A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering

This Companion provides orientation for those embarking on the study of Beethoven's much-discussed Eroica Symphony, as well as providing fresh insights that wil

In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the co

A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.