A celebration and exploration of a monumental achievement

William Drabkin considers Beethoven's Missa Solemnis as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith - the mass.

This collection offers Beethoven lovers detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a range of more general perspectives.

Mozart was not only an extraordinary musical genius but a man who lived through the great change from the old society to the modern one in which we still live, when people ...

Offers the knowledge required to read complex scores, with clear, accessible techniques for identifying and isolating the essential parts. Exercises using excerpts of scores ...