Western "classical" music books

Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on this popular...  Read More >>

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. The selected essays...  Read More >>

The field of Monteverdi studies has seen many ground-breaking contributions from musicologists in recent years....  Read More >>

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914)....  Read More >>

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841),...  Read More >>

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Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length...  Read More >>

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers...  Read More >>

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving...  Read More >>

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935–2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas...  Read More >>

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving...  Read More >>

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""Mozart et Don Juan"" de P. Scudo est une oeuvre captivante qui plonge dans les coulisses de la création de l'un...  Read More >>

First full survey of the priceless scores at the Juilliard School's collection in New York. Treasures including...  Read More >>

An original history of music and its consequences in the ranks of the US military. Since the Civil War, the United...  Read More >>

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.  Read More >>

The first in-depth study in almost half a century of Robert Schumann's multi-movement Leipzig chamber works, this...  Read More >>

From “the most imaginative director in the US” (The New York Times) comes this generational work with a vision for...  Read More >>

A case study of a pioneering musician and an interdisciplinary appraisal of the larger social role of the artist....  Read More >>

Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society.  Read More >>

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600....  Read More >>

An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart’s...  Read More >>

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring...  Read More >>