Music Reviews & Criticism

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, syste...

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music ...

In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Poma...

Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, rev...

Concerto Grosso no. 1 is one of Alfred Schnittke's best-known and most compelling works, sounding the surface of late Soviet life while resonating ...

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during t...

Audrey Ekdahl Davidson was a professor of music for many years at Western Michigan University. In honor of her retirement and her history with the ...

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than tha...

Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musician...

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The...

It is not an exaggeration that Matsutoya Yumi—better known by her stage name Yuming—is one of the most influential figures in Japanese popular musi...

In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, usi...

This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists – all experts in Russian music – takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and...

Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, rev...

The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Ri...

Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues...

The baryton is a unique string instrument that provides both bowed melody and plucked accompaniment simultaneously. It emerged in the Baroque era a...

The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearan...

Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical ...

The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical ...

Shortly after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death, his widow Constanze sent a manuscript copy of one of his most beloved operas, Die Zauberflöte, to th...

R. Murray Schafer: A Creative Life is the authoritative exploration of the life and work of this preeminent Canadian composer, artist, educator, an...

Shakespeare's three political tragedies—Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear—have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all inv...

In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward th...

Current Thought in Musicology covers a variety of topics, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of ...

Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from t...

Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative ...

What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the...

What is rock? This book offers a new and systematic approach to understanding rock by applying sociological concepts in a historical context. Deena...