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  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    The Hiawatha trilogy of cantatas (1898--1900), based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, were some of the most popular and widely performed pieces of music in the opening decade of the twentieth century. As a result, their young African British composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875--1912), became widely celebrated in the UK and North America. In this volume, Benedict ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Hensel: String Quartet in E flat

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series New Cambridge Music Handbooks
    The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Melody of Time

    Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple ways our temporal relation to the world, with far-reaching implications for modern conceptions of memory, subjectivity, personal and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Mendelssohn

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series The Early Romantic Composers
    This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century composer and musician; it also includes a specially commissioned introductory chapter ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Mendelssohn, Time and Memory

    The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin down, subjectivity nevertheless serves an important, if not indispensable purpose, underpinning various assertions made about music and its effect on us. We may not be exactly sure what subjectivity is, but much of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music

    Nature and Nationalism

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life. Grieg was enchanted by what he styled the ’dreamworld’ of harmony, a magical realm whose principles the composer felt remained a mystery even to himself, and he was not alone, in that the complex nature of late-Romantic harmony around ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Arthur Sullivan

    A Musical Reappraisal

    by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries

    Four original short stories

    by John Taylor ...
    Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 3 min

    Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor'An Inscrutable Masquerade'/ 'The Conundrum of Coach 13'/ 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny'/ 'The 10.59 Assassin'Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rethinking Mendelssohn

    Edited by Benedict Taylor, Ph.D. ...
    As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon. His career allows for a remarkable meeting point for critical engagement with a host of crucial issues in the last two ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context

    Edited by Thomas Schmidt, Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series Composers in Context
    Brimming with fresh insights, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the personal, cultural, intellectual, professional, political and religious contexts in which immensely gifted brother and sister Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived and worked. Based on the latest research, it explores nineteenth-century musical culture from different yet complementary ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

    Edited by Benedict Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD