• Rok vydání 2026

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? This title details the…

\nInclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring…

A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild…

This visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds contains more than 200 specially prepared accurate drawings. The…

\nA funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years, from one of our finest cultural…

• Rok vydání 2024

A biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music,…

\nAn essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them\n…

In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Rosen places Beethoven\'s sonatas in context and provides an understanding of…

The oboe is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that…

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution…

A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography…

Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.…

\nAn insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert\'s complex and fascinating private life alongside his…

\nAn introduction to poetry geared toward the study of song\n…

\nA compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the birth of natural history and its ecological afterlives\n…

\nA rich and fascinating account of one of music history’s most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments\n…

\nThe fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the…

\nThe story of how plants and flowers have shaped interior design for over 200 years\n…