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Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945–1991
  • Laura Emmery
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2026
  • Informed by fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals a compelling story of Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music from 1945 until 1991, ending with the year when all artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the Yugoslav wars. It examines the political, social, and cultural events that gave rise to the flourishing avant-garde scene in the country and follows the emergence and development of Yugoslav cultural programs in the postwar period that made the republic a magnet for cultural exchange, through to the sudden and violent dissolution of those programs with the collapse of the political state. The book is the first full-length book in English on the subject, and provides an indispensable, interdisciplinary resource that will contribute to the preservation of this legacy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Cambridge History of Music in Spain
  • Edited by Walter A. Clark, Ana Llorens, Álvaro Torrente
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 April 2026
  • Spain's musical history has often resided on – or been consigned to – the margins of historical narratives about mainstream European culture. As a result, Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood outside Iberia. This volume offers, for the first time in English, a comprehensive survey of music in Spain from the Middle Ages to the modern era, including both classical and popular traditions. With chapters from a group of leading music scholars, the book reevaluates the history of music in Spain, from devotional works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to masterpieces of the postwar avant-garde. It surveys a deep legacy of classical music as well as a rich heritage of folklore comprising songs and dances from Spain's many regions, especially but not exclusively Andalusian flamenco. Folklore in turn informed the nationalist repertoire with which music lovers are most familiar, including pieces by Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Rodrigo, and many others.

Vienna
  • A Musical History
  • Edited by Simon P. Keefe
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    March 2026
    Print publication:
    31 March 2026
  • What is behind Vienna's world-wide reputation as a 'city of music'? Vienna's images of itself and outside opinions of its significance as a musical city capture internal and external preoccupations with the intricate details and ambitious visions that collectively articulate its unique ambience and status, This wide-ranging study of Viennese music, musicians, traditions, institutions and cultures provides a historical background and conceptual framework for understanding the centuries of musical accomplishments that underlie the city's mystique. The book explores questions of identity and place, and local traditions and practices, before considering musical networks, organizations, associations and businesses, and the musicians who thrived in them. Encompassing classical music from medieval liturgy to Mozart, Beethoven's symphonies to Strauss's waltzes, from Schubert to Schoenberg, the city is also well known for its musical theatre, live music in cafes and hostelries, klezmer, jazz, pop, rock, and hip-hop. The story continues.

The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price
  • Edited by Samantha Ege, Alexandra Kori Hill
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    March 2026
    Print publication:
    31 March 2026
  • Active in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century, Florence B. Price was an African American composer, pianist, organist and music teacher, and a central figure in the first generation of Black composers of art music in the US. Price's aesthetic engaged with Black music of the enslavement period, and her gendered racial identity deserves careful consideration, while her geography and era distinguish her trajectory from those of her European and Anglo-American counterparts. This Companion introduces readers to archives and sources on Price, the style and genre of her music, and her artistic communities, and reception. It contextualizes Price's music and life in relation to the sociocultural climate of her time, the Black classical scene to which she belonged, and the compositional aesthetics that informed her craft. It offers an alternative view of music's capacity to uplift and amplify underrepresented voices.

  • Chapter 33 - The Curation of the Mendelssohns’ Legacy

  • from Part VI - Reception and Legacies
  • Edited by Thomas Schmidt, University of Manchester, Benedict Taylor, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context
    Published online:
    19 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 268-275

  • Summary

    The Mendelssohn family’s handling of the compositional legacy of the two siblings Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, who died young, could not have been more different: While the brother Paul Mendelssohn put almost everything his brother had left behind into print posthumously, very little was given to the public in the case of the sister. On the one hand, this family strategy reflected the father Abraham Mendelssohn’s assessment of his children’s talents and professional abilities. On the other hand, these decisions distorted the image of the developments and abilities of both artists for a long time. The article traces this development, in particular the role of Cécile Mendelssohn, who as a widow was unable to assert herself against this family dynamic.

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