Music books

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 >>

This book contains a collection of essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists on the ethnomusicology of western...  Read More >>

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

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This collection offers a diverse and contemporary overview of the research over the last few decades into the field...  Read More >>

Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the close and longstanding links between sport and music with a series of highly original essays....  Read More >>

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From the era of the 18th-century European Enlightenment to the present, music has long claimed residency in and...  Read More >>

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

Keith Swanwick‘s approach to music education is characterised by concern for musical and wider artistic processes,...  Read More >>

A collection of never-before-seen photographs of RADIOHEAD by their bassist Colin Greenwood, with a ten-thousand-word...  Read More >>

Mexican rock history has tended to end as Mexican democracy begins. There is another story to tell, however, about...  Read More >>

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since...  Read More >>

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht was one of the most influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet he...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic...  Read More >>

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work....  Read More >>

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

Provides a series of on-the-ground reflections from college music instructors working in a wide variety of institutional...  Read More >>