The composition of the solo concerto studied as an evolving debate (rather than a static technique), and for its stylistic features.

A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.

A History of the Concerto may be read from cover to cover, but readers may also use the extensive index to focus on specific concertos and their composers. Nume

Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Bas