Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.

Itzhak Perlman, Kennedy, Midori, and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delay's students during her five decades as a violin teacher at Juilliard. For more than ten years, the author was granted access to DeLay's classes and lessons at Juilliard and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and this book reveals DeLay's deep intuition of each student's needs. An exploration of the mysteries of teaching and learning, it includes a feast of anecdotes about an...

In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example,...

"Claude Debussy was the father of the Modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartâok to write their iconoclastic works, and is harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle âEpoque, his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output, only Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun," La Mer, and "Clair de lune"...