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

Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companio

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

A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.