Theory of music & musicology books

Soiled Amplitudes is a lively exploration of present-day music composition, traditional and graphical music notation,...  Read More >>

Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States serves as a historical examination of the roles of bowed...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the conference ""Analyse und Interpretation,"" held in November 2019 at the Staatliche Hochschule...  Read More >>

The surprising story of how iconic works of music sparked debate and action in the halls of Congress. In On the...  Read More >>

The surprising story of how iconic works of music sparked debate and action in the halls of Congress. In On the...  Read More >>

One of America’s leading music journalists on Heartland Rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics...  Read More >>

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

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

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There is growing recognition that improvisation is a vital artistic and ontological practice that can promote developments...  Read More >>

A revelatory work–grounded in the author’s own pathbreaking research–that explores the capacity for meaning-making...  Read More >>

A practical and scholarly guide to performing Baroque music with historical insight and artistic confidence.  Read More >>

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

Drawing on two years of fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Raising the Bottom is a performance ethnography of...  Read More >>

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

Drawing on two years of fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Raising the Bottom is a performance ethnography of...  Read More >>

In Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous, Sean Williams explores the connection of liminality...  Read More >>

Through a historical overview of this multifaceted concept, alongside gender construction in colonial Latin America,...  Read More >>

Reassesses the life, music and enduring influence of Charles Wood, a central figure in British and Irish music and...  Read More >>

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

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This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies....  Read More >>