"Every success he’s had has been against his will. No artist has fought harder against it." In intimate and conversation......more

Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not......more

In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the premises for and consequences of a major change in his composit......more

Notes for Cellists: A Guide to the Repertoire is an essential resource for anyone seeking to enrich their understanding ......more

Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer’s......more

Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long be......more

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

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been wri......more

From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populi......more

A microcosm of busy operatic life during the reign of the enlightened King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (r. 1764-95), Wa......more

Thinking Community Music explores critical questions concerning community music practice and theory with emphasis on int......more

In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of blac......more

This book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first......more

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two......more

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two......more

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnogr......more

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnogr......more

When Sonicbond Publishing produced its first books in 2018, we didn’t expect that by 2024, we would have published over ......more

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in ......more

Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers app......more

Almost a thousand years of music are treated in this volume on the performance practice of the Middle Ages, covering mon......more

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like"but what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult quest......more

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has,......more

This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new ed......more

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the......more

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern......more

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. Music in the fifteenth ......more

This volume brings together DeNora’s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which ha......more

This collection of previously published articles, chapters and keynotes traces both the theoretical contribution of Lucy......more

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when sp......more

The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtu......more

’He plays the piano well, ’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His composit......more

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

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applica......more

The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most......more

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysi......more

This book examines the functional place of music in contemporary European philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries. The......more

In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an ’elucidatory edition’ (......more

In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevan......more

Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of ide......more

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Since the magazine’s first issue in 1964, TeenSet’s role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underapprec......more

An Eastern Caribbean music festival as a window on social change Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Ca......more

Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the rise of Hip Hop on the West Coast and the integral role the Los Angeles Latine communi......more

Explores consent as a principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. Describes......more

Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The b......more

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"Spanning the period from the French Revolution to the beginning of the First World War, Ambache reveals the breadth and......more

Searching for some ’80s nostalgia? Find it here with this totally righteous 1980s Music Trivia set from Ridley’s Games! ......more

"Hollander brings us memories, life’s events, political dedication and the deep desire to communicate, as well as giving......more

Elgar’s The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation. Followi......more

In Wagner’s Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the ......more

This book seeks to understand Ethno, a residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people that ha......more

Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a pr......more

Musical representations of Europe in myth and allegory are well known, but when and under what circumstances did the wor......more

This book focuses on the romantic magic opera of Spohr, Weber and Marschner and proposes a new understanding of musical ......more

Drawing on the author’s four decades of experience as a concert oboist, this open access book studies a number of founda......more

Gaston Crunelle (1898--1990) was a remarkable flutist and a beloved teacher, yet his name is hardly known today. Gaston ......more

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From the winds of Mars to a baby’s first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of s......more

The sound image of Otherness has been a significant source of inspiration for Western music, especially since the late e......more

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The Music Theory for Young Musicians series is a colorful and imaginative set of books that covers all aspects of the AB......more

The piano features prominently in Schubert’s musical output throughout his career, not only as an instrument for solo pi......more

Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century mu......more

From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music In this revelatory ......more

Ready to head back to the Tens? Get nostalgic with this bingeworthy 2010s Music Trivia set from Ridley’s Games! Relive t......more

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Ital......more

This book is a collection of papers presented at a colloquium on ’AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries’ that was organized by t......more

Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and p......more

"I’m a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world," the ubiquitous refrain that dominated the airwaves in summer 1997. Aqua’s single......more

A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard......more

An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitar......more

Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abst......more

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentie......more