Music books

This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations...  Read More >>

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

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

This book examines Chicago's controversial Drill rap scene, emphasizing both the technology that allows Drill rappers...  Read More >>

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Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on...  Read More >>

Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into...  Read More >>

The focus of this collection of essays is the powerful interaction between popular music and multimedia: film, television,...  Read More >>

This volume presents a selection of scholarly studies of sacred and liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth...  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 >>

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

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

A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study...  Read More >>

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist,...  Read More >>

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

Monique Giroux traces the path of Métis music as it has moved within and through mainstream spaces while remaining...  Read More >>

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The articles span...  Read More >>

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

This book tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn...  Read More >>

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades,...  Read More >>

A Choice ""Best Academic"" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who...  Read More >>

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the...  Read More >>

A collection of essays examining operas that push the conventional boundaries of opera and advance the work of underrepresented...  Read More >>

From Vanderbilt Professor, award-winning songwriter, novelist, and author Alice Randall comes a lyrical account...  Read More >>