Music books

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Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark musical works and extraordinary...  Read More >>

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one...  Read More >>

This volume treats early modern song as a musical and embodied practice and considers the implications of reading...  Read More >>

A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist. 'Hip hop and hymns- the...  Read More >>

From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski...  Read More >>

Dr Whitwell's studies of Mozart began with his Ph.D. dissertation (1963) on the early symphonies of Mozart, which...  Read More >>

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(Piano). Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' are amongst the most beautiful and widely-known Baroque masterpieces. Each of...  Read More >>

A timely and unique portrait of one of music's most talented, troubled and talked-about modern icons, re-examining...  Read More >>

In his life and in his music, Cole Porter was the top--the pinnacle of wit and sophistication. From the 1910s through...  Read More >>

Songs chiefly composed by Harry Styles, with others.  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns...  Read More >>

Coproduction is the first book dedicated specifically to the study of an emerging field in music production musicology....  Read More >>

This book is the first study to offer a wide-ranging investigation of ways in which democracy may thus be found...  Read More >>

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies...  Read More >>

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In this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the rise of German opera in the early nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Another Song for Europe explores how audiences interact with the Eurovision discussingthe iconic fanfare that introduces...  Read More >>

Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the...  Read More >>

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis,...  Read More >>

Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry examines the hybrid nature of Gondry’s work, his process of collaboration,...  Read More >>

Analyses the role of music in the work of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Badiou, and the role of gender in the history...  Read More >>