Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance

This is a relevant title not only for dance historians but also for those interested in aspects of the development of body-mind attitudes in European and US culture — Choice More…

Recommended for large libraries serving upper-division undergraduates through faculty and for professionals — Choice More…

[a]n essential reference for the serious student of fugue and of Bach's genius....[a] well written and useful reference guide for those who are interested in detailed analysis by a leading scholar... — American Music Teacher More…

Feldman (1926-87) is an indisputably important composer in a radical American empirical tradition extending back through Edgard Varese and Charles Ives... The heart of this collection consists... — Choice More…

Ferrara is engaging when he is summarizing and commenting on the works of Meyer, Clifton, Heidegger, and others — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

Illustrated and thoroughly indexed, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the 18th-century opera scholarship and to an understanding of the work of a long-neglected Mozart contemporary — Choice More…

No less a figure than Igor Stravinsky observed, shortly before his death, that he believed the expansion of intonation and pitch would characterize the next stage of development in Western art... — Choice More…

The essays in this book reflect a broad range of analytical approaches. This methodological heterogenity, and the solidness of each and every one of the essays, may very well come to distinguish... — Computer Music Journal More…