Kapellmeister to Prince Esterhazy,Joseph Haydn presumably played violin in the princely Hof- und Cammermusique band;1 the various obligations included in his job, however, entailed plenty of keyboard activity as well. He always composed at the clavichord,2 and produced keyboard music throughout his career, from his earliest years. The documents concerning his instruments prior to the late 1780s, nevertheless, are scarce. It is the more surprising that from that time on he responded so eloquently to the potentials of the fortepianos at hand, Viennese and English.
New York
Authors: Kennedy Michael 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
They arrived in New York the week before Christmas. With Anna in Vienna, the loss of Putzi was even more poignantly felt by them both. But for Mahler there was the Metropolitan Opera. His impact on the New York scene was awaited apprehensively. An article in the New York Mail of 23rd September 1907 speculated about happenings at the Metropolitan under one who ‘is no respecter of anything but his art. The “stars” may be compelled to drop from their height and take rehearsals like ordinary mortals … and they may be compelled to accept comments not in harmony with their opinion of themselves.’ This publication also printed a candid description of Mahler by a young American conductor, Walter Rothwell, who had seen him in Europe:
Berlioz’s character
Authors: Macdonald Hugh 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It is hard to explain the misunderstanding that Berlioz faced in his lifetime and has suffered widely since, when he was so articulate and honest about his attitude to life and art. Few composers have expounded their views with such insistence and such clarity. Any reader of his feuilletons, his Memoirs or his letters is instantly introduced to the forceful enthusiasm of his personality, and while it is easy to see how this provoked hostility, even his enemies should have known clearly what they were up against.
Mendelssohn
Authors: Radcliffe Philip 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In print for nearly fifty years and based on Philip Radcliffe's exceptionally wide knowledge of the Classical and Romantic repertoires, this 'life and works' of Mendelssohn has been periodically updated to incorporate modern research on the composer. In the second half of the twentieth-century Mendelssohn studies have ranged from his intellectual and social background to his attitude to Bach, Handel, and other earlier composers. His formative years have come under scrutiny, as well as his relationship with his sister Fanny, who has attracted interest as a musician in her own right. Of crucial importance to scholars has been the re-emergence in Krakow of the large number of Mendelssohn manuscripts considered lost since their removal from Berlin for safekeeping during World War II. Thanks to this discovery, virtually all the composer's manuscripts are once again available for study. Peter Ward Jones took account of all these developments in revising the text and appendices for this (1990) edition.
Years of refuge
Authors: Samson Jim 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
George Sand has been much maligned by Chopin biographers, as indeed she was by some of his friends. ‘The poor man cannot see that this woman has the love of a vampire’, was Custine’s verdict, and not his alone. Just after the composer’s death Grzymala remarked that had Chopin not had ‘the misfortune to meet G. S. who has poisoned his whole life, he might have lived to Cherubini’s age’. We should be careful of such pronouncements. In part at least they were motivated by jealousy. Wittingly or not, Chopin somehow brought out the worst in his friends, most of whom were confident that they alone knew what was best for him. Protectiveness all too easily bred possessiveness.
Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
Authors: O’neill Mary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This book is the first full-length study of the courtly love songs of the trouvère to address the central musical problems of the repertoire as a whole, embracing source studies, interpretation, historiography, and analysis. The argument of the book revolves around three axes, each of which is essential to the appreciation of the others: problems concerning the extant manuscript tradition; the crucial role of orality; and stylistic changes and plurality in the reperotire. For the first time, a full overview of the sources and notation is undertaken. This reveals the idiosyncrasies of individual manuscripts but, more importantly, it identifies two basic phases in the manuscript tradition. The study of melodic variants reveals the performance art that lies at the heart of the courtly grand chant; processes and techniques of variation are examined, bringing us to a closer understanding of the tenets of the melodic art of the early trouvères. A close study of select trouvères from the different generation reveals stylstic change and plurality, particularly in the melodic art which in some respects was less prescribed than the poetic texts. Consequently the courtly songs of the trouvères truly come alive in this book.
Rome: The Late Years
Authors: Allsop Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The politics of reaction which seemed to govern successive papacies in the seventeenth cen tury was to work decidedly in Corelli’s favour after the accession of Alexander VIII (Ottoboni) in 1689. He immediately set about reversing some of the more extreme policies of the austere and parsimonious Innocent XI which had so deeply affected the arts. This new era of liberal ism and toleration was inaugurated by the re-establishment of the carnival season and the reopening of the public theatres, allowing the Teatro Tor di Nona once more to assume its intended function as the centre for public performances of drammi per musica. Alexander also reinstated the more questionable tendency of nepotism largely absent under his predecessor, but this was to have favourable repercussions on the fate of the arts and a profound influence on the fortunes of Arcangelo Corelli.
The Italian Legacy
Authors: Allsop Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Sonaten made specific reference to the master on their title-pages. The assumption that, given this general acclaim, instmmental composers could hardly have failed to fall under his all powerful influence has received much support over the centuries. Hawkins considered that he ‘had introduced a style which all the composers of Italy affected to imitate: as Corelli formed it, it was chaste, sober, and elegant, but with his imitators it degenerated into dulness’,2 while Newman concluded that ‘the influence of Corelli, direct or indirect, and the inevitable mutations of his styles and forms that began even before he died, define the most significant trends of the sonata during the late Baroque Era’.3 Such a categorical statement begs many questions. If this influence began before Corelli’s death, when precisely? Did the publication of Op.
Analysing Musical Multimedia
Authors: Cook Nicholas 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first book to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to create multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular music video and film, a general theory of musical multimedia also encompasses traditional genres such as song and opera. Critical writing in these areas, however, is genre-specific; this book seeks to establish principles, and a terminology for their description, that apply across the whole spectrum of musical multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, Cook concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.
1733: A Year of Changes
Authors: Stockigt Janice B 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The year 1733 was a time of momentous change and uncertainty for all connected with the Dresden court. On 1 February Friedrich August I died in Warsaw. A letter from that city written to Sir Luke Schaub from Geo. Woodward, dated 14 February 1733, gives an account of the death. After describing the two days of violent pain experienced by the king, during which Abbé St Germain was in constant spiritual attendance, Woodward continues:
Handel
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
George Frideric Handel was a defining figure of the late Baroque era, shaping its music for the theatre in much the same way J.S. Bach dominated the writing of music for use in church. Perhaps best known for bringing the oratorio form to an English-speaking audience with masterworks such as Messiah, Handel also had a distinguished career, as a composer of Italian operas, and furthermore found time to influence the development of orchestral music by writing such works as the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Donald Burrows's new biography relates Handel's life and his music, devoting particular attention to two crucial junctures in Handel's development: his transition from a church-trained musician in Germany to a successful opera composer in London, and the gradual transformation of his theatre career from opera to oratorio, some thirty years later. In the oratorio form, as Burrows demonstrates, Handel was able to combine the techniques of large-scale construction and of aria writing that he had developed in his operas with an experience of choral music that went back to his earliest training as a church organist. The result was music that succeeds to this day in capturing the imagination of a vast audience. The last half-century has seen Handel take a major place in modern musical scholarship. This book takes into account not only recent knowledge of historical sources and significant studies of Handel's major works, but also research on Handel's `borrowing' practices, his habit of using the existing musical ideas of other composers as well as his own. Yet Handel remains unsurpassed as one of the greatest compositional architects in the history of Western music, with a sure instinct for both balance and originality in the final result. In this insightful study, Donald Burrows brings to life not only the glory of Handel's artistry, but also his sometimes elusive personality and the flavour of the times and places in which he lived.
Binchois and England: Some Questions of Style, Influence, and Attribution in his Sacred Works
Authors: Wright Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In1424 William dela Pole, Fourth Earl and subsequently First Duke of Suffolk, was convalescing in Paris after an accident. During his convalescence, according to a legal testimony made three years later by one of his servants, a certain Guillaume Benoit, the earl commissioned Binchois to create the rondeau Ainsi que a la foiz m’y souvient, granting him a substantial reward for his services. The song no longer survives, but the well-known circumstances of its creation have inevitably fuelled speculation about ways in which Binchois may have first encountered English music, including suggestions of a possible visit to England. More than a century after the publication of Benoit’s testimony, the nature and extent of the com poser’s contacts with English patronage remain obscure. What has become clear, however, is that Binchois’s relationship with English music was especially close—far more so, for instance, than that of his great contemporary, Guillaume Dufay, the only other composer specifically linked with Dunstable and the contenance angloise in Martin Le Franc’s Le Champion des dames.