This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It
This volume presents 11 articles on the work of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams by scholars who have received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship. The topics include revision of the composer's Sixt
Based upon a decade of research in four countries, including much data previously unpublished or long unavailable, this book traces the history and explains the meanings of this enigmatic and often mi
Explores the varied roles that composers, performers, listeners, critics, and theorists play in musical culture and the interactions between them. The 11 essays, developed from presentations to the 19
Presents the history of the secular and regular clergy of the Latin Church on Cyprus during its first century. Drawing largely on papal correspondence, the author analyzes the Church's relations with
This volume examines the music of French composer Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916), tracing the evolution of his musical style from the early works and investigating his compositional process and his use of
The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resu
This book developed out of a series of lectures Szirmai gave at the University of Amsterdam in 1987. In it he traces the evolution of the physical structure of the book, from its invention (in codex
Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three
The London Group 1913-1939 is the first detailed record of the largest society devoted to the development of modern art in Britain. The Group's founder members included Walter Bayes, Robert Bevan, Mal
Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work is a study of the biggest and best of Victorian religious controversies. Essays and Reviews
This is an annotated bibliography of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England at a time when Catholic printing was prohibited in England and such books, when discovered by the a
Rachmaninoff was not only an important composer and one of the very greatest pianists of his time but also, for a period at least, his country's most notable conductor. This study considers all three
In 1956 Allison and Rogers published A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad Secretly in England, 1558–1640. Known simply as A & R, it is the standard listing of the clandestine
