Like literature and art, music has ‘works’. But not every piece of music is called a work, and not every musical performance is made up of works. The comple

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both special

This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes études (1837), and their reworking as Do

Using sketches and other documentary evidence, this study is an investigation of composition in Renaissance music. It sets out the indispensable background to a