Theory of music & musicology books

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On the Record: Music that Changed America

On the Record: Music that Changed America

Author: Anna Harwell Celenza (Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781324004998
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The surprising story of how iconic works of music sparked debate and action in America’s halls of Congress  Read More >>

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Author: Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111086
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop...

Author: Nicholas E. Miller
ISBN: 9781666978834
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This volume explores how K-pop has evolved beyond a musical genre into a global cultural phenomenon with its own...  Read More >>

Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian...

Author: Ashton Lazarus
ISBN: 9780674303430
Format: Hardback
$86.95

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural...  Read More >>

Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide...

Author: David Keenan
ISBN: 9781399624961
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A collection of the multi-award-winning author's best music writing  Read More >>

Vienna: A Musical History

Vienna: A Musical History

Author: Simon P. Keefe (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781009399463
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Vienna is world-famous for its unique musical ambience and status. This wide-ranging study probes the history underlying...  Read More >>

Why is My Heart in My Throat?: Selected Lyrics of J. Trafford

Why is My Heart in My Throat?: Selected Lyrics of J....

Author: J Trafford ,  Megha Pai
ISBN: 9798218871185
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival...

Author: Anne Sebba
ISBN: 9781399610759
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first book to tell the full story of the Auschwitz women's orchestra by the bestselling historian of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Composer’s Toolkit

The Composer’s Toolkit

Author: Christopher Tarrant ,  Natalie Wild
ISBN: 9780571543519
Format: Paperback
$49.14

What makes a melody memorable? Why do some pieces seem to unfold perfectly, as if by design? The Composer’s Toolkit...  Read More >>

Innovation in Music: Innovative Creative Practice

Innovation in Music: Innovative Creative Practice

Author: Claus Sohn Andersen ,  Jan-Olof Gullö
ISBN: 9781032757834
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Innovation in Music: Innovative Creative Practice is a ground-breaking...  Read More >>

Innovation in Music: Current Research Perspectives

Innovation in Music: Current Research Perspectives

Author: Claus Sohn Andersen ,  Jan-Olof Gullö
ISBN: 9781032757858
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Innovation in Music: Current Research Perspectives is a ground-breaking...  Read More >>

Webern’s Lost Cello Sonata and Music in the Aphoristic Style

Webern’s Lost Cello Sonata and Music in the Aphoristic...

Author: Rajan Lal
ISBN: 9781041159001
Format: Hardback
$144.87

This book offers a music-analytical and historical exploration of the ‘aphoristic style’; small yet strident modernist...  Read More >>

Innovation in Music: Innovative Creative Practice

Innovation in Music: Innovative Creative Practice

Author: Claus Sohn Andersen ,  Jan-Olof Gullö
ISBN: 9781032757841
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning a National Tradition

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning...

Author: Anna Morcom (Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780197825440
Format: Hardback
$304.95

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based...  Read More >>

Visual Music: A History and Theory of the Abstract Moving Image

Visual Music: A History and Theory of the Abstract Moving...

Author: Henry Balme (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765128701
Format: Hardback
$190.00

An interdisciplinary exploration of the abstract moving image across various media such as films, concert projections,...  Read More >>

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West...

Author: Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
ISBN: 9780472057917
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Bedrich Smetana: A Study of His Life and Work

Bedrich Smetana: A Study of His Life and Work

Author: Jan Löwenbach ,  Professor Martin Martin Nedbal (Customer)
ISBN: 9781648251214
Format: Hardback
$343.20

An insightful and engaging biography of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, originally written in the 1940s and meticulously...  Read More >>

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop, and Rock

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop,...

Author: Laurent Cugny ,  Bérengère Mauduit
ISBN: 9781496861047
Format: Paperback
$80.99

A redefining of the musical work through a new theory of production and an elevation of recording's unique role...  Read More >>

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West...

Author: Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
ISBN: 9780472077915
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Considering whether the numbers in music add up  Read More >>

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust...

Author: Joseph Toltz ,  Anna Boucher
ISBN: 9781526165671
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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