Books in the Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music series

This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics. This volume retains all the most important and significant items from the original hardcover edition.

In this second volume of music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. The volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available.

This book is the first of two volumes offering a selection of Greek writings on music, newly translated into English and equipped with an extensive commentary.

This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. In a representative selection of writing from France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia, Ian Bent introduces analyses or descriptions of full-length pieces or movements by the most significant theorists and critics of the century.

A second volume of Greek Musical Writings containing important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory.

This volume, in the series Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music, is an anthology of original German, French and English writings from the period 1851-1912. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century music continued to be a subject to which philosophers, psychologists, scientists and critics repeatedly addressed themselves.