Music Reviews & Criticism

The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the b...

Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier...

Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in music...

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse ...

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse ...

Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the...

When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology...

Dass Claude Debussy in den phantasievollen Charakterstücken seiner beiden Préludes-Bände (1910-13) von einer hochgradig eigenwilligen harmonischen ...

Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, wh...

Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans o...

Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich einem der bedeutendsten Opernhäuser Europas, dem Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venedig. Den zentralen und bisher unbe...

A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public mu...

In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells,...

Anhand der Entführung aus dem Serail wird systematisch aufgezeigt, wie sich das markante Stimmprofil der Besetzung der Uraufführung 1782 am Nationa...

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

Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands considers the works and ideologies of an array of American-based, immigrant Mexican mu...

El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music o...

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac’s epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and ...

El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music o...

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. During ...

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each o...

Despite the incredible diversity in Brahms's scherzo-type movements, there has been no comprehensive consideration of this aspect of his oeuvre. Pr...

For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider...

At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct ...

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteen...

This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over ...

Was heißt es, wenn Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach vom ausführenden Musiker fordert, er müsse selbst gerührt sein, bevor er seine Zuhörer in Rührung vers...

Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both...

As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of...

Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance...

During the Reformation, the Book of Psalms became one of the most well-known books of the Bible. This was particularly true in Britain, where peopl...

Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads was first published in 1936. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books...

Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or ...

Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or ...

Music videos today sample and rework a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we ...

Music videos today sample and rework a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we ...

By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separa...