Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties.

The pack contains: 'Friendly Guide to Music (with CD)' and 'Friendly Music Quiz Book'.

Do you want to know your Allegri from your Allegro? Your Tavener from your Taverner? Even your Bach from your Offenbach? Classic Ephemera is a musical miscellany packed with all manner of handy information: telling trivia, curious quotes and fascinating facts.

Presents 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it.

Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the 19th-century, this book covers individual composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical technique and style in performance practice.

Offers information needed to select the finest classical music available. This book offers: assessment of the impact and importance of video and audio DVDs; some of the greatest historic performances; the major period instrument recordings; and, an appraisal of the best of the budget-priced CDs.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a divergent range of practices than has been the case. This book reflects these developments by presenting case studies that document the work of contemporary figures. It encompasses related aspects of performance, improvisation and sonic art.

A study of the musical activities of Ademar de Chabannes, the eleventh-century monk.

A detailed analysis of the songs of Johannes Brahms.

A study of nostalgia in the music of the popular twentieth-century composer Edward Elgar.

Covers the information needed for an understanding of the elements that comprise classical music. This book is suitable for the parents of music students, parents who want to nurture an interest in classical music in their children, and educational institutions that provide instruction in music.

A study of the innovative music of the twentieth-century composer, Arnold Schoenberg.

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the ..

Examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of Istvan Anhalt and Gyorgy Kurtag.

Offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

Uses the music of Monteverdi, written between 1600-1640, to illuminate understandings of music, science, culture and the female body.

Leading international scholars present a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining familiar and little-known works, repertories and musical trends.

A brief history of western classical music which will appeal to all music lovers.

David Metzer provides original perspectives on developments in new music from 1980 to today and the larger history of modernism.