This is the first biography of the musician, conductor, and director Sarah Caldwell, an indomitable force for opera in America, and the first woman to ...

This documented history reconstructs the song performances of each annual production of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1907 to 1931. In so doing, it demonstrates ...

This reference source focuses on post-1980 songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano. Composer entries include biographical ...

Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival is the first biography of the folk singer and song collector Paul Clayton (1931-1967). Preeminently a scholar-balladeer ...

This book describes the recovery of the Appalachian dulcimer's lost history, tracing the dulcimer's roots in a German instrument, the scheitholt ; describing ...

Harmony Through Melodyoffers a robust, conservatory-style approach to music theory focused on Common Era classical works, reaching far beyond basic rudiments. ...

Music and Displacement offers an exploration of the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms; a broadening of the ...

Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt is a detailed window into the mind and heart of one of America's celebrated musicians. Inspired by questions from ...

Lutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own compositions ...

This is the first fully documented biography of the Italian composer Franco Alfano (1875-1954), who is most-known for completing Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ...