Books in the Oxford Studies of Composers series

This is the first general survey of Purcell's music for a generation, and is published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Purcell's death.

Heitor Villa-Lobos was Brazil's most colourful and prolific composer. This book provides an introduction to his music by examining selected works from his large catalogue. Music of the jungle, grassland, city and river took its place against a volatile background of social and political change.

World-famous, Estonian-born composer Arvo Part is a unique voice in today's music. From his own extensive experience of working with Part, Paul Hiller here provides the first full-length study of the composer's music.

This study of composer Henryk Gorecki provides biographical information as background to his music. It discusses his position as leader of the Polish avant-garde in the late 1950s, and his subsequent discovery of the folk and church music of old Poland. It includes a list of works since 1955.

An intelligent survey of Poulenc's music, based on a careful selection of works, and written by an authoritative guide. Adopting a broadly chronological approach, Mellers is able to trace Poulenc's development as a composer from enfant terrible to mature `society' composer.