Theory of music & musicology books

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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 >>

This edited volume explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5— Gender Equality....  Read More >>

Toward Equity in School Music offers new ways for collegiate music education programs to help music teachers develop...  Read More >>

This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces...  Read More >>

Eine Dissertation, vorgelegt am Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig im Jahr...  Read More >>

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

ACE the FRETBOARD teaches how to create guitar chord progressions by connecting basic triads. It uses patterns that...  Read More >>

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

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

Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working...  Read More >>