Western "classical" music books

This volume presents a selection of scholarly studies of sacred and liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth...  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 collection of essays focuses on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts and examines their historical and stylistic...  Read More >>

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

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural history in the...  Read More >>

The articles selected for this volume form a representative selection of the best writing on Vivaldi from the last...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the best of recent scholarly literature devoted to Handel. The articles are from...  Read More >>

This selection of classic essays on music performance practice of the Middle Ages addresses the most crucial of...  Read More >>

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of...  Read More >>

This selection of essays on historical performance practice of the Baroque era includes the key essays from recent...  Read More >>

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic...  Read More >>

Bach scholars frequently provide excellent examples of musicological scholarship, as demonstrated by the 31 published...  Read More >>

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today...  Read More >>

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its...  Read More >>

This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J’écris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by...  Read More >>

This book contains a collection of essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists on the ethnomusicology of western...  Read More >>

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

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Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the...  Read More >>

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In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection,...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic...  Read More >>

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work....  Read More >>

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

The articles in this volume are a representative selection of the best scholarly writing on Purcell's music. The...  Read More >>