A manual for singers, voice teachers, vocal coaches, accompanists, conductors, stage directors, and composers.

Through an intensive and interdisciplinary study of Carl Maria von Weber's milieu, and his final opera, this book explores the phenomenon of nationalism through the vehicle of early 19th centuary German

This resource starts with the radical assumption that opera is simply music, rather than the inaccessible, high-brown art form that many assume it to be. Not fluent in German or Italian? No worries - the

This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and