Die Verbindung der beiden Kunstgattungen Literatur und Musik zieht sich wie der sprichwörtliche rote Faden durch die Lit......more

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Challenging perspectives on artistic research in and through experimental discourse"Truth happens to an idea." So wrote ......more

The book is intended to help new and veteran band directors develop an orchestra in their school. It outlines step by st......more

Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle �poque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet’......more

This book considers the greatest film scores produced over a span of more than 80 years. Each entry includes background ......more

French Vocal Literature introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from t......more

The American Songbook explores key aspects of individual song’s popularizations, addressing how and why the tradition of......more

Mitsutoshi Inaba offers the first full-length biography of this key figure in the evolution of the Chicago blues. Interv......more

Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced op......more

JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his sympathies for slaves in his plantation songs and wrote i......more

Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethoven’s compositions within the context......more

Sanders chronicles Schumann’s life and work, analyzing the most significant and widely performed compositions from each ......more

Bowman discusses the sounds and stories of the versatile English singer-songwriter and musician Peter Gabriel’s songs. F......more

Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist’s virtu......more

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of "rhythm rhymes" by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can l......more

George Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Warren Zevon’s 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultura......more

In Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer, Matthew Hoch and Linda Lister create order out of ......more

In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener’s Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraor......more

With a career in music and film that has spanned over forty years, Kristofferson began as a singer-songwriter. In this b......more

In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional view......more

In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash’s career and art through t......more

In Experiencing Rush: A Listener’s Companion, music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers through Rush’s long career, ex......more

"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to......more

Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education s......more

This is the first textbook on Pop Music to be written after the start of the iPod era. The book is organized in accessib......more

Part 1 Part One and Part Two Chapter 2 Chapter 1. So You Want to Be a Band Director! Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Building a Pro......more

The job of the theater manager has always been an intricate part of the theatrical community. Collins investigates the j......more

So, You’re the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musi......more

This is the first collection of Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigal and song texts published in parallel Italian and English v......more

Many musicians have enjoyed the solo and chamber music of Robert Valentine, especially that for flute or recorder, but f......more

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There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through ......more

Drawing on 30 years of teaching experience, author Timothy Cheek demonstrates how a university lyric diction class-tradi......more

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a mean......more

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE This volume is the first sustained examination of......more

Lyndon Jenkins provides the first in-depth study of the extraordinary creative relationship between Beecham and Delius. ......more

This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century.......more

This book is the first extensive guide to the life, music, and writings of Carlos Ch vez (1899-1978), Mexico’s most infl......more

The eleven essays that comprise this volume represent some of the most significant strands of current Schubert research.......more

The Music of Hugh Wood provides the first ever in-depth study of this well-known, yet only briefly documented composer. ......more

In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organizatio......more

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These essays offer a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentiet......more

Max Reger (1873-1916) was a celebrated German composer, performer on piano and organ, and conductor. Well known for his ......more

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the C......more

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Divided into three sections, Linda Phyllis Austern collects eighteen, cross-disciplinary essays written by some of the m......more

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The 12 new essays in this volume explore the relationship between text and music in Alban Berg’s works. The book examine......more

These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen’s spiritually comm......more

The study of the Armenian system of notation called Khazs (Neumes) is of significance both for Armenian and Byzantine mu......more

Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endea......more

First Published in 1988. Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its be......more

Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide is the first bio-bibliographic study of the composer and the only pu......more

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or ......more

A timely addition to Routledge’s Criticism and Analysis of Early Music series, this collection of essays examines the co......more

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This collection addresses questions of gender and sexuality as they relate to music from the middle ages to the early se......more

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the It......more

Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sour......more

Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this im......more

Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his w......more

The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different a......more

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians worki......more

Contributors explore new aspects of composition and performance in this comprehensive examination of the repertory, inst......more

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game.......more

This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of so......more

Clara Schumann (1819 1896), child prodigy, celebrated concert pianist, composer, and friend of Brahms, was also the wife......more

In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfga......more

In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfga......more

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et......more

Beloved not only in Britain, George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) is admired as a composer the world over. His inventive a......more

The writer, composer and organist Thomas Busby (1754 1838) is best remembered for his highly entertaining Concert Room a......more