Western "classical" music books

William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece...  Read More >>

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already...  Read More >>

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This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India.  Read More >>

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Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy’s music through the lens of Bergson’s...  Read More >>

A moving, personal account of John Suchet’s lifelong quest to understand Beethoven the man.  Read More >>

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This volume brings together for the first time two lesser-known aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's creative drive:...  Read More >>

Contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt...  Read More >>

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

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work. 'The...  Read More >>

Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song...  Read More >>

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

The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...  Read More >>

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

This volume reprints articles that cover an array of significant twentieth-century operas and critical questions...  Read More >>

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers...  Read More >>

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

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations...  Read More >>