For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know.

• The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky
• Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma
• The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan
• A concise history of classical music
• A deconstruction of the art form
• The language of classical music
• Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. "Expression and Truth" rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are linked by a concentration on musical expression, regarded as the ideal case of expression in general, and by fresh readings of Ludwig WittgensteinOCOs scattered but important remarks about music. The result is a new conception of expression as a primary means of knowing, acting on, and forming the world.Recent years have seen the return of the claim that musicOCOs power resides in its ineffability. In "Expression and Truth," Lawrence Kramer presents his most elaborate response to this claim. Drawing on philosophers such as Wittgenstein and on close analyses of nineteenth-century compositions, Kramer demonstrates how music operates as a medium for articulating cultural meanings and that music matters too profoundly to be cordoned off from the kinds of critical readings typically brought to the other arts. A tour-de-force by one of musicologyOCOs most influential thinkers.OCoSusan McClary, "Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music."

The world's most trusted source for authentic editions of theatre music for singers has expanded with yet another volume. Many of the songs are found in no other collections. The 40 songs in each volume are in the original keys, excerpted from vocal scores and piano/conductor rehearsal scores. Includes both recent shows and a deeper look into classic musicals. Includes: ANNIE: Easy Street * BARNUM: Bigger Isn't Better * CHILDREN OF EDEN: Lost in the Wilderness * CITY OF ANGELS: Stay with Me * DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: Great Big Stuff * DO I HEAR A WALTZ?: Take the Moment * THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: I Am Aldolpho * GODSPELL: Alas for You o GREASE: Mooning * GREY GARDENS: Body Beautiful Beale * Drift Away * HAIRSPRAY: The Nicest Kids in Town * Hairspray * JERSEY BOYS: December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) * Can't Take My Eyes Off of You * THE LAST FIVE YEARS: Shiksa Goddess * Moving Too Fast * THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA: Il mondo era vuoto * Passeggiata * LITTLE WOMEN: Take a Chance on Me * MOVIN' OUT: She's Got a Way * Summer, Highland Falls * MYTHS AND HYMNS: Saturn Returns * Hero and Leander * ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: I Have Written a Play * THE PIRATE QUEEN: I'll Be There * THE PRODUCERS: Springtime for Hitler * Heil Myself * RENT: What You Own * SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD: She Cries * SPRING AWAKENING: Left Behind * TARZAN: Two Worlds * Strangers like Me * THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: What Do I Need with Love * TICK, TICK ... BOOM!: 30/90 * Sunday * URBAN COWBOY: It Don't Get Better Than This * WEST SIDE STORY: Something's Coming * Maria.