Music reviews & criticism books

During Enlightenment, polyphony seems to obey to a rationalizing process which Max Weber and Theodor Adorno have...  Read More >>

A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by renowned pop music...  Read More >>

A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by renowned pop music...  Read More >>

During Enlightenment, polyphony seems to obey to a rationalizing process which Max Weber and Theodor Adorno have...  Read More >>

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Revealing the connections that link Schubert's distinctive sound world to performance practice, social history,...  Read More >>

US Composers and Poets shows the relationship between American Classical Music and American Literature.  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Down On The Corner presents interviews and eyewitness accounts of busking across North America and Europe, from...  Read More >>