Music reviews & criticism books

A significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter,...  Read More >>

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Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role...  Read More >>

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

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Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song...  Read More >>

The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...  Read More >>

Among the early works of Johannes Brahms are the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly...  Read More >>

This collection of essays focuses on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts and examines their historical and stylistic...  Read More >>

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural history in the...  Read More >>

This selection of essays on historical performance practice of the Baroque era includes the key essays from recent...  Read More >>

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic...  Read More >>

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today...  Read More >>

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its...  Read More >>

This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J’écris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by...  Read More >>

The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard’s work and comprise the first full length scholarly...  Read More >>

In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection,...  Read More >>

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others...  Read More >>

In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erläuterungsausgabe)...  Read More >>

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Discover the sound of America through 100 songs that not only shaped the music industry but were essential to this...  Read More >>

The story of the birth of modern rhythm-and-blues, reborn in the White Rabbit Deep Cuts series  Read More >>

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